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Originally Posted by NIGHTHAWK30SK
Gradus: To answer, it was the G1 style gift set KO's.
What real difference would it make if certain places sold KO's. Am sure Hasbro makes enough that they're not that worried about losing a little bit so people can get a cheaper version
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The main reason would be copyright infringement. Most of the time when these sets are made not everyone will say that it is a KO, and then try to sell the KO off as an official product. That or even claim it as an "unofficial reproduction" even though it will still have all of the hasbro copyright marks and dates.
That's why the 3rd party sets get a bit more flexibility, they never claim to be official transformer products, where as the gift set and various other G1 KO's used to.