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Well, Hasbro came through for us. Got this in the mail today. :-) I was quite pleased to discover that, in-addition to the big head being remolded, the little head was as well. It's a nice tie-in to the apelinq mold. This ends up selling it to me. Shame the electronics were gutted, but at least we got the toy. What I find very interesting is how much the toy differs from the prototype (assuming you can call a kitbash that?). You'll note that the head on the final product is a nicely sculpted Prime head, wheras the original is basically Overload's head with a facemask. :-) Note also the kitbash has a glossy, transmetal look, while the final version is solid plastic...and take note of the wreckers symbol, versus the autobot symbol. ;-)
  The short version: Hasbro pulled the convention lisence from Glen, and filed suit against 3H after an apparently dismal performance running the TF convention. Hasbro got the toys back from Glen, created packages for them, and mailed them out to everyone. Below is a pic of Glen's custom package, as displayed at the 04 convention:
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