The new Revenge of the Fallen trailer shall pre­mière with a re-release of the first Trans­form­ers movie, across 20 loca­tions (five of those being in IMAX) on April 29th. Ticket details are not yet avail­able, but we should hear about those within the next cou­ple of days.

Los Ange­les: 7pm at The Bridge Cin­ema De Lux, in IMAX
New York: 8pm at AMC Loews Lin­coln Square in IMAX
San Fran­cisco: 7pm at AMC Metreon in IMAX
Chicago: 8pm at Navy Pier in IMAX
Toronto: 7pm at Sco­tia­bank in IMAX
Philadel­phia: 7pm at UA King of Prus­sia in DIGITAL
Wash­ing­ton DC: 7pm at AMC George­town in DIGITAL
Dal­las: 7pm at Cin­e­mark Movies 17 in 35MM
Boston: 7pm at AMC Boston Com­mon in 35MM
Phoenix: 7pm at Harkins Tempe Mar­ket­place in Tempe in DIGITAL
Seat­tle: 7pm at Cin­erama in 35MM
Atlanta: 7pm at Regal Atlantic Sta­tion in 35MM
Miami: 7pm at AMC Sun­set in South Miami in 35MM
Detroit: 7pm ar Emag­ine Novi in Novi, MI in DIGITAL
San Diego: 7pm at Regal Edwards Mira Mesa in 35MM
Den­ver: 7pm at UA Col­orado Cen­ter in 35MM
Sacra­mento: 7pm at UA Mar­ket Square in 35MM
Orlando: 7pm at Pre­mière Fash­ion Sq Mall in DIGITAL
Min­neapo­lis: 7pm at AMC South­dale in Edina in 35MM
Bal­ti­more: 7pm at AMC White Marsh in 35MM

Four new Revenge of the Fallen robot repli­cas are now on eBay via seller gojulasprime23 with five days left on the auc­tions. This is our first look at The Fallen, Mega­tron, Side­swipe, Jet­fire and Skids robot replica models.

The Fallen Robot Replica

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Side­swipe Robot Replica

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Jet­fire Robot Replica

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Mega­tron Robot Replica

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Skids Robot Replica

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Deluxe Can­non Bumblebee

After the Bat­tle of Mis­sion City, and the dis­cov­ery of new Decep­ti­cons on Earth, Bum­ble­bee decided to upgrade as many of his sys­tems as he could. With the help of Auto­bot Ratchet, he added some human mis­sile launch­ers to his arse­nal, and mod­i­fied his vehi­cle mode to make his weapons acces­si­ble. He was caught off-gaurd too many times the Decep­ti­cons. Now when they come around he’ll be ready.

Deluxe Inter­roga­tor Barricade

Repaired and retro­fit­ted after the Bat­tle of Mis­sion City, Bar­ri­cade elected to remain on Earth while Starscream returned to Cybertron. He has devoted his time on Earth gath­er­ing intel­li­gence for the inevitable rise of the Decep­ti­cons. He stalks and cap­tures impor­tant humans, then scans, inter­ro­gates and dis­poses of his cap­tives using the highly sen­si­tive proves built into his vehi­cle mode.

Deluxe Smoke­screen

Accord­ing to Smoke­screen, the only good Decep­ti­con is a totally con­fused one. He does his best to make sure that the Decep­ti­cons never know what his team­mates are up to. He’s per­fected the art of cre­at­ing diver­sions, using traps, holo­grams, and strate­gi­cally placed explo­sives. When all else fails, he uses him­self as bait, often rac­ing right through a group of enemy robots to dis­tract them.

Deluxe Mud­flap

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Young but eager, Mud­flap has wanted to be a full-fledged war­rior under the com­mand of Opti­mus Prime for as long as he can remem­ber. He and his twin brother Auto­bot Skids trav­eled for years to Earth, just in the hopes of join­ing up with their idol. Being on Earth with Opti­mus Prime and the other heroes of the Great War is a dream come true.

Skids and Mud­flap FAB

Ama­zon have listed the Trans­form­ers 2 movie nov­el­iza­tion for pre-order, it comes with a small excerpt:

“THE FALLEN SHALL RISE AGAIN.…”

This cryp­tic warn­ing is ignored by the national secu­rity adviser who feels the ruth­less Decep­ti­con threat is no more. The allies are vic­to­ri­ous, the enemy has been defeated, and the world is safe. Small attacks around the world have been con­tained, and the remain­ing pieces of the cov­eted Allspark are locked in an elec­tro­mag­netic vault on one of the most secure Naval bases in the world. But noth­ing is at it seems, and there is a shift in the shad­ows. Things can change in an instant–and frag­ile peace will become all-out war.

TF08 updated their post on Mix­mas­ter to give us shots of the instruc­tions leaflet which informs us of a vehi­cle mode, robot mode and third “bat­tle mode”.

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eBay user yayabee has posted an auc­tion for the new Revenge of the Fallen Wheelie toy, giv­ing our first look at the front-side packaging.

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MTV are really lap­ping up the Trans­form­ers Revenge of the Fallen buzz, giv­ing us a lot of great inter­view snip­pets and movie clues. This time around it’s the turn of Isabel Lucas and Ramon Rodriguez.

- Ramon Rodriguez plays “Leo Spitz”, Sam’s room­mate and owner of a para­noid con­spir­a­cies web­site about aliens and robots:

“I end up get­ting sucked into [Sam’s] crazy world with real robots and find­ing out he’s involved in the real thing,” Rodriguez said. “My com­plete world is flipped.”

- Isabel Lucas plays “Alice”,

“The char­ac­ter of Alice is more the seduc­tress,” Lucas said. “She’s got mys­te­ri­ous inten­tions that we don’t really know about.”

As for Bay’s film­ing techniques:

Bay brought a cou­ple of industrial-size fans to the Egypt­ian desert that blew 100-mile-per-hour, sand-filled winds at Rodriguez’s face. He ended up dis­lo­cat­ing his shoul­der and needed to have his eyes flushed out for 45 min­utes. Another time he had to sit per­fectly still as a huge metal spike pierced the roof of his car, per­ilously close to his head. In those moments, he was not so much act­ing as react­ing to a very real sense of fear.

Could that 100 MPH fan per­haps be sim­u­lat­ing Devastator’s mas­sive vor­tex? We’ve seen him being pulled about before:

The sil­hou­et­ted key­chain we men­tioned today and saw a cou­ple weeks back at Toy fair ’09 has been unveiled through a French mar­ket­ing sheet, sup­ple­ment­ing the Leg­ends toy com­bi­na­tion we saw earlier.

Prime con­tin­ues to look badass with gun in right hand and illus­trat­ing a more inter-mingled com­bi­na­tion of Opti­mus Prime and Jet­fire, the two char­ac­ters now appear seamless.