Movie Chronicles
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 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.
We’ve seen the legends class toys combine as well as rumors of a more complex combination via blacked out silhouettes on key chains and boxes. This is our first proper look, albeit a small one, at Jetfire and Optimus prime leader class toys combining to form “Power up” Optimus Prime:
TF08 gives us another look at some Revenge of the Fallen toys; this time its The Fallen in his box, complete with biography, as well as the leader class Jetfire toy.
For millennia, he has waited. Thousands of years have dragged by as he recruited proxies, one by one, to scour the cosmos for the artifact he required. Now he finds he must return to the primitive, flesh-slug infected planet on which his quest began. Nothing will stand in his way this time. If need be, he will scour the surface of this disgusting world clean in the fire of his rage, and search through the blasted rubble for that which he seeks.
UPDATE: Final Transformers 2 Trailer released in HD (30th April 2009)
See also our in depth analysis of the trailer with high quality screenshots of all the key scenes, robots and Megan Fox.
Update: New Transformers 2 trailer leaked early (29th April 2009)
The footage from the Las Vegas ShoWest 2009 is now online for all to see, published to MichaelBay.com. As previously described, the footage opens with Bumblebee and Sam discussing his leaving for college and the already infamous crying with washer fluid, before jumping into a montage of robot awesomeness. Typically this massive news appears on the weekend I am out in the country without internet access.
We get to see Devastator, Jetfire, Wheels, Chromia, Megatron smashing Optimus Prime across a field, The Fallen, Skids, Mudflaps, Sideswipe, possibly Blackout, Scalpel, Bumblebee and more.
The YouTube and Vimeo videos got pulled.
Jetfire being old and moaning at the boneyard
Note in this first image the painting — back in December we reported on a possible Fallen scoop that looked to all extents and purposes to be a fake (see bottom of this post) — the picture matches the one in the screenshot.
Original Fallen scoop images:
Blackout, the first active Decepticon in the first movie looks to now appear in Revenge of the Fallen, but the rotary blades are much smaller, some suggest this is instead Springer.
Images courtesy of The Cinema Source, showing Megatron hammering Optimus Prime, sending him airborne and flying across a field.
This one isn’t so clear but it appears to be Bumblebee and possibly Rampage dueling — judging by the flailing tracks.
The official Transformers 2 video game site has launched today, containing new screenshots, the video game trailer we have previously seen and an interesting set of concept art for the game. Meanwhile Kotaku have posted some additional screenshots of the PS3/360Wii and Nintendo DS versions of the game.
One area found on the new site that is completely new is a small gallery of concept art images. They show an inner city construction site being looked upon by Bumblebee and Bumblebee fighting the huge two wheeled excavator constructicon in Shanghai. There is also an interesting image showing a beam of light coming down from the sky — the picture is named ‘harvester’ — perhaps the Sun harvester mentioned in Defiance #4 and possibly seen in the kids coloring book.
Kotaku go into some depth about the game’s features, which I have surmised:
- Closely follows plot of movie
– No linear story, central hub from there you select missions to play
– Can play as Autobot or Decepticon and can choose your Transformer
– Missions are timed and completing them quickly can earn you Transformer upgrades
– You can climb up the sides of buildings
– The demo showed that Sideways (Audi R8) is a sniper robot, complete with rifle
– One button quick transformations are still in
– Each Transformer has a special ability when transformed
– Can attack an enemy by diving at them and transforming next to them
– Starscream has a hover ability
– Lame chauffeuring Shia mission
A selection of the more interesting screenshots as posted on Kotaku. Showing Starscream in flying battle above an aircraft carrier, Bumblebee attacking a purple character and Optimus Prime doing battle on the Wii:
1600x1280 resolution wallpaper downloads:
We’ve previously seen the new Mixmaster in Alt Mode and very small in Robot Mode. Now we have the final piece of the puzzle — Mixmaster in his glorious robot mode courtesy of TF08:
These took a short while coming but we have some at last! Alright — we have Ravage, Starscream, The Fallen, The Twins, Megatron, Ironhide, Ratchet and the most awesome looking Sideswipe!
