Ok, I really wanted to like this toy. I loved transformers growing up, I watched the cartoons and read the comics and I enjoyed the movie. I really really wanted to like this toy. But it truly sucks on too many levels. I bought it for my 6 1/2 year old who saw the movie and fell in love with the idea and he asked Santa for Barricade with Frenzy. I'm at a point now where Santa may actually return this toy. The transformation from car to robot is fairly easy, but the robot form isn't very stable, his torso doesn't lock, so he bends over a lot and his head doesn't really move. Plus he has this incredibly lame "action" punch arm which is not only stupid and uninteresting but tends to go off at the slightest touch when you don't want it to, like say when you are transforming it back to car!!! It's all plastic, which I suppose should be expected, Frenzy is also lame, you can't really do anything with him, he just folds up or stands there. It seems to be fairly resilient, as I just spent about twenty minutes trying to transform it back to a car. Transforming back into a car is pretty difficult, all you have to do is transform it in the reverse order but the joints don't want to bend very easy, you end up feeling like you are forcing the thing back together and the stupid arm punching thing keeps getting activated while you are trying to transform it back! I'm very disappointed and I think for the ridiculous amount of money the transformers are going for, there should be some actual quality there. I doubt this is very fun to play with since half of the fun of a transformer is being able to transform it from car to robot and back again, hence the name transformers, right??? I also don't see this as a great display option unless you always keep it in car mode and never ever transform it, not even once, to robot mode, because once you do, the car mode never looks quite as perfect. Terrible, I do not recommend this toy especially not at the $$ they are expecting people to pay!

I had many original Transformers in the 1980's, sadly most of them have been lost, ruined, or stolen over the years. My first was the police car Autobot Prowl, back when I naively believed the propaganda that all cops were good. That may be what attracted me to Barricade, an evil police car, Michael Bay himself loved this.
I found Barricade a bit more difficult to transform without looking at the instructions, than many original Transformers were. Barricade has ridiculous arms, way too long in the shoulders, the left arm spring punch is silly and annoying as it can interfere with transformation, and it has no guns or weapons at all. The arms and feet can be snapped off rather too easily, but they also snap right back into place easily, some designer was clever here! The connector between chest and abdomen is rickety at best. I cannot find the Decepticon symbol anywhere on Frenzy, the symbols on Barricade are very small and inside his 2 police shields. Kinda stupid for a Transformer to display his symbols while in disguised mode. Frenzy does come out of a well-hidden spot on Barricade's front grill, looks nothing like the original Frenzy that came out of Soundwave, does not transform into a cassette (like the classic Frenzy) nor a tape deck (like the new Frenzy). This Frenzy is a TransfoLDer, its head and legs just fold over onto its chest, and the feet are stuck together in one piece.
I think Bumblebee is a much better action figure than Barricade.

Before anything else I say, I want to make it clear that I love the character Barricade and its many incarnations. I loved him in the movie as he was one of my favorite characters and then him being a Saleen Mustang just boosted that even higher!! Now for the toy all though cool looking in car mode all the detail is there once he turns into robot mode he isnt as impressive. I mean the overall look is there but compared to the other Transformers from the movie line he is probably the simplest looking one. To turn him from car to robot and back again is a very unpleasant task and then the fact that you get a feeling you might break something snapping everything back is unsettling. i personally dont like the spring loaded punch, for one thing it seems like it might break while putting the arm back, and too it looks awkward one its done. So again great character, mediocre toy, but if you absolutely just want to have Barricade for your collection a must buy.

The transformer movie, being much better than I expected, caught my son's interest and it has been 24/7 Transformers! Barricade was hard to find so I decided to look on Amazon. It was pricier than the other Transformers at Target etc, for the same size, but no one else had Barricade. The detail is great. I personally love the inscription on the side of the vehicle: "to imprison and enslave" right off the movie vehicle! Wish they made a large size Barricade!

This is yet another awesome Transformer. Great looking and it's like it came straight out of the movie. The only thing I have against it is that it is a pretty flimsy toy, however the foot that popped of popped right back on. Do not by it if you have a child that is under 8. Most of the Transformers only an adult will be able to transform.