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I thought McFarlane said in an interview that "this was the license we were able to get" implying they couldn't get the action figure license?

The gear reason makes some sense but they could have picked the iconic heritage armours or something. I've just got no interest in statues personally so I won;t be buying any of these. If the first wave had been, say, Thrall with male and female orc and humans in heritage armour I would have army built both