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I'm loathe to even enter this discussion but per the artist, he designed it before Batgirl of Burnside debuted.
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Originally Posted by Jeddostotle7

I'm pretty sure that the average person who's not a comic book fan doesn't know who Gambit is. Remember, these are toys being sold at mass retail, and a huge portion of the audience for Legends is still kids. Considering there hasn't been an X-Men cartoon on the air in over 8 years, and he hasn't appeared in a movie in the same amount of time, I wouldn't expect the majority of kids or parents to have heard about him, unless they've been keeping up with the news of the in-development Gambit movie, which the majority of them probably haven't.

I'm by no means saying that we're never getting a Gambit (we'll almost certainly get him eventually), I'm just saying he's not going to be headlining a wave anytime soon. Same with other characters. Unless they're Iron Man, Captain America, Spider-Man or Wolverine, or they're someone else who's a main character in a big movie, they're not going to be headlining a wave. They can be in one, but no way they're going to be headlining one.

This is also one of those situations where people complain about the A-listers getting too much representation while those characters unfortunately outsell lower tier characters by a very wide margin. We had people flabbergasted that Wolverine turned out to be one of the biggest sellers from the Juggernaut wave because if you're just going off the toy message boards, people are sick of Wolverine because he's been so overexposed. And yet his toy sold like hot cakes.

I remember reading an interview with the heads of Hot Toys and someone asked why they keep making multiple versions of Iron Man while other characters only have one figure or haven't gotten one made at all, and the rep just shrugged and said bluntly it's because Iron Man makes way more money than many of those characters.