Cybertronian military insignia

A long dry spell followed, until 2007 when Hasbro released Fracture, a Crasher-inspired redeco of Classics Mirage, as part of a Walmart-exclusive series of toys for the live-action movie toyline. The toy (as well as the others in that wave) was originally intended as part of the Generation 1-based Classics line, and in fact "Fracture" was originally intended to be Crasher-the-GoBot, having crossed dimensions. Her cardback bio makes reference to GoBot Crasher's personality and powers... but also does not actually call her out as a GoBot in any way, not even a sideways "came from another universe" hint. At face value, she's a native Cybertronian. Deco artist Joe Kyde later noted that they had to prove to Hasbro higher-ups that the chosen color scheme actually existed on a real life racing car in order to color her that way, suggesting the desire for a bit of plausible deniability.

After Fracture, GoBots references in Transformers toys were relegated to small visual references. Over in the live-action film series toylines, 2008's Backtrack (also deco'd by Kyde) and 2010's Revenge of the Fallen Deadlift were deliberate deco homages to the GoBots Night Ranger and Spoons respectively, complete with tampographs of the "MR-**" designation numbers from their original GoBots toys. 2013's Beast Hunters Ripclaw was designed by Bill Rawley to sneakily resemble the Monster GoBot Vamp. Despite their shared visual origins, all three characters are depicted in fiction as regular, native, Cybertronian Transformers.

All in all, Hasbro and Takara seem uninterested in having any actual toy product directly, unambiguously branded as a Tonka GoBots character. 2020's Generations Selects Bug Bite, a modern update of the earlier e-HOBBY toy well established as representing an actual GoBot (see below), received product copy that was reticent on the character's origins, at a time when other contemporary releases like Stingracer and Windstorm were not afraid to reference their own outside influences.