Aquilla and Ticalla Confirmed

Today I received an email from Paul Barclay detailing the release plans for the Aquilla's Alliance and Ticalla Jungle expansion packs.



Paul writes:
Yes, we’re releasing the Ticalla Jungle pack and the Aquilla’s Alliance pack. It took a while, but we finally convinced our finance department that releasing the Jungle and large figures pack was a good idea, and actually would make us money. They’d been worried about the profitability for a while, but after much running of numbers, everyone’s finally sure this is the correct thing to do. Since we’re spending our effort (and shelf space) getting this product out, so we won’t be doing the Desert pack at this time. But, stay tuned for other developments in that direction.

Ticalla Jungle and Aquilla’s Alliance are going to come out before GenCon (we still don’t have an exact date, but we’ll know more as we get closer). They’re going to be packed 2 Jungles to 1 Heroes. They’re going to be available in both the mass stores and hobby stores (and on the Hasbro Toy Shop, of course). Right now, TRU is looking solid, Target’s looking good, and Wal*Mart almost certainly won’t carry it. The one thing we don’t completely know is how much to print. So, if you live near a local hobby store, I’d ask you to go in and ask the store owner to carry some of this pack, so the stores and distributors can get a good idea of demand.

We’ll do previews of the remaining three stat cards as we get closer to the release of the product (we’ve got a plan for Wave 8, and we’ll use a similar plan for this set).