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TF08 have posted some shots of the Voy­ager class Mega­tron toy:

Round two of offi­cial Revenge of the Fallen pho­tos have been released along­side the recent Trans­form­ers char­ac­ter news (view first set). They show Shia stand­ing in front of a pyra­mid, Megan Fox fallen to the floor and look­ing up and the group run­ning from an explo­sion and a con­trol room.

Click the images for a very nice high qual­ity ver­sion. Images thanks to Megan​-Fox​.net fansite.

Both Yahoo and USA Today have the low­down on the new Trans­form­ers 2 char­ac­ters, each with a dif­fer­ent and new image. This finally con­firms the char­ac­ter names on the toy boxes and their indi­vid­ual bios whilst giv­ings us some dirt on a new Doc­tor char­ac­ter (named Scalpel on toy), shown below.

USA Today

Arti­cle

Rav­age and Soundwave

“In the spirit of ‘more than meets the eye,’ Rav­age isn’t just lethal because of his sharp teeth,” says screen­writer Alex Kurtz­man. “There’s actu­ally another skill set Rav­age has that didn’t exist before, so there’s going to be a sur­prise for fans.” …his role will be sim­i­lar to the 1980s car­toon and Has­bro toy — the ulti­mate spy.

Rav­age doesn’t turn into any­thing. But Sound­wave will appear, again serv­ing as an evil com­mu­ni­ca­tions expert but this time in the form of an orbit­ing space satellite.

And Rav­age, as before, won’t speak like the other Trans­form­ers. “We wanted to stay true to the idea that Decep­ti­cons who take visual clues from beasts main­tain that,” says Orci. “It would be strange to have a talk­ing jaguar, or a scor­pion with an Eng­lish accent.”

Insec­ti­cons

We have big guys, some lit­tle guys. We have a lot of lit­tler ones, too. Lit­tle weirder ones,” Bay says. Like the Insec­ti­cons, which were giant bugs in the orig­i­nal series and Has­bro toy line, but are now tiny creepy-crawly infiltrators.

Jet­fire -

As in the orig­i­nal, this fighter plane crash-landed on Earth a long time ago, and he will become a reformed Decep­ti­con now fight­ing for the humans. His alter­nate form is the SR-71 Black­bird, the out­dated but still-sleek Cold War spy plane.

“He’s old, craggy, for­get­ful … doesn’t work very well. Can’t trans­form very well, because he’s very geri­atric. They get stuck with him a lot,” Bay says. “He knows the plan of the bad guys, but he for­gets all the good parts of the plan.”

- Side­swipe con­firmed as sil­ver Corvette Stingray con­cept car
– Jolt con­firmed as a new foot sol­dier as the Chevy Volt
– Trax and Beat play The Twins, Skids and Mud­flap (“Some of the junior Trans­form­ers are just dumb” — heroic screw-ups)
– Arcee is the ‘only female’ and is Megan Fox’s pink motor­cy­cle — was in draft for first movie but got left out [what about Chro­mia the blue motor­cy­cle and the third bike?]

- The Fallen — holds the key to life on Earth and Cybertron, ancient robot
– The Doc­tor — a spi­der like droid, trans­forms into imple­ments of tor­ture
– Giant Demol­isher
– Wheelie

- Seven con­struc­ti­cons con­firmed as Scav­enger, Scrap­per, High­tower, Long­haul, Ram­page, Over­load and Mix­mas­ter
– Dev­as­ta­tor “one gigan­tic robot stomper”

“He’s made of vehi­cles designed to build, and he turns into is some­one who loves to destroy,” Orci says. “He is an agent of absolute chaos.”

Bay says Dev­as­ta­tor is the crème de la smash and got a unchar­ac­ter­is­tic reac­tion out of the film’s exec­u­tive pro­ducer already.

“Spiel­berg saw it and said, ‘This is (exple­tive) awe­some!’ ” Bay says, and adds: “It’s always nice when you can make him swear.”

Yahoo

Arti­cle

AUTOBOTS
# OPTIMUS PRIME: The Auto­bots’ leader — alter­nate form: Peter­bilt truck
# IRONHIDE: Weapons spe­cial­ist — GMC Top­kick.
# RATCHET: Medic — Hum­mer H2.
# BUMBLEBEE: Friend and mode of trans­porta­tion for Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) — 2010 Chevor­let Camaro.
# ARCEE: A female Auto­bot — motor­cy­cle.
# JETFIRE: An older Decep­ti­con who switches sides — SR71 Black­bird jet.
# JOLT: the orig­i­nal toy was a Decep­ti­con, but in the movie he’s a good guy — Chevro­let Volt plug-in hybrid.
# SKID & MUDFLAP: a.k.a. “The Twins” — Chevro­let Beat and Trax con­cept cars.

DECEPTICONS
# STARSCREAM: For­merly Megatron’s sec­ond in com­mand, he escaped at the end of the first movie (see photo); F-22 Rap­tor jet.
# SCORPONOK: The mechan­i­cal scor­pion that attacked the Amer­i­can troops in the desert.
# THE FALLEN: One of the orig­i­nal Trans­form­ers, he’s called “the most ele­men­tal bad guy” by the screen­writ­ers.
# SIDEWAYS: The Audi R8 seen crash­ing through a build­ing in the trailer.
# SOUNDWAVE: A cas­sette player in the orig­i­nal toys; his alter­nate mode will fly.
# RAVAGE: A four-legged, cat-like robot (see photo).
# THE DOCTOR: Alter­nate form has not been announced.
# WHEELIE: A small, radio-controlled truck.
# DEMOLISHER: One of the Con­struc­ti­cons that trans­form into con­struc­tion vehi­cles.
# DEVASTATOR: A giant robot formed by the Con­struc­ti­cons join­ing together; indi­vid­u­ally, they are: Scav­enger, Scrap­per, High­tower, Long­haul, Ram­page, Over­load and Mixmaster.

Folks over at The Arker have posted images of two pre­vi­ously unseen Revenge of the Fallen toys in their pack­ages, Dune Run­ner and Scalpel (deluxe class).

Scalpel

A very small Decep­ti­con ‘medic’ with a micro­scope alt mode

Scalpel has a mas­sive data­base of anatom­i­cal data for mil­lions of crea­tures across the uni­verse. He can unassem­ble any­thing that doesn’t strug­gle to much in a mat­ter of min­utes, and usu­ally puts it back together with only a few parts in the wrong place. He serves as medic to the Decep­ti­con army, but most Decep­ti­cons pre­fer to suf­fer in silence rather than allow Scalpel to work on them.

Dune Run­ner

An auto­bot that roams the deserts and mountains

Back on Cybertron, most rolling sur­faces are flat, lightly tex­tured roads — per­fect for speed and trac­tion. It wasn’t until he got to Earth that Dune Run­ner expe­ri­enced any­thing like […]. He can’t say he enjoyed the new vehi­cle mode, but he appre­ci­ates that it lets him patrol the deserts and moun­tains where many Decep­ti­cons have taken to hiding.

A video review of the cur­rently unknown auto­bot jet that car­ries a minia­ture Opti­mus Prime, read full details.

Up to this point a rumored total of 40 has been touted, how­ever a new Vari­ety arti­cles ups that to a good 60 after speak­ing with TF2 VFX lead Scott Far­rar. The char­ac­ters will also see much more inter­ac­tion and have human like prop­er­ties such as sweating.

“Michael took the pro­duc­tion value up many, many notches,” [ILM’s lead VFX super­vi­sor for TF2 Scott Far­rar] says. “Just the back­grounds alone are huge. It’s a com­bi­na­tion of ‘Apoc­a­lypse Now’ and ‘Ben-Hur,’ in regards to fan­tas­tic back­grounds and the unbe­liev­able sets we worked at around the world.”

Every­one involved in “Revenge of the Fallen” is keep­ing the details under wraps, but Far­rar says there are some 60 robot char­ac­ters, and they play in set­tings around the world. Some, like refiner­ies at night, were cho­sen to boost the visual drama and show off the scale of the giant ‘bots.

What’s more, this time the Trans­form­ers will inter­act much more with the world around them. Far­rar high­lights “the splashes and the hits and the fight­ing on dirt or mov­ing, bang­ing into trees,” explain­ing, “Things splin­ter and break, they spit, they out­gas, they sweat, they snort.”

One new chal­lenge is that sev­eral sequences will be shown in Imax for­mat, approx­i­mately 16 times larger than 35mm, which means the CG work must be fin­ished at much higher res­o­lu­tion. At that scale, it can take sev­eral days to ren­der a final frame.

All this is on top of cre­at­ing a new fam­ily of giant robots. “(Bay) had to learn a whole litany of new things by get­ting into this robot cul­ture on the first film,” Far­rar says. “I don’t think he’d ever worked on a film where he’d done so much direct­ing of ani­mated char­ac­ters. So he’s really taken it to heart, and I think not every­body does, but he actu­ally enjoys the process.”

The Chevy Camaro, Beat and Trax have each made an appear­ance at this year’s ShoW­est in Las Vegas, along­side the enor­mous robot Bum­ble­bee fig­ure. Flickr user deltaMike has been on hand to cap­tures some shots of the event, view gallery.

Via TLAMB