Spo­tify is a desk­top appli­ca­tion that allows you to lis­ten to any music you like, when­ever you like, full albums if you wish — it’s legal and free. It has recently put online the Revenge of the Fallen sound­track so you can lis­ten to the whole thing through from New Divide to Cheap Trick!

Spo­tify Direct Lis­ten Link: ROTF Album
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For those of you in the UK, the sound­track is already avail­able for pur­chase:
Trans­form­ers 2 Sound­track (£7.99, MP3)

And to high­light the awe­some­ness of Spo­tify, here’s the track I have on right now:
You Love Her Coz Shes Dead — Blood Lust

The offi­cial Michael Bay site has offered up some facts and fig­ures about Revenge of the Fallen, please beware of spoil­ers. Dev­as­ta­tor packs a punch of 390mph and he is one (or seven if you count the parts) of the 46 robots in the Trans­form­ers sequel.

Robots

* 14 robots last time, 46 robots this time (ILM only)
* If you had all the gold ever mined in the his­tory of man, you could build a lit­tle more than half of Dev­as­ta­tor.
* Opti­mus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many for­est fight shots.
* Devastator’s hand is trav­el­ing 390 miles per hour when he punches the pyra­mid.
* The pyra­mid destruc­tion sim­u­la­tion was 8 times big­ger than the old rigid sim­u­la­tion all-time record holder at ILM.
* All robot parts laid out end to end would stretch from one side of Cal­i­for­nia to the other, about 180 miles
* Devastator’s parts stacked tip to tip would be as tall as 58 empire state build­ings.
* If all the tex­ture maps on the show were printed on 1 square yard sheets, they would cover 13 foot­ball fields.

Disk space

* TF1 took 20 Ter­abytes of disk space. Trans2 took 145 Ter­abytes. Seven times big­ger!
* 145 ter­abytes would fill 35,000 DVDs. Stacked one on top of the other with­out stor­age cases, they would be 145 feet tall.

Ren­der­ing times

* If you ren­dered the entire movie on a mod­ern home PC, you would have had to start the ren­ders 16,000 years ago (when cave paint­ings like the Hall of Bulls were being made) to fin­ish for this year’s pre­mière!
* A sin­gle imax shot in the movie (df250) would have taken almost 3 years to ren­der on a top of the line home PC run­ning non­stop.
* IMAX frame ren­der times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

Imax

* Opti­mus Prime will be life size on IMAX screens in many for­est fight shots.
* Imax frames take about 6 times longer than anamor­phic to ren­der.
* IMAX frame ren­der times: As high as 72 hours per frame!

ILM screen time

ILM Screen Time is about 51 minutes.

Dev­as­ta­tor

* Dev­as­ta­tor is as tall as a 10 story build­ing.
* Dev­as­ta­tor has more than 10 times the num­ber of indi­vid­ual parts found in an aver­age car.
* Laid out end to end, Devastator’s parts would be almost 14 miles long.

Dev­as­ta­tor totals

* Num­ber of geom pieces: 52632
* The total num­ber of poly­gons: 11,716,127
* The total length of all pieces: 73090 feet
* The total length of all pieces: 13.84 miles

TFG2 keep rolling out the awe­some look­ing con­cept art for Trans­form­ers 2. This time around it’s the ever goofy Skids char­ac­ter in his radioac­tive green.

The offi­cial Trans­form­ers web­site has updated with links to all the assorted games, ban­ner cre­ators, fan art etc. Also included are new wall­pa­pers, buddy icons, screen­savers and the Sound­wave satel­lite mode nav­i­ga­tion we saw on the UK TF2 site.

Offi­cial Site

Trans­form­ers and Megan Fox Wallpapers

Screen­savers

Bum­ble­bee (Mac)
Bum­ble­bee (PC)
Opti­mus Prime (Mac)
Opti­mus Prime (PC)
Starscream (Mac)
Starscream (PC)

Robo­t­ize Me

How­ever you make these robots, they always come out look­ing über geeky.

Visit Robo­t­ize me

We recently posted the third exclu­sive BD Live clip, “We’re going to die”, but it had no sound, instead replaced by an atro­cious high pitched squeal. Here’s a quick update with proper audio via Trailer Addict. We’ll refrain from com­ment­ing on the irony of the title in com­bi­na­tion with the three sur­viv­ing (and com­ing out seem­ingly unharmed) what would ordi­nar­ily be a fatal crash.

As expected, the toy video reviews for the Mud­flap & Skids Ice Cream truck and the red Arcee motor­cy­cle have been posted by Peaugh. These two toys rep­re­sent the full scale of the Trans­form­ers 2 toy line — from awe­some must buy to the strange and odd (and ulti­mately pass).

Ice Cream truck

Arcee

Game trail­ers have posted two video game walk­throughs, firstly a three minute illus­tra­tion of the Deep Six level, in which you play as Starscream. Sec­ondly some of the mul­ti­player action.

The Trans­form­ers 2 viral site, The Real Eff­ing Deal, has updated with new robot sight­ings, videos and news sto­ries — includ­ing a Leo Spitz video rant at Robo Warrior.

Down­load video collection

Down­load a zip file of four Leo Spitz videos from The Real Eff­ing Deal, three are Ramon Rodriguez and the fourth shows what looks like Starscream dart­ing in front of some Fireworks.

Down­load the Real Eff­ing Deal videos (18mb)

Robot seen in Japan

“Exclu­sive: It is Japan and all but”

Another TRED-head who’d like to remain anony­mous just sent us this link. We’re the FIRST on the net to break this story.

Now we all know the Land of the Ris­ing Sun is known for robots of all stripes — small to eff­ing huge — so spot­ting a bot in Japan is nor­mally no big deal. But this one’s LOOSE. And HIDING. And it looks more advanced than any Japan­ese robot I’ve ever seen. I’m start­ing to cor­re­late all the data we’ve been get­ting for the last few days and all I can say is, this is NOT good, peo­ple. They’re land­ing, spread­ing all over the world, and lying in wait for…something. Why are they here? Either they want our resources, they want to enslave us, they want to use our planet as their new homeworld…or maybe some­thing else. We’ll prob­a­bly never know until it’s way too late.

Robot on the Autobahn

Robot­ics Gone Wild

I don’t know what “gespinnt” means, but he’s right, the “part” was eff­ing huge!! It looks to me like that car actu­ally TURNED INTO a bot. The physics just seem…impossible. Unless the Ger­mans have invented some kind of mor­ph­ing technology…or maybe learned it from aliens. Either way, here’s what wor­ries me: if robots can hide IN PLAIN SIGHT, we’ll NEVER see it com­ing! We could all be sur­rounded by bots right now. What if this com­puter I’m using sud­denly trans­forms into a killer cyber-organism because it doesn’t like what I’m typ­ing??? Yeeesh!

Robot climb­ing tower

That is not a gorilla

A dios mia!!! TRED-heads, you need to check out this video. Watch the upper right for what looks like a grande eff­ing robot! Aus­tralia, Peru, now SPAIN! Either there’s one bot-like entity on a world-wide tour, or there are LOTS of them hid­ing out eff­ing EVERYWHERE.
Dudes, seri­ously. I’ve never seen any­thing like this before. Either someone’s yank­ing our chain here, or we’ve got giant robots — pos­si­bly giant ALIEN robots — appear­ing all over the eff­ing globe. I sug­gest you go back and bone up on your “How to Sur­vive a Robot Upris­ing” book, the one we men­tioned a few months ago right here on TRED.

And, yo, if you see some­thing else like this, send it to us ASAP (and not to ANYONE else, if you know what I mean).