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Originally Posted by Locke

I'd love to see a new Figuarts branch focused entirely on villains, I know they don't sell as well or whatever but if they're a sub part of Figuarts and have a smaller budget, so less releases but then they don't get in the way too much with the main Figuarts line, but still gave out a steady feed of iconic villains that'd be awesome.

That's not quite how it works though. Figuarts itself is a brand and Bandai has offshoot lines like SRC, D-Arts, and Ultra-Act. They don't do sublines with their lines really. What you're suggesting is actually the exact the idea behind Tamashii Web Exclusives. Smaller production runs, offered to more limited audiences, because the wider market wouldn't support a full production run of a particular figure. The higher cost of producing a small run will be there no matter what for villains because they simply don't sell in the same kinds of numbers that heroes do in Japan. And if the home market for them doesn't buy them then there's no real incentive to make them more readily available outside that market. Hence why alot of villains and even other figures like older riders and obscure forms that wouldn't sell well to a mass market wind up as TWE's.