Board Thread:Rumor discussion/@comment-39814790-20200803194101/@comment-25234510-20200807081131

Given Hasbro's cost-cutting efforts of late, I have a hard time believing that they'd sell an RC toy with built-in blaster for $60. I suppose if you took the TerraScout and striped out the live video feed, it might bring the costs down quite a bit, but nowhere near enough while making the blaster virtually impossible to aim, so I'm sure it's some kind of blaster you'd be physically handling.

The name "Skystriker" with "sky" in it brings to mind images of either shooting from the sky (which it wouldn't be if it's not a drone) or shooting towards the sky as in artillery or, going back hundreds of years, archery. Maybe it's because I missed out on the ThunderBow when they were new, but if I were to guess, I think it might be another longbow-inspired blaster.

Then again the names of blasters don't always make sense. "Shockwave" for example makes me think of something that either hits hard enough to cause a shockwave or shoots a lot of darts at HyperFire rates so your target sees a "wall of foam" coming at him. Instead that name was given to the SurgeFire reshell whose bulbous drum might be seen by Hasbro as spherical enough to be in a shape of a shockwave?