Toyfair Australia part three - official images

[Sinnertwin]

I'm a bit huh as to why they went with Barricade rather than Smokescreen first, but then again, Siege does seem to be Autobot heavy from memory.

[GoktimusPrime]

I'm a bit huh as to why they went with Barricade rather than Smokescreen first, but then again, Siege does seem to be Autobot heavy from memory.

To be fair, it's because G1 was Autobot heavy. One thing that really impressed me when Beast Wars came along was how the two sides suddenly became evenly matched. But yeah, it's the reason why writers often had to fill in the Decepticon ranks with generic gumbies like those purple Jets etc. - what we would now call Vehicons I suppose. You rarely saw "Vehibots."

P.S.: It'll also be interesting to see how TakaraTOMY markets the Siege Micromasters, because in Japan almost every Micromaster was an Autobot, and that includes the Air Strike Patrol. Off memory I can only think of 5 Japanese Micromasters who were Decepticons - and yes, Barricade was one of them!

[DELTAprime]

P.S.: It'll also be interesting to see how TakaraTOMY markets the Siege Micromasters, because in Japan almost every Micromaster was an Autobot, and that includes the Air Strike Patrol. Off memory I can only think of 5 Japanese Micromasters who were Decepticons - and yes, Barricade was one of them!

The Takara Siege toys are identical to Hasbro's. They just have Takara Tomy printed on the box/card and Japanese stickers over the English descriptions and bios. I would take a picture of the Siege figures I got last week but they have already been picked up by the recycling truck.

[Sinnertwin]

That'd be cool if TT switched alliances for the applicable characters and marketed them as such to add some variety to the line. With the Global unification though, it'll probably just be the same.

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, that's definitely a possibility but it would be unfortunate. Repainting the Siege Micromasters in their Japanese colours would just make more sense for TakaraTOMY's market. And yeah, it would drive a lot of overseas fans nuts too.

Siege Hyperspeed and Blackjack ought to be repainted as Gingham and Blackheat -- and to milk more money out of the mould they could further repaint Gingham as Clipper! Then just include her in a 2 pack with Powertrain repainted as Ironworks.

[Bidoofdude]

To be fair, it's because G1 was Autobot heavy. One thing that really impressed me when Beast Wars came along was how the two sides suddenly became evenly matched. But yeah, it's the reason why writers often had to fill in the Decepticon ranks with generic gumbies like those purple Jets etc. - what we would now call Vehicons I suppose. You rarely saw "Vehibots."

P.S.: It'll also be interesting to see how TakaraTOMY markets the Siege Micromasters, because in Japan almost every Micromaster was an Autobot, and that includes the Air Strike Patrol. Off memory I can only think of 5 Japanese Micromasters who were Decepticons - and yes, Barricade was one of them!

Animated did it well too. Though there were less core Decepticons, they were portrayed as much bigger and built for war than the Autobots. It added a lot to Megatron being almost a god in the eyes of the Autobots, who had greater numbers though in more civilian bodies.