Talk:Guns for Hire Expansion Pack/@comment-199.244.30.14-20170901012212/@comment-454133-20170909183955

"re-release" may be a better term. When the expansion first comes out, FFG produces a set number of copies in a bulk order to reduce costs. This is expensive... they have to tool factories to produce the plastic models, paint them, package them, print the cards, etc. If they produce too many, they're overstocked and in financial trouble.

So they'll generally take a conservative approach: produce the amount they expect to sell (often using pre-orders and past sales to advise this number), and then move on to the next expansion. Eventually the number of units produced will sell out, but people will still want to buy more... The item is "out of stock". Y-Wings have been hard to come by for a while now. K-Wings are constantly out of stock, because they're popular ships and FFG can't seem to keep them in stock.

"Reprinting" is producing another wave of an old expansion to meet demand. They can't continually produce to constantly meet demand because of the factory & financial limits I listed above, and just producing all they need for the next ~5 years would be extremely expensive all at once and they'd risk not being able to sell a bunch of them (if they misjudge demand). So when something is low on stock or out of stock, we have to wait for FFG to schedule and complete the reprint.

But good news for Y-Wing fans: the Y-Wing re-print should come out at about the same time as Guns for Hire. ^_^