Archanubis wrote:Scatterlung wrote:Yeah but Spike can sit inside Bumblebee. If they made a Sari, she'd be in her pre-robot form, but no kid really wants that, so they'd make her a robot, in which case she wouldn't need Bumblebee.Archanubis wrote:I dunno, Hasbro's pretty interesting in adding a Spike figure to a Bumblebee figure in the movie line. Depending on how well it sells, they could add Sari to an Animated BB - at a future date.
They go all out in terms of merchandise for the Movie because its a big movie. And they'll make money from selling all this peripheral junk along side the main toys.
Animated doesn't have quite the reach so making the extra effort to include a character who only, I'd say, a small portion of the viewership actually like would be a fair monetary loss.
They did make Kicker with the Highwire figure in Energon - and he wasn't exactly a shelf warmer, despite the fact that he's hated as much as Wheelie - if not more so.
Ah, this is true. But again, that figure had a gimmick application in that he could rid the so-called Minicon.
I just can't seem them making a Sari figure that isn't a solid piece of rubbery plastic like you'd get in those mini playsets from way back. And I don't think she's just that popular.