While we wait for the offi­cial high qual­ity ver­sion of the trailer, Behind the Films have pro­vided a much cleaner, watch­able ver­sion, although still recorded in a cin­ema. The constructicon’s trans­for­ma­tion, The Fallen at the pyra­mids and Scor­ponok are all much eas­ier to make out in this copy:

Jalop­nik have posted a gallery of Bumblebee’s Camaro, Sideswipe’s Stingray and Skid’s Trax con­cept car all in a glo­ri­ous res­o­lu­tion. No close­ups of the Beat (to be renamed Spark for production).

The names were offi­cially con­firmed by GM ear­lier this week:

SIDESWIPE – a styl­ized Corvette vision con­cept vehi­cle
SKIDS and MUDFLAP – twin AUTOBOTS® based on Chevy’s Beat (a con­cept that will go into pro­duc­tion as the Chevy Spark in 2011) and Trax con­cepts
JOLT – an AUTOBOT-based on Chevy’s upcom­ing Volt extended-range elec­tric vehi­cle
BUMBLEBEE™, the heroic AUTOBOT based on Chevrolet’s Camaro con­cept from the first “Trans­form­ers” movie, returns with a high-performance atti­tude. Join­ing the vehi­cles on stage will be BUMBLEBEE in his AUTOBOT form, stand­ing almost 17 feet (5.2 meters) tall and 13 feet (4 meters) wide.

Stingray at the Auto Show

GM’s pre­sen­ta­tion at Auto Show

And the offi­cial unveil­ing of the Stingray con­cept car

A video review of the Mega­tron FAB toy, show­ing its tank alt mode — ‘he rolls, he shoots his cannon’:

Jolt FAB Video Review

In antic­i­pa­tion of the 2009 Toy Fair the lat­est Has­bro Press Release out­lines the Trans­form­ers 2 toy line, due for release along­side the movie. This includes con­fir­ma­tion that Dev­as­ta­tor will be in the movie and is made up of 6 constructicons.

Inter­est­ingly, this con­flicts with the con­cept design we have seen, which clearly shows 7 or even 8 robots com­bin­ing to form Dev­as­ta­tor. It is pos­si­ble that this is an early con­cept and that the design of Dev­as­ta­tor has since changed, some sug­gest the body now has a cen­tral cement mixer ‘drum’ which acts like a suck­ing vor­tex. It’s also entirely pos­si­ble that the toy has just been sim­pli­fied to ease con­struc­tion and lower costs.

..And, long-time fans will be thrilled with one the most pow­er­ful DECEPTICONS, the new TRANSFORMERS MOVIE CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR fig­ure, a mon­strous robot that com­bines six vehi­cles into one giant robot.

TRANSFORMERS MOVIE CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR
(Approx­i­mate retail price: $99.99; Ages 5 & up; Avail­able: August 2009)
The largest and most pow­er­ful foe the AUTOBOTS will encounter in this summer’s TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN is sure to be DEVASTATOR, a mon­strous DECEPTICON robot made up of six sep­a­rate con­struc­tion vehi­cles known as the CONSTRUCTICONS. The TRANSFORMERS MOVIE CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR allows kids to re-create the film’s awe­some action sequences.

TRANSFORMERS MOVIE POWER BOTS
(Approx­i­mate retail price: $22.99; Ages 4 & up; Avail­able: May 30, 2009) Designed to enable easy play for younger fans, TRANSFORMERS MOVIE POWER BOTS are 10-inch robot-only ver­sions of favorite TRANSFORMERS char­ac­ters. These large-scale, chunky action fig­ures include lights, sounds and bat­tle fea­tures. Two new POWER BOTS fig­ures fea­tur­ing robots from TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN will be released in 2009. TRANSFORMERS MOVIE MEGA POWER BOTS (Approx­i­mate retail price: $34.99; Ages 4 & up; Avail­able: August 2009)
Tak­ing POWER BOTS to the next level with a sec­ond mode for “mega” action! Robots include OPTIMUS PRIME and DEVASTATOR. When the DEVASTATOR POWER BOT fig­ure is face down, he appears to be six dif­fer­ent vehi­cles, but when stand­ing upright, he is the mon­strous DECEPTICON, DEVASTATOR.

TRANSFORMERS RPMs DEVASTATOR TRACK SET
(Approx­i­mate retail price: $39.99; Ages 5 & up; Avail­able: August 2009)
Cre­ated specif­i­cally for the new TRANSFORMERS R.P.M.’s line of mini-vehicles, the TRANSFORMERS RPMs DEVASTATOR TRACK SET pro­vides fast, mini-vehicle play within a dynamic track set by lever­ag­ing the iconic bat­tle and high stakes drama found in the new movie. The track will bring DEVASTATOR to life and enable fans to re-enact the cli­mac­tic movie bat­tle between the AUTOBOTS and DEVASTATOR

It’s Fri­day 13th and our Trans­form­ers 2 trailer has arrived, in grainy low qual­ity YouTube format:

(Another copy, and another (thanks Brian))

Not as hard hit­ting as the Super­bowl teaser was in terms of the wow that’s huge fac­tor, this trailer has more of the slowly-building up and impend­ing doom feeling.

Key points high­lighed by NightShade87 over at TLAMB:

Here are some key points in the video that I sug­gest tak­ing a closer look at. I’ve pro­vided the times at which some of newer ones occur, and my own thoughts as well).
– The begin­ning opens up in France (notice the Eif­fel tower in the back­ground) and two proto­forms are seen falling out of the sky (in broad day­light no less) and one strikes a build­ing.
– Switches to show the pyra­mids and air­craft carrier-It then looks like there may be a total of 4? proto­forms land­ing in Egypt.
– Then we go back to scene of the air­craft car­rier, which is sunk by more proto­forms (if I counted 6 in this shot, that would make a grand total of 12 proto­forms caus­ing some kind of destruc­tion, whether intended or not.)
– At 0:55 you can very clearly see one of the three Arcee cars that is chas­ing the Audi that just jumped through a build­ing. (It looks to be a pur­ple bike to me, but that could just be the light. And Boo was right; it does look like she’s some type of uni­cy­cle, or at least a third of her robot form.)-We get to see a semi-full trans­for­ma­tion for the RH-400 and Bay wasn’t lying when he said that thing was huge!-Sam again tells his dad to run, but then Ron gives his own idea of what they should do.
– At 1:18 you see Sam tak­ing apart a mechan­i­cal bug, though I don’t know exactly what type (some­thing with wings. I also thought I saw a minia­ture satel­lite on there, but not sure)
– At 1:28 we finally see Bum­ble­bee for the first time. He’s trans­form­ing in what looks like the Witwicky’s back­yard in plain view of Sam’s dad in broad day­light. He then shoots at some­thing off screen.
– At 1:33 we get the first notice of Scor­pinok in Egypt it looks like, jump­ing at another robot. Can’t tell who at this point. But very pointy edges. Starscream? The Audi? Jet­fire?
– 1:38. I think that this is our first very dis­torted but nonethe­less glimpse of what the Fallen looks like. I’m only say­ing that because numer­ous spots on the body look like they’re glow­ing red (indi­ca­tion of flames?)
– Much of the rest has already been shown, except for start­ing at 1:47, which gives us a dif­fer­ent angle on Opti­mus approach­ing [the Con­struc­ti­con]. You can see him slid­ing a few sec­onds later much like he did when fight­ing Bonecrusher on the high­way in the first movie. All in all, I think this whets the appetite pretty nicely for TF fans. Sorry about the qual­ity and the shak­i­ness of the video.

The lat­est Toy­fare mag­a­zine has some juicy gos­sip bits about Trans­form­ers 2, pri­mar­ily that Dev­as­ta­tor will be up to 120 foot tall and that The Fallen is one of the orig­i­nal 13 Trans­form­ers, the one that went bad — play­ing on the apos­tles theology.

Tim For­mas sur­mised the article:

- Images of ROTF toys for Leader class Opti­mus Prime, Pre­view Bum­ble­bee, Pre­view Sound­wave, and the Voy­ager Class Starscream fig­ure.
– Lorenzo believes the time­frame of ROTF is about one year after Movie #1.
– When asked about the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing Dev­as­ta­tor on screen, Lorenzo men­tions that Bay had the chal­lenge in the first movie of hav­ing 30 foot robots. In the sec­ond movie, Bay has the chal­lenge of hav­ing a robot almost four times that. Expect Dev­as­ta­tor to be 100 to 120 feet tall in the movie.
– Archer said he couldn’t give away the plot point, but there’s a rea­son that Sound­wave is designed the way he is for the movie. Has­bro had a more basic toy need. So, the two were blended together.
– Toy launch date con­firmed as May 30th. A few weeks before, Bum­ble­bee and Sound­wave will be released.
– Char­ac­ters men­tioned in the ini­tial wave are “Side­swipe, Side­ways, Bull­dozer, Voy­ager and many oth­ers”. Promise of more off-screen char­ac­ters.
– Robot Heroes will have bet­ter artic­u­la­tion
– Bum­ble­bee hel­met has voice mixer
– Bum­ble­bee con­vert­ing pulse can­non
– Big ticket deluxe item for the year is still “top-secret“
– Grav­ity Bots are geared towards younger kids. Con­vert auto­mat­i­cally when you pick them up.
– A Megan Fox Human Alliance fig­ure is on Archer’s “wish list”.
– The Fallen’s ori­gin con­firmed: He is one of the orig­i­nal 13 Trans­form­ers. Lorenzo said to think of the 13 as “apos­tles”. The Fallen is the one who turns and is the rea­son Trans­form­ers split into Auto­bots and Decepticons.

To show the size of Dev­as­ta­tor to scale against Opti­mus (28ft tall) and humans Gauge001 cre­ated this:

A short video inter­view with GM Vice Pres­i­dent of Global Design, Ed Wel­burn show­ing some quick-zooming fade-in fade-out footage of the sta­tion­ary Auto­bots at the Chicago Auto show:

Para­mount Pic­tures has moved the release of Trans­form­ers 2 two days ear­lier, from June 26th 2009 to June 24th. No rea­son as to why has been given, whether inter­na­tional releases will also change is not clear.