nbetwo at Stop Sec­tor Seven has posted images of the Ice Cream Truck, Opti­mus Prime and oth­ers at an unknown Cal­i­forn­ian Air Base. This gives us one of the best Ice Cream truck images so far, it’s in focus at least:

Philly­Film­Girl is back with a new video from the Philadel­phia film­ing ear­lier this year., show­ing the Sat­urn speed­ing past with some­body hand­ing out the right hand pas­sen­ger window:

X17Online have sniped some pho­tos of Shia LaBoeuf and Megan Fox on set, clearly show­ing Shia’s ban­daged left hand. Under the inglo­ri­ous ban­ner “Megan Fox adjusts her boobs”, this unhelp­ful arti­cle pro­vides no men­tion of a loca­tion or date.

Get­todeath, the fel­low that posted the pic­tures from San Pedro, has sent a video of the mys­te­ri­ous Ice Cream truck in action to TLAMB, which I have included below:

Fol­low­ing Shia’s injury, and Michael Bay’s com­ments that the pro­duc­tion of Revenge of the Fallen would not be affected by the inci­dent, the Trans­form­ers 2 first pro­duc­tion unit has been put on a four week hia­tus to allow Shia to recover, accord­ing TFW2005.

There have also been somre reports that Shia needs to have his lit­tle fin­ger ampu­tated — these are unfounded.

Shia LaBoeuf’s acci­dent has led to quick resched­ul­ing whilst the crew await Shia’s recov­ery. How­ever, as time now ticks on it seems appar­ent that pro­duc­tion can­not wait for a full recov­ery — either because they will be put behind or LaBoeuf’s injuries will take too long to heal. Michael Bay will be work­ing these injuries into the sto­ry­line, to facil­i­tate the movie mak­ing process.

It is also good news that Shia was not drunk. We can restore our respect for him.

“You’re gonna see — that’s gonna go away,” Bay said. “That’s fresh news… He was not drunk. He was drink­ing hours and hours before.”
Shortly before 2:30 AM, another dri­ver ran a red light, accord­ing to author­i­ties who con­firmed LaBeouf is now not being inves­ti­gated for caus­ing the crash.

“I spoke to him yes­ter­day in the hos­pi­tal,” Bay said. “His two fin­gers are pretty mashed, but we’re fig­ur­ing out a way to shoot around it, kind of write it in the story.”

“We had a lit­tle heart to heart the week before when he bought a brand new motor­cy­cle and I [said] ‘Dude! You can­not ride that motor­cy­cle! If you crash, you put 1,500 peo­ple out of work,’” the direc­tor recounted. “He said, ‘Ok, I won’t ride it, I won’t ride it, I’ll just drive my truck.’”

“The kid really has his head together and you know, he’s only 22,” Bay said. “He’s doing a great job on this movie. He’s really matured since the last one and I love work­ing with him.”

— Access Hol­ly­wood.

Thanks Leroy!

An anony­mous source has sent in pic­tures from the lat­est film shoot at the Long Beach docks in Cal­i­for­nia to Seib­ertron. Once again, the set and deco match those seen in the Beth­le­hem shoot — imply­ing that these scenes will all be merged together somehow.

The images show us Opti­mus Prime in action, the new Audi R8 and what looks like the rumored Chevy Stingray. Mil­i­tary trucks and the ice cream truck are also on-hand and it all ends with a tasty explo­sion amongst some bar­rels — cue CG.

In an inter­view with MTV con­cern­ing the Trans­form­ers 2 pre­quel comic, pub­lisher IDW con­firmed that they would be pro­vid­ing a wealth of back­ground infor­ma­tion on the new main vil­lain, The Fallen.

“[We’re going to] explore the back­ground of The Fallen — the main vil­lain of the movie — as well as expand on the ‘Reign of Starscream’ story that we’re doing and tie every­thing in to what this next movie is going to be,” explained writer Chris Mowry, who part­ners on the book with artist Alex Milne. “The next movie starts out with just tons of action and there’s obvi­ously going to be a lot of ques­tions, so we’re hop­ing to answer some of those beforehand.”

[…]

“Des­tiny” will estab­lish much of the sec­ond before fans are intro­duced to an increas­ingly com­plex sto­ry­line with mul­ti­ple new robots. “We’re def­i­nitely tak­ing every char­ac­ter that we can from the sequel,” said Mowry. “So you’ll see some Sec­tor 7 involve­ment and how they devel­oped into a new group that will be intro­duced. The same thing with some of the new char­ac­ters, we’ll explain how they get to Earth. Because like I said, [the sequel] starts out with this giant bat­tle so peo­ple will be won­der­ing ‘Hey, where did that guy come from?’”

This is reit­er­ated in an inter­view with Simon Fur­man at CBR,

“I’ve never really had the chance to lay down the defin­i­tive story around [the 13] and what role they played in what came after them. Over the years for var­i­ous pub­lish­ers in var­i­ous pub­li­ca­tions, I’ve laid seeds of this group called The 13 and hinted about who some of them might be and how they play into the big­ger mythos. I think this is where we’re find­ing answers to all the big ques­tions. We’re work­ing very closely with Has­bro in this series so that what­ever we do in ‘The 13′ is very much tied in to the whole Trans­form­ers Uni­verse. They want to get all of their irons in the fire ready and in the right order for 2009, which is the 25th anniver­sary. We’re all work­ing hope­fully to get a defin­i­tive, cohe­sive Trans­form­ers Uni­verse in terms of the back story.”

The writer added that the threads intro­duced in “The 13″ will even­tu­ally pay­off in cur­rent series and plots and pos­si­bly else­where within the Trans­form­ers fam­ily of media. “It’s inter­est­ing that the sec­ond movie is using this char­ac­ter called the Fallen, which is a char­ac­ter that we cre­ated back in the Dreamwave days for this big series called ‘The Dark Ages’ which tapped into what had gone before. So these names and insti­tu­tions like The 13 are rolling on into dif­fer­ent incarnations.”

For those not in the know, from Wikipedia:

Although the Fallen’s ori­gins are only sug­gested in his comic book appear­ance, they would be fully explained in Dor­ling Kindersley’s Trans­form­ers: The Ulti­mate Guide. One of the orig­i­nal thir­teen Trans­form­ers cre­ated by Primus, the robot who would become the Fallen betrayed his cre­ator by sid­ing with Primus’s dark twin, the malev­o­lent planet-eater, Uni­cron. In the final bat­tle between Primus and Uni­cron, the Fallen fell vic­tim to the same fate as his mas­ter, sucked through a black hole into another dimen­sion. How­ever, while Uni­cron emerged into another uni­verse, the Fallen was not so for­tu­nate, find­ing him­self trapped in the “under­space” between dimensions.

The Fallen made his only appear­ance in the sec­ond vol­ume of Trans­form­ers: The War Within — the Dark Ages. Around 6.5 mil­lion years ago, a test of the exper­i­men­tal “space bridge” matter-transport sys­tem on Cybertron lib­er­ated the Fallen from his prison, and he mate­ri­alised on Cybertron, where he quickly recruited the Chaos Trin­ity, three mystically-inclined Decep­ti­cons — Blud­geon, Mind­wipe and Bugly — into his employ. Abduct­ing Trans­form­ers that he iden­ti­fied as pos­sess­ing “genetic poten­tial” within their sparks — Grim­lock, Blitzwing, Jet­fire and Hot Spot — the Fallen planned to use their ener­gies to awaken Primus from his self-imposed slum­ber, thereby alert­ing Uni­cron to his loca­tion, allow­ing the world-eater to renew hos­til­i­ties with his old enemy. An attack from com­bined Auto­bot and Decep­ti­con forces led by Shock­wave and Prowl dis­rupted his plans, and Primus him­self reached out and promptly destroyed the Fallen.