My Take
So here's my take:
For better or worse - it's a Phazer. Look at the specs of a 1989 Phazer II. They match this sled almost exactly.
That's good and bad in different ways. It's good because we all know that Phazers make great kids sleds and decent platforms to modify into half decent mountain kids sleds.
It's bad because - 30 years later, the best the market could give us for our kids is still just a phazer?
So I assume that the guys who know how to wrench will save themselves a bunch of money and still just keep buying phazers for their boys between the ages of anywhere from 8 to 16, but really centered right around 10-12. This doesn't affect them at all.
However, it does affect guys like me who don't know how to wrench. Now, there is a new Phazer that I can put my kid on so that I don't have to own a 30 year old sled. I can give my kid all the benefits of a Phazer, but I won't have the downside of dragging a 30 year old sled into the dealer all the time just to have him tell me he can't fix it because he can't get parts etc. etc.
In the end, I hoped for more/better, but I'm still pretty pumped about this and the savings account starts now for buying one in 2 years when my oldest turns 10.
In the meantime, over the next two years, I'll be praying nightly for Polaris to be working on the EVO RMK with a 136 X 1.5" track and a geared down transmission, speaking of transmission, put the belt drive on there. Also, Polaris really should be offering a 36" factory front end kit for these RMKs, and assuming they get their act together on that topic in the next two years, then toss that same 36" kit on my Evo RMK as well. I don't need my machine to sit lower, I just need it to be skinnier. 3 changes, track, belt drive, and narrow front end and suddenly that would be a really decent mountain machine for my kid from the ages of 10-13.