Wolfman Jake wrote:TF-fan kev777 wrote:Honestly, I think Flywheels is going to be a deluxe weaponizer instead of 2 legends that form a deluxe. First, there is no legends class anymore, so they pretty much have to sell it as a deluxe. The weaponizers are the shiny new thing that they came up with within the deluxe price point, and really only have 3 no-brainer type potential uses for them in Cog, Sixgun and Brunt. Adding flywheels to the mix would give them a nice 4 weaponizers, with 2 bots and 2 cons.
I really want it to follow the Battletrap design, but I just don't see it happening. (I'd gladly be wrong on this.)
I don't see why a "Deluxe" Flywheels that separates into two separate "Legends" sized vehicles would be off the table for Siege at all. First, Hasbro isn't saying "no" to any gimmicks. They've just said that they aren't forcing legacy gimmicks onto characters that didn't originally have them, like making characters combiners or headmasters when they weren't in G1. Flywheels always separated into two vehicles in G1, so the new update can certainly do the same, as it's not adding functionality that wasn't already there. Second, Deluxes are packaged in robot mode, so it's not like it would be a Deluxe bubble pack with a small tank and jet in there to "confuse" people. It'll look just like Cog or Sixgun would along side other Deluxe releases, a robot roughly 5 inches tall. The only difference is whether the whole robot turns into a vehicle, into two smaller vehicles, or into a pile of weapons and armor. The only thing that might happen with Flywheels is that we lose the individual robot modes for the tank and jet that Battletrap had in Power of the Primes. However, I'm fairly confident that won't be the case, believing Flywheels must have been developed similarly along side Battletrap initially, before PotP was shortened, making Flywheels more of a carry over from an originally more expansive PotP line-up.
Agreed on the 2 legends size vehicles, I think that is a certainty. I think the big difference is there probably won't be 2 individual legends size robots. Which makes me a little sad. I bough an extra set of the battletrap bots on the chance that we got a flywheels of the same style. I wanted to make Battlewheels and Flytrap.