Set production levels

[mattkoz]

It seems like a few posters here are "in the know" enough that this question might be answered.

What is the approximate production of each of the OP sets?


I see Original OP and Mission Control boxes on eBay all the time. That makes me believe that more of those boxes were produced. The original set makes sense, but MC is a little more puzzling, especially when you consider how rare it is to see Powersurge boxes. IQ is even more rare, though it was an important set for the evolution of the game. Maybe more of those were purchased and thus removed from the marketplace. I understand the rarity of Classic and X-Men since the game was in its waning years then, but how many fewer units were produced of those sets?

Does anyone have a handle on this? Even if raw numbers aren't available, what about numbers of scale for comparison? 

These are the things I wonder while spending hours in the car.

[JohnL]

I doubt anyone will be able to dredge up production levels but I do remember seeing sales figures for each set somewhere once. I think this may have been around the demise of OP when there were a variety of ideas floating around about possible ways to save the game.

I think MC is more available because you pretty much got a set in a box and production may have been based on PS sales without accounting for the very different set distributions. I have no evidence for this.

John

[mattkoz]

I think MC is more available because you pretty much got a set in a box and production may have been based on PS sales without accounting for the very different set distributions. I have no evidence for this.

John

Good observation.