A Tale of 2 Police Cars: Energon Igniters Barricade and Walgreen-exclusive Authentics Prowl

This is a comparison post between 2 Transformers figures that both happen to turn into police cars. One of them is Prowl from the Walgreen-exclusive Authentics line. This features Voyager-class size figures at a Deluxe-class price by having simplified designs compared to your standard mainline TF figure. The other is from one of the movie lines, Energon Igniters Barricade. EI figures feature have a spot in the vehicle mode that opens up to allow a friction gear gadget to be installed so that you can make the vehicle roll by pushing the gadget button. Frankly, it doesn't work that well. 😅

Nice thing about the igniters is that the open spot usually features weapons or boosters for the vehicle mode giving it an "armed vehicle mode" sort of thing that the later movies started having. Unfortunately, if you don't have the "engine" in place, it looks very empty when open. 

Prowl lacks Barricade's wrist articulation but has the full swivel-hinge hip articulation while Barricade can only widen his leg stance and cannot move his legs forwards nor backwards. They both have more or less your basic arm and shoulder articulation. Prowl has head swivel while Barricade has a ball-joint head. Both lack hand weapons.

It's funny how they both have similar looking vehicle modes and similar transformation yet have quite a different look in robot mode. Prowl I'm definitely holding on to but I might eventually get rid of this version of Barricade. Never quite a fan of Barricade, sad to say.

This coming Tuesday marks the start of the Texas early voting period as well as the 2-day Amazon Prime Day sales. Looks like it'll be a busy period at work all the way until the end of the holiday season. Probably won't be much posts from here until next year but I'll squeeze in what I can.