The Rick MPC took a while to sell out. And they went for really low prices for a long time on eBay. Plus didn't Kevin say they never finished the 15,000 run on those first MPCs?
As for the rest of the toys, I'm completely apathetic towards them making Cyclones and the Beta now. It just seems they're not up to the job. The Alpha was decent, but it seems like a lot of people got lemons and it really is poorly designed as far as looks compared to price. (Size, Big Feet, and heavy arms caused it to slowly drift down when posed, landing gears were undersized causing the belly to touch the ground.) If it was done in 1/32 scale they could have avoided all those issues, but their mark up would have been huge.