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Originally Posted by SPLIT LIP

I'd say Bravo has a fair shot.

It's not really just that villains don't sell, though that's partially true, but rather that monsters don't sell. There's been plenty of villain rider Figuarts, sometimes before main characters.

Exactly. Kaijin sell terribly there. Kids don't idolize the bad guys, they all want to be the hero. And with the adult collectors the line is primarily focused at, they just don't want the villains. That is unless they're villainous rider and sentai like characters. They stand much greater chances.

Bravo is an actual rider so I don't think there's a question there, it's not quite like Shadow Moon where yes he's a rider like character but is more kaijin than rider. But take for example Enter as Dark Red Buster. Clearly a sentai styled suit but he's a kaijin at the same time. Some of us, myself included, would buy him based on his sentai-y nature as well as a love for the character. But if Japanese fans don't like his villainous character, then Bandai sees no reason to make that toy. Or at least they don't see any possibility of it being a good seller.

Short form, villains never sell well and probably won't any time soon. The Dopants sold terribly, the Greeds sold terribly and they were all exclusive, the Zodiarts sold so poorly they shuffled the last half them over to the dead zone of Toei-Hero.net AND they wound up as Zeros instead of full SHFs, and Wizard only saw the release of 2 phantoms as Web exclusives. The bad guy ship has sailed.