For sure. I totally understand Stompy and Amanda in her compression suit are retooled sculpts from previous items. I understand NECA take such short cuts to deliver fresh characters - it's totally acceptable. The other Amanda figure is a new sculpt, though. It just surprises me that NECA believe 2 Amandas will be popular. I've already seen more than one person express interest in purchasing multiple Working Joes for dioramas and staging them as crowds if they were available. A pair of Amandas just can't deliver that - or make any sense - in that context.
There's also the ease with which a bald plastic faced figure with a bland expression permanently fixed on its face would be as an action figure. A plastic likeness of a Working Joe face is ideal for action figure format. Beyond that, it's just orange overalls, hands and shoes. It's nothing like the kind of detail that has to go into some of the other characters. I'd even go to say it would be great for the maintenance jack to be an accessory. It's something that would have been great with Amanda in her jump suit, but hey. The flamethrower, backpack and motion tracker were all good choices.
Oh well. Still looking forward to seeing mine arrive in the mail. Probably happen sometime early in the New Year.
-Windebieste.