If SM can still distribute the older figures, maybe it would be a good idea for them to revamp all of them with weight-mapping, new high res textures, and whatever else would be worth taking the time to do.  I still pull up older figures, as every figure usually has something (at least in theory) going for it, even those that end up being ultimately useless for anything...  People in the community have made, and are still making, all kinds of improvements to the various figures.  Maybe SM should look into putting similar effort into the standard content?  It couldn't be that big of an undertaking, and might re-up the value in a lot of older items as well.