If you thought you'd just walk into a local game store and grab the new Disney Lorcana Curator's Collection: Heroines Edition on release day — well, prepare for disappointment. Scalpers have already snapped up pre-orders and are flipping them for over $1,000 on secondary markets before the first booster pack inside has even been touched. That's right: a $200 retail box is being resold for five times its price, and the card game isn't even a year old yet.

The Heroines Edition is a premium collector's set featuring exclusive art of key female characters from Disney's animated history — think Mulan, Tiana, Raya — plus a branded folio, enamel pins, and a playmat. It's the kind of product Lorcana's growing fanbase actually wanted to own and play with, not treat like a stock ticker. But because supply is limited (Ravensburger hasn't announced a second print run for this specific edition), the speculators had a field day the moment the pre-order window opened.

This is more than just a bummer for collectors — it's a pattern. Lorcana has been plagued by shortages since launch, and each limited-edition drop rewards the bots and resellers while punishing the players who actually want to shuffle up and play. If Ravensburger doesn't start printing to meet demand, this game's community is going to keep getting priced out of its own hobby.