Street Date for Bespin Gambit

By HeWhoLaffs, in Imperial Assault Skirmish

So I talked to my local game store yesterday to see when The Bespin Gambit and the corresponding ally packs will arrive in stores, and I was told that although they are scheduled to arrive in store next Thursday or Friday (5/26 or 5/27), that according to their distributor, the street date for the product is June 15th.

Now I know that our store sometimes gets FFG product a week before the official street date, and that they are diligent about not letting it be sold before then, but it's always been no more than a week before the street date, and if the street date is indeed June 15th, then that will be 3 weeks they will have to hold the product in the back room. This could indeed be the case, but it just seems out of the norm.

Personally I don't care about waiting, as we have our local Regional on June 4th, and I really don't want all new stuff to worry about going up against, when we as a group will have zero time to practice with the new product ahead of time. But I'm wondering if some of you are able to talk to your local game store to see if the June 15th street date seems to be correct.

2 stores I buy from said it would be available next week.

May 26th has also been mentioned here by the store that gets them directly and not through European distribution. (And they also corrected the price to be for a small-box expansion when I asked about it. I could pre-order now.)

I really hope it's not that early...

That would fall right in the middle of Regionals for me which will just be annoying and confusing for everyone.

It SHOULD be available this week but that's just going by trends. 2 weeks from the time it went on the truck should easily account for it being available this week.

The LGS owner is telling us that he is expecting Bespin as well as Imperial Veterans for X-wing on Wednesday for sale on Thursday May 26.

Yeah Coolstuff also just changed their date to May 26th.

Yeah Coolstuff also just changed their date to May 26th.

Thanks guys. I have a feeling my LGS's distributor may just have an old availability date on file and haven't updated it. If the stuff comes in on Thursday and my LGS is still going by what their distributor says, I'll just pull up FFG's product listing on my phone to see if it says "now available" and hopefully they will go by that.

My LGS expects to have the Bespin wave on Thursday!

Just adding to everyone's confirmation, my store states availability on Thursday!

2 of my local stores have it in for purchase yesterday (Tuesday)

Personally I don't care about waiting, as we have our local Regional on June 4th...

Just out of curiosity, what Regionals? Ours in Fargo is on the 4th and I'm curious if anyone besides Roguelieutenant, myself, and 2 people not on this board who have registered will show.

Personally I don't care about waiting, as we have our local Regional on June 4th...

Just out of curiosity, what Regionals? Ours in Fargo is on the 4th and I'm curious if anyone besides Roguelieutenant, myself, and 2 people not on this board who have registered will show.

The Regional I'm referring to on June 4th is in Massachusetts. I'm guessing maybe 10-12 people show up. Hopefully more, but we'll see. Not that it's the same game or the same type of crowd, but we recently had a Star Wars LCG Regional and only 7 people showed up. That's really sad for a Regional, but that game just isn't doing well IMO