Simba Smoby; a company manufacturing and distributing licensed diecast vehicles and RC cars based on the Transformers Franchise in Europe, is letting us know what the company is planning to offer in 2018.
The list highlighting what will be showcased during London Toy Fair and Nuremberg Toy Fair this year, states the following under the heading ‘Transformers Standalone Movie: Bumblebee‘:
- 1:18 scale Giant Robot Warrior Bumblebee
- 1:18 scale Giant Robot Warrior Barricade
- 1:24 scale RC Turbo Racer Bumblebee (Classic Buggy)
Based on the statement above, it seems as though Decepticon Barricade is a potential character appearing on the upcoming movie and may serve as the main antagonist since he is prominent enough to get his own toy. “Classic Buggy” may indicate that the Bumblebee RC car is in Volkswagen Beetle altmode.
Simba Smoby will showcase the new toy line at London Toy Fair on 23rd January (Booth E135) and at Nuremberg Toy Fair on 31st January (Hall H – Stand B-02).
Asian division of the company (Simba Toys) will have the same toys on display at their Kowloon, Hong Kong Showroom. More information can be found on our updated news post regarding the previous announcement. You can check out Simba’s current list of toys here.
Stick with TFW2005 for more cool announcements, reveals and Fair Guides throughout this Toy Fair Season, leading up to our coverage of New York Toy Fair 2018.
Music
This police car was seen on set. It's not out of the possibility that it's Barricade.
Novaburnhilde
I wouldn't be surprised to see him appear in the movie, if this means we get a nice figure of Barry in an older car disguise, I'll be happy.
The TFDrawer
Man I would love to see Barricade as an old police car! That would be sick!
Galvatross
I suspect they got it from the tfwiki page: tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers_(film)
Unfortunately the link to the original source is no longer working, but apparently Orci and Kurtzman preferred the idea of an evil police car.
SPLIT LIP
He spoke English, for one.
Starscream Gaga
Um, is there a source for that? That sounds like it's made-up.
96megatron
Do you think Barricade will participate in the final battle or pull his first Barricade?
Barricade: Plymouth GTX in case you're looking for me things got messy so I had to split. Anyway good luck out there champ.
Plymouth GTX: Wait what?
*Gets Choke Slammed By Bumblebee*
Galvatross
I have to agree with Russian fan here. Don't get me wrong, Barricade is extremely cool, he has a neat alt mode, he gets to kill Q, I like how he bosses around the protoforms in DotM in Cybertronian, while Shockwave remains cool and collected, after Soundwave was killed, his TLK design is amazing, and he has survived, retroactively or not, every film he has appeared in, but he doesn't have much to his character whatsoever. Starscream in the sequels, Megatron/Galvatron, Soundwave, Laserbeak, and the Fallen all have more to them in terms of personality and/or character than Barrcade. Ditto to Lockdown, who isn't a Decepticon but is worth mentioning since he is a non-Autobot antagonist.
I'd say he's slightly above the likes of Bonecrusher and Blackout just because he gets some dialogue at least.
Nevertheless, if he does appear in the Bumblebee movie, I hope Knight changes that.
Russian fan
Obsession of many fans often based on nothing – Nitro Zeus is good example. I don't see any personality in Barricade – where he differs from Blackout or Bonecrusher? He didn't manage to do anything he just another soldier. He has looked good and had several awesome scenes. But he hadn't distinct characterisation unlike Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, the Fallen and Lockdown.
myrrh
…and yet he still shows more personality in appearance, words, and actions: it’s why he’s a fan favorite…
Russian fan
Stereotype! Barricade literally has no character development in TF1! Even Starscream with 1 phrase has more.
myrrh
…where in the country were chryslers prevalent?..i know here in texas the big cruisers were either caprices or crown victorias, with fox bodies filling state highway patrol duties…
Smitty.1981
Am I the only one that wants this?
myrrh
…mostly it’s because he’s the only decepticon with significant character development on-screen; however cursory that may have been, it makes him a natural counterpart to bumblebee for a spinoff film, and offers more context to their confrontation in 2007…
The TFDrawer
Having Barricade as the main villain is just the smartest thing to do.
Raiju
Agreed. I was hoping they would use Barricade in Prime or NuRID ever since they revealed his kickass Aligned design (along with Prowl) but nope, those cool character concepts went unused, which is a shame.
If Barricade does show up in this movie, it'd be interesting to see his bot mode for sure.
Yeah, I have that figure and it's alright; more like they took the Aligned Prowl design and slapped a Barricade deco on him. I much preferred using TF Prime First Edition Vehicon and using that 3P Barricade head, light bar, and sticker upgrade garage kit for Aligned Barricade.
Speaking of Smokescreen repaint, using MP-19 Smokescreen and painting him up in black and white makes for a great Floro Dery/Guido Guidi version of G1 Masterpiece Barricade.
Mako Crab
Yeah, it’s unfortunate. Kinda plays into the whole deal, where no one in charge of making creative decisions seemed to realize how popular he was. It seems like they’ve finally gotten the hint since they brought him back for TF5 & now the B.B. movie. I’d like it even more if we got to see him finally make the jump into one of the toons.
I still want a TFUniverse you of Barry! That repaint of Smokescreen left a lot to be desired.
Raiju
Just sucks that IDW prematurely killed off Barricade in the comics. The character had a lot of potential (especially in opposing Starscream's scheming). Would've loved a Generations (perhaps Combiner Wars) version of Barricade.
Mako Crab
* adds this to the list of why Barricade is the most visible & important Decepticon in the movies.
spikebuster
Or could be Bumblebee vs Barricade, the Red Car, and the last one.