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I'm surprised we got an actual answer regarding sales data for individual characters. So while the retailers may not keep track of them, the manufacturers apparently do keep track.

I guess everyone really does love Bumblebee.

Of course, there's still the possibility that it's a self-fulfilling prophecy: if a toy line has 90% Batman and 10% every other figure, then yeah Batman's eventually going to sell more in the long run simply because there's more of him. But like the great Tootsie Roll Pop mystery, the world may never know.