Right you are, bc. There are pictures of the prototypes at Blade Atlanta floating around. I've seen the pics. So I know the Wharnie's been there.
I am not disputing that - I think it was only at Blade 2008, though - at Blade 2009 I hung out at the Busse / SR / SY booths pretty much all day every day and I never saw the wharnie, or any of the other protos. All I saw at the SY booth was some Bird Dogs, Mud Puppys, SoDs, Regulators... maybe one or two more blades that I'm forgetting at the moment, but no proto's. They were all for sale.