I get what your saying. But hot toys has to produce these prototypes to see if they will get approved, and often a year before a film hits theaters. Unless people only wanted iron man and Cap, and I mean only, or figures to ship 3 years after a film hits theaters and only getting shown at least a full year after it hits theaters then the occasional unproduced figures gonna happen. There would be no sdcc or any other con because a figure would just go up for order after it’s approved and never do a tease.
Just the nature of business really. Hot toys produces way more of their prototypes then most industry leaders. Look at video games that are teased and never made. Concept cars that are at auto shows and never produced. Tvs and tech at e3 that never hit market. Just the way things go.
It would be great if everything they show gets made. But a lot of that stuff is beyond their control or influenced by things like screen time, final cuts of films, box office success, likeness rights issues, licneinsing approvals and production lead time of a year or more to make a prototype and another 8-12 months to produce the actual figure. Unless they only ever made prototypes after a film is out at the worldwide box office and only home run figures that will still sell two to four years after the film is out it’s just not really an option. It may sound silly but making these little figures is insanely complicated and vastly dependent on how things outside of their control go.
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I suppose it's just my frustration over a few figures I really wanted never getting made, sometimes I have to vent on these boards lol. But thanks for having a civilized conversation about it, I'm trying to focus more on the cool stuff I know we are getting, and not so much on what's missing lol. 
