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Tough question, as nothing seems to fit all of that criteria.

It would probably be some kind of tie between Transformers, G.I.Joe, Star Wars, Power Rangers Samurai and Thundercats.

If we're looking at lines I don't collect, then it's one of these: Ben 10, Cars 2 or Toy Story 3.

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Originally Posted by Crazy Jetty

Transformers is sort of halfassed. We get super obscure japanese characters like Black Shadow, but no Sludge or Arcee? For that metter, 30 years later, why do we yet to have G1 Arcee, classics or otherwise?
And Hasbro's complete disreguard for Beast Wars and the Dinobots really puts me off.

Can't say I agree with everything here. I would love to see Classics-style versions of Arcee and the rest of the Dinobots. However, G1 Arcee has consistently be avoided since she's a pink robot that turns into a pink car. To the Hasbro execs, boys won't buy it (or make their parents buy it). Hell, Animated Arcee had to be an exclusive to get a release.

As for the Dinobots, I'm hoping that Grimlock's appearance in the FoC game will foreshadow the entire group showing up in the FoC/Generations toy line down the road.

And Sky Shadow was simply a clever way of reusing the Thunderwing mold (since Black Shadow was a re-deco of the G1 Thunderwing mold, anyway). And Thunderwing himself was done specifically because of his appearances in the G1 Marvel and current IDW comics. Sky Shadow did not take the place of any other potential characters. It was a remold/redeco slot anyway. Just be thankful it wasn't another Bumblebee re-deco.

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As well as how severely they push Bumblebee and Optimus on us, making other figures and characters really hard to find, and clogging the shelves so retailers won't order more, gets them serious demerits.

I do question the case ratios that Hasbro comes up with sometimes (especially when they involve Optimus or Bumblebee). I don't know why Optimus needs to be 2-to-a-case in wave two of TFP voyagers, when he was 3-to-a-case in wave 1.