Sabrblade wrote:Burn wrote:BERSEKAEL wrote:Fender Bender wrote:Skylynx does NOT split in two. The combiner head/lynx head is in Sky Lynx's ass.
You may be able to turn the legs around and kind of have the shuttle head as a tail for Lynx mode though.

pass then
I won't pass on him, but I won't be using him as a combiner.
Sky Lynx though is a perfect example of Combiner Wars going too far. We don't need everyone hooking up.
It seems we've come to a point where the the line is so beholden to its gimmick that, if we're to expect to get any toys of any characters in the Deluxe or Voyager size class, they'll have to have the gimmick incorporated into them, no matter what characters they are.
It's kind of like the mentality of the Unicron Trilogy lines when you think about it. No matter who the characters were, every big toy in Armada had to have a Mini-Con gimmick, every big toy in Energon had to have both an Energon Star port and either combine in some fashion (Autobots) or have a Hyper Mode (Decepticons), and every big toy in Cybertron had to have a Cyber Key gimmick. The only ones exempt from this were the Mini-Cons, Omnicons, and Terrorcons, with the latter two having (in addition to Energon Star ports) the feature of Energon weapons instead of combining or having a Hyper Mode.
Until we start seeing Beast Wars characters come out witht the ability to combine, I'd prefer to think of Skylynx as follows:
Some of us (myself exluded) really dig the character of Skylynx. So Hasbro wants to throw us a bone. So maybe he should've been a leader class to properly represent who he is/what he does, but to Hasbro, while he may be a very unique character, his "robot" mode isn't distinct enough from his alt-mode to justify that size and price, especially when he needs to appeal to kids as well as us adult collectors.
Another thing: who could they repaint/remold a leader class Skylynx into? So far, 2/3 of the leader figures have had two different toolings. And whereas with Ultra Magnus, even if they don't retool him, the demand is there from the fans, the size is right, AND he has recognizeability to the younger generation of fans, through TF Animated and TF Prime; that's not necessarily the case with Skylynx.
So Hasbro tries to meet the middle ground: giving fans of the character a great looking representation in a Voyager figure, that can HEY also combine. Plus, they have a little more room to possibly retool the figure into someone else, say Hun-gurr or or possibly even the other half of Skylynx (whatever they called it).
Is this making sense?