A Disney Lorcana Reprint is Coming in 2023 – But it Won’t Be Enough

To combat the painful, widespread Disney Lorcana shortage gripping the world, Ravensburger is moving up the reprint date its first two sets to the 2023 holiday seasons. Not only will this reprint include cards from The First Chapter – it will also include cards from the upcoming and highly anticipated second set Rise of the Floodborn.

Originally planned to happen in 2024, this reprint is intended to give fans of the games as well as avid collectors and players a chance to find Disney Lorcana TCG products in store. Additionally, the hope is that it will help reduce some of those exorbitant prices you see online right now.

*Update October 26, 2023 – the Disney Lorcana Reprint has been announced by Ravensburger for mid-November. Additionally, additional booster packs will be available starting next week at local game stores.

Will the Reprint Help Ease the Disney Lorcana Shortage?

However well intended this reprint is to help with supply issues, ultimately it wont be enough to end the Lorcana card shortage.

A combination of distribution problems, demand, and scalping practices are what have driven the incredible shortage around Disney Lorcana products since its release in August, 2023.

Due to the shortage, there’s currently a Lorcana TCG bubble, with products being sold online for more than double their retail price.

Theoretically, flooding the market with more product and more cards should ease this burden. However, it is not necessarily a silver bullet.

Pokemon Reprints Did Not End the Pokemon Shortage

During the heights of the Pokemon card shortage, Pokemon would also run reprints of highly desirable sets. But those reprints did not do much to dampen the market or decrease demand and prices. It wasn’t until Pokemon unveiled and executed on their plans to print over a billion cards that the shortage finally did end.

Today, you can find Pokemon products at almost any retail store, and all but the most highly sought after sealed products are readily available.

How Many Cards will Ravensburger be Reprinting?

The actual number of cards that Ravensburger will be reprinting has not been revealed, and it is unlikely that it will be. It’s also unlikely that it will be enough to end the Disney Lorcana shortage (unless they are able to somehow print at the scale Pokemon is, which is unlikely giving how new Ravensburger is to this whole phenomenon). Pokemon owns their own printing companies to meet the large demand for their products.

Ravensburger probably doesn’t, meaning they have to work through many other parties to get cards into the hands of customers.

The Disney Lorcana Reprint Won’t Be Enough to Meet Demand

In a scalper-free trading card world, reprints like the one Ravensburger is planning would likely be enough to end any shortage. But we cannot fail to take scalpers into the equation. These are people who will actually horde Lorcana products either to sell them for more down the line, or to artificially drive up the price so they can make more money online.

Before products can get into the hands of the collectors and players, they first have to make it through the hands of the scalpers.

And given the extent to how bad the Lorcana shortage has been, I doubt one reprint is going to be enough to end it.