It still boggles my mind that SS didn't sweep in and start cranking out aliens, droids, and creatures. Star Wars is fundamentally built on reuse; one mold would inevitably see use elsewhere. SS can't compete with HT in many things, but if they could have offered max $200 creature figures that HT would never touch, I genuinely think they'd have had a winning product line on their hands.
Supplement this with display environments that are smaller and more affordable for the average collector and you'd have two, integral lines of products that would easily sell alongside HT. Couple environments with promos (i.e. buy HT Mando, recieve 30% off of Navarro door environment), and they'd probably make a new name for themselves in the product arena.
agree. I was shopping for an SS R5-D4 on the secondary market and the price is double the MSRP. Understandable, but even if SS reissues what they have already made, I would snatch up a bunch of it