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Originally Posted by Zikoman

Kabutack & Robotack weren't really popular series when they came out back then and maybe that's why they were excluded in the set. I also read somewhere that the toy sales were extremely low for both series mainly due to bad manufacturing because Bandai started using cheap labor to make their toys. That's why most of them came out with defects such as non-functionality of the buttons, missing or non-working sounds, and even figures with inconsistent quality (i.e. missing accessories, poor articulation, etc.)

You clearly don't have much experience with Kabutack or Robotack toys if you think buttons and electronics are involved or that quality concerns affected them. That's simply not the case. The Kabutack figures were DX style transforming figures that flipped their bodies nearly inside out to become more stylized robot modes. None of them had specific action features that were button operated at all. No electronics either.

Meanwhile Robotack featured a magnet change system. Figures were made with core diecast parts and had magnetic flat surfaces embedded at the base of the limb joints, the arms and legs could then be swapped among them to create new combinations. Again, no real action features or electronics.

I own every figure from both series, I bought them over a decade after they were released, and have never experienced the problems you're trying to say exist. I have a wealth of experience with both of those toylines. Bandai isn't excluding them because of these QC issues that you're inferring exist. Because they don't. I'm sure a few duds were around at the time, but Bandai isn't sweeping two whole franchise under the rug over some QC from 15+ years ago.