Bandai Games Marketing Manager Danny Satyapan told ICv2 at Gencon that its just-released Navia Dratp CMG is already sold out from Bandai and at some distributors. Additional stock has been ordered, but it will take about six weeks to reach the U.S. Sales were stimulated by a pre-release demo kit (see 'Bandai Offers Navia DratpDemo Kits') and great-looking playing pieces; Satyapan described the initial orders as 'fantastic.'
The first Navia Dratp expansion, as yet unnamed, has been scheduled for January. It will include 32 new figures.
Unlike Navia Dratp, which will be hobby-only for at least six months (see 'Interview with Bandai's Danny Satyapan'), Bandai's CCGs (the just-released new incarnation of Digimon, and Gundam War, which is slated for late November) will both be distributed through mass market channels. But according to Satyapan, price competition with other channels will not be as fierce as with past Bandai CCG releases. That's because Bandai will be using intermediaries to place its CCGs in the mass merchant channel; past releases were sold to discounters directly by Bandai. 
