So it won't be available in stores here? Has this been confirmed?

Quote Originally Posted by 5FDP
It makes you wonder why they took 25 years to design one. Unicron I can understand.
It's most likely due to demand (or lack of). In predominantly "boys" toyline like Transformers female characters are traditionally not very popular. In the Hasbro market our first female Transformer toy (not including retconned female G1 TFs like Discharge) was Blackarachnia and Airazor in Beast Wars, but Blackarachnia was originally just a repaint of Tarantulas and Airazor's mould isn't very feminine (so much so that she's a male character in Japan!). Subsequent versions of both characters have featured more distinctly female designs, but they've never been pink like G1 Arcee.

I've noticed that even Animated Arcee isn't really pink (more like a fuschia) like the G1 character. I suspect that this was a deliberate choice from Hasbro as let's face it, it would be really weird seeing a Barbie-pink toy in the middle of a "boys" action figure aisle! I'm not saying there's anything inherently wrong with it, but from a marketing POV you can see how it wouldn't be terribly appealing.

HasTak did consider releasing an Arcee toy in 1987 as a Headmaster, which is why she became a Headmaster in The Rebirth. The toy would've been a pink and white repaint of Chromedome's body presumably with a different head. 1988's Minerva was the real first female TF toy that we had. If you look at Nightbeat it is a pretty gender-ambiguous mould.