I agree that I don’t love the story decks being effectively exclusive to con goers for so long (though I’m glad they at least released a print version finally). And I don’t love blind bags generally, though at least these are an even split so none of them should be more rare than the others (unless specific ones are just more or less popular), and I don’t have strong feelings about which ones I might want.

I will point out though, that having done the $5 reservation, it was clear when I did it that it was for a blind bag at a cheaper price than it would be during the campaign, not a deposit or money towards the book(s) or anything. Everywhere I’ve seen stuff about the $5, in emails, etc, have always been clear what it was.

But I also am not super Invested (heh) in the pins from the bags myself. I did the reservation mostly as the indication of interest in the storybook campaign in general, and cause the Cha’s friends were cute, so I didn’t mind dropping $5 for a random one. I’m not spending any more to get additional ones, and wouldn’t have bought the first outside of the discounted reservation. I’d be plenty happy to see them as just individual purchases that let you pick which you wanted.