Skowl wrote:sto_vo_kor_2000 wrote:
Sorry to bust your bubble but all the names used in the Bay movie were characters in the G1 toy line even Barricade and Blackout....they were micromasters.
http://www.tfu.info/1990/Decepticon/Bar ... ricade.htm
http://www.tfu.info/1990/Decepticon/Bla ... ackout.htm
You have to look at what's more likely, given the intent of those involved in the film. Did they actually base Blackout and Barricade of micromasters of all things? Or is it just more logical that they are new characters who used those names because "Blackout" and "Barricade" were recently trademarked by Hasbro during the Energon line, which means those names were available.
The share the NAMES, that's it. There are not the same CHARACTERS.
I'm fully awaer that their not based on the G1 versions of Blackout and Barricade.....and I never implyed that they were the same characters.
On the other Hand Bay has remarked that he gave the directive to the writters to find only G1 names that he could still use for all the characters in his first movie and to make some of those names be harder to reconise so that it could be considered a "nod" or a "refrance" to the G1 stories.Why they chose these two names above the countless others is beyond me.
MAYBE you should have READ my post more CLOSELY!