Nemesis Primal wrote:
I want the Evergreen design for Barricade as a figure. The TLK design it's based off of is good, but the figure had QC and clear plastic issues and I like the more streamlined Evergreen design better overall, especially the head design. Riot gear Barricade is something I didn't know I wanted until it existed, and now I love it. If this figure absolutely HAD to be a Prowl repaint, then I wanted him to have a head that actually looks like Barricade and suitably intimidating weaponry, instead of an Emo Smokescreen complete with his shoulder needle guns. The color scheme is great, and I love the purple windows and tires, but he doesn't resemble Barricade physically in any way other than having a hood chest and police tats. I was willing to settle for SS Movie 1 Barry because I didn't think we'd get another good Barricade anytime soon, let alone the one I wanted, and I was expecting Siege Barry to be disappointing, but apparently SS Barry has issues too, so I'm just disappointed on all fronts.
Also that fatigue you mentioned has been discussed multiple times at this point every time Hasbro just makes more of the same G1, and my broke college student budget can't justify Masterpieces even if I did want to suddenly start over with a new scale that doesn't work with retail stuff.
An Evergreen Barricade would pop up in a you know an Evergreen line, Siege isn't an Evergreen line, the Evergreen design doesn't fit the Siege Aesthetic, you would still be disappointed because they would of changed it.
The head does look like a G1-vide Barricade, he has the gold face, forehead crest and black helmet, it just so happens to share a look with one of the "Datsun Brothers".
Barricade also didn't even officially use guns until TLK (In Dotm his gun was just a standard Protoform weapon it wasn't made with him in mind) and the only guns he even had was a dinky pistol and a wrist gun, only melee weapons he's ever used are his hand blades from 2007 and then a Baton and knuckle dusters in TLK.
I associate Barricade with beating up people with his fists more then I do with intimidating weaponry.
This figure didn't have to be a Prowl mold reuse but it was anyways to homage an Artist representation and a figure idea that some people wanted as well as the fact that Prowl was the inspiration for Barricade so it was either going to be a repaint/remold of Prowl or of Red Alert.
Why make his own mold when you could just use Prowl's from the very same line?
There isn't even a guarantee that Smokescreen is even going to come out we just know that there could be one, from what we know Bluestreak is an exclusive or a figure from some other line in some way so where does that leave Smokescreen's spot?
Plus how do we know that this head wasn't made for Barricade in mind with Smokescreen being thought up afterwards as the repaint?
Also I would say that Siege Barricade resembles the Evergreen/TLK design in ways besides the door wings but with colors more inspired by the 2007 guy which I will say is probably the most memorable version of the character.
Like I don't think he would of been as popular of a character if the TLK version showed up first over the 2007 one.
