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by **Phenotype** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:22 am

Sorry if this has already been brought up.

I picked up Barricade at Wal-Mart last night and after I transformed him I was left wondering why the pieces along the top of his shoulders have a ball joint but it doesn't show anything being done with them in the instructions. I looked on Seibertron's galleries and he's got them just how they are on the box, then I looked at the full CGI pic and I realized there's actually an unlisted step in the transformation sequence.

This is how the instructions show it:

Look at the render:

You can clearly see the tire is on the inside and the little hook piece at the very top of the shoulder is pointing downward.

This is how his shoulders are supposed to look:

I like this look a lot better, now his arms don't look like one giant slab.

News Credits: 1 · by **Leonardo** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:25 am

It does look better, actually. It breaks up his sides/arms a bit more.

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Wed May 30, 2007 8:37 am

I was thinking it didn't look quite right, good find!

by **Saya** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:16 am

That's how I do it too. It does look a lot better!

News Credits: 104 · by **Cyber Bishop** » Wed May 30, 2007 9:18 am

Sheogorath wrote:That's how I do it too. It does look a lot better!

Same here.

News Credits: 11 · by **Robinson** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:12 am

Same, thats how I do mine and it does look a lot better than just the side panel of a car.

I also angle mine down a little bit.

by **Swerve** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:29 am

That looks much better. Before he kind of looked like Alt Rumble with pile driver arms.

News Credits: 3 · by **Barricade** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:38 am

looks wayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy better thanx for the info

News Credits: 2 · by **Basketball Jones** » Wed May 30, 2007 10:58 am

Definitely an improvement.

by **Swerve** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:37 am

Now if there were just a missing step in any of the Frenzy figures to make them look better....

Nope, impossible to make them look better!

News Credits: 17 · by **JTKranix** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:39 am

Man that looks way, way better.

News Credits: 3 · by **KSC** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:48 am

I did that with mine as well. Now if only there was a missing tranformation to keep his massive upper body from crushing his puny legs. I couldnt get mine to stand under his own weight.

News Credits: 665 · by **Skowl** » Wed May 30, 2007 11:48 am

Yeah, I picked up on that too - if they weren't supposed to do that, there wouldn't be ball joints there. He looks much more 'balanced' with the top panels in different positions, instead of one big slab of a side of a car for an arm.

EDIT: And if you look closely on the inside of those top panels, you can see how they've been molded to resemble the design of the movie model.