Peaugh is back with an in depth review of the blue Chro­mia motorcycle:

eBay seller yayabeee has listed Scalpel on the auc­tion site with a host of new images detail­ing every aspect of the toy. Mean­while a video review of the toy has been posted by Peaugh detail­ing the trans­for­ma­tion from micro­scope to robot bug.

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Video Review

A batch of pro­duc­tion con­cepts have been leaked via TF08, reveal­ing some details about the Dev­as­ta­tor robot mode and toy. Also included are robot and alt mode shots of Jet­fire, Deluxe Mix­mas­ter and Deluxe Bar­ri­cade, a con­cept of how the Sam Witwicky fig­ure inter­acts with Human Alliance Bum­ble­bee and a Mega­tron Power Bot thrown in for good measure:

Bar­ri­cade

Jet­fire

Bum­ble­bee and Sam Witwicky

Mega­tron Power Bot

TF08 have posted some shots of the Voy­ager class Mega­tron toy:

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.

USA Today

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Rav­age and Soundwave

“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.”

Yahoo

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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.

TF08 have posted their sec­ond batch of images for the week, this time show­ing Skids and Mega­tron in their boxes, along­side the new blue motor­cy­cle char­ac­ter, ‘Chro­mia’.

The packet describes Chromia’s char­ac­ter as a female friend of Iron­hide (part­ners — aka a love inter­est) with sis­ters, pre­sum­ably two given the three dif­fer­ent bikes. This char­ac­ter pro­file matches the out­line of Chro­mia given on Wikipedia based on the first gen­er­a­tion ani­mated series in the episode, “The Search for Alpha Trion.”. There appears to be no men­tion of Chro­mia com­bin­ing with any other robot/toys to form what was thought would be Arcee.

Chro­mia is tough as nails, and always spoil­ing for a fight. She’s […] friends with Iron­hide for cen­turies, and their reunion on Earth […] one of the high points of the war for both of them. Now they […] side-by-side, hunt­ing and destroy­ing Decep­ti­cons. nei­ther of […] has ever been hap­pier. The two robots make great part­ners, and […] along with her sis­ters, are an invalu­able part of the […].

As seen in the trailer:

Aus­tralian forums OCTA have cap­tured new images of the leader class Jet­fire toy, one of the last remain­ing char­ac­ters for us to see in toy mode. The pack­ag­ing shows both robot mode and Black­bird alt mode, it also con­firms that the toy can com­bine with the leader class Opti­mus Prime.

His bio reads:

Jet­fire grew tired of war a long time ago. The reck­less ambi­tion of the Decep­ti­cons, and the sense­less vio­lence of their war sick­ened him, and so he left Cybertron to go into hid­ing. The form he even­tu­ally chose on Earth seemed appro­pri­ate for one who wished to remain unseen. He slum­bered in peace for years. Now, reawak­ened by the arrival of the war on Earth, he decides once again to enter the fight — this time on the side of the Auto­bots, and this to end it for good, what­ever the cost.

There is also another “Flight Mode” opti­mus prime toy that shows the com­bi­na­tion with Jetfire: