This comes via TF08 and their abundant source of unreleased toys. Some more galleries of toys are also floating about of Deluxe Sideswipe, Deluxe Breakaway and Voyager class Optimus Prime.
Transformers 3
Transformers 3
Ironhide ROTF toy February 21st, 2009
Amazon posts Transformers 2 video game pre orders, June 16th Release date February 21st, 2009
Amazon have posted all of the Transformers 2 video games up for pre order, with a planned release on June 16th.
Platforms include Wii, Xbox 360, Playstation 3, PSP, Windows Vista, Nintendo DS and PS2 — pretty much everything except the Mac.
Via TLAMB
GM releases ‘Autobots Rollout’ website February 21st, 2009
GM have released a website dedicated to the new Autobots, “Autobots Rollout” — it comes with Bios that do not reveal anything, some new images of the vehicles in the sand, each of the released trailers and a video showing a team putting together the Bumblebee model.
Demolisher Bio Revealed, on sale at eBay February 21st, 2009
An eBay auction has been spotted selling the Demolisher toy boxed, complete with an image of the packet and the character’s description. View the original auction, view another live auction to purchase Demolisher.
Demolishor isn’t very bright, but he knows when to fight, and when to run and hide. Arriving on Earth to find Megatron destroyed, hiding seemed like the best option. Since then, he’s taken a few smaller Decepticons under his protection, and built quite a little community. It hasn’t been easy hiding among the humans that creep like a disease over this planet, but he and his companions are content until a new Decepticon leader emerges to guide them back to glory.
Via Seibertron
Michael Bay handpicked GM concept cars February 19th, 2009
After building up some rapport on the first movie and providing GM with publicity and awareness of their newly redesigned Camaro, for Transformers 2 Michael Bay was given the opportunity to pick and choose from GM’s array of concept cars:
“I didn’t want to share with him Camaro unless he told me more about the movie,” Wellburn said. “There was a little negotiating, and then there it was.” The success of the Camaro’s appearance, which helped GM by raising awareness of the newly redesigned car, literally opened some big doors for Bay in “Revenge of the Fallen.”
“When it comes to the sequel, it was different because the relationship had built quite a bit,” Wellburn explained. “Michael came to Detroit, and he and I just walked the studios. He was looking for one, maybe two new vehicles. He came here, and he pretty much had it in his head what the sequel would be. I’ll never forget it. One third of the way through the tour he said, ‘I need a notepad. There are just too many designs that we may want to use in the movie.’”
Some models, like the Beat and Trax, which will appear as the Autobots Skids and Mudflap for “Revenge of the Fallen,” even affected how the characters functioned.
“That day that he visited us and walked the halls of the studios, the movie developed and in some ways changed,” he revealed. “[Bay] was inspired by things like the two small cars that maybe could work together in some way. That’s all I can say right now.”
Source: MTV
Today show previews Devastator toy February 19th, 2009
Via TFormers, this videos shows the Today Show walking through some of the toys seen at this years Toy Fair:
Meanwhile E! Online have posted a video review of the toys on shoe:
Mysterious key chains February 19th, 2009
Of the new Transformers merchandise at Toy Fair 09 were a set of key chains, with their front designs pixelated out to prevent revealing the details of the characters. Action Figs have posted a gallery of these with the noticeable Bumblebee, Starscream etc — there are two notable oddities however, one mysterious unnamed ‘New Character’ and a figure labeled as Optimus Prime that doesn’t match his usual robot form. TFW also have a pair of silhouettes that match these two designs.
The source of these silhouettes states that the robot form of Optimus Prime is in combination with Jetfire, looking closely you can see the wing outline, boosters and a canon — this combination has previously been seen on the Legends class toys, although that arrangement looks very different.
The unnamed character has claws and is grey, I’d hesitate a guess at Megatron.
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New Transformers 2 Poster February 18th, 2009
TLAMB reader Nige spotted a new Revenge of the Fallen poster. This one is slightly less mysterious and a lot more cheesy, showing Shia and Megan running through explosions against a pyramids backdrop, with Optimus Prime standing behind it all. The most interesting aspect of the poster is the figure of a Transformer standing atop of the central pyramid, channeling a beam of light upwards, presumed to be The Fallen.