By the way tbone, completely agree with you on having lowered expectations, better to be surprised than let down. I'm just tired of people sticking to one interview quote instead of looking up everything Sakurai said.
Does anyone know if there is an actual reason that the Kremlings haven't been used? I've heard legal reasons but I've never seen an actual source, and I know K. Rool was in a Mario Sports game not to long ago. On the other hand, didn't they remove DKC from the virtual console?