Movie Toy Assortment listing. (spoilers)

[snazzbot 101]

Could indeed be some guess work there. But I agree, if there are 4 times more characters in TF2 than TF1, there should be 4 times more toys, so why pad it out even more with recolours and characters that aren't even in the TF2 movie?

But you've said yourself in other posts that there was a limited leadtime to R&D new figures for the new movie - so it's not surprising they're wanting to hit the ground running - and pad it out from the start.

Looking back on the first toyline it's clear Hasbro had some serious issues with distribution and with developing new product.
No doubt they've learnt their lesson and even now await their opportunity. . .
To empty our wallets

[griffin]

That is a good point. If they include a heap of toys that aren't in the movie, they could work on them first, earlier, and we get some great toys (with enough time to get the engineering right), packed in with some flawed toys (that didn't have as much time as the designers would like).
It might end up helping the overall look of the toyline on shelves, and in kids hands, if there are some toys that would get higher 'ratings', regardless of them actually being in the movie.

[i_amtrunks]

It could work to their advantage.

Pad out early waves with repaints of the first movie toys. people who missed on the first movie toys might buy them, (and completionists will scream blue murder), while the padding allows more movie cast figures to be used in later waves, extending the relevance of the line.

The movie line died badly in it's last few months because whole lines were non movie characters and not so good repaints (and repaints of non movie figures).

[Autocon]

they had smokescreen and ramjet in FAB (plus skywarp which are molds of tf m1 ss) so i think they were always intended but were never released coz sales were dropping with the movie line

desert brawl? isnt he supoosed to be cannibalised to form megatron along with blackout!!