Cyclonus does seem like a very random choice, but I wonder if it indicates a desire/decision on Hasbro's part to make all the redecos/retools in the CW line characters who were not previously combiners. That fits with Optimus Prime (okay, pretool) and the rumoured "Masquerade" redecos. If I'm right about that, though, it would mean Hot Spot will almost certainly not be getting retooled into Onslaught at some later point. However, the speculation about the Combaticons has always left me wondering why Hasbro would release another Bruticus so soon after the last one, other than the obvious synergy of CW.

It doesn't fit with Slingshot and Wildrider at all, but those seem kind of odd in the first place. They might be exclusives, or could be false rumours after all (heck, all the rumours could be false). Another possibility is that they have decided to expand the line this year unexpectedly and there's more to come than we thought.

At least there's less than two weeks until Toy Fair, and hopefully we'll find out.