I don’t think he can ever answer that question. Largely because he has many different figures in the pipeline and he has to wait for things like the production paint sample to meet his standards and final licensor approval.
TMP probably should have been next but hit some kind of ‘expected delay.’ Disco has been announced the longest without having a preorder and we’ve seen four different characters prototyped. The stars could align a different way and Archer could just beam in. I’m sure someone wants to argue that he’d be continuing the Captains’ line as opposed to launching ENT.
For continuing the race between a existing lines, it is probably down to Quark and Seven.
But he has also played the Borg Queen proto so close to his chest, that she’ll probably be a totally surprise preorder. From how they’ve been teased on his Facebook and Nanjin’s refernces to the challenges of their unique costumes, I get the feeling ‘the villains‘ are being treated by production as their own special projects line. Locutus, Kruge, Khan, and Empress are all looking good. Who’s worthy to follow the Judge Q release?
A lot of what we saw from Chicago was looking really good too. But I am guessing they want to spread out the TOS/TWOK love, and so I doubt we’d see those TWOK guys land with the TMP set being so close to the finish line.
