[TokuKnight89]

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Originally Posted by acdcguy

I gotta wonder if Playmates is just talking out their ass and they just don't want to admit that they couldn't crack the engineering for a Dragonzord that would fit their scaled up Dino Megazord.

I believe that the Dragonzord was, and may still, be planned. I saw details on the Playmates Dinozords which convinced me that it technically WAS the original plan.

That being said, I think there are several factors in place that are potentially inhibiting that.

I think it's a case of toy laws and marketing. Transformers answers that one with the 2001 Robots in Disguise dub for Car Robots. Brave Maximus was to be released as an iteration of Fortress Maximus in 2002, with several online retailers and FAO Schwarz slated to carry it. But it kept getting delayed, partly cause FAO was struggling financially but largely because the toy didn't pass drop safety standards per U.S. toy laws. Once the delays were getting too long, it apparently started to seem not only pointless to release a toy advertising a finished cartoon but also because it could conflict with the upcoming release of Unicron in the Armada line.

https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Fortress_Max...ise_.282001.29

So what can one potentially gleam from all that in the present context? Perhaps the Dragonzord is suffering delays by corporate big-shots, influenced by an inability to pass safety standards due to its hypothetically large size and the timing in which the actual Re-Ignition episodes are completed and slated to debut and the need to switch gears in terms of physical marketing via toys.

One could also make a reasonable argument that such a Dragonzord would be valued pretty high regardless of retailer, and that the aforementioned corporate big-shots are gunshy that such a toy won't sell well enough and make enough profit to justify the costs of producing and releasing it to the general public.