they could have released both figues at the same time but it would have been in a few months from now since all the work has be done in advance .. DAZ also tries to learn from things with each model and releasing them both at the same time doesn't allow for that. Plus people would really be complaining about having to plunk down money to buy both at the same time. And do you really think that each figure for each movie is started with a box? Think about it ... The sheer amount of time needed for that is prohibitive. Final Fantasy had a lot of similarities between characters and that is the end all be all of stuff suppossedly.