Even those are BUILT out of stock parts they still aren't PURE stock robots.
Point.Weedy's taking "pure stock" to the extreme of "Can this be built in real life?" Answer: no. Ain't no way in real life to overlap motors or put one inside another.On the other hand, because it IS a game, there is ALWAYS going to be some "cheating" involved with the parts. Consider a simple flipper. You can build a box and put a motor in it, and use an extender that goes through the sidewall of the chassis to the flipper - in real life, you'd have to cut a slot or some kind of hole for the extender to go through. A spinner would need to have a slot cut all the way around the edge, or at the very least have a hole on top for the motor shaft to poke through. Technically, there's already a fair bit of "legal cheating" going on since all of these things are generally accepted as part of the game.Bottom line is: Pure stock? No. Game stock? Yes.
I try to avoid excessively stacking parts in my stock RA2 bots. I like my designs to be as realistic as possible, but still competitive. Drumblebee for example, could be built in real life. Not exactly how it's built in the game, but you could get it looking and performing the same. Perhaps that's why I haven't built many horizontal spinners since joining the forums... too hard to make them realistic and competitive.Hate to point this out, but if "pure stock" means "can it be built in real life" then Heavy Duty isn't pure stock. The spinners go through the wheels, an impossibility in real life.
You got my vote for RA2 Wizard. Always and forever.