No they aren’t - at least not in the sense you’re implying.
The last couple waves of Age of Extinction toys are coming out, now, but it coexists with Thrilling 30 (to the extent that that has a media tie-in, it’s to the IDW comics), Rescue Bots (the little-kid line, ties in with the cartoon of the same name), and various Transformers sublines in larger Hasbro lines like Kre-O (lego-styles building toys) or Hero Mashers (a line of action figures with interchangable parts).
In a few months, when the new cartoon starts, its toy line will be the main line. When it was running, Transformers: Prime was the main line.
None of the movies have had a significant period as the only media tie-in, and only the first one had any time at all when there wasn’t a kid-accessible cartoon coinciding. (Transformers Animated came out soon after the first movie and was still running when the second came out. It was followed fairly quickly by Transformers: Prime which started about the same time as the third movie. Shortly afterward, Rescue Bots started, and only recently ended. Robots in Disguise* starts in a couple months.)
Now, I think it’s silly to remove the Breaking Bad figs, but to compare them to the Transformers franchise is absurd. (Hell, even comparing the movies to BB is ridiculous, but not to nearly the same extent.)
- Terrible title…it shares it with one of the three current ongoing comics, and an earlier cartoon, as well as one of the three sublines of the Prime toys (First Edition, Robots in Disguise, and Beast Hunters - the last being the subtitle of the final season of the cartoon). But it’s what they went with, so…shrug
