Oh, ok, I had misunderstood. I thought he was 'next' quite a while back, hence my confusion over why he kept getting skipped. I hadn't realized they'd just advertised him way ahead.
Then we find that he has no actual wavemates, just him and a Hasbro G2 Motormaster jammed into the same shipping box taking up all the rest of the space, as they were desperate to get it out the door before Takara's landed.