[KITT]

I'm sure Castle Grayskull sold just fine. The only reason why they have hundreds left over is because during the initial pre-order sales drive, they pulled a bait and switch, so bad to the point where legally they had to amend the rules, and customers were now allowed to cancel their pre-orders. It went from "No Cancellations" to a window of time where customers COULD cancel the pre-order. Reason is because of false advertising, not fulfilling the agreement regardless of all the fine print mumbo jumbo that was in their pre-order rules. we were promised one thing, and they didn't deliver... and Neitlich (being the brand manager at the time) probably figured he could get away with it. At any rate, the 4H even hinted to a Snake Mountain, and it's supposedly going to be very tall (once assembled).
I wouldn't rule it out just yet. Also... Mattel probably figures Point Dread will help sell off the remaining Castle Grayskulls. There's a reason for everything Mattel does, but it's all based on coercion, not actually giving a crap about what customers really want. Apparently Mattel plans to go ahead with the SOHM nonsense that Neitlich started. Naturally Mattel is OK with this because the overall plan involves virtually no new tooling and MUCH reuse of existing tooling. Anything that looks good on paper, where it saves them money they love... but they really don't consider if fans actually want any of that SOHM crap. They just figure they can MAKE fans want them. It's all about marketing head games... no pride in the actual MOTU property.