Wow... This thread is taking off.
Me, I'm all for it... Like Jeff said, EU's the way of the future... I just mentioned this in another thread, but the fact is that you can only squeeze out so much film **** with creativity to it before you have to dip into the other incarnations of characters. That'll include film heroes in EU forms, recognizeable aliens people like in EU outfits like X-Wing pilot duds... It's inevitable I think, for the line's longevity.
And at the end of the day, I think it's important to consider this; The 3-pack gets you some film though it maybe costs you something in an EU figure to get it. You get your SA Qui-Gon Jinn, and a background Jedi from AOTC, but you're gonna put up with NJO Luke that some want to get that... I honestly don't want NJO Luke too much, but I'll take him... He's sorta neat looking, not from EU I like though, so I could live without him and woudl've much preferred an Obi-Wan or some other Jedi or something. I'll take an EU Luke though.
I think it's really just the way of things...
And likewise... Red marking Stormtroopers, blue marking stormtroopers... If it means we get a Stormtrooper resculpt with ball/socket hips and wrists some year, and super accurate sculpting... Hey, I guess I'll stomach that other stuff. I feel it can get worse of course... I'm not to the point I am looking at some of this stuff and thinking it's A) Unbelievable, or B) "offensive" to my sensibilities as a fan... I maybe am not wild about it, but it's not reached some breaking point with me. But that's me.
I personally am loving the rumors on the Evolutions sets... If it means we're getting a super articulated TIE Pilot body, great! If it means we get a NEUTRAL size X-Winger super articulated? Hell yeah because that means we can get a great Wedge figure! Same with the Snowspeeder pilot... Hopefully the same on a Y-Wing pilot, and I love the female X-Winger too as she was supposed to be there. All great stuff...
So if I gotta take a Twi'Lek pilot? Cool... I actually like that, but even if I didn't, I guess I'm just saying I'd be real happy we're getting cut-footage female X-Winger, and a good X-Wing figure, and a good Snowspeeder figure... It all is just going good to me...
And I really do dislike a lot of EU. I thought I read a rumored Vong figure... They're easily one of the lamest, ripped off, EU characters ever. Upon seeing the figure though, like Pre-Cyborg Grievious is to me, I bet I find it to be fairly cool and worth buying.
EU's pretty solidly rooted at this point IMO... No getting past that I'm afraid, and I think it's something Hasbro is really looking at to keep the line "fresh" for future movie-less years. How it is packaged/delivered to us (be it basic figures, multi-packs, or Evolutions), is pretty pointless to me.