Movie Chronicles
Transformers 3
Four new Revenge of the Fallen robot replicas are now on eBay via seller gojulasprime23 with five days left on the auctions. This is our first look at The Fallen, Megatron, Sideswipe, Jetfire and Skids robot replica models.
After the Battle of Mission City, and the discovery of new Decepticons on Earth, Bumblebee decided to upgrade as many of his systems as he could. With the help of Autobot Ratchet, he added some human missile launchers to his arsenal, and modified his vehicle mode to make his weapons accessible. He was caught off-gaurd too many times the Decepticons. Now when they come around he’ll be ready.
Repaired and retrofitted after the Battle of Mission City, Barricade elected to remain on Earth while Starscream returned to Cybertron. He has devoted his time on Earth gathering intelligence for the inevitable rise of the Decepticons. He stalks and captures important humans, then scans, interrogates and disposes of his captives using the highly sensitive proves built into his vehicle mode.
According to Smokescreen, the only good Decepticon is a totally confused one. He does his best to make sure that the Decepticons never know what his teammates are up to. He’s perfected the art of creating diversions, using traps, holograms, and strategically placed explosives. When all else fails, he uses himself as bait, often racing right through a group of enemy robots to distract them.
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Young but eager, Mudflap has wanted to be a full-fledged warrior under the command of Optimus Prime for as long as he can remember. He and his twin brother Autobot Skids traveled for years to Earth, just in the hopes of joining up with their idol. Being on Earth with Optimus Prime and the other heroes of the Great War is a dream come true.
Amazon have listed the Transformers 2 movie novelization for pre-order, it comes with a small excerpt:
“THE FALLEN SHALL RISE AGAIN.…”
This cryptic warning is ignored by the national security adviser who feels the ruthless Decepticon threat is no more. The allies are victorious, the enemy has been defeated, and the world is safe. Small attacks around the world have been contained, and the remaining pieces of the coveted Allspark are locked in an electromagnetic vault on one of the most secure Naval bases in the world. But nothing is at it seems, and there is a shift in the shadows. Things can change in an instant–and fragile peace will become all-out war.
TF08 updated their post on Mixmaster to give us shots of the instructions leaflet which informs us of a vehicle mode, robot mode and third “battle mode”.
eBay user yayabee has posted an auction for the new Revenge of the Fallen Wheelie toy, giving our first look at the front-side packaging.
MTV are really lapping up the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen buzz, giving us a lot of great interview snippets and movie clues. This time around it’s the turn of Isabel Lucas and Ramon Rodriguez.
- Ramon Rodriguez plays “Leo Spitz”, Sam’s roommate and owner of a paranoid conspiracies website about aliens and robots:
“I end up getting sucked into [Sam’s] crazy world with real robots and finding out he’s involved in the real thing,” Rodriguez said. “My complete world is flipped.”
- Isabel Lucas plays “Alice”,
“The character of Alice is more the seductress,” Lucas said. “She’s got mysterious intentions that we don’t really know about.”
As for Bay’s filming techniques:
Bay brought a couple of industrial-size fans to the Egyptian desert that blew 100-mile-per-hour, sand-filled winds at Rodriguez’s face. He ended up dislocating his shoulder and needed to have his eyes flushed out for 45 minutes. Another time he had to sit perfectly still as a huge metal spike pierced the roof of his car, perilously close to his head. In those moments, he was not so much acting as reacting to a very real sense of fear.
Could that 100 MPH fan perhaps be simulating Devastator’s massive vortex? We’ve seen him being pulled about before:
The silhouetted keychain we mentioned today and saw a couple weeks back at Toy fair ’09 has been unveiled through a French marketing sheet, supplementing the Legends toy combination we saw earlier.
Prime continues to look badass with gun in right hand and illustrating a more inter-mingled combination of Optimus Prime and Jetfire, the two characters now appear seamless.
We’ve seen the legends class toys combine as well as rumors of a more complex combination via blacked out silhouettes on key chains and boxes. This is our first proper look, albeit a small one, at Jetfire and Optimus prime leader class toys combining to form “Power up” Optimus Prime:
