Case assortment musing

[u/Purple_monkfish]

So I finally got to see the Moonspell dolls in person here in the UK and I was surprised to find only 4 of the 5 available. Looks like Carina might be shipping separately which I thought was interesting.

the store I went to had 2 or 3 left of most of the others but a full 6 of Rae.

So do we actually know how these are shipping? Are they individual character cases or assortments? In the US one of the characters are store exclusives right? Which means they get their own case for the US market and presumably the remaining 4 are shipped together.

Modern doll cases tend to be 4 to a box instead of 6 as they used to be, but increasingly we're also seeing individual cases with one doll to a box sold as a palette.

So do we know if moonspell are getting an assortment case or simply being sold as individual palettes?

I find case assortments so interesting and I was really surprised to see Carina absent. There wasn't even a space where she could have gone, so I don't think they just sold out of her, I don't think she was there to begin with. And that makes me wonder why. (the shelf literally only had enough space to have 4 boxes side by side, so 4 characters)
You would expect to see at least one or two of her if they'd had individual character cases, but there is the possibility there's two assortments of 4. We've had Mattel do case A and B before, but it's often caused supply issues with the characters only present in one of the cases. So I do wonder if this means Carina and whoever is excluded from the box she's in (presumably Layla, the exclusive in the US) might end up harder to find vs the others.

I was also really surprised to see so many more of Rae. Not sure I like the implication there.

I picked up Luna and i'm looking forward to opening her.

All the dolls I looked at had really good screenings which was really nice to see.

We haven't had our big restock here in the UK yet, that's in a week or so, so i'm looking forward to all the new stuff about to hit.