As a kid who started his star wars collecting obsession in the mid 90's as a seven year old, I'm someone who can appreciate a good filler/background character.
I was all about the weirdo aliens with the strange back stories on the cardbacks when I was a kid. My friends all wanted to play with their Han and Luke figures and I wouldn't let go of my POTF2 Bossk.
If anything I feel like the advent of army building has made this phenomenon go away in Star Wars collecting. There's a lot of troopers in the Black Series. This is cool and I know this is needed to keep the line going but I miss the days where I would find weird aliens and strange looking droids on the pegs
I'd LOVE some TFA aliens and droids from Maz' Castle and the resistance base.
In particular these three: