Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
No they do not. They're simply based on the MPs listed on the tfwiki page. So looking at just 2018, we had...
+ MP40 Targetmaster Hot Rodimus
+ MP41 Dinobot
+ MP42 Cordon
+ MP711 Convoy (7-Eleven)
+ MP34S Shadow Panther
+ MP10 Convoy (Golden Lagoon)
+ MP17+ Prowl
+ MP29+ Laserwave
+ MP36+ Megatron
+ MPM-5 Barricade (Hasbro)
+ MPM-5 Barricade (TakaraTOMY)
+ MPM-6 Ironhide (Hasbro)
+ MPM-6 Ironhide (TakaraTOMY)
+ MPM-7 Bumblebee (Hasbro)
+ MPM-7 Bumblebee (TakaraTOMY)
Granted that if we remove redecos and retools, as well as mould repeats, we have just four our of the eighteen releases being new non-repeats, or 22%.

But again, if we look at the early years of MP we see a lot of mould reuses too. In the first 8 years of MP we have only 6 new/original moulds, which are:
+ Convoy 1.0
+ Starscream
+ Megatron
+ Grimlock
+ Rodimus Convoy
+ Convoy 2.0
That's it. Out of the 27 MP releases in the first half, only five of them are new moulds - in other words, only 19% of MPs released between 2003/4 to 2011 were new moulds. So 2018's 22% new mould rate is still doing better than the entire first eight years of MPs combined!

P.S.
This is what my MP collection looked like in mid-2011 (I hadn't acquired Rodimus Prime yet)

And here's what it looked like in mid-2019 (I hadn't acquired Black Widow or Hound yet)
Ok well that explains it. There's really no point in double counting Hasbro and Takara releases when they have been identical in recent years. Also the 2019 list includes 5 atmos safari versions that were never released for sale. I'm going to redo your list with a chart and only include duplicate Hasbro/Takara releases where there were significant deco differences (eg Sunstorm). I think the numbers will look quite different on that basis.