Bumblevivisector wrote:because making a her a headmaster at the last minute is probably what denied us proper toy for so long; with fandom divided over whether or not her head should turn into Daniel, Hasbro got the message that there was no pleasing everyone, so we got nothing for three decades.
That is very unlikely that was the reason why we did not get her as a figure.
Pretty sure the biggest reason why was that Arcee was a girl and back in the G1 days they did not want to scare boys away from the line.
And we got plenty of Arcee's in the 2000's they just were not G1 Arcee.