Of the new Trans­form­ers mer­chan­dise at Toy Fair 09 were a set of key chains, with their front designs pix­e­lated out to pre­vent reveal­ing the details of the char­ac­ters. Action Figs have posted a gallery of these with the notice­able Bum­ble­bee, Starscream etc — there are two notable odd­i­ties how­ever, one mys­te­ri­ous unnamed ‘New Char­ac­ter’ and a fig­ure labeled as Opti­mus Prime that doesn’t match his usual robot form. TFW also have a pair of sil­hou­ettes that match these two designs.

The source of these sil­hou­ettes states that the robot form of Opti­mus Prime is in com­bi­na­tion with Jet­fire, look­ing closely you can see the wing out­line, boost­ers and a canon — this com­bi­na­tion has pre­vi­ously been seen on the Leg­ends class toys, although that arrange­ment looks very different.

The unnamed char­ac­ter has claws and is grey, I’d hes­i­tate a guess at Megatron.

Opti­mus Prime

The toys

New char­ac­ter

TLAMB reader Nige spot­ted a new Revenge of the Fallen poster. This one is slightly less mys­te­ri­ous and a lot more cheesy, show­ing Shia and Megan run­ning through explo­sions against a pyra­mids back­drop, with Opti­mus Prime stand­ing behind it all. The most inter­est­ing aspect of the poster is the fig­ure of a Trans­former stand­ing atop of the cen­tral pyra­mid, chan­nel­ing a beam of light upwards, pre­sumed to be The Fallen.

With images via TF08, we have a lit­tle descrip­tion about the Skids char­ac­ter (Green Chevy Beat/Spark):

Because he is slightly less hyper­ac­tive than his brother MUDFLAP, AUTOBOT SKIDS has always thought of him­self as “the smart one.” He likes to point this out at every oppor­tu­nity. While MUDFLAP zips around like a maniac, AUTOBOT SKIDS prefers to impress his supe­ri­ors among the AUTOBOT high com­mand by behav­ing in a way he thinks of as mature, which usu­ally involves talk­ing non­stop about any­thing that occurs to him.

More pic­tures from the Toy Fair this week have revealed the pack­ag­ing for the Audi R8 toy, a CG face and a name… “Side­ways”, not Sideswipe — not at all confusing.

Source: TForm­ers

Now that our 1080p high res­o­lu­tion trailer is out on Yahoo, it’s time for 70 odd high res­o­lu­tion screen­shots that pick out the key parts of the trailer:

The Fallen

Arcee

Screen­shots

With the 2009 toy fair comes images of new Revenge of the Fallen toys. So far we have two ver­sions of the Dev­as­ta­tor toy (one being a sim­pli­fied FAB ver­sion), all SIX alt modes of the con­struc­ti­cons, names for each of them (Ram­page, Scav­enger, Scrap­per, High­tower, Long Haul, and Mix Mas­ter) and images of Rampage’s robot mode, Skids and Mud­flap robot modes and toys (these are the Chevy Beat and Chevy Trax). The gallery fur­ther down also includes boxes for some of the toys, show­ing CG ren­der­ings of their heads (e.g. Demol­isher, Ram­page Bull­dozer, Side­swipe, Skids, Mud­flaps). There is also a rac­ing game enti­tled ‘Dev­as­ta­tor Show­down’ which shows a ren­dered ver­sion of Dev­as­ta­tor try­ing to eat Skids.

Dev­as­ta­tor, Constructicons

Com­pare with con­cept rendering

High­tower (the crane), Long Haul (dump truck), Mix­mas­ter (cement mixer), Ram­page (bull­dozer), Demol­isher or Scav­enger (exca­va­tor, names seem to con­flict), Scrap­per (loader)

Skids and Mudflaps

Other toys

Sources

Trans­form­ers Club, TForm­ers, TFW2005, TheAllSpark

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Jalop­nik have posted a gallery of Bumblebee’s Camaro, Sideswipe’s Stingray and Skid’s Trax con­cept car all in a glo­ri­ous res­o­lu­tion. No close­ups of the Beat (to be renamed Spark for production).

The names were offi­cially con­firmed by GM ear­lier this week:

SIDESWIPE – a styl­ized Corvette vision con­cept vehi­cle
SKIDS and MUDFLAP – twin AUTOBOTS® based on Chevy’s Beat (a con­cept that will go into pro­duc­tion as the Chevy Spark in 2011) and Trax con­cepts
JOLT – an AUTOBOT-based on Chevy’s upcom­ing Volt extended-range elec­tric vehi­cle
BUMBLEBEE™, the heroic AUTOBOT based on Chevrolet’s Camaro con­cept from the first “Trans­form­ers” movie, returns with a high-performance atti­tude. Join­ing the vehi­cles on stage will be BUMBLEBEE in his AUTOBOT form, stand­ing almost 17 feet (5.2 meters) tall and 13 feet (4 meters) wide.

Stingray at the Auto Show

GM’s pre­sen­ta­tion at Auto Show

And the offi­cial unveil­ing of the Stingray con­cept car

A short video inter­view with GM Vice Pres­i­dent of Global Design, Ed Wel­burn show­ing some quick-zooming fade-in fade-out footage of the sta­tion­ary Auto­bots at the Chicago Auto show: