There's also a deluxe Swindle with no universe designation listed alongside the Aerialbots. I've seen speculation that Nexus Prime might be made from retools/redecos of a mix of the Aerialbots and Combaticons like the TFCC toy, so that might be an indication of a new Bruticus coming the following year.
It does fulfill the military truck torso, two planes, a tank and a helicopter combination but the vehicles are different in practice and robot modes would be way off unless they devote a lot of retooling. Depends on how much fidelity they want on a relatively minor character at a cumulatively high price point.
If nothing else, I'd rather they gave Heatwave his own new mold since his original toy looked nothing like a mere head-swap redeco of G1 Onslaught.
Way I see it, Onslaught’s chest isn’t part of the vehicle mode so they could easily retool it into an approximation of Heatwave’s. I don’t think Heatwave would warrant an all-new mold since he only has fiction limited to defunct niche Botcon stuff and their Commander schedule’s already packed with Silverbolt in the Primes line and presumably Onslaught the next.
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Mark my words, Heatwave will be a retool of either Inferno or Bulkhead.
Lol maybe they'll do the opposite of the Robot Masher toy and make Rescue Bots Heatwave by accident this time.
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I would do that on purpose, but that's why Hasbro doesn't hire me.
Wait, is Legacy Heatwave not the Rescue Bot?! 
We're talking about a hypothetical update of Nexus Prime, not anything that's actually been leaked. Nexus's torso component was named Heatwave.Wait, is Legacy Heatwave not the Rescue Bot?!
Oh, okay. My bad. ^^;;
Would be cool to get both Heatwaves, however. Just saying.
You're not wrong.
Watch Hasbro pull a Shadow Striker and try to do both in one.
Oh, please no. Don't jinx it.
They're been doing it, like Skyquake.
Yeah, and I don't want you to jinx it for Heatwave. I'd like at least him (if not more than just him) to get by unscathed and actually look how he's supposed to look.
Like how Legacy Rescue Bots Chase mercifully didn't have anything from G1 Throttlebot Chase unnecessarily forced into his design.
TBF, They have the same transformation
And if not for Cliffjumper they probably could have made Chase/Roadburn from Chase.
It's my job to jinx it.