Hasbro Q&A/August 2009

Question archive, and links to the answers from, the August 2009 Hasbro Q&As.

Questions

It's apparent that there are many more licensing agreements for ROTF than ever before - there's an Optimus Prime pinata for god's sake! - are the relationships with the licensees leaving you very satisfied with the quality and variety of product coming out? And can you tell us what's the strangest request you've had for licensing a product for Transformers (and whether or not you chose to turn it down?)
With a lot of the upcoming Movie Deluxes having a redeco with a retool head, is this going to be a standard practice to have an alternate head designed for most Deluxe figures from the get go? Or is this just a special case with the Movie line? Also, if the character is an off screen character, how do you decide what head to use first?
Can you confirm any release dates for the final few Animated figures as well as the Universe store exclusives, like the white Leo Prime?