Quote Originally Posted by Deonasis View Post
Or it is (accidental) genius. Simply showing those boxart pictures now is enough to stop many people from buying the latest batch of unofficial coneheads. Takara wouldn't want to show their whole release catalog but showing Ramjet may stifle the purchase of all 3 unofficial coneheads whereas a Diaclone repaint image (as was suggested) would not have influenced any unofficial conehead purchase one bit.
That does sound quite probable. They would definitely be aware of what is being released by 3P, so it's not a far stretch to say that they've released these pictures early on purpose. Look how quick the fandom when crazy with the release of pics of Shockwave and Ramjet. I think they knew what they were doing.