NECA SDCC2020 item complaints: what else could they have made?

There are some folks complaining about the NECA 2020 San Diego Comic-Con exclusive. "It's too silly!" "They could've done something better!" etc.

To be honest, the current exclusive is the best kind of exclusive. A variant for the Hardcore fans that wouldn't have a huge negative impact on the collection should you skip it. While yes, the movie turtles, Shredder, the Foot, and Splinter WERE SDCC EXCLUSIVES,  they also made it to retail. Not every SDCC EXCLUSIVE makes it to retail.
Also, let's face it: These Turtles wouldn't survive retail.
$125 price tag of THE SECOND OR THIRD WORSE LIVE ACTION TURTLES. (Depends on where you place TNM and the Christmas musical)



Would you pay $125 for the Christmas special TMNT?

The question is: WHAT ELSE COULD THEY HAVE MADE?
- a $200 Go Ninja Go set with the Turtles, Vanilla Ice, Shredder, Keno, and the girl with the red dress?
 this would be a punishing set since at best it's only 4 characters that people truly want. But we'd be stuck with slight repaint of the same for turtles we've already got a couple of times.

I know people were clamoring for the Third movie Samurai 4 pack. WHY!?

Oh, so much one use tooling wasted... I mean there isn't much to do with Movie Turtles... Sure you could do a "Mirage repaint" but that's about it.

They could've gone with the toon TMNT as exclusives but there is a wrong with the same issues with the movie Turtles there aren't that many exclusives that you can use the actual turtles for. Maybe pixelated repaint soft Rocksteady and Bebop based on the arcade game. A pixelated April repaint could work as well

At least it's not a Next Mutation 5 pack