I should've vaguely told everyone I had come by that information first-hand somehow, and pulled a stan.
The only reason I look at this Christmas as likely TFA-centric is that we are in a situation where there's a cartoon, and a film, at the same time, and I have a hard time not assuming they'll want to focus on the movie, and the cartoon is really just "advertising" for the Star Wars brand, at that point. It's, again, a weird uncharted situation where a cartoon is complementing a movie more than being a focal point itself (ala TCW) which had an insane toy line launch for something that wasn't a main film in one of the trilogies, and had a film itself.
It's a really weird situation, so there's a lot of guessing and only guessing that can be done, as to what's happening and when.
I lean towards Hasbro focusing on TFA... I know for a fact they were told, and immediately began diverting resources, to start working on it immediately after the Disney/LFL merger and announced. Now, which ships will be "iconic" from it? Who knows. The Ghost may be in it throughout?
I don't think The Ghost will never happen, but I just don't see it this year, personally. I think the SSG Q&A gives it some hope though, and if the Falcon is the sort of centric hero ship of the new trilogy, like I said before, it's tooled so you could re-release that and maybe a Ghost with it? I think it's doable. I think The Phantom was made to clearly dock to a Ghost too, so I think Hasbro wants to do it. When it comes to big stuff though, and this goes back to the line's beginning, they've always had to fudge ways to do it... The media support helps though.
So at this point I lean towards not this year... But I think any year (that Rebels is on, at least) there's a chance. I just think companies like this hate having big ticket stuff fighting amongst itself for shelf space at Christmas, and parent's dollars too. Would Hasbro want a $300 and $150 toy (just throwing numbers outta my butt there) on the shelf at the same time? Could they do a Ghost for less than $150? I dunno. Would they do just The Ghost in a year when a whole new trilogy of Star Wars is kicked off, with all new characters, vehicles, locations, and on top of it the classic main characters are back WITH the Millenium Falcon? And all of it at the Holidays, just to add toy frenzy to it all.
That's where I'm coming from. It'll be really weird, and interesting, to watch it all shake out because, it's uncharted waters.