>>8516576Impactor was paired with Mirage. However, you're right in that Impactor was the main event there, in being a long, LONG demanded figure of a popular comics character.
Primal also managed to beat out other characters- including Hound, who I believe we later heard was the one planned, and they were blindsided by Primal's victory.
However, those are still incredibly popular characters, and my point was that they keep pairing high demand figures who don't need their popularity determined by a vote against Late G1 nobodies, and then being surprised that the nobodies lose