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More pictures of The Fallen toy February 9th, 2009

Still no images of the toy in its trans­formed alt mode, but a good look at all the fea­tures of the fig­ure in its robot mode. Once again these come via TF08. The poster resem­blance is much clearer now. Notice­able fea­tures also include a ‘burnt’ X on the top of the Fallen’s head, the red plas­tic parts are detach­able (pos­si­bly fire), claw like fea­tures for feet, a Decep­ti­con logo on its pelvis and eight fin­gered claws.

The folks over at TLAMB have sug­gested that the red plas­tic bits adorn­ing the neck and joint areas on the toy may be rep­re­sen­ta­tive of flames — this leads to the pos­si­bil­ity of Opti­mus Prime being smacked down (see the Super­bowl trailer) by none other than the Fallen as licks of flame can be seen on the edges of the char­ac­ter on the offense. Chances are how­ever that that robot has just been in a destruc­tive fight and the fire comes because of the dam­age taken.

Triple changing Soundwave and Jetfire video reviews February 9th, 2009

The triple chang­ing Sound­wave Voy­ager class toy rumored to be both a Cybertron­ian jet, Satel­lite and robot was reviewed a short while ago by Peaugh, I haven’t included it here before so now seemed a good a time as any, I’ve also attached a Jet­fire Leg­ends review at the end of this post.

The review Illus­trates the major­ity a num­ber of pos­si­ble con­fig­u­ra­tions and out­lines the mov­able parts whilst spec­u­lat­ing on the shape of the satel­lite and jet before exam­in­ing the robot fig­ure in greater detail:

Jet­fire Legends

The Fallen character and toy revealed February 7th, 2009

A toy enti­tled ‘The Fallen’ has sur­faced via Trans­form­ers in China, TF08. Its head matches the face seen on the Revenge of the Fallen poster and now con­firms that ‘The Fallen’ is indeed a char­ac­ter, rather than a ref­er­ence to a downed Mega­tron or Opti­mus Prime.

The third image shows a trans­for­ma­tion sheet, with an alt mode that looks like a strange jet. The char­ac­ter him­self looks spiky, evil and ancient.

Wheelie toy and robot mode February 7th, 2009

Wheels, or in this case ‘Wheelie’, spot­ted on set at the Smith­son­ian Aero­space museum has long been rumored as a remote con­trol truck — this toy pack­ag­ing proves it whilst show­ing us his robot mode. (Wall-E anyone?)

The back of pack char­ac­ter descrip­tion reveals him to be a Decep­ti­con spy, although only because he is incred­i­bly timid and afraid of them, sug­gest­ing a cute and per­suad­able side to him and an inevitable changeover to the Auto­bots (not an uncom­mon theme); the pack­ing states ‘Changes from Decep­ti­con to Autobot’

Via TF08

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Game Teaser February 5th, 2009

Activi­sion have today offi­cially released the first teaser trailer for the new Revenge of the Fallen video game, the spe­cific one shown in the video is for PS3. Note how the Decep­ti­con logo trans­forms into the Revenge of the Fallen poster at the end, it’s pretty cheesy, but con­firm­ing the links between the poster and the Decep­ti­con icon that were high­lighted when the image was first released. There is no focus on any rec­og­niz­able new char­ac­ters in the trailer, how­ever we do see a speed­ing Audi R8 jump and trans­form from the rear into a shape that matches the toy, and we very briefly see Starscream shoot towards a skinny blue char­ac­ter (pos­si­bly Arcee?) as the Auto­bot logo obscures the view. There is also a lovely Opti­mus Prime/Peter Cullen voice over.

View a higher qual­ity ver­sion at IGN.

Screen­shots

Audi

Starscream fir­ing at blue character

Offi­cial Screen­shots Gallery

via IGN

TLAMB also point out that the stray Decep­ti­con that Bum­ble­bee is fight­ing with appears to be an anti air­craft launch rocket sys­tem — very sim­i­lar to one seen on set at White Sands, New Mex­ico (images since removed).

Trans­form­ers Game Website

After a brief hia­tus the Trans­form­ers Game web­site is back up with a new design:

Transformers 2 Trailer, Download in HD February 1st, 2009

Update 3: 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 2: New Trans­form­ers 2 trailer leaked early (29th April 2009)

Update: A lot of peo­ple are reach­ing this page look­ing for the high def­i­n­i­tion ver­sion of the Trans­form­ers 2 trailer, thus I present to you two handy links:

Watch full Trans­form­ers 2 trailer in 1080p

(or 720p)

Orig­i­nal Post

The Super­bowl Trans­form­ers 2 teaser trailer, a lit­tle early:

Down­load the Super­bowl Trans­form­ers 2 Teaser Trailer

Sum­mary of the trailer

- Rav­age is the beast like crea­ture, match­ing leaked con­cept designs

–A very large trans­former emerg­ing through a bridge as Opti­mus Prime jumps on his head, match­ing the leaked Terex RH400 toy’s head and arms, rolling along on one giant wheel (EDIT: Two wheels, thanks Jef­frey). Looks like ONE of the con­struc­ti­cons that makes up the even big­ger Dev­as­ta­tor. He is also the char­ac­ter destroy­ing the heli­copters at Beth­le­hem Steel works.

View the toy images, View Beth­le­hem Film­ing Report and Images. The explod­ing bridge scenes were filmed in Long Beach — View video footage (and more footage, includ­ing an aer­ial angle).

- Opti­mus Prime gets smacked in the face by an unknown entity

- The Audi R8 robot comes crash­ing through a win­dow before turn­ing into its vehi­cle alt mode and dri­ving away

- As the Audi R8 dri­ves away you can see more Trans­form­ers com­ing into the screen in the top right, there is a hint of pink on the first one and it seems to be almost skat­ing, I am guess­ing this is Arcee, a third char­ac­ter is also seen briefly behind her. Screen­shots fur­ther down. The R8 has pre­vi­ously been seen with Arcee fol­low­ing in the Wal­mart footage, this is prob­a­bly an exten­sion of that scene.

- Shia gets con­fronted by what appears to be Starscream and then is held down by a large claw — the trailer implies this is also Starscream but the claw is very sim­i­lar to the one on the redesigned Mega­tron (Seen here). The claw also bears some strange mark­ings, sim­i­lar to those on the Voy­ager class toy pack­ages.

Screen­shots

Key Screen­shots

Rav­age

Audi R8 Robot Mode


Audi R8 Toy pictures

Arcee?

See the char­ac­ter in the top right? Click the image for a big­ger view.

Opti­mus Prime

Dev­as­ta­tor?

More likely to be just one of the con­struc­ti­cons that make up the even big­ger Devastator.

Toy Images | More Toy Images | Toy Details

Shia Con­fronted by Starscream

Looks like this was also filmed in Beth­le­hem, matches this scenery.

Shia pinned down by a large claw, pos­si­bly Megatron’s

Note the sym­bols in the background:

Triple Changer Soundwave January 31st, 2009

The front pack­ag­ing of the Deluxe Sound­wave toy has been released via Action Fig­ure, com­plete with a CG ren­der­ing of Soundwave’s face and a note that the toy will be a ‘triple changer’, basi­cally hav­ing two alt modes. This falls in line with the rumors of a Cybertron­ian Satel­lite alt-mode, the other being a jet:

More Twins shots, Megatron and Ironhide robot modes from the Game January 30th, 2009

More images of the Twins (Skids and Mud­flap) in their robot form as well as Mega­tron with new spiky hands and ‘track’ fea­tures as well as a shot of an altered Iron­hide robot mode. The game web­site has now been taken down and instead redi­rects to Activision.

The Twins

Mega­tron

Iron­hide

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