Yeah man, agree.  Stephanie Petite and Aiko 3 kind of lost their distinction and their identity by being fused into the next generation.  That's not to say not let a figure have morphed identies but it removed something in those cases because they were so unique as figures.  One could say that, well, Stephanie originally was a re-sculpt of Michael but Stephanie Petite was completely different and the idea of releasing a shorter, younger girl-next door model than an experiment.

Some of that, too, IMHO, is over-branding.  Calling New Coke, Coke, when clearly it doesn't taste the same at all.  Yeah the "C" word is in there but... you know, it's not Coke Classic.

But I'm sure that some folks really like those sculpts too, no knocking them.  They're just different.

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