My guess is he’ll pop up in flashbacks in Episode 8 and/or Episode 9, so hopefully that will move him forward in Hasbro’s “parking lot,” or whatever. A great character, played by a great actor, with an extremely important role in TFA- a real head-scratcher that he hasn’t been made yet.

I figure it’s only a matter of time for him- awesome-looking Droid, prominently featured in ESB, and could re-use a lot of parts from the Episode 3 2-1B.

No, there were Ben Skywalker votes counted. Someone that submitted a vote and followed the submission rules had their vote counted. Not “every vote” for Ben S. was thrown out as you insinuated.

No offense but your Note in your post above says otherwise.

If you go back and look at fan forums from the past several years, a new Yak Face resculpt (along with a few others such as Sim Aloo and a grey Death Star Commander) have been pretty high up on collectors’ wishlists. Ben Skywalker, on the other hand, was rarely if ever mentioned. I think the point for a lot of people/collectors is to get a modern update on a vintage card back, so figures like Yak Face, etc. have a following already, as opposed to a Legends character who wasn’t even in existence until about 10 years ago. I personally would rather see any movie character, especially OT, on these cardbacks, if only because of that factor. Save the EU for comic packs or whatever packaging comes after TVC. And IMO, skip the Legends figures altogether; they aren’t even part of the canon anymore.

Please Yak Face and the Imperial Dignitary are the best characters by far…!

They aren’t “essential” to anything. People drool over Yakface because he was THE hard to get figure in the vintage line. He’s been made, now he’s just a boring character like the dignitary.
They should focus on distribution because there have been a ton of recent figures that never saw the light of day in many areas. That ticks more people off vs. “oh, they didn’t make the characters I wanted”.

Who says I threw out every vote for Ben Skywalker? That is exactly the opposite. I counted every VALID Ben Skywalker vote and he didn’t make the top six list. As for what other sites did to tabulate their votes, that’s on them and I don’t care. We had our rules as we applied them to everyone that was submitted. End of issue.