Will Stockade and Landmine be in TFTM 2 or 3? I was interested to know, but not so much that it would lower how much I like those molds. If not, I hope hasbro continues to make great toys out of designs they cant include (for whatever reason) on the feature film.
As far as I know, Stockade was "technically" in the Transformers movie. He was only seen in vehicle mode (he was the Sector 7 black SUV). It would be cool to see him in robot form though. I'm guessing they won't be in part 2 or 3. Then again, who knows? I'd like to see more 'bots and more action, so Hopefully they'll put 'em in.
I think it's a pretty safe bet that all the filler toys Stockade, Cliffjumper, the game Drone figures, etc won't be in the movies execpt for a possible background cameo. They're pretty much just designed to pad the toyline out. Wreckage and Arcee, who were cut from the original film MAY show up. But I think for the most part we're going to get a whole new cast. New vehicle licensing deals for Alt modes, new characters coming in, and I suspect Hasbro will lean some weight on who's in there simply because they want to be able to sell new figures.
Don't know if they'll even bother putting the characters that they made for the movie toyline into the sequels... well, Arcee for sure... 'cause they were planning on putting her in the first, and we have toys of her (as what she was designed to be in the movie and from the Sector 7 Scout toyline).
We know nothing at this point, I hope we get arcee though. You can assume that most of the non-movie toys are not going to be part of the sequel.
Seeing as how they're probably going to be releasing multiple new versions of the main cast, I'd rather see new characters in the movie and plenty of new filler toys. As much as I love my drones, Landmine, Stockade, Arcee, Incinerator etc. I'd much rather see new figures made rather than have revamps of old toys/characters. Mind you, I'll still probably buy all the new versions of the main cast, provided that they're at least retooled, but I'd probably not buy a retooled Landmine or Dropkick unless they were above awesome.