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Honestly, the fair point is the matter of how easily accessible the other parts were for them. They already had Drive's head, arms, legs, and belt molds ready from the original Drive release, and then they got the Proto Drive chest mold when they made him. So for Gold Drive to be retail was easy for them cause they had all the parts necessary. Tridoron is practically 95% new sculpt, so they probably went with the exclusive route to try to make back the money lost from making those new molds. I understand it's infuriating for all of us to want a retail release, but as past releases have shown, most of the time, post-show releases get regulated to Exclusive status.

Though in my statement, don't know why Gold Drive is retail but Zero Drive, who uses all the same parts, is exclusive. Might have to do with the amount of items packed in the release schedule