The-Arker are show­ing off a num­ber of pic­tures show­ing both the alt mode and robot mode of the Audi R8 Deluxe toy, as seen at the Beth­le­hem and Philly film shoots. It bears the Decep­ti­con logo and matches the leaked robot-mode of the still unnamed character:

Autobotic9 over at Seib​ertron​.com has pro­vided some bet­ter shots of the new Con­struc­ti­con toy via HK-TF:

He’s a voy­ager shovel. His shovel splits into two arms, one tread goes behind his head, and the other one he rolls around on. This is a fact.

This con­firms that the alt mode is a Terex RH400, as spec­u­lated by TLAMB, “the world’s largest earth mover”. They also point out that on the leaked call sheet for Trans­form­ers 2 a trans­former char­ac­ter was described as a ‘Con­struc­ti­con Earth Mover’.

ACToys board mem­ber ‘Star of Cybertron’ has posted shots of what looks like a new mem­ber of the Revenge of the Fallen toy fam­ily — a white, red and grey con­struc­tion vehicle.

It is strongly sug­gested that this is the first con­struc­ti­con toy we have seen and a con­stituent part of the enor­mous Dev­as­ta­tor. Note the robot head vis­i­ble in the final two shots. It still remains to be seen whether a com­bined 7-robot Dev­as­ta­tor will appear in the movie.

A pos­si­ble alt mode for this toy:

Voice Chang­ers

Red Mer­cury have listed two new Voice changer hel­mets for Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen. The Opti­mus Prime model has been updated with new sound effects, voice clips and bat­tle dam­age dec­o­ra­tion. The sec­ond is a Bum­ble­bee hel­met (no images yet):

Ulti­mate Bumblebee

Red Mer­cury also have a pre-order page for the new Ulti­mate Bum­ble­bee: the flip down mask has been remolded, the paint work is more accu­rate and there is also a new arm weapon:

High priced Combiner

TFW2005 has found one more DCPI listing:

087–06-0292 TRA Dri­ver MV2 Human Driver

And have also revealed the pri­ce­points for the two com­biner listings:

087–06-0146 TF MV2 Com­bin­ers = $29.99
087–06-0294 TRA Com­biner TF MV2 = $99.99

So, the Supe­rion and Briti­cus Max­imus sets are likely the $29.99 list­ing, while the $99.99 list­ing could be some­thing else. Maybe some­thing… ‘devestating’!

Hat tip to Seib­ertron.

IGN sat down with TF2 writer Roberto Orci to try and get some scoops out of him, noth­ing major was revealed but it is good to see some of the rumors float­ing around being con­firmed by an offi­cial voice; Rav­age and a Pre­tender are in Revenge of the Fallen.

IGN: Last time we spoke, you revealed that Sound­wave was in the movie and hinted at the pos­si­bil­ity of Rav­age, so I’m won­der­ing if you can say any­thing more about what new char­ac­ters will be in Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Orci: So I said Rav­age… maybe?

IGN: Pretty much, yeah.
Orci: [As if giv­ing a big reveal] Ravage!

IGN: [Laughs] Damn, I should have told you that you said Rav­age for sure!
Orci: Hmm… I’ll give you an exclu­sive here. There is a Pre­tender. I’m going to get killed for say­ing that.

IGN: Sto­ry­wise, how does the sequel com­pare to the first one?
Orci: It’s an extreme [jump] from the first one. The out­ra­geous, crazy humor is more out­ra­geous, but then so is the seri­ous side of it and so is the stakes of the Trans­form­ers plot and the seri­ous­ness with which some of their mythol­ogy is treated. So it kind of swings wildly between those two extremes, and that I think was one of the suc­cess­ful parts of the first movie. Again, some of the die hard fans will be equally annoyed at some of the things they see, but I can also say they will be more grat­i­fied than they were for the first one, to see how some of the Trans­form­ers story and how their bat­tle takes place in the sec­ond one.

IGN: There was a leaked image the other day of a Side­swipe toy. I don’t even know if Side­swipe is in the movie, since the toys some­times include extra char­ac­ters, but the look of this toy was more like the orig­i­nal Trans­form­ers than the first film. On the design side, are the Trans­form­ers look­ing the same in this one, or are there some tweaks?
Orci: Well, you know, your favorites – Opti­mus and Bum­ble­bee – look the same. Some of the new Trans­form­ers com­ing up, even the old Trans­form­ers that we had, have ben­e­fited from the fact that — I actu­ally heard this from ILM — because they had all the ren­der­ing and the stuff from the first movie, they were able to get much more spe­cific and artic­u­late with their range of motion and emo­tions in the sec­ond movie, which has a big­ger bud­get and it has all that research and devel­op­ment sunk into the orig­i­nal mod­els. So there’s going to be more artic­u­la­tion of the char­ac­ters facially, so I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing that. I have not seen how far they’ve taken it.

Many are tout­ing the multi-part auto­bot Supe­rion toy as proof of a Devastator/Constructicon oppo­nent in Revenge of the Fallen, solely on the toy’s pack­age description:

The mighty union of the five AERIALBOTS, SUPERION thinks of lit­tle else besides destroy­ing any DECEPTICONS he encoun­ters, and pro­tect­ing any inno­cent bystanders nearby. The robots that com­bine to form this pow­er­ful war­rior are expe­ri­enced team­mates, work­ing in tan­dem to see that the AUTOBOTS emerge vic­to­ri­ous from the fire of THE ANCIENT WAR.

Sil­ver­bolt — Aeri­al­bots leader
Aira­zor — Small but fierce
Fire­flight — Eas­ily dis­tracted day­dreamer
Sky­dive — Aer­ial strat­egy expert
Air Raid — Reck­less divebomber

In actu­al­ity this toy is sim­ply a resprayed Trans­form­ers: Ener­gon toy. It has not been redesigned to match the ROTF robot theme, and is prac­ti­cally the same as its out­ing in 2006 — sug­gest­ing, instead of Supe­rion appear­ing in the movie, that Has­bro are cash­ing in on the ‘trans­form and com­bine’ theme preva­lent with Dev­as­ta­tor and pos­si­bly the twins and Arcee.

The green Chevy Beat con­cept car as seen as Skids in Rvenge of the Fallen is being renamed for its pro­duc­tion release — ahead of its appear­ance at the Detroit auto show, from Beat to Spark — a name that also com­ple­ments another new GM car, the Volt.

Source: Auto­blog

From the vehi­cle based on the GM Cen­ten­nial, this is the first full pic­ture of ‘Side­swipe’ via TF08: