[Daviddavid]

Someone on the FTC blog site brought up a really great point I hadn't thought of about the new FTC kit having bigger motors and metal gears - it's now a much more dangerous kit than the Vex platform is.

The new kit sounds more like FRC. But for classroom use, the Vex kit is clearly the safer and more proven option. I thought FVC was meant to be a bridge between FLL and FRC, now it seems the new platform is really a possible cheaper alternative to FRC, not a low cost bridge to it. I can't recommend the new platform over Vex to middle schools or high schools I want to work with. Vex is cheaper, is safer, is high quality, is proven and really seems ideal for the classroom. Plus I like Vex a lot, so there's no reason to change unless something better and cheaper comes out - which the new platform is not.