Posted by Chris on 02/18/19 at 01:23 PM
Category: M.I.A.F
When we launched the "Missing In Action Figure (M.I.A.F.)" un-produced character feature many moons ago, we prioritized each category, but we never intended that prioritization to be static. Existing product offerings can influence the priority of those un-produced characters. With that in mind, recent events have caused some characters to rocket to the top of our Skiff Guards / Sail Barge Combatants category.
With the announcement of the glorious Vedain figure, we are now ONE FIGURE away from completing the "prisoner skiff" scene. That one figure is, of course, Velken Tezeri. In a vacuum, a human skiff guard could be considered a boring figure (I would disagree), but as the last member of the prisoner skiff to be realized in action figure form, he becomes a HUGE priority and is now tied with Taym Dren-garen whose priority likewise skyrocketed with the realization of the Sail Barge. One side benefit of a hypothetical Velken Tezeri figure is that it would be a tooling "two-fer" for Hasbro and could easily be retooled into a Nizuc Bek figure.
Similarly, the "Unidentified Weequay Guard" (aka the "Window" Weequay) rockets to the bronze position in our priority list thanks to not only the Sail Barge, but a working window from which he is defenestrated.