This week has a theme of hypothetical questions. Put on your serious face, though.

The Powers That Be come to you (the team) and say, "Your next wave is your last wave (of figures). You have no restrictions on characters or budget." Whom would you make? (We know they'd never do that, but let's pretend it's Project Star Wars on Bravo TV.)

This question has two possible answers depending on our perspective, or, perhaps, our sense of humor.  One possible answer is that we would go out with a bang - the best possible characters we could do to end on a high note… the best characters that we could not get to by the end of 2009.  At this point, there are myriad possibilities and they would be characters that have not yet found their way into the lineup, coupled with a few of our Expanded Universe favorites (examples would include a selection of as-yet unmade Cantina and Jabba's Palace denizens, a number of The Force Unleashed characters including Proxy and Darth Phobos, intriguing Expanded Universe possibilities like Bastila Shan, Marasiah Fel, Valance, Skorr, Ben Skywalker, and others).  On the other hand, our answer could easily be along the vein of "wow, it's been a great run, let's take this opportunity to do a lineup of characters that have been at the bottom of our list and which we thought we'd never do as long as better choices are available, turning off the light switch as we walk out." Candidates on this list include Jocasta Nu, Ackmena, Ben Quadinaros, and Jaxxon... among several others.

[Editor's Note: We are certain they're just joking about Ackmena being at the bottom of the list. Someone should let them know what happened to one of her co-stars' dressing room when she was angered.]

Next scenario…

You are ordered by Mr. Potato Head (the symbolic leader of Hasbro) to resurrect one dormant segment of the line just because he's capricious like that.

Without question, we would bring back Pete the Pepper and Oscar the Orange to give that big-headed Spud some competition. After all, he is hogging all the great Star Wars Spuds spotlight! Ohhh... but you probably mean which dormant segment of the Star Wars line. OK then, we'd resurrect the Vintage line.

[Editor's Note: We were hoping for The Princess Leia Collection, but there's no accounting for taste.]

Finally…

There are two (female) figures that are completely verboten. We find a compromise that allows them to be manufactured, but you have to nix two other unique characters. Whom do you choose?

Ah… put two figures in quarantine in exchange for the two that were allowed out? This one is not so hypothetical. We would trade just about anybody from the future/yet to be done lineup to do the two verboten ladies. That's how much we like them and want to see them make the lineup some day. Alas, no matter how much begging/pleading/prodding from fans will make that happen, so it's better to spend future questions on things other than these two ladies.

[Editor's Note: Of course we're referring to Ann Gella and Tann Gella, Sebulba's Twi'lek masseuses from Star Wars: The Phantom Menace. So fan boys stop trying to make them happen.]