At the LG Transformers booth, amongst all the news about Transformers phones, there is a piece of the All Spark wrapper up safely in a canister, as seen in the Officially released movie screenshot. Picture from the booth comes via TLAMB:
Original LG press release explaining the tie-ins:
Visitors at the LG Mobile Phones booth (#4100, Central Hall) will have the opportunity to meet renowned film director Michael Bay on Thursday, April 2, at 2:00PM (PDT) as he greets fans and signs posters from the new movie. LG Mobile Phones will also unveil design renderings of a LG limited edition “Transformers” Versa phone, which will be made available only through consumer promotions as part of their overall movie tie-in campaign.
Prior to the film’s June 24 release, LG Mobile Phones will reveal advertising, retail, online and other consumer electronics initiatives utilizing the film as a key theme for the marketing campaign. The LG limited edition “Transformers” Versa phone, along with the company’s premium line of handsets, offers the latest in mobile technology, allowing people to change their mobile life using one device. Many of these LG Mobile Phone products were used during the making of the film.
Round two of official Revenge of the Fallen photos have been released alongside the recent Transformers character news (view first set). They show Shia standing in front of a pyramid, Megan Fox fallen to the floor and looking up and the group running from an explosion and a control room.
Click the images for a very nice high quality version. Images thanks to Megan-Fox.net fansite.
Both Yahoo and USA Today have the lowdown on the new Transformers 2 characters, each with a different and new image. This finally confirms the character names on the toy boxes and their individual bios whilst givings us some dirt on a new Doctor character (named Scalpel on toy), shown below.
“In the spirit of ‘more than meets the eye,’ Ravage isn’t just lethal because of his sharp teeth,” says screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. “There’s actually another skill set Ravage has that didn’t exist before, so there’s going to be a surprise for fans.” …his role will be similar to the 1980s cartoon and Hasbro toy — the ultimate spy.
Ravage doesn’t turn into anything. But Soundwave will appear, again serving as an evil communications expert but this time in the form of an orbiting space satellite.
And Ravage, as before, won’t speak like the other Transformers. “We wanted to stay true to the idea that Decepticons who take visual clues from beasts maintain that,” says Orci. “It would be strange to have a talking jaguar, or a scorpion with an English accent.”
Insecticons
We have big guys, some little guys. We have a lot of littler ones, too. Little weirder ones,” Bay says. Like the Insecticons, which were giant bugs in the original series and Hasbro toy line, but are now tiny creepy-crawly infiltrators.
Jetfire -
As in the original, this fighter plane crash-landed on Earth a long time ago, and he will become a reformed Decepticon now fighting for the humans. His alternate form is the SR-71 Blackbird, the outdated but still-sleek Cold War spy plane.
“He’s old, craggy, forgetful … doesn’t work very well. Can’t transform very well, because he’s very geriatric. They get stuck with him a lot,” Bay says. “He knows the plan of the bad guys, but he forgets all the good parts of the plan.”
- Sideswipe confirmed as silver Corvette Stingray concept car
– Jolt confirmed as a new foot soldier as the Chevy Volt
– Trax and Beat play The Twins, Skids and Mudflap (“Some of the junior Transformers are just dumb” — heroic screw-ups)
– Arcee is the ‘only female’ and is Megan Fox’s pink motorcycle — was in draft for first movie but got left out [what about Chromia the blue motorcycle and the third bike?]
- The Fallen — holds the key to life on Earth and Cybertron, ancient robot
– The Doctor — a spider like droid, transforms into implements of torture
– Giant Demolisher
– Wheelie
- Seven constructicons confirmed as Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and Mixmaster
– Devastator “one gigantic robot stomper”
“He’s made of vehicles designed to build, and he turns into is someone who loves to destroy,” Orci says. “He is an agent of absolute chaos.”
Bay says Devastator is the crème de la smash and got a uncharacteristic reaction out of the film’s executive producer already.
“Spielberg saw it and said, ‘This is (expletive) awesome!’ ” Bay says, and adds: “It’s always nice when you can make him swear.”
AUTOBOTS
# OPTIMUS PRIME: The Autobots’ leader — alternate form: Peterbilt truck
# IRONHIDE: Weapons specialist — GMC Topkick.
# RATCHET: Medic — Hummer H2.
# BUMBLEBEE: Friend and mode of transportation for Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) — 2010 Chevorlet Camaro.
# ARCEE: A female Autobot — motorcycle.
# JETFIRE: An older Decepticon who switches sides — SR71 Blackbird jet.
# JOLT: the original toy was a Decepticon, but in the movie he’s a good guy — Chevrolet Volt plug-in hybrid.
# SKID & MUDFLAP: a.k.a. “The Twins” — Chevrolet Beat and Trax concept cars.
DECEPTICONS
# STARSCREAM: Formerly Megatron’s second in command, he escaped at the end of the first movie (see photo); F-22 Raptor jet.
# SCORPONOK: The mechanical scorpion that attacked the American troops in the desert.
# THE FALLEN: One of the original Transformers, he’s called “the most elemental bad guy” by the screenwriters.
# SIDEWAYS: The Audi R8 seen crashing through a building in the trailer.
# SOUNDWAVE: A cassette player in the original toys; his alternate mode will fly.
# RAVAGE: A four-legged, cat-like robot (see photo).
# THE DOCTOR: Alternate form has not been announced.
# WHEELIE: A small, radio-controlled truck.
# DEMOLISHER: One of the Constructicons that transform into construction vehicles.
# DEVASTATOR: A giant robot formed by the Constructicons joining together; individually, they are: Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload and Mixmaster.
Folks over at The Arker have posted images of two previously unseen Revenge of the Fallen toys in their packages, Dune Runner and Scalpel (deluxe class).
Scalpel
A very small Decepticon ‘medic’ with a microscope alt mode
Scalpel has a massive database of anatomical data for millions of creatures across the universe. He can unassemble anything that doesn’t struggle to much in a matter of minutes, and usually puts it back together with only a few parts in the wrong place. He serves as medic to the Decepticon army, but most Decepticons prefer to suffer in silence rather than allow Scalpel to work on them.
Dune Runner
An autobot that roams the deserts and mountains
Back on Cybertron, most rolling surfaces are flat, lightly textured roads — perfect for speed and traction. It wasn’t until he got to Earth that Dune Runner experienced anything like […]. He can’t say he enjoyed the new vehicle mode, but he appreciates that it lets him patrol the deserts and mountains where many Decepticons have taken to hiding.
Up to this point a rumored total of 40 has been touted, however a new Variety articles ups that to a good 60 after speaking with TF2 VFX lead Scott Farrar. The characters will also see much more interaction and have human like properties such as sweating.
“Michael took the production value up many, many notches,” [ILM’s lead VFX supervisor for TF2 Scott Farrar] says. “Just the backgrounds alone are huge. It’s a combination of ‘Apocalypse Now’ and ‘Ben-Hur,’ in regards to fantastic backgrounds and the unbelievable sets we worked at around the world.”
Everyone involved in “Revenge of the Fallen” is keeping the details under wraps, but Farrar says there are some 60 robot characters, and they play in settings around the world. Some, like refineries at night, were chosen to boost the visual drama and show off the scale of the giant ‘bots.
What’s more, this time the Transformers will interact much more with the world around them. Farrar highlights “the splashes and the hits and the fighting on dirt or moving, banging into trees,” explaining, “Things splinter and break, they spit, they outgas, they sweat, they snort.”
One new challenge is that several sequences will be shown in Imax format, approximately 16 times larger than 35mm, which means the CG work must be finished at much higher resolution. At that scale, it can take several days to render a final frame.
All this is on top of creating a new family of giant robots. “(Bay) had to learn a whole litany of new things by getting into this robot culture on the first film,” Farrar says. “I don’t think he’d ever worked on a film where he’d done so much directing of animated characters. So he’s really taken it to heart, and I think not everybody does, but he actually enjoys the process.”
