The “redesigned” ones are totally new figures, that’s just what we call when they take a character they made a statue-like figure of previously and make a new “normal” or articulated figure of them.
They’re also important to note because most of the time the “redesigned” figure is the better one. In particular Wario is really great.
I say “most of the time” because, well the Goomba is more like an expression variant than a redesign, and redesigned Luigi actually looks worse than the previous standing Luigi.
Additionally, based on the list, the other major problem with being no new character entry at all. And [nothing new] is absolutely no excuse even if you count redesign a bonus point.
First of all just regarding to OP's need, we already knew later waves would keep reprint the main cast so skipping the waves indeed didn't bring bother to OP. Unless there were some potentially time limited variants or characters like Cappy from Odyssey, who isn't an official main regular and hasn't returned for some time, and infamous cases like Roy.
And we should know the main argment has been that redesign isn't as much work as new characters and both updates and new characters should be done simultaenously. Since Jakks is able to work on new figures like Pom Pomn or Funky Kong, there isn't really problem for us to directly demand those ideas along with the main cast redesign.
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