Hate to bum you out even more, but Slash is only a rare....

Haven't had a broken figure yet, but yeah, the cards are banged up on mine. I wonder why this is, considering all my cards in TMNT 1 and previous gravity feeds were fine.

The banged up cards could be related to the shipping problems. Pure speculation.

Opened 2 cases
Pulled somewhere between 3 and 4 full CU.
Every rare
Extra slash, splinter, zog, donatello, and rat king
Renet x2
Mikey
Raph
Kraang
Graviturtle
Shellectro

Side Note:

Squirrelanoid's Trait is called "Fast Deadly Shadows"

Triceraton's Trait is called "Extremely Tough Hide"

Well then I guess you could complain about anything.
The foot from the first set cost about 1 dollar, the foot from the new set cost about 2.
Currently the 10 commons take up 12 out of 24 spaces in CTD, so you have a 1.2 in 24 or 1 in 20.
With a flat rarity they would become 1 in 36.
So a shade or two less than twice as rare. Making their price skyrocket to... I dunno. 5 bucks at peak?
I mean, yeah that's a negative, but if you think that's objectivity worse than 50$ chases and 30$ SRs...then I don't know what to tell you.
It's pretty obvious to everyone that rarity schemes only exist to sell otherwise unnecessary doubles.

Got pretty lucky with my display for what I was looking for:
Rares - Leo, Don, Slash
SRs - Mikey, Raph

Extremely happy to see 2 SRs, especially since my primary wants were the turtles. Only thing that I really missed out on that I wanted was Splinter and Shredder :D

*applauds* great pulls

Got my brick. Chase Blobboid and SR Ralph. Was really happy with it.

I still think we should be guaranteed 2 SR per brick with a possible Chase.

Should rare Splinter's sculpt be human? The card definitely suggests this is not him as a rat. He doesn't even have the animal keyword.

Weird.

You're only looking at half the equation though.
The commons become ~2x as rare yes, but there would also be drastically fewer cases sold/opened and no one would really be looking to unload them. They would be the only thing anyone is looking for doubles (much less double digits numbers you need to raise a real army) of and with no chases or SR's to chase everyone's got a full set after somewhere around ~40 packs with some trading. Desirable generics in a flat rarity set would be easily the most expensive pieces, and if you don't believe me check any of the good Primer generics vs their main set counterparts.

Also I don't want the chases, I want generics. So Chasing chases or paying $50+ isn't really my problem

There weren't any shipping problems. And I don't know how shipping issues would have anything to do with this. Its pretty obvious its a factory/packing problem. I'd assume its some kind of change to the packing machines.

Unfortunately there are shipping issues, though I doubt those issues would affect the cards. I ordered my case many, many months ago, and my store still does mot have it. Nor does any other store in my area, that normally would. Diamond is not shipping the set out until next week. Does anyone know why this is? I do not. It is a first for me.

Again, I see your point but I did take it into account though, I just didn't think I needed to write another paragraph about it. It's why I gave a price that wasn't a flat 2x but 2.5x-5x as much. I also didn't feel the need to do another paragraph explaining that in one of their better ideas Wizkids made the foot soldiers take up 5 and 4 of the common slots, helping to keep them much less rare as a group. But I just assumed, I think rightly so, that you already realize all that.

I could also do another paragraph on how the rarity scheme perpetuates waste culture, and for every extra Foot Soldier you get, Wizkids gets 5-10$ and the garbage dump gets 2-4 Commons/uncommons that aren't generics, plus all their wrappers. But that's our grandchildren's problem anyway, so who cares.
That last bit of course was to be cute, while true, it would be disingenuous to suggest that ecology enters my thought process at all when I'm purchasing heroclix. Screw the kids!

Ha! My r Renet #2 (opened a case, pulled 2) from TMNT 1 was missing an arm too!

.... How much for the one you have?

This happened with daringd in TMNT 1. I think, mathematically, I figured out that 1 of every 7 (or was it 16) cases would have to have a second chase because there are 4 of them. Something about the 48 vs. 100 distribution of GF vs. 5-figure booster.

It's an unconventional dial choice, I agree. It feels more like an LE-type of dial- like the Con LE (sketch variant) Shredder, it seems to be based on a single, specific episode of the 1980s cartoon (Splinter No More, in this case). I guess they felt they'd already covered the base of a straightforward Splinter dial with the Uncommon from Series 1? I can see why they made the choice, but with 80's Splinter being so iconic I'm surprised they didn't give him a more generalist dial. Ah well, there's sure to be another one in Series Three...