Quote Originally Posted by mknell View Post
I'd say the moulds for all these were stolen more likely and being used to make fakes like our fav Dinobot Bomander
That's an intriguing theory, but I think the chicken or the egg of it is the other way around: that the bootleggers chose to reverse engineer the Dinobots, Wheeljack, Mirage, Sunstreaker and the Constructicons because Takara didn't/couldn't reissue them.