Has the 2e Starter Kit been retired already?

[dope_danny]

My brother and his girlfriend have been round the last few times its been a game night with friends and we played malifaux. They were interested enough to ask where to start so i was thinking of grabbing the 2 player starter kit for them as a christmas gift. When looking around all my FLGS's that had one or two on the malifaux shelves for years every one was gone. Most uk sites i visit are out of stock and a search on amazon didn't even list the thing anymore.

 Granted it could be people panic buying just for the models and fate decks or something just on the expectation of a new starter kit for 3rd but has anything been said about when this set might be retired that could cause it to run out of stock in so many places?

Or has it just been caught in another stock shortage in general like models such as Toshiro were back in the spring and i hear some like Lady Justices crew are right now?

[solkan]

It's marked "Temporarily out of stock" on Wyrd's web store, but it's not "No longer in production" like the way old Wave 1 Arsenal boxes.

 

[-Loki-]

My guess is it’ll remain out of stock until M3E. No point ordering a whole new production run if the cards are already planned on being replaced.

[Scatterbrain]

Additionally, in the next edition, the models will no longer be in the hiring pool of any faction other than Guild and Neverborn respectively. They will be versatile models within their factions, though, which increases their utility a little.