Barricade has actually made me like my HA BB more. I quite possibly have my favorite display right now, with him and BB fighting. As much as I like fight scenes, I can't bring myself to put BB's battle mask down. Looks awkward.

So, my current HA favorites are as follows:

1. Barricade
2. Bumblebee
3. Skids
4. Sideswipe

I'm pretty sure when Mudflap comes out I'm gonna like Skids a lot more, though.

 

Did the leg mod that Peaugh mentioned. Cutting off the plastic tabs on thigh/top of the leg helps the figure stand better, and makes him look better. Not to mention the fact I kept forgetting to plug the head in all the way,

 

i did the leg mod as well, soooo much better. but i believe there is no need to cut, just take the waist piece apart and turn the piece where you would cut so that piece faces down and re-attach the waist piece.

 

The pegs were useless anyways.

 

Hmmm, can you still transform him afterwards though?

 

u should yes, i went with cutting them off because with the backwards it bugged me. i didnt try transforming it back. but its not hard to remove the screws and try it.

 

His hips are strange, but once you get used to the way they move they provide a fair amount of versatility.





They remind me a lot of the older Yamaguchi-sculpted Kaiyodo monoshaft figures that were covered in angled cut joints and were great at being shown in crazy poses, but couldn't actually stand straight up.

 

Am I the only person that puts Frenzy in the passenger seat? We need a mustache man for the driver seat.

 

Oh man some kind of well done, slightly transparent (in areas) figure of the mustache man would have been great!

 

Can you imagine that on the box? "Barricade with frenzy and Mustache man"

 

It's a matter of taste really. In my opinion, no it was not a good decision. But that is because I have absolutely no desire for Mindwipe, but I've been looking forward to Barricade.

It would probably say something like "holographic driver" instead of mustache man.

 

The mod only lets you slide the legs up higher at the hip area...to transform him, just slide ethem down more. He transforms perfectly still..if you're interested

At the 13:18 mark i talk about the modification itself...

YouTube - Video review of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen; Human Alliance Barricade

 

I really love and appreciate this spectacular figure to no end.

My photos represent that.

 

Thanks. I figured cutting them wouldn't cause any issues with the transformation - I was referring to the of the fix Deceptigtar mentioned, which would involve no cutting. I tried it but alas you can't transform him with that fix.

 

the hip joints, for me, are only annoying for the first few minutes until i figure out how to properly align them and make them work with the rest of the joints in his legs.

my favorite HA so far. HA bumblebee second. skids, mudflap and sideswipe are battling for 3rd

 

I love this figure. Only beef is that he has a spinning thingy for his left arm, but I'll be fixing that soon  . His vehicle mode is fantastic.

He also gets about a million bonus points for the little frenzy figure he comes with.

 

Saw it today, surprisingly, but couldn't get it atm.

 

Finally found him today and I like him a lot. Car mode looks fantastic but I wish they had left the 911 design on him. Weird that they took it off the toy but left it on cars in the box art. Transforming him is not too hard but trying to pull the arms out from the sides the first time was kinda tricky at the back part for some reason. The legs are wonky as hell but not too bad when you play around with them. The chest can be made more distorted and cool looking if you fold the grill under the hood. The screaming mouth is kind of neat if you want him to torture Sam. Very cool figure overall.

 

The only thing wrong with this figure is that I can't find him.

 

In car mode, I kept trying to stick Frenzy into the grill like the instructions show with his head up, but I can't get everything to fit inside unless I turn that sumbitch sideways and then stick him in.