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:''Barnstorm is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Transformers: Energon (franchise)|Energon]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family]].''
[[Image:Barnstorm profile.png|thumb|upright=1.67|Yes, you smell it, don't you Slappy? That's the smell of a ''gentleman''.]]

'''Barnstorm''' is a skilled aerial combatant, surprising friends and foes with his acrobatic stunts, and is an ingenious raid-planner. Unfortunately, his way of speaking is archaic, which sometimes can cause people to not realize what he's saying until it's too late. He serves with [[Flashdrive]] and [[Trickshot|Bingo]] in the [[Apocalypse Brigade Mini-Con Team|Elite Flying Corps]].<ref>Defunct [[Transformers Collectors' Club|Collectors' Club]] site members' section, Micro-Sized Online! Mini-Con Profiles, [[March 23|23 March]] [[2007]]</ref>

Unfortunately, [[Unicron]] turned him into the evil '''Saber''' (セイバー ''Seibā'').<ref>[[Ask Vector Prime]] post on Facebook, [[August 1|1 August]] [[2015]]</ref>

==Fiction==
===Ask Vector Prime===
Multiversal observer Vector Prime explained that iterations of the [[Apocalypse Brigade Mini-Con Team|Elite Flying Corps]] often had the misfortune to encounter Unicron while scouting for energon ore. The Chaos-Bringer reformatted them into the evil [[Apocalypse Brigade Mini-Con Team]], and thus Barnstorm became Saber, team leader and strategist. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 1 August 2015}}

==Toys==
===''Super Link''===
[[File:En-toy MB2-Saber.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.67|Size doesn't matter. Except when it does. Which is always.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Saber''' (Micron Booster, 2004)}}</ul>
:*''Booster ID number'': '''1'''

: ''[[Transformers: Energon (toyline)#Takara Super Link toyline|Super Link]]'' Saber is a blue-chromed [[redeco]] of the Mini-Con [[Thunderclash (Armada)#Toys|Thunderclash]], transforming into a Cybertronic gunship.

: He was sold as part of the third, Lawson-stores-exclusive Micron Booster assortment (called "Ver.2") in Japan, in individual, [[blindpacking|blind-packed]] boxes so you did not know which Mini-Con you got until you opened the box and opaque black plastic bag inside. Saber was a "chase" toy, available only in every other case of twelve. In cases without a Saber in it, the space was filled with a duplicate of one of the other eleven toys in the assortment.

: This mold is also used by [[Flashdrive]]/Processor and [[Trickshot|Bingo]]/Triac.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Micron/Saber/saber.htm More information on Saber at TFU.info]''{{ArmadaThunderclashMold}}

==Notes==
* As "Saber", he was originally released by Takara in Japan with no [[bio]] info whatsoever. The American name "Barnstorm", and his bio, were created by the [[Transformers Collectors' Club]] and published on [[March 23]], [[2007]] on their website. In [[2015]], the [[Ask Vector Prime]] Facebook page would expand upon Barnstorm's team affiliation.
* His Japanese name comes from "Saber", the smaller robot form of [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]], as the first three [[Micron Booster]] assortment "headliners" have names similar to Japanese [[Autobot]] leaders/protagonists.<ref>Vol. 0's [[Drop-Test|Rod]] is named for [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rodimus]], Vol. 0's [[Atlas (Armada)|Atlas]] is named for [[Dai Atlas (G1)|Dai Atlas]], Vol. 1's [[Chrome]] is named for Chrome, the small stage of [[Chromedome (G1)|Chromedome]], and Vol. 2's Saber is named for Saber, the small stage of [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]].</ref>

==References==
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[[Category:Energon Mini-Cons]]
[[Category:Japanese-original Transformers]]
[[Category:Micron Boosters]]
[[Category:Unicron-related characters]]