Quote - I do like the variety that the SM figures offer, plus V4 is so freakishly tall around the others it makes using her over and over again in different character forms hard to do. Especially with figures like Alyson, Ryan, Rex and Roxie.

You could do what I do - use all of the figures.  When doing character development for my stories, I looking into both heights & ethnic breakouts before developing my characters.  For example:

Height wise - up to 15 percent of my figures are V4 and/or Dawn (for females).  Which matches the current world population.  The rest are Jessi, G2 Females, Miki 1-4 & SP4 (whose size makes up the majority of females on Earth).

You not only end up with a wide variety of body types, you have a bunch of very different looking figures - which is a very nice change from the cookie cutter look that comes with using just 1 figure.