if they are late this is actually a good thing, as they avoided spoiling the character reveal.
To have stuff out on shelves by now (other than print and t-shirts) production for figures, any sculpted or molded merch, would have had to have been "tooled" and started production a while ago, and stuff always leaks.
A baby Yoby figure in production to be out now, would likely have leaked, and spoiled the reveal.
I think I read it's Favreau who manged to put a lock down on it. And I'm glad he did.
That some fans are upset, and blaming Hasbro shows a disconnect. They should be applauding that they were able to pull this off (and potentially leaving money on the table) so as to put story before merchandising, which is rare.
If this had been spoiled by a lame merchandise leak, Those same "fans" would probably be the ones kvitching well that was lame first episode, there was nothing new I didn't already know about.
