I get that even practical effects have digital enhancements these days, but I feel that losing the practical element completely takes away a lot of the believability, even if it's just subconsciously. 

Morrison's stories are already all over the first season of X-Men '97. I'm sure they can continue to adapt more modern material in a way that is compelling.

Yeah. The show's most acclaimed episode is literally an adaptation of the opening of the Morrison run. 

I think we're giving Morrison a bit too much credit for what we saw in this "acclaimed" episode.  The character involvements and deaths along with the emotional heart-string-tugging instances weren't present in most of what we saw in the New X-Men books covering Genosha.  It was largely done for shock value and the giant cockroach Sentinel wipes out Genosha in what reads like a news broadcast.  Charles is shocked, gets a bloody nose and Magneto is unaccounted for.  Most of what made that episode was was DeMayo's and the rest of production's doing.  There was no mutant ball, self-sacrificing love story culmination, or first and only meeting of a mother and her time-lost child.  Morrison provided largely what amounts to a psychic's response to a Godzilla attack.

I'd buy a powered up Sunspot that could fit in a traditional X-Men display.  I don't need him in his street clothes 97 look.  I don't even really want "costumed" Morph with the paldrons etc.  It'd have to be a pretty good head sculpt that I'd need for my AOA version etc.  Don't need Val Cooper from 97.  Maybe I'd take a Prez. Kelly if he could be used for a traditional display.  Beast, Jubilee (if she looks good, I already have about 4), Morph, Deathbird, Brown and Tan Wolverine, Bastion, and 80s Cyclops or Cable would suffice for my needs from a 3rd 97 wave.  Animated Psylocke, Archangel, Colossus and X-suit Magik I would buy just from Morph's transformations though.

3.  Peter Parker (Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. 
4.  Bobby Drake (Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. 
5.  Angelica Jones (Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends. 
6.  Hobgoblin (based on JRJr art). 
7.  Swarm. 
8.  Vermin. 
9.  Kaine. 
10.Carrion. 

I'm struggling to make it through the show.  Most of the episodes seem like a slog.  The Clayface one was interesting in a traditional Clayface sense, but I still prefer the 90s BTAS version.  Most of this show has hints of that, without a lot of what made it great.  Bruce Timm has further stripped down his art style and simplified it into a watered down version of the New Batman Adventures, which I'm surprised was possible.  Bruce Wayne seems wooden, Harvey Dent is a jerk from the get go, the Penguiness is genuinely stupid which is obvious from the first episode deaths.  It's like finding out your favorite restaurant closed during Covid but is finally back open but it's under new management, only to find out the food is underwhelming and you'll likely never visit again after your first trip back.  I honestly don't know why they're bringing this back if only to be a shell of its former glory.  As I said, some story bits are marginally amusing, but thus far J.J. Abrams is 3 for 3 on botched reboots as far as I'm concerned.  I don't personally need figures to memorialize any of this.

I would love to get a de-iced Bobby - I have the old X-Men Classics on but it's pretty dated. Something on a modern body would be awesome to have... and a definitive Iceman while they're at it.

I too want a de-iced 90s bodysuit Bobby.

I'm wondering if anyone who did win Todd's lottery got theirs, or are they still waiting?