I beg to differ a little with you on one point...

Some of the new figures released in the past couple of years have been given away for free, so their marketability as a source of revenue for the creator couldn't have been a prime motivation.

How many free male figures have been made? I mean, that were made and released originally at no cost. They would have to be made by someone who wanted to make one simply out of the joy of doing so. If male modellers don't seem inclined to do it for just that reason, I'm simply wondering whether females ones might, and if so, how many were out there compared to the number of men -- because even if they might be more inclined to do it, if there aren't very many, the chance of even one of them taking on such a monumental project is quite small.

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