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Post Posted: May 5th 2009 8:54 am
 

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I prefer to remember the "Career opportunities" Jennifer Connelly with the huge rack in the tight white t-shirt. :bunnys:


Damn B, I was just about to say that.


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In other news, we have are the first look and confirmation of the leaked call sheets from page one:

BELOW: The first alt(ernate) mode of MudFlap and Skids is the Ice Cream Truck, of which the "twins" combine into.

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I thought those were the same generic decepticon protoforms from the wide shot earlier in the trailer.


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what in the hell is that thing Ravage is suppose to turn into? it's like a mutant swiss army knife + pliers + laser cannons ??


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what in the hell is that thing Ravage is suppose to turn into? it's like a mutant swiss army knife + pliers + laser cannons ??


Oh, the kids are gonna have a tough time transforming that thing. Might as well get them a Rubik's Cube.


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I knew that damn icecream truck was probably the twins before they got the Chevy modes. Nice to finally get a confirmation on that. I think the toy looks pretty neat.

I think Ravage may be mis-transformed in that pic as a couple people over at TFW2005 already have him in hand and they have him transformed differently. Although his alt-mode still doesn't look like much even when it's transformed correctly.

So with these batch of pics we almost have all the toys of the new characters revealed. Just need to see the third fembot motorcycle and the rest of the Constructicons I think.


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I thought those were the same generic decepticon protoforms from the wide shot earlier in the trailer.


Pretty sure you're right.


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For Soundwave, I was just passing along the info as we have yet to see what filmed Soundwave looks like.

Some transformed variations for Ravage including a Laserbeak pose. (tf08.net)

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Having Ravage/Laser Beak as the same character would actually work well for me; assuming he's still dispatched by Soundwave


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According to Ravage's Bio - the re-entry mode is the alt-mode. A robotic-humanoid alt-mode would have been preferred. :psyducklon:


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I've forgotten just about everything I ever knew about Transformers. And truth be told, I didn't really like the first one. Throw in the fact that I am no fan of Bay. However, I liked the trailers and I'm somewhat optimistic. I'm trying to read these prequel comics so that I can catch up before it opens.


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If you didn't like the first one you probably won't like the second. If you're going to see it at all, the proper strategy would be to temper your expectations since it's essentially the same formula.


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:siren: TakaraTomy is going to be releasing an "EZ Collection" (Legends) set of the ROTF Constructicons that have both robot modes, vehicle modes, and combine to make Devastator. This confirms that there are indeed 7 Constructicons, the seventh being Overload. (Note: The robot modes for Rampage and Scrapper are swapped in the pic.)
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Better shot of Scrapper from the RoTF videogame site.


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omg LongHaul is awesome. tf08.net


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[align=center]:siren: Detailed spoilers from the Junior RoTF Novel: (Almost all of the movie spoiled!) :siren:
(originally posted by Cth from the TFW2005 forum)[/align]

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In the beginning, the Allspark created the first 13 Transformers -- The Primes. They needed more energy, so they created the Matrix of Leadership. This was used to power a device that extracts energy from suns. The Primes search the galaxy for suns, vowing not to destroy a sun if it provided life to worlds around it.

The Primes came to Earth and saw early man and invoked the rule. The Fallen chose to rebel as he wanted the Matrix for himself. The Twelve hid themselves and the Matrix away in a tomb. The Fallen in space searches for it, and only one being can stop him -- the last remaining Prime, Optimus.


SHANGHAI.

NEST (Nonbiological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty) continues to track down Decepticons -- a human/Autobot alliance. Ironhide, Epps, Lennox, Sideswipe, Optimus and the Twins are here. They're tracking Demolisher's signal, and when they're close he transforms (as seen in the trailer). Optimus and Ironhide take down Demolisher by knocking him on his side.

Sideswipe takes out Sideways. Demolisher dies and with his last breath mentions The Fallen.


SAMS HOME.

TV coverage of Congressional hearings about Mission City.

They blame a robotics company, keeping the incident covered up. Sam, Mikaela and his parents know the truth. Sam is packing for college, when Mikaela calls. She's uneasy about long distance dating. Sam is making a long distancerelationship kit and that's why he has his shirt from the first movie. The shard falls out of his pocket and burns a hole in the floor down to the kitchen. 6 or so devices animate -- a microwave fights a cell phone and tosses the cell inside and nukes it to kill it. They run upstairs and go after Sam when Bumblebee charges out and destroys them and part of the house. Cue the scene from the trailer.

Sam gives Mikaela the shard to keep safe. She puts it in a safe at her dad's motorcycle shop. wheelie is spying and overhears his and plans to steal it.


NEST HQ.

Optimus debriefing about Demolisher. NSA Advisor Galloway doesn't trust Autobots. Says Decepticons are here because of the Autobots, asks if they'll leave if the President asks.

The Autobots don't know what the Fallen is, since all their history was contained in the Allspark. Soundwave is listening in on the debriefing and learns of Megatron's location as a result.

Soundwave dispatches Ravage who later breaks in with the Doctor and steals the fragment at NEST HQ.


COLLEGE.

Sam's roommate Leo is a conspiracy nut. He totally believes in the Transformers existence. He's always being scooped by another online website run by someone named Robo Warrior.

Leo's website is the one on the back of the shirt in the trailer (realeffingdeal -- or as the junior novel says the-totally-real-deal ) Leo has hacked the database and arranged for all the hot girls to live on their dorm floor. Cue Alice who introduces herself.

Sam and Leo go to a party. Sam keeps seeing symbols, starts drawing them on cupcakes at the party. Alice tries to get Sam to dance when he hears a familiar car alarm outside. He leaves to meet Bumblebee and Alice is in tow. She gets in, and Bumblebee ends up slamming on the breaks, dousing her in antifreeze, etc. Sam is embarassed. She leaves and walks home. Bumblebee takes Sam to a cemetary where Optimus is waiting. They warn him that the Allspark shard was stolen -- Sam is frustrated when they ask him to speak on their behalf.

He just wants to live a normal life. Optimus believes in him. He apologizes but is firm, he doesn't know what he can do if Optimus can't convince them.

Ravage and Doctor go to the bottom of the ocean and insert the shard into Megatron who reboots.


COLLEGE.

Rainn Wilson, the professor starts teaching. Sam opens his book and starts speed reading, absorbing it all. He starts freaking out in class, ranting about how Einstein was wrong and going on about galactic convergences, etc. Sam ends up in the library after getting kicked out of class and sees a book on his grandfather.


SPACE.

Megatron in Cybertronian jetform leaves Earth for (presumably Mars) He finds the Nemesis with Starscream waiting. Very cool interactions between the two. They took fan feedback to heart definitely. Megatron goes to speak with the Fallen, who claims the ship as his own. Very Emperor/Vader vibe from their interaction. Fallen says there's another way to create the Allspark. Megatron says the Allspark was destroyed. Fallen says 'So were you.' Fallen says the boy has absorbed the location and dispatches them to find him. Megatron wants the power of the Primes, which Fallen promises him. 15 Decepticons leave with Megatron and Starscream for Earth saying Sam is already under observation.


MIKAELA'S MOTOR SHOP

She finds Wheelie sneaking around. Wheelie is a pushover and confesss he's trying to get the knowledge hidden in the shard because the Fallen commands it. He's smitten by Mikaela calling her a Warrior Goddess.


SAMS COLLEGE.

Alice corners Sam alone in his room, starts putting the moves on him. Mikaela is on the way and shows up just as Alice is about to kiss Sam. Leo, in the lobby sees an animatronic robot on TV that looks like Alice. It's an Alice in Wonderland robot from Disneyworld. Mikaela walks in as a 5 foot tentacle comes out of Alice's skull and strangles Sam. She hurls the box containing Wheelie at Alice who's head goes 360 degrees. She sheds her skin and reveals a robot underneath. Leo shows up as well to warn Sam and they all run from Alice. They get in a car, Alice slams onto the hood.

Leo makes a joke asking why they're so calm.. are they from the future? Did he send them back in time to save him from robots? (Terminator joke) They ram a telephone pole and run over Alice. They drive off only to get picked up by a unnamed helicopter Decepticon.


FACTORY.

Starscream slices the car in half (see trailer) Megatron says "Remember me? I remember you." They start torturing him, Doctor moving in with a hacksaw to get the info out of Sam's brain. Optimus and Bumblebee crash in to save Sam, Leo and Mikaela. Megatron knocks Prime out of the factory towards the forest scene from the trailer. Prime asks who the Fallen is, Megatron says you'll find out when he arrives. Prime manages to take on all three, until Megatron spears him from behind and takes him out. He urges Sam to go with his last breath. Ironhide, Ratchet and the Twins show up and blast Megatron who leaves.

They regroup. Another great interaction between Megatron and Starscream at this point as well. They can't find Sam, who the Autobots have hidden, so they decide to contact Soundwave. Soundwave broadcasts a message from Megatron to everyone in the world. Transformers are definitely out in the open now. He tells everyone they have a solar cycle to find him or they'll destroy city after city. Sam's parents vacationing in France see this and freak out.


NEST HQ.

Prime being evacuted. NSA guy disbands NEST. Sam feels guilty. Feels he should have listened to Prime. He thinks about turning himself in. He's still drawing symbols. The Twins recognize it as the language of the Primes. "Old school, way far back." Leo chimes in and says he saw the symbols on Robo Warriors website.

They contact Robo Warrior, who's revealed to be Simmons, forcibly retired and disgruntled working his mom's deli. Simmons says Transformers have been here for a long time. Sams says Megatron is convinced of another energy source on Earth. Autobots can't help since it pre-dates them. Mikaela mentions the Decepticon they have (Wheelie) who they can get info from.

Wheelie mentions Seekers. Old Transformers. He doesn't know what they're looking for. Says they're not Autobot or Decepticon. He locates 10 such Seekers on Earth, the closest one in Washington DC.


WASHINGTON DC.

They use the shard to locate the Seeker, who turns out to be Jetfire in a museum. He transforms. Doesn't remember where he is and forgot what he's looking for. They offer to help him remember if he helps them. Jetfire disappointed to hear the war is still going on, says it's why he defected to the Autobots. Wheelie is excited since he didn't think it was possible. Sam mentions the Fallen, which triggers Jetfire's memory.


Sam draws the symbols which translates into directions.

Jetfire gathers everyone and opens his own black hole/teleportation portal. He says it's discontinued in later models for fear of catastrophic failure. Nice way to explain that one away writers Jetfire teleported them to Egypt. Tells them the history of the Fallen and the device to destroy the sun to collect the energy. He says only a Prime can defeat the Fallen. One orphan was hidden away though -- Optimus. Fallen tried to find him by waging war on Cybertron. Sam asks if the Matrix can heal Prime. Jetfire thinks so.

Sam gets a message to Lennox via his wife to bring Optimus to the coordinates he gives. Sam passes past a security camera and Soundwave now knows where Sam is. Lennox once airborne gives a message to be delivered to some Admiral for naval support. He dispatches a fleet to the coordinates.

Sam and Mikaela talk under the stars, which helps Sam solve the riddle of where the Matrix is located. They go to the tomb only to find nothing. In the junior novel, Simmons and Leo go at it and accidentally throw a rock which makes a hole in a wall revealing Cyberglyphs. In the other novel, it's the Twins that do this. The Matrix is behind the wall. This is what those pics that surfaced earlier were. Sam reaches out for the Matrix which collapses into dust once it hits the air. He scoops it up and puts it in a sock, determined to save Optimus' life.

Naval ships and Decepticons arrive in the area at the same time. Soundwave has shut down communications in the area. He gives the naval commander a false feed, so they're waiting on Lennox to make a signal that never comes.



Sam and Mikaela run across rooftops towards Optimus' body, dodging Starscreams attacks.

The Fallen makes his appearance and teleports to the top of the pyramid.

Admiral realizes something is up and sends a spy plane to survey the area.

Constructicons form Devastator. The Twins recognize him and say his name. Megatron says he found the device for the Fallen. Fallen asks about the Matrix which he needs to power it.

Devastator climbs the pyramid, smashing it to reveal the device, sucking up the debris. Simmons recognizes the device from Jetfire's speech and tries his cellphone hoping the EMP pulse is gone. He contacts the naval ship, telling them he'll give them coordinates. They have a Mach 7 firing capable rail gun on board. Admiral realizes they're being tricked and mobilizes everyone.

Sam gets near Optimus but gets nearly blown up and is knocked out. He meets the Primes who say they've been watching him and give some destiny speech. For his courage in saving their descendant, they give him the Matrix. He wakes and sees the Matrix reform from the dust he collected. It's the Dagger shaped picture we saw earlier.

Mikaela thinks he's dead and says she loves him. Sam wakes and says he loves her too and rushes to plunge the Matrix into Optimus's chest. All of his memories from the Allspark are also transferred.

Optimus is still weak. The Fallen teleports and takes the Matrix, teleporting back to the top of the pyramid. Jetfire knows it's time and sacrifices himself to help Optimus. He volunteers his parts and passes away. Ratchet facilitates the repair and Optimus emerges anew.

Megatron, Starscream and The Fallen are at the top of the pyramid. Simmons gets the coordinates to the ship who fires at Devastator who breaks back into his components. Prime flies in as the device fires. He deflects part of it which hits Megatron and Starscream.

The Fallen asks who dares, that he is a Prime. Optimus says he gave up that name when he murdered his brothers. Megatron and Starscream flee as Optimus takes parts of the device and starts smashing the Fallen head with the shards. The Fallen opens a wormhole to escape. Optimus uses the Matrix to close it and opens a new wormhole which he tosses the Fallen into.

The wormhole sizzles shut with a flash.

Everyone regroups. They find Sam's parents inside ofa Decepticon (the one Bumblebee fights in the desert)

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Some of the Junior Novel's details may not be entirely accurate such as the circumstances of Megatron's revival but it is an interesting read none the less. The Official Novelization comes out next week (May 19th).


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Spoilers from the Junior RoTF novelization (May 11 2009):
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• Ravage and The Doctor seem to be the ones reviving Megatron in this novel

• Soundwave attacks satellites.
• Mikaela has the allspark shard in a safe which Wheelie tries to get to it for The Fallen.
• Wheelie talks fast and like a little kid then eventually turns good.
• There is talk about Sparks and the Matrix.
• Sideways gets head cut off in the beginning.
• Optimus dies and is brought back to life.
• Ratchet is makes it so Optimus and Jetfire are able to combine.
• Optimus and Jetfire strike Devastator who then falls apart.
• The Origin of the Primes is mentioned.
• Optimus and The Fallen face off at the end.


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The new Novelization stuff is pretty much the whole movie and ties all leaked info and set shots together. Given what happens to Demolisher explains why there maybe is a Scavenger. Devastator only appears to show up at the end.

Jetfire :(


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Novelization 27page preview at Barnes and Noble.com


yeah, and Devastator doesn't do shit either! :whateva: kinda anti-climatic


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I don't want to be totally spoiled for the flick but the stuff I did read over sounds great.

Seems like there's going to be a lot of Starscream/Megs banter and that's a good thing. Soundwave's role makes a great deal of sense and him dispatching Ravage is perfect.

I figured Devastator would only be at the end of the movie anyway - come on, he's the biggest transformer in the movie and the obvious 'grand finale' for special effects (i.e. watching the already enormous constructicons combine to raise the bar for the show). Seeing that the trailers feature him in Egypt and we basically know that Egypt is the location for the climax, this should be common knowledge.


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A Group of hunters chasing a large cat are interrupted by a large metal foot. The Robot seems indifferent to them, but picks one up to scan it. The other hunters are on their faces worshiping this new "God". After the robot disposes of the human, he walks away with the leader of the hunters and a few other following him. As they gaze into a canyon they see other smaller "God" building a "Basket" that comes to a point.

Chapter 1:

Shanghai.

In a quiet industrial area of the city, a beat up ice cream truck is moving along(it has a bumper sticker that reads "DECEPTICONS-SUCK MY POPSICLE"), nearby are three Bikes (referred to as being the same Entity).

Onto a more remote area NEST is moving in, with Lennox and Epps leading. Ironhide is there as well and they are searching for Decepticon readings. As the readings are getting stronger Ironhide calls for Sideswipe, ironhide berates the twins, and the Arcee Triplets transform into robot mode.

Eventually Demolishor shows himself and the Battle begins.

Sideways appears and decides to run for it. The twins pursue, but the alley Sideways goes down is to narrow for them. They split and begin to argue amongst themselves. The Arcees pursue, and force Sideways into a fight. The Arcees merge into one Bot and are two fast for Sideways. Sideswipe enters the fray and skewers Sideways.

Back to Demolisher, he's escaping towards more a populated area. Optimus jumps from a C-17 to parachute down to where Demolisher is going to be. He races towards an overpass and jumps on Demolisher as he crashed through it. Ironhide enters the battle and the two Autobots take down the large Decepticon. In his dying breath Demolisher say: ""This is not your planet to rule... The Fallen - The Fallen... Shall Rise Again!".

Chapter 2:

Mostly Funny interactions between Sam, Ron, and Judy, then Between Sam And Mikaela. Sam Finds the alspark fragment, it enters his mind, and burns his hand. He drops it and it burns through the floor of his room into the kitchen. A familiar burst brings a toaster, micowave, cappacinno machine, mixer and a Cel phone to life (the microwave kills the Cel Phone). They go after Sam. Sam runs into his dad as the little robots blast at them. Sam yell for Bee and he comes out, guns blazing and destroys the bots as well as a portion of the house. The firemen get there and Ron tells them a story as Judy is freaking out and she wants Bee away from the house. Sam find the Allspark Shard and puts in a 35mm Film canister. Mikaela shows up and Sam gives her the shard to keep, "He'll explain later".

Chapter 3:

The famous "Bee.. I'm not taking you with me" scene. After Sam's and Bee's farewells, then onto Sam's and Mikaela's. As everyone is leaving, Wheelie(again mislabled Wheels) shows up, accquiring Mikaela as his target.

Chapter 4:

Director Galloway shows upon Diego Garcia Island (HQ of NEST).
Soundwave merges with a military Satalite.

Galloway talks with Moreshower, Lennox, Epps, and Optimus about the nessessity of the Autobot/human agreement.
Soundwave overhears the location of Megatron and the allspark shard(in NEST HQ), and pulls maps for the locations from the satalite.
Galloway asks optimus that if requested, would the Autobots leave, because obvliously with the alspark destroyed, the decepticons are attacking still because of the autobots. Optimus says they would leave if ask, but then asked, what if the the Humans are wrong as to the decepticon's intent.
Soundwave deploys a small pod from his body that heads towards earth.

Chapter 5:

Sam and Fmaily make it to school. He finds his dorm room, and his roomate Leo is the runner of the Conspiracy Theory Site www.therealeffingdeal.com, who is in competition with www.gianteffingrobots.com which is ran by robowarrior. Leo as two cronies (or guys nerdier than him, as it were) setting his servers up, and he's littered the entire room with his crap. Sam's parent meet him in the room, startled by Leo's mess. Sam notices a Brownie on the box his mother is carrying, she says she bought it off a kid. Realizing the brownie had "extra sugar" in it, Sam and Ron try to stop her from eating it, but she consumes it fast and says it's her time to cheat. Leo and Sam run into alice as Ron and Judy leave the area, Alice seems strangly interested in Sam, much to Leo's dismay. Crazy antics ensue as Judy is high from the brownie. Sam and Ron finnally get her in the car.

Ravage Lands near the base holding the shard. He is able to get on top of the hangar that contains it. He spits out numerous Bearing that sprout legs, and are said to resemble Ravage. They make their way down the shaft and merge together to create a very thing humanoid figure that steals the allspark shard. It sets off alarms, the military react. It kills at least one soldier and excapes back to ravage. Ravage consumes the Mini bots back into himself, as the shard falls into the hands of the doctor, who is clinging to Ravage. Discovered by the military, Ravage runs and excapes the Island,

Chapter 6:

Sam ends up at a frat party with Leo and his "boys". During the party, Alice approaches him and in a mix of confusion gets Sam on the dance floor, in which he loses track of time and stands up Mikaela in their first webcam date. He just happenss to notice the time just when a car alarm goes off and someone complains about a yellow camero parked in the bushes. Sam goes out to bumblebee, and just gets out of getting his butt kicked by frat boys by jumping in bumblebee and taking off, but not before alice jumps in the passenger seat. Bumblebee plays some suggestive music while alice and sam are talking pertaining to cheating, then flattens and folds Alice's seat so she bangs her head, then spews antifreeze through the ac vent on her. She doesnt seem to be mad at sam, but decied to walk home.

Bumble lets an upset sam know that he has to see optimus and takes sam to meet optimus at a graveyard (unlike the scenes from the trailer, this scene takes place in the dark in the book) where Optimus tries to get sam to speak for the autobots to the goverment to make them realize that asking the autobots to leave would be wrong. Sam wants nothing to do with it because of a mixture of wanting a normal life, and lack of self confidence. Optimus realizes this and tries to sway sam, but Sam cant be swayed, and he says goodbye to his friends to return back to school.

6 decepticons decend the abyss the dead 'cons were dropped into. When they reach the bottom the doctor goes over to megatron's body and checks it out, then calls for parts. After a few seconds of silence, three of the Constructicons attack and rip appart their forth comrad to use as parts for Megatron. The Doctor finishes the job useing the shard to revive megatron. All of the robots accend through the water, to the motice of the miltary, who are attemting to respond to the blips that were showing up in the abyss.

Chapter 7:

Sam's first day of class. He reads his pompous professors 903 page book in seconds, then argues with him, going as far as writing cybertronian symbols on the chalkboardm stating that Einstien's thoeries as well as his were wrong. The professor kicks him out of class just as Sam comes out of his trance. Sam goes to the library and finds a book on his great grandfather and begins to wonder if he's going crazy like him.
Megatron makes it to a frozen planet where the Nemesis was sitting (I assume crashed from some reason). He makes contact with the Fallen, and appears to be subservient to the Fallen. The Fallen promises to make Megatron a Prime upon success of their campaign, but megatron is confused with the loss of the allspark. The Fallen explains that the allspark can never be destroyed, that it will shift itself under great diress to another form, and it did so by entering Sam's mind. Megatron must find Sam as he is the key to the decepticons winning the war. Starscream shows his face, and a decent megatron/starscream argument ensues. Megatron let's starscream live, and he initiates the opening of the 13 sarcophagi.

Sam Calls Mikaela, and while they are talking about Sam's issues mikaela catches Wheelie trying to break into her safe to steal the shard that sam gave her. She makes Wheelie yell her some info, then decided it's time to go to Sam.

Lennox and epps are set to move as the Autobots have confirmed reading of several decepticon sightings in the easter US.

Chapter 8:

Mikaela is in line at the airport, quite paranoid, to check her bag (which is a box containing wheelie). The person at the counter let's it through locked.
Alice comes to see Sam, and runs into Leo outside their room. Leo tries to put the moves on her, but she opens the door to their room and Sam is in there writing cybertronia cymbals all over the walls. Alice kicks out leo and attempts to put the moves on Sam.

Leo is in the common room watching tv when he runs into a commercial for a disney park that has a new alice in wonderland ride, with lifelike animatronic figures. The Alice figures looks just like Alice that is in Sam's room. Back in the room, Sam is trying to stop Alice from making moves on his, but she is overpowering him and pulls him into a kiss, while liplocked a tentacle with a needle comes out of the back of her head, but Mikaela enters the room and Alice gets the tenticle back into herself before Sam or Mikaela see. An argument ensues about Sam cheating and mikaela walks away. Sam goes to follow but is stopped as a tenticle wraps around his neck, when he turns he sees it's alices tongue. Mikaela turns around as she hears Sam struggling and see's Alice attacking Sam. She throws the box containing wheelie at alices head knocking it competely around. Just them Leo shows up to tell Sam about the Animatronic Alice he saw on TV and sees the real Alice with her head backwards. Alice attacks them all, but they run from her and head to the Library. As they are trying to explain things to Leo alice mkaes it to the Library in Full metalic Robot mode blowinf stuff up. They get out of the library and get into a car that Mikaela is able to hotwire, just then alice attacks the car. Mikaela crashes the car into a pole, knockinf alice off, then runs her over and drives away, but not before retrieving the box containing wheelie. The Car is then picked up by a helicopter and dropped in a nearby foundry. The trio is confronted with starscream and Megatron

chapter 9:

Megatron sicks the doctor on sam to examine him to find if he indeed has the info from the allspark in him. Satisfied, the doctor is going to slice open sam head when he gets blown to bits and optimus comes down and attacks megatron and starscream. Bumblebee comes in and rescues Leo and Mikaela, Sam is pulled from the foundry by optimus. The battle ensues outside and optimus is doing well, as the helicopter (unnamed) transforms to attack as well. Optimus slices the helicopter's head in two. He then is doing a rather good job against Megatron and Starscream. As he is focused on starscream Megatron impales Optimus, sending him into statis lock. Bumblebee appears to try to get sam out of there. As Starscream and megatron are going to kill bumblebee other shots hit megtron from ironhide and ratchet, and megatron sees the twins, arcee, and sideswipe coming as well. And he flees with starscream. Ratchet explains that optimus is not dead but it could take a long time for optimus to self repair and leaves stasis lock.

Megatron ans Starscream are on a remote island, as Megatron berates Starscream for messing up again. Megatron says to leave finding the boy up to the Humans. Soundwave Pinpoints the Celphone signature of judy's phone.

Ron and Judy are enjoying Paris when Soundwave calls Judy demanding the location of Sam, she hangs up on him and turns of fher phone.
Two orbs decend on the earth, one hitting the US's largest AC carrier and taking it down. Ron and Judy are heading back to there hotel when they expierience an "earthquake", which turns out to be a big metal hand that scoops them up.

Back at the pentagon as they are trying to figure out what happned to their AC carrier when megatron takes over every single tv and monitor across the world letting the humans know of their exsistance and the fact that they are a threat, and all he wants is for the humans to turn over Sam.

Chapter 10:

The Autobots bring Optimuses body back to an airforce base(minus BB and the twins). Galloway is there and basically disbands NEST and sends the autobots with Lennox and epps back to the NEST HQ to await further orders. Lennox isn't happy, but he knows he'll get his shot at both the 'Cons and Galloway.Ironhide orders the Autobots to follow orders after Sideswipe reminds him that that is what Optimus would want.
Sam, Mikaela, and Leo regroup with BB, Skids and Mudflap in an abandoned Prison. The Boys and the twins discuss with each other the fate of Optimus, and what their next move is, with some fun banter between the twins and Leo. Mikaela helps repair an injury BB recieved. Sam beats himself up over Optimus's Fate, Mikaela and BB try to make him realize it isn't his fault. After Sam snaps out of his grief, they begin to go through the facts since misson city. Sam realizes that that is when the AllSPark transfered the info into him, explaining why he suddenly got so school smart. When he found the shard , it jumpstarted the Cybertronian part of the knowledge. Sam inscribes some of the markinga nad asks Skids, mudflap, and BB if they recognise them. They recognise them as the Language of the primes, but it is far to old, and they dont know how to read it. Leo mentions that the person who might know is his Web-arch-enemy Robowarrior.

Chapter 11:

They drive to Manhattan and find that Robowarrior is Ex-agent Simmons, working in his mother's Deli. Some rather funny Dialog ensues, and Simmons really doesnt want them there, But when Sam says they need his Help, Simmons attitude changes to "Soooo, you need myyyyy heeeeellp?" type, and Sam talk him into helping. Simmons takes them to his Hidden HQ in the Meat Fridge. Simmons Shows the kids info he gathered from various places (including sector seven) that shows the cybertronian symbols showing up all over human history from long ago, proving this isn't the first time the transformers and the Human had to deal with each other. Sam explains what Megatron said to them regarding another source of energy on earth, something old. Simmons questions if the sutobots know anything about it, but Sam says they didn't. Simmons say that it's too bad they dont have a decepticon to ask, Mikaela says to "wait".

Mikaela goes and gets the metal box from bumblebee and opens it to reveal Wheelie. When they ask him what the symbols mean, he says it's the language of t he primes and he doesn't know, but the Seekers would, and that the seeks were here on earth. Simmons thorws down a map and Wheelie pinpoints locations of the seekers, the closest is in DC.

Chapter 12:

They get to DC and head to an airplane Museum. They hide out and wait til close. With the allspark fragment, they find an SR-71 with decepticon logos on it. They attempt to get out of there, but the plane transforms, slowly. The humans take cover, but the robot knows that theyare present and arms a weapon. Sam steps out to talk with the robot. Sam sees that the robot is rather crochoty, and he introduces himself as Jetfire. Jetfire gets lost in thought and walks away from them. Sam catches up and start to ask Jetfire questions, Jetfire seems to be lost, he can't remember where he is, then inquires to sam if the war is still going on , and lets him know that he thought the Decepitcon cause was pointless and he defected tot he autobots side. Wheelie breaks free of his containment and rushes to Jetfire and they talk in cybertronian, Wheelie jumps down and hugs mikaela's leg, stating that if jetfire can defect, so can he, and he's going to follow "Warrior Goddess".

Sam tries a few more times to get jetfire focused on what he needs to ask him, and finally takes the bot outside and starts drawing the symbols. Jetfire is taken aback by them, as they are a story, regarding The Fallen. He also mentions it's part of his quest, to find the Dagger, the Kings, and the Key. He then opens a portal and sucks them all through it, warning to stay still so nothing goes wrong.

Chapter 13:

Jetfire transports all of them to Egypt.He then starts to explain to the kids the story of the symbols. That the rift that tore the transformers into two factions happened in this area. He gets interupted by the presense of a WWI BI-Plane coming at them, it tranforms into a decepticon (they never mention a name in the book, but I'm sure this is ransack), who starts yelling at jetfire for being a traitor. The Bi-plane opens fire on jetfire, but the one bullet it's able to shoot bounces harmelssly off of jetfire. Jetfire responds by stepping on the 'Con, crushing and killing it, saying "Always disliked him..". He then continues with the story, stating that the plane and him were seekers, but he couldn't put the story into words, so he shows them.

The original 13 Primes, the allspark and the Machines that were created to drain power from Suns. The primes had one major directive, Life is precious. That is why they never drained our sun. The fallen disagreed with this and slayed all but one of his brothers. That brother took the matrix of leadership, which The Fallen Wanted, and sealed it with the tomb of his brothers, sacrificing himself by sealing the tomb from the inside. Earth was spared, and human's were able to evolve. now the fallen is after the Matrix, to start up the machine to drain the sun. To stop him, only a prime can stop him, and all the direct decendants of the original 13 were slaughters, save one. This orphan was unaware of his destiny.

Sam Realizes Jetfire is refering to Optimus. Jetfire is glad to hear of the prime, but saddened when Sam lets him know that Optimus went into stasis lock saving Sam. Sam gets the idea that if a small shard of the allspark could bring back megatron, couldn't the matrix heal optimus? Jetfire didnt see why not, though it had never been done. They go to set off to find where the matrix is at, with the clue "when Dawn alights the Dagger's Tip,three kings will lead the way". Then Jetfire sits down and says he cant go because he would draw too much attention to them, and goes into a stasis nap.

Back at the military base, Militray offices, including morshower are disscussing why the president wouldnt try to strike back after the deaths of 5000 on the AC carrier. Morshower explains that there is no one directly to attack, so the autobots are taking the fall. They all decide that it stinks.

Simmons figures out where "the dagger" is so they head there, trying to avaoid detection. They run into a checkpoint and Simmons trys, and fails, to talk there way past the guards, so Bee takes off, leaving the post behind, but not before Sam is caught on Camera.

At interpol, they see the security footage and recognise Sam as the boy that was wanted, near Cairo.

Chapter 14:

While dealing with a police chase in Cairo, wheelie jumps onto the pursuing police car and starts to smach the windshield. Skids and Mudflap transform to take car eof the car, but the officer, having to deal with wheelie in his face, and now two alien robts drives off the road and the car flips. Wheelie gets back into bumblebee and nuzzles up against mikaela, she replies to the looks of the boys "what, he's cute?". The three cars continue on. Sam say they need to let Lennoz no, Simmons say not on an open channell.

Sam calls Sarah Lennox(who is with Monique Epps) from a pay phone and after he lets her know who he is, she agrees to pass on the info he gives her to her husband.
Monique epps calls the base to talk to her husband about how she's upset, since Galloway wont let personal call, they put her on speakerphone. She proceedes to get Sams message over in a VERY humerous conversation with her husband as it takes him and lennox a little bit to figure out that she is saying stuff in code. After the conversation is over, Galloway comes over, the Guys figure he figured out the message, but he didn't, give epps avice that the Wife is always right in conversation like that.

Lennox and Epps approch the C-17 Pilot, as he was with NEST, to figure out a way to drop the autobots, and lennox and epps at the location in egypt. He agrees and they figure out a story. Lennox gives him a piece of paper with a note for Morshower to "Bring the Rain" on the coodinates proviced.

Megatron lands in the area they are all being brought to. He stops to make contact with the fallen. The fallen is pleased with Meagtron and promises to make him a Prime, and provides the location of the Machine. Then the Fallen tells Magatron to Prepare for his arrival.

Chapter 15:

Starts off in a old visitors center for the Giza Pyramids. While trying to get some rest,and talking with Mikaela, Sam realizes the "Three Kings"are the stars in Orions Belt. After some fiddling with his GPS Simmons figures out the location they want to be at is in Jordan. They take off fast to get there.

Now in Petra, they enter a tomb anf begin to look around, but are finding nothing. Everyone begins to argue till the arguing send the twins into a wrestling match with each other. Mudflag punches his brother sending him into a wall, which breaks the plaster and reveals cybertronian marking behind it. Bumblebee pulls downthe rest of the plaster, once satisfied that his metal wall is the tomb of the ancients, he blasts a hole in it and the group enters.The Room they entered was actually made from the fused bodies of the 12 ancients. One of the ancients had his hand sticking out, but inside it was only black sand.While being frustrated that the matrix would dissolve into a mass of black sand, Sam puts all the sand into his Sock that he took off, and let's everyone know that he believes the even the sand will work.

Aboard the C-17, the pilot inisiates the plan, which allows Lennox to dump Galloway off the back of the Plane before they plan on jumping. Then the Humans jump down with optimus's body, as the autobots jump as well. They land in the deserted city that the coordinates led them to. They see bumblebee and the twins approaching, but then also see an F-22. Suddenly a series of EMP bursts kills all possible communications.

Chapter 16:

Bumblebee and the twins are racing for the abandoned town, when swooping above them comes Megatron and Starscream. Lennox and Epps see this, as well as 13 other figures approaching the city, all of them decepticons.

Morshower is trying to see what's going on using video from a stalite, but Soundwave is under the controll of what they are seeing, which for Morshower is just his troops searching and finding nothing. Soundwave is quite pleased with himself.

Both Con's come about and temp to shoot at the cars, but the three 'Bots are too quick for the 'Cons. They decide to split up, Simmons with the twins one way, Bumblebee another way, and Sam and Mikaela into hiding.
Simmons and Sam part ways with a general liking and trust of each other. Leo jumps in the car with simmons. The twins take off, bee goes his way, and Sam and Mikaela go into a building. As they ar eattempting to move from building to building closer to optimus, Sm stops as he hears the Cons arguing outside the building they are in. Through a small hole he is able to see starscream's legs. A bug crawls through the hole, which turns out to be a decepticon, and sam kills it. This alerts the cons to their presence, and they rip the roof off the building as the two humans run for it. They get up on top of the building as Screamer is trying to get to them, and blasting at them, but they start leaping from rooftop to rooftop, when suddenly they crash through a rotten roof to the floor below.

Morshower is frustrated that they cannot communicate with his team. So he has his people doulble check with the local military and sends in a UAV to check things out.
The twins skidded to a halt as they approach an open quarry with 4 constructions vehilces in it (a Giant hauler, a dump truck, a front loader and a crane), three more vehicles approach the others, as Leo and Simmons argued the Constructicons slide together to form Devestator. Simmons says "this ain't gonna go our way!"

Lennox and his troops had set up a defensive possition quite well, but Sam and Mikaela could see it. As they were running down an empty alley a large decepticon comes up behind them and with the force of his landing, knocks them down. As sam looks at the con, it opens it's chect to reveal a compartment carrying Sam's Parents, and deposits them on the ground. The Con threatens Sam to hand over what he has or his parents Die. Ron tells his son to run. BB is closing in on Sam's position, but from his body language could tell that there a problem in a position that Bee couldn't see, so he motions to Sam to Distract it. Sam pleads with the Con, offering whatever it wants, just as Bee slams into it. While the 'Con is bigger and stronger, Bee is faster and smarter. bee rips off one of it's arms, then Sam, after he clears his parents, tell Bee to finish the job. Bee does some flipping around the con, and holding it's other arm from behind, kicks it to send it fly into a heap, leaving behind both of it's arms. Sam sends his parents to Satefy with Bee, Mikaela and him prepare to move on.

Chapter 17:

Simmons, Leo, Skids and Mudflap were faced up against devastator. They turned to run and hide as Devy started to suck up everything around it. Mudflap and the two humans found spots that Devy wasn't getting them, but Skids wasn't so fortunate. Skids got sucked into Devy's open mouth. Devy closed it to finish his catch. He then stopped and was reacting to something when all of a sudden Skids blacted out of Devy's head through his right eye. In an attempt to stop the Monstrousity from kill all of them, they moved to underneath him, since he was large and slow, this worked. After some time Devistator finnally ignored them and went in the opposite direction.

A pogosticking 'Con is bouncing around destroying everything in sight.

Simmons and Leo stay underneath Devy's legs as he moves towards the Pyramid. Suddenly a vortex swirls and the Fallen appears. Simmons looks at the fallen and megatron and feels that megatron looks ordinary againt the fallen.

Megatron informs the fallen that his machine is there and that the boy is within reach. The battle isn't going well for the good guys. ironhide and Sideswipe are taking hits. Humans are dying left and right. The Fallen appears to have a telekinetic like ability as he manipulates nuemerous things around him without ever touching them.

Sam and Mikaela finnaly get to Lennox.

Devy Climbs the pyramid, whch gives Simmons and Leo time to escape. Devy starts to tear apart the top of the pyramid, revealing the top of the Great Machine.

Simmons calls the Captain on the roosevelt, a ship waiting for orders in nearby waters, to fire an experimentle Rail Gun at the location Simmons is going to call back with.

The UAV finnaly reaches the seen and shows what's realy going on. The military scramble to get help into the fray. Various military vehicles show up for addition force for NEST. Two 'Cons bear down on Sam and Mikaela, but the newly arrived tanks fire upon them, distracting them, Lennox and Epps get to the kids. Lennox get them ready to run, Sam wants to get to optimus, but lennox says later because the rain is comming.

Suddenly a Con appears in front of them, ready to strike the death blow, but out of the sky comes jetfire and blows the 'Con in two, just as quick Skorponok comes out of the sand and pierces Jetfire in the chest. Jetfire Pops off his head and then disposes of the rest of Skorponoks Carcass. Jetfire is wounded badly, but moves on. They run, but Sam changes course and runs for Optimus's body. A bomb from the sky sends Sam flying, but he's ok, gets up and starts running again.

Suddenly the Figure of Megatron as a tank blast at Sam, sending him face first into the sand, but he draws too much attention to himself and pulls away before he can blast Sam again. Mikaela makes it to Sam but he's not moving. Lennox gets to Sam and checks him and call for a Medic. They try to bring him back, but they can't. Mikaela cries over his body, telling him to come back, she loves him. Bumblebee appears with the Sock, and lets the remainder of the black sand to fall on Sam.

Sam see's white, the nhe is spoken to by the Primes. THey let him know he had proven himself worthy of the matrix of leadership by showing courage and scarafice. They tell him that the Matrix is his. He suddenly wakes up in Mikaela's arms as she is begging for him to come back to her. SHe says "I love you" again, and he is fiannly able to say it to her. Suddenly the black sand by Sam's right hand begins to pull itself together and it forms the Matrix. Sam grabs it and runs to Optimus and plunges the matrix into his body. Optimus is revived but weak.

The Fallen Arrives and brushes aside Ironhide and Ratchet. Then knocks down optimus and takes the Matrix from Sam. The fallen teleports to the pyramid to start the machine. Jetfire appears and let's Optimus know he has more power than he thinks and sacrifices the last of his spark so optimus can take his parts and fly. Ratchet works quickly on optimus and he takes off toward the pyramid as the beam of energy is turned on, racing to touch the sun and steal it's power. Simmons crawls up Between Devy's legs and calls t he Roosvelt to fire the shot, and not miss low. The shot hits devy in the chest with such force that it tears him apart, while Simmons fled. Optimus Tears though a spire on the machine, stopping the energy from reaching the sun. The power released from that was enough to damage and melt some parts of 'Cons around the area, including Screamer and Megs.

Optimus Faces the Fallen. After the Fallen question prime with a "you DARE challenge ME, Im a Prime", Optimus defies him with "You abandoned that name when you slaughtered your brother. Only one prime now, and my ansestry will be avenged. Optimus Pounds the fallen. Megatron questions the fallen, "you promised to make me a prime" and optimus replies "Primes are born, not made megatron, you were betrayed." The fallen cries for Megs help, but megs ignors him. The Fallrn opens a port to escape, but prime pulls him back to finish him off. Megs and Screamer escape through the portal. Prime Rips the Spire point off the machine and, using his jets, Rams the point into the skull of the fallen. The fallen's shell tumbles to the ground. Optimus Retrieves the Matrix from the machine, and looks up to assess the situation of the aftermath. Mudflap comes over carrying Simmons and Skids is pulling a part of devy with a smiling Leo on it.
Back on the Roosvelt Ratchet is going around taking care of autobot wounds. Sam and Optimus are on the deck talking to one another. Sam says that the Symbols in his head are gone, Optimus lets him know they are in the matrix. Sam comments to optimus that the Primes had told him that he didnt know the truth about his future, and wondered if optimus did.

Quoting the last paragrah of the Chapter:
"Optimus Considered. "I know one thing. Whatever it may hold, it is a future we'll meet together. Our Planets, our races, united by a history long forgotten, yet to be discovered." Tilting back his head, he peered up at the sky and through it, to the stars beyond."

Fade to black, Roll the credits

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Credits end Epilogue:

Back on the Nemesis Megatron waits for himself to repair. He goes back to the cargo bay as the lights flicker on. Megatron peers at the numerous sarcophagi, hold protoforms all Loyal to Him! "Arise"

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Spoilers from the Official Novelization:
(Originally posted by Brundok from TFW2005 Forums)

Full book summarized.


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Finally! From the graphic novel preview images and now from the novelization, Arcee is one entity of three motorcycles which combine into one transformer.

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:siren: All three TV Spots!


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Some new photos from Cinematical.com

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Noteworthy in the first spot is The Constructicons combining into Devastator. The third features one of the twins speaking.

In Thundercracker's previous post is a chapter-by-chapter synopsis of the Revenge Of The Fallen novel. In addition to mentioning The Matix and the appearance of "seekers', it seems to confirm a previous spoiler about Wheelie humping Megan Fox's leg. :downboomtish:


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Some other noteworthy shots although they're very quick:

• Jetfire transforming.
• Skids talking, "It's upgrade time."
• Sideswipe "roller-blading" in pursuit of Sideways.
• Those spherical little bug bots that Ravage deploys as described in the novel summaries.
• The Autobots have been added to the previously seen shot of The Fallen teleporting.
(Sideswipe is one of them so he's in the final battle too. :heavymetal: )


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Skids and Mudflap seem to be the new Jazz.


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There is actually some controversy over the Autobot twins Skids and Mud from the hardcore Transformer sites. The issue is the over comic relief aspect of the characters and Bay's use of them to appeal to kids.

After reading the novelization synopsis in Thundercrackers post, Bay seems to listened to hardcore fan criticism over the previous film: more Transformers, less Human insects. Although from the novelization, there are some of the previous films negatives: the hacking subplot returns as in the form of a internet subplot involving returning characters as bloggers. On the plus side, The Matrix and Energon is mentioned.

Another interesting aspect of the novelization is the heavy inclusion of Transformer Mythology such the original 13 transformers "The Primes". The mythology could work out negatively for the film the way that the nerd fantasy criticism is used against Star Trek and even the Prequels. Bay could have just made Transfomers II: The Decepticons Strike Back and plaguerised Empire because it damn sure worked for JJ Abram's use of Star Wars 1977 for the re-imagined Star Trek 2009!


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The issue is the over comic relief aspect of the characters and Bay's use of them to appeal to kids.



Did we not already know this was going to happen? It is a Michael Bay movie. He does the stupid comedy in every movie. Even end of world movies because...y'know...people have to laugh...


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Various news bits today:

Short interview snippets with ILM Animator Shawn Kelly talking about Devastator's model complexity and robot eyes from NICK magazine. Another confirmation that Devs is seven vehicles. Scan originally posted by Dinobot Nuva at TFW2005 forums

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Says Shawn, "Devastator is easily the most complicated character we've ever done because of his size, which is absolutely gigantic. Just trying to figure out how he might form into this giant thing and then walk around was a huge challenge." Animating Devastator required so much computing power that one artist's computer overheated and its insides melted!

"We tried to make a scary transformation for [Devastator] where things are slamming together and getting pulled around. All seven vehicles are shoving themselves together and clicking into place as he grows into this giant, scary dude."

Emotion via the Eyes:

An important part of making the robots look real is their eyes. According to Shawn, "We had to pay a lot of attention to the robots' eyes because a lot of them don't have much more to their face. As long as we can bring the eyes to life, it works pretty well." To do this, animators spent time studying real eyes to see how they move and blink. They also filmed each other and studied the eyes of different actors as they recorded their lines.

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CGI head shots of Skids and Mudflap from ACToys

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Another piece of artwork of Constructicon Scrapper from TFG2.com

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And in Voice Actor news, Tom Kenny (Spongebob Squarepants & various voices in TF:Animated) and Tony Todd have both been cast to be voices of Transformers. I don't remember if I mentioned it before but John Turturro is supposedly the voice of Jetfire too.

Also there's a slightly different trailer playing in front of Terminator: Salvation.


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And here it is, Alternate trailer (Cam copy)

The twins sound good to me. I think most fans were expecting them to sound like Cletus the slack-jawed yokel based off their designs.

Sam: Can you read this?
Skids: Read?
Mudflap: Nah, we really don't do much reading


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new stuff in trailer 3:

• Twins Speak
• New Arcee(s) view
• Optimus tackles Megatron
• Potential Seeker(s) sighting


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I want that trailer in HD.

We already know the seekers are going to be in the game, I hope they make it into the movie.

MTV Movie Awards will have an exclusive clip on 5/31.


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I dig the twins. They should be great for the kids but not annoying for adults.

That shot of Optimus tackling Megs is awesome. Also good shots of sideswipe and Arcee. Would love to see it in HD.


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Can anyone identify the music that starts at about 1:18 in that trailer? I've briefly scanned through the soundtrack of the first movie, and can't find it.


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It's from Scorponok's attack around the 2:30 mark.


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A better look at the combining EZ Legends Devastator:
Source: Japanese magazine Figure King/scan from TFW2005

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Post Posted: May 26th 2009 4:21 pm
 
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that Japanese pic lists 7 constructicons forming Devestator, but the other version lists 6, which is it?


Post Posted: May 26th 2009 7:53 pm
 
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The smaller Japanase Devastator has Seven components and may or may not come here in the form of Hasbro's smaller, Star Wars scale "Legends" line. Each limb tranforms into a figure, body part, and vehicle. The additional transformer is "Overload" which is a elongated red Dump Truck Trailer and forms part of the torso. Price maybe something around $40.

The larger Devastator Supreme has only Six components, which only transforms into a body part and vehicle for $100. In other words - I don't know whats going on. :ohno:



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mediafire: Transformers Official Movie Adaptation #01 (of 4)


Post Posted: May 28th 2009 12:50 am
 
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New images of the combined mode for Optimus and Jetfire plus one for Mixmaster:
source: TFW2005 & TFG2



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Post Posted: May 28th 2009 5:51 am
 
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I'm liking how mixmaster looks. Kinda beetle-esque.


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[spoil]
[align=left]Scouts Wave 1
Knockout (motorcycle)
Dirt Boss (Fork Lift)
Rollbar (armored truck)
Dead End/Detour (Concept car)

Scouts Wave 2
Ransack (WW1 plane)
Depthcharge (Naval boat)

Deluxe Preview Wave
Soundwave (Cybertronian satellite)
Bumblebee (2007 Concept Camaro with new parts)

Deluxe Wave 1
Breakaway (Jet)
Sideswipe (Concept Corvette Stingray)
Rampage (Bulldozer)
Sideways (Audi R8)

Deluxe Wave 2
Chromia (blue motorcycle)
Smokescreen (movie 1 Jazz repaint)
Skids (Chevy Spark/Beat)
Wheelie (RC Truck)

Voyager Wave 1
Optimus Prime (Shanghai General)
Starscream (F-22, new sculpt)
Ironhide (2007 Top Kick with new weapons and lighter colors)
Demolisher (Excavator)

Voyager Wave 2
The Fallen
Ratchet

Leader Wave 1
Optimus Prime
Megatron (?)

Legends Wave 1
Bumblebee
Optimus Prime
Jetfire
Springer

Legends Wave 2
Starscream
Sideswipe
Ratchet
Megatron

Fast Action Battlers
Bumblebee
Jolt

Robot Heroes Wave 1
Mudflap/Rampage
Bumblebee/Longhaul
Springer/Starscream
Skids/Megatron

Robot Replicas Wave 1
Ratchet
Optimus Prime
Starscream
Ironhide

Gravitybots
Optimus Prime
Bumblebee
Starscream

RPMs
Ratchet
Megatron
Bumblebee/Barricade
Jazz/Brawl
Prime/Bonecrusher
Skids/Mudflap

RPMs (Bumper Battler style)
Sideswipe
Bumblebee

Powerbots
Bumblebee
Megatron

Roleplay
Bumblebee Voice Mixer Helmet
Bumblebee Pulse Cannon

These may or may not join them:
Human Alliance Wave 1
Bumblebee with Sam Witwicky (?)[/align]
[/spoil]

For anyone planning on picking up some of the toys this weekend, here's a list of what will be available. Wave 2 stuff may or may not be released everywhere but I'm listing it anyway.


Post Posted: May 31st 2009 12:27 pm
 
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Full-Frontal Fallen @ mtvmovies

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MTV Movie Awards tonight which is supposed to feature new footage.


Post Posted: May 31st 2009 12:48 pm
 
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Special ROTF footage screened at the Botcon convention this weekend:
Source: Seibertron.com

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[align=left]Botcon attendees were treated to a very special preview of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen by Director Michael Bay.



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With our anticipation at its highest level, the attendees of Botcon roared into cheer as the first clip of the movie started. The footage started with John Turturro and Sam's roomate in the middle of a construction zone looking on to a group of construction vehicles surround them. The constructicons were revealed when Mixmasters Decepticon symbol is shown and Scavenger begins to transform. At the same time the other constructicons move closer to form Devastator!!!

Scavenger literally forces all the other constructicons into the gestalt ala Scorpion in Mortal Kombat. Tuturro then runs with Sam's roomate when the scene cuts to Sam and Mikaela running from Rampage.

Rampage begins chasing Sam's father when Sam jumps in front of him to draw his attention. Sam then says "Wait, it's not them you want. It's this, the MATRIX! He then holds up an item and continues to coax Rampage when Bumblebee arrives. The battle begins.

Rampage and Bumblebee fight ferociously with Bumblebee getting the better of Rampage when Ravage enters the fray. Using his hip cannons he blasts Bee and jumps on his back. Bumblebee then forces Rampage to the ground when Rampage lunges for Sam and takes Ravage and terrors him apart piece by piece.

Bumblebee then rips Rampages arm off and decapitates him.

More info to come.[/align]
[/spoil]


Couple other movie & toy tidbits out of Botcon:


• There are apparently many Contructicons not just 6 or 7. Devastator can be formed by whichever ones are around. So they seem to be more like drone types rather than individual characters. If one is destroyed another can take its place and still form Devastator. This would help explain the Demolishor/Scavenger issue as well as the red Rampage that Bumblebee is seen fighting in the trailers.

• Legends class Devastator set planned for U.S. release (possibly as a store exclusive)

• The three Arcee motorcycle toys do combine but this concept was cut from the film.

• Leader class Starscream toy planned!

• Human Alliance Barricade w/Frenzy toy.


Post Posted: May 31st 2009 7:24 pm
 
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MTV Movie Awards had the new footage: StarScream and the Constructicons tear about a Egyptian village searching for Sam and Mikeala.

[flash width=512 height=319]http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:uma:video:mtv.com:396571[/flash]

MTV has it up now. A previous trailer and sometimes a commercial plays for 15-30secs before it. Again we need HD.


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[s]Us Canadians don't get to see it from MTV; any other links to it?[/s]

[flash width=430 height=344]http://www.youtube.com/v/awb8gUwtsPo&hl=en&fs=1[/flash]

Looking badass.

Thanks DP :)


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I agree the movie is starting to look fucking bad ass. Was that Starscream who ripped the roof off?


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Yep.

This movie just feels massive in scope compared to TF1. Not just the locales, but all the different TF elements - insecticons, Ravage, constructicons...

I'm stoked.


Post Posted: June 1st 2009 3:55 am
 
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I'll second that. I missed it last night, so thanks for the post up guys.


Post Posted: June 1st 2009 5:35 pm
 
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CoGro wrote:
Yep.


Thought it was.


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Mikaela Ride


Post Posted: June 1st 2009 6:55 pm
 
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New TV Spot: Destiny: http://vimeo.com/4936917

[flash width=499 height=324]http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=4936917&server=vimeo.com&show_title=1&show_byline=1&show_portrait=1&color=d6d6d6&fullscreen=1[/flash]


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Did I just see a Transformer waving the American flag?


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