When I took my old man to see EPI, whom I shared a love of the OOT with, he leaned over to me and whispered, "I'm glad I'm not buying you the toys this time around" during the invasion sequence.
It got me to thinking - how much of the imagery in the Prequels were designed to make product off of? What I'm getting at is, I wonder if the designers and GL were like, "This would make a great toy..." seeing as how there is an action figure for every damn background character in the movies.
You know, 'cause everyone is clamouring for a damn birthing robot toy, what with it's SNES controller for a face and all.