Why would they folks? Have we seen actual Hasbro product in Hasbro packaging?
I foresee the exact same problem that Animated Fans have faced. Hasbro invested a lot of cash in Wingblade Optimus, Blackout and Hydrodrive Bumblebee and unless you went Takara you never saw them.
These figures were not 'officially' cancelled, we were told by Hasbro that these figures would be gotten to us somehow when the Animated line got the shaft in favor of Dark of the Moon. And half the cancelled figures were just Repaints that had gone to the final stages or just about if memory serves as evidenced by the AllSpark Almanac Volume Two.
Yeah, I'm going to definitely stick with Hasbro has planned to get these to us and so they'll be available in some way. Yep, Hasbro can do no wrong, their marketing plan for Transformers is obviously solid enough to have retailers support their product lines.
Slaggin' movies, they were both the best thing to happen to the franchise and the worst because now the toyline of Transformers has basically become Movie, Movie, Movie, *CoughFanBoneCough*, Movie, Movie, Movie, Movie, Movie, *CoughMovieInspiredT-Vshow/DesignsCough* Movie, Movie, Movie.
Yet they continue to try and operate their brand the same way they did during the Unicron Trilogy days and previously.
I'm kind of glad I've been avoiding buying up Generations right now and even contemplated ditching the line in favour of Masterpieces, at least Takara doesn't cancel product for that line just because of a glut of movie promotion pushing and junk.
