I was under the impression HD was a cousin of Roadblock...???I just as confused.

Roadblast would be the new code name for Marvin Hinton.

Or how about "Bubba"?

I don't know if ARAH made Heavy Duty the cousin, but from JvC (due to trademarks), Heavy Duty became the big, black, machine gunning star. By the time they could use the Roadblock name, HeavyD was pretty much in place. As well, I think it was in Spy Troops where HeavyD uses grenades to cook. He doesn't rhyme and I think there's even a reference that HD is RB's cousin! Going by the bastard era canon, HD can't cook nearly as well as his rhymin cousin!

Oh well.

What are they going to do when the trademark issue is solved? Are they going to re-introduce Heavy Duty and call him Roadblock?
I were hoping for interaction between Roadblock and Heavy Duty in the new comic to show the diffrent aspects of the characters.

I like the idea of both guys chilling with each other.


What will most likely happen is that Heavy Duty will be the top gunner and Roadblock will be the 'other guy who came later'.

Spy troops movie is where the HD and RB thing was suggested first.



Yeah I recall hearing that somewhere before :)

IIRC, Hasbro lost the rights to Lanard for a time. They had to scramble to get the rights back when Lanard let them expire.

From what I understand, there are trademarks for LOTS of aspects. Check this out:

Rights for character name.
Rights for visual character in print
Rights for visual character in movement (Cartoon, movie, live action, etc)
There were 2 others but I can't remember.

Just because you can get back a name like Roadblock, doesn't mean he can have his likeness apparently.

AND I've read/heard that it is incredibly hard to grab 'normal' names. Scarlet, Stalker, etc. That's why, if you guys really bothered to notice (I didn't really care myself) why you got Agent Scarlet, or Ralph "STEELER" whatever, and so on. But anyway...

Here is confirmation from an artist:

http://ratkins.deviantart.com/art/RoadBlock-94599765

funny thing is, he is as confused as us lol

Roadblock likes rap, Heavy Duty likes hip hop. Original Heavy Duty was a mortar guy I think he should be a bit better educated but more inexperienced than Roadblock.

heh, maybe in a few years the Character would be called Heavyblock or Road-duty (sounds like a crossing guard). :p

But yeah they are different characters, especially if you have followed sigma 6 for just a second.