Sigh, guess you are 16 minutes too late.... Someone posted this http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers-news-rumors/234415-rotf-sideways-stil.html
Never mind, i have been "too late" a few times.... Really took the fun away.... but never mind... Keep on Rolling
Yeah. If they aren't going to rechristen Megatron as Galvatron to avoid confusion, they aren't going to do it for anybody else.
A lot of the new ROTF characters look like homages to the old ones.. Sideways resembles Barricade, Sideswipe resembles Jazz (although IS NOT JAZZ) This reminds me of the scene from TFA where bumblebee explains why Wasp looks like him. (And CliffJumper and a bunch of other bots) Perhaps the movieverse have similar Protoform styles that bots are made from?
And both being considerably small compared to the other autobots, and having large chest areas. It's a fleeting resemblance at most, but its still worth at least noting.
I think Sideswipe is on head height with Bumblebee, he appears to be the tallest new autobot excluding Jetfire.
Ya, in videogames why are all the round things pointed!? Like in TFA the wheels are octogons. thats why I love the TFA animation, its so oblong!
There's similarities and there's differences. Most notably in the shape and overall silouhette. Sideways has a bigger torso and Barricade has broader shoulders. In addition, I think Barricade has 4 eyes, arachnid style. Though maybe that's just a Clark Kent-type disguise.
maybe... Freakin' crossover. Anyways.. it's natural that some robots are like others, it's like humans. Or Animals, they are from a diferent race and like us, they are similars but no quite different.. although jetfire is a Cave~robot.