fenrir72 wrote:Mindmaster wrote:SW's SilverHammer wrote:![Image](http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/attachments/transformers-news-rumors/27450592d1404496437-takara-roadbuster-whirl-tankor-dorvack_cat.jpg)
Takara, you mad genius you.
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Mad genius? Please explain?
As you recall, Roadbuster and Whirl made up the Deluxe Vehicles. There was actually a third, tank-like robot in the line they originated from,
Special Armored Batallion Dorvack, which was called "Bonaparte Tulcas", the blue and gray tank you see to the far right. It was presumably not included into
Generation One due to it not having a convincing robot mode. (
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I was saying that Takara were comprised of mad geniuses because they're releasing their version of Tankor, whose deco and physique (tank-treaded feet, chicken legs, claw hand(s), and general bulkiness) coincidentally somewhat matches up to the Bonaparte Tulcas, thus making up the third never-to-be Deluxe Vehicle that someone could totally repurpose as so.
TLDR version: Takara is being sneaky and cheeky by releasing a blue and gray tank character in a wave that is comprised of modern reimaginings of the 1985 Deluxe Vehicles, whose ranks were ripped from another transforming robot toyline that had a third, blue and gray tank character that was never released as a Deluxe Vehicle in the original
Generation One run for one reason or another.