From post #21 on the "2008 Acquisitions: Your best and worst?" thread
Quote Originally Posted by griffin
I changed my counting method late in 2008 from one that was close to the fan-voted method, to a more "official" Hasbro-perspective method I developed (as in, what would *Hasbro* class and count as an actual TFs toy product).
So under that system I suppose the following items would count as 1:
+ An entire Micromaster Patrol or Combiner Squad (e.g.: Sports Car Patrol)
+ An entire Mini-Con Team (e.g.: Street Action Team)
+ Gestalts sold together in a "gift set" (e.g.: Tripredacus, Magnaboss)
+ Decoys, statues, PVCs, meal/candy toys etc.
+ 7.6cm Titanium Series

What I'm also curious about though, how do you count the following:
+ Variants - I think Hasbro would count intentional variants separately (e.g.: movie Bumblebee's variants) but not "unintentional" variants (e.g. red and yellow G1 Bumblebee)
+ Multiples
+ TF condition - loose vs. sealed vs. junkers
+ Takara Transformers, especially "non-mainline" TF toys/merchandise from Japan like Choro-Q, Microman (e.g.: Kicker, Gamede), Q Robo, KT Figures, bottle tops, TF Jrs, Beastformers, Majorette TF cars et al.