I agree that it seem's like a missed opportunity but i think lego are seeing the big picture as has been said. just look at some of the best selling star wars sets RGS had a great set of minifigs and so sold shed loads. Also the imperial inspection set was sold with 10 minifigs. Now also lego have changed the turbo tank to include more minifigs, so you can see they know their market. The 2 new star wars sets this year (sorry big star wars lego fan), the star destroyer and jabba's sailbarge both have 8 minifigs too. They want us to have lots of minifigs but we just have to buy the lego that goes with them too!