Possible reason they were scanning Ford's head in the featurette

The head scanning we saw in the featurette of Ford... I was certain it was for some VFX footage that we missed in the orrery when they wake the engineer and attacks But after seeing the new figurines, I knew i'd seen the process used with a practical application other than digital: [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQ-DF3TM00]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mMQ-DF3TM00[/url] 3D head scanning for a figurine maybe? It would make sense, specially to do it there and then on the actual set. It's a portable enough setup and no time like right then, when make up and character styling is 100% correct. What do you think? Would anyone still like there to be some scene cut that uses it still as well?