Remember when Takara used to include self-addressed survey cards with all their toys? And each card always allowed to name any 3 Transformers that you'd like to see them do? Well each time I got a reissue I always would put down the name of one of the Dinobots - so by time I got my 5th reissue I'd already requested them all. After that I'd keep cycling through their names again. Takara actually did pull through on most of the other requests I've made (and I'm sure many other fans too), e.g. Inferno, Hound, Skids etc etc. -- so this indicated to me that they were listening to people. But of course, this was all before the merger with TOMY, because unlike Takara, TOMY's online survey no longer gives you the option of making open suggestions like that, which is a shame IMO.

But anyway, if retooling moulds is as cheap and easy as you say it is (which is contrary to what Takara told us back in 2000 - unless there have been considerable improvements in technology since then, I wouldn't know) - then other than sitting around and complaining, all we can do is show our support for Encore and hopefully prove to TOMY that it is worth their while to ressurect more moulds and reissue more stuff through Encore.

Because there's only a small handful of Takara owned moulds from the first two years of G1 that Takara/TOMY haven't reissued yet. So upon examination we have...

1984
+ Bluestreak: reissued
+ Brawn: reissued
+ Bumblebee: reissued
+ Bumblejumper: not reissued (possibly insufficient demand for such an obscure figure)
+ Buzzsaw: reissued
+ Cliffjumper: reissued
+ Frenzy: reissued
+ Gears: (re)issued
+ Hound: reissued
+ Huffer: reissued
+ Ironhide: reissued
+ Jazz: reissued
+ Laserbeak: reissued
+ Megatron: reissued
+ Mirage: not reissued - mould known to be lost
+ Optimus Prime: reissued like a mofo
+ Prowl: reissued
+ Ratchet: reissued
+ Ravage: reissued
+ Rumble: reissued
+ Sideswipe: reissued
+ Skywarp: reissued
+ Soundwave: reissued
+ Starscream: reissued
+ Sunstreaker: not reissued - mould rumoured to be lost
+ Thundercracker: reissued
+ Trailbreaker: reissued
+ Wheeljack: not reissued - mould known to be broken
+ Windcharger: reissued

1985
+ Astrotrain: reissued
+ Barrage: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Beachcomber: reissued
+ Blaster: reissued
+ Blitzwing: reissued
+ Bombshell: reissued
+ Bonecrusher: not reissued - reissue pending
+ Camshaft: not reissued
+ Chop Shop: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Cosmos: reissued
+ Dirge: reissued
+ Downshift:not reissued
+ Grapple: reissued
+ Grimlock: not reissued - mould known to be lost
+ Hoist: reissued
+ Hook: not reissued - reissue pending
+ Inferno: reissued
+ Jetfire: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Kickback: reissued
+ Long Haul: not reissued - reissue pending
+ Omega Supreme: reissued
+ Overdrive: not reissued
+ Perceptor
+ Powerdasher (drill): not reissued
+ Powerdasher (F1): not reissued
+ Powerdasher (jet): not reissued
+ Powerglide: reissued
+ Ramjet: reissued
+ Ransack: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Red Alert: reissued
+ Roadbuster: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Scavenger: not reissued - reissue pending
+ Scrapper: not reissued - reissue pending
+ Seaspray: not reissued
+ Shockwave: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Shrapnel: reissued
+ Skids: reissued
+ Slag: not reissued - mould known to be lost
+ Sludge: not reissued - mould known to be lost
+ Smokescreen: reissued
+ Snarl: not reissued - mould known to be lost
+ Swoop: not reissued - mould known to be lost
+ Thrust: reissued
+ Topspin: not reissued
+ Tracks: reissued
+ Twin Twist: not reissued
+ Venom: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara
+ Warpath: reissued
+ Whirl: not reissued - mould not owned by Takara

...so as we can see, Takara have reissued quite a lot of G1 figures from the first two years of Transformers. Many of the Transformers that they haven't reissued have been either because the mould is no longer available, or because they never owned the mould to begin with. It was only possible for them to reissue Omega Supreme and Sky Lynx after the merger with TOMY because TOMY owns those moulds.

Anyway, having said all that, if they did reissue the Dinobots, I'd definitely get them for the same reason that I wanna get the Constructicons -- even though I have my original G1s from my childhood, it'd be nice to have a minty new set, and also so I can have another set so I can display them in robot and dino modes So while I'm skeptical that they'd reissue the Dinobots, if they did I'd be all over them like Cosmic Rust germs!

P.S.: they really should re-reissue Ramjet and Thrust again... because the first reissues were very limited convention exclusives. They deserve to be reissued in as retail toys IMO.