G4 MDD avatar

I noticed that recently you put a lot of legacy products on your avatars. I appreciate that as I'm a older Mac fan. But I'm disapointed to find that of all the G series that use the El Capitan case design, my two favorites, the Power Macintosh G3 Blue/White and G4 MDD are not included. It'd be cool if you could add these; they're by far my favorite Mac models.

Thanks a bunch. I hope it turns out to happen!

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    Hey there,
    I've been using the apple discussion groups since I've got my mac a couple of years ago and what a great source of inspiration it has been! Always able to find a tip or a solution to even the slightest problem.
    Anyway, my real question is this: I was trying to set an avatar for my profile today, and saw loads of people with older G3's and G4's... I thought, cool, I'll set mine to the MDD model.... But its isn't there
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    Fred,
    We are behind on updating the Avatars. We are currently working on addressing some remaining stability issues. We will update the avatars after that.
    Kind regards,
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