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Scamper52596
Honestly. I kinda feel that she as well as Dixie Kong are in a pretty good position right now in terms of pre-ballot DLC. Lets recap what we know so far.
* Brawl had seven unused character files. These characters where Mewtwo, Roy, Dr.Mario, Dixie Kong, Toon Zelda, Toon Sheik and Pra_Mai.
* Sakurai stated that he had a few more characters planned to include for Smash 4 but couldn't implement due to time constraints. Bowser Jr. being almost one of them.
* Sakurai has brought back Dr.Mario, Mewtwo and Roy. All three where cut Melee veterans, but all three where also planned to return for Brawl.
* During the return of Mewtwo, it was discovered that there where some additional "Mario" files within the data. By including Lucas, Roy and Ryu it comes down to two more unknown "Mario" files left within the data. One can presume that they are probably additional characters in the works but didn't come as far along at the time as Ryu and Roy did.
* Sakurai stated during the return of Roy that he brought him and Lucas back specifically since they where the most particularly popular of all the cut veteran characters in their respective games. The way he worded that made it sound like he has no other veterans planned for pre-ballot DLC and that the two other potential pre-ballot characters may very well be newcomers.
* If Gematsu is to be believed. Lucas was planned to be brought back for the base roster but had his priority lowered in favor of including him as DLC whilst keeping Ness instead.
* There is apparently a file that indicates a potential Rhythm Heaven character planned to be included at one point. However, if Gematsu is to be believed again, said character was probably Glee Club. However, considering that the club consists of three kids together, one can probably deduce that they might have suffered the same issues as the Ice Climbers did.
* Sakurai has quite a track record of revisiting older ideas that he wished to include in previous installments but couldn't for one reason or another. The changes Roy received may very well have been some ideas for him to receive during Brawl since all the other returning Melee clones received a similar type of treatment during Brawl.
Keeping all of this in mind. I can't help but feel that Toon Zelda and Dixie Kong are in a very good position right now when it comes to potential pre-ballot characters. And from seeing some of the actions Sakurai took for these games. I don't really see him abandoning these characters from their inclusion as DLC. He might not include Toon Sheik and Pra_Mai though since the former was most likely just used in order to keep Toon Zelda in line with Zelda and with no transformations, Sakurai can just include her on her own now and assuming Pra_Mai was Plusle and Minun, they might suffer from the same issues as the Ice Climbers did as well.
Which just leaves Toon Zelda and Dixie Kong. I would like to say that they are the most likely pre-ballot characters but in the end.... It's still Sakurai so who knows what he has up his sleeve.... So I'll just say that they are in a good position right now.
But if he decides to revive them after all. I'd be more than happy to purchase them both and have a lot of fun battling with them. I really enjoyed the inclusion of Roy, Ryu and Lucas and I think Sakurai and his team have done a wonderful job with all three of them so I'm fairly sure they would do something interesting for Toon Zelda and Dixie Kong too or at least set them apart enough from their potential counterparts to the point that they would feel like their own characters.
That's just my opinion though. Sorry for the long post. ^^'