First of all, I hope the movie is good. That said, I'm starting to get miffed at how HT either skips over certain key characters (i.e. Cassian Andor) or does a "show and no" (Yellowjacket). Sure, I understand that they are in the business of making profits, and need to focus on what sells as opposed to whether or not collectors can line up a full cast of characters along their display shelves. Why spend time and resources producing a Lando figure that will sell 5,000 unit (or whatever), when they can move 20,000 Solos with the same investment? However, at some point I think focusing almost exclusively on the heavy hitters without rounding out lines is going to discourage a lot of collectors. Provide HT even produces figures from this movie, Han may end up being the only release. Or they may do another Chewy and some type of trooper variant because they would be 90% reuse. So even if Lando (who doesn't even have an OT release yet for crying out loud) Qi'ra, or other characters are absolutely fantastic, chances are HT won't produce them. Or they will show fantastic looking prototypes that never get released, which in certain respects is like putting salt in the wound. The fact is, unfortunately, minority and female characters don't tend to sell as well so it's always going to be tougher to get those characters to market, especially with $200+ price tag (this applies to villains, and b-tier character to some degree as well). It would be nice if HT came up with ways to get more of these characters to the market, either by releasing as limited time/limited edition specials, which would generally sell through quickly because of the collectibility in the secondary, or subcontracting certain characters out to a smaller producer that would be thrilled to get the work while taking a percentage of the profit with little to none of the risk.
