Conebone69 at the SHH forums has a friend at a local the­ater that has seen the newest Trans­form­ers trailer, he gives this description:

I talked to my friend that works at a local the­ater over here and he told me the new T2 trailer was with an early screen­ing of the upcom­ing movie Fri­day the 13th! He said it went by very fast but he man­aged to catch a few things. Sup­pos­edly it starts out with Sam talk­ing to Mikaela about how they cant give up. He said it starts out slow but as it pro­gresses it gets alot faster. Then towards the mid­dle a series of clips are shown: a bunch of auto­bots jump­ing all over this huge decep­ti­con but he just picks them up and throws them off, Bum­ble­bee bat­tling with rav­age (im guess­ing it was rav­age because he said it looked like a lion), some trans­form­ers crash­ing out of a high build­ing and trans­form­ing in mid air. Then it ended with opti­mus prime talk­ing to another auto­bot. He said it didnt show much more then what was shown in the super­bowl spot but it was still epic. I cant wait for this trailer!

EDIT: Images removed at the request of Para­mount Pictures

In a post to the LS2 forums, mem­ber -=boM=- spoke about his expe­ri­ences as an extra at White Sands, New Mex­ico in Trans­form­ers 2. To prove he was there he has also pro­vided a large col­lec­tion of set images that show Side­swipe, Skids, Bum­ble­bee, Iron­hide, Opti­mus, Jolt, Ratchet, Shia and Megan Fox on set, tanks, sol­diers, build­ing ruins, a camel, anti air­craft mis­sile vehi­cles, etc. — I have included these after the break and they come via TForm­ers, the report comes via TLAMB.

The fol­low­ing report con­tains spoil­ers, be warned:

“Can’t wait…i’m in it as an extra. I am a Navy Seal doing a bat­tle scene against the Decep­ti­cons. I filmed out at White Sands and on Hol­lo­mans flight line. Filmed for 4 days and had a blast. Tons of pics on my Facebook.”

[…]

I had to chase a bunch of vil­lagers out of the area because the Decep­ti­cons were attack­ing, then had to pro­tect Opti­mus Prime’s body. There were a shit­load of us out there.

The food and cater­ing was awe­some. A lot of down­time. Just like a deployment.

I did an inter­view for the DVD. We will see if that is on it too. The asked me a bunch of ques­tions about the mil­i­tary. The auto­bots are behind me on top of a sand dune. I did a GM plug. They liked that.

Micheal Bay loves the mil­i­tary. I got to speak with him very briefly. He gets so angry on set at the actors but doesn’t dare yell or demean the mil­i­tary. It was a trip. He said some­thing to me like do you want a job as a DA (Direc­tors Assis­tant), I said hell yeah. He was get­ting pissed at his DA. His DA was like trust me you dont want this job.

I have two closeup shots if they do decide to put them in the movie. One was walk­ing with the cam­era on the tracks going along with me but at a slower pace. The cam­era was right on the side of my face fol­low­ing me but at a slower rate. There were two oth­ers behind me. The other close up was while I was defend­ing from a cor­ner of a build­ing on one knee. The boom cam­era went from the ground to over head of us all. I was up front in the scene. The cam­era came up to my face then began to ascend over the area. It was pretty cool.

Another scene was Opti­mus get­ting dropped off by a chi­nook. I had to run up to the area then stop as Opti­mus was get­ting dropped.

Another was with Josh and Tyrese when they argue with The Pres­i­dent on the flight­line. I am in the background.

As much time as I spent film­ing (9–10 hours a day for 4 days) I hope I am seen at least once. Hell I’ll be happy to be on teh DVD.

One of the images also reveals Megan Fox and pos­si­bly Josh Duhamel sit­ting next to a fallen man in a pool of blood, he’s not in mil­i­tary dress and in other images looks like Shia.
TLAMB enter­tain the idea that Revenge of ‘The Fallen’ may per­tain to the fallen Opti­mus Prime, Re: ‘pro­tect Opti­mus Prime’s body’, although they con­clude that this is unlikely, ‘Revenge’ is not very Opti­mus like.

TFW2005 forum mem­ber streetfield1 was at the open­ing of the Trans­form­ers UK Toy Fair and has reported back with some juicy gos­sip. Beward, MOVIE SPOILERS below:

– Dev­as­ta­tor will be around about 2 feet tall and built like a gorilla.
– The Human Alliance Bum­ble­bee that we have been see­ing recently will be the first release in his range.
– No toys of the Fallen at present.
– There will be new Robot Repli­cas of Iron­hide, Ratchet and Starscream.
– More infor­ma­tion on the RPM — Robot Pow­ered Machines — line. The cars are “Hot Wheels style” and are mainly Auto­bots, with their robot modes embossed on the bot­tom. The race­track has tracks all over the place, and instead of the cen­tral “moun­tain” you some­times see on these tracks, you’ve got Dev­as­ta­tor!
– There will be a radio con­trolled Opti­mus Prime truck with Peter Cullen sound­clips.
– The tank mode Mega­tron toy (which ver­sion is not spec­i­fied) was on dis­play, although nobody was avail­able to com­ment on whether or not he is in the film.

Some footage, fea­tur­ing ani­mat­ics, was also shown. If you do not want to be spoiled, look away now!

- Dev­as­ta­tor is… dev­as­tat­ing! The mix­ing drum in his chest becomes a mas­sive tur­bine grinder. It cre­ates a tur­bine effect, suck­ing every­thing in Devastator’s path up, and spit­ting it out of his back.
– Wheelie is effec­tively con­firmed as a remote con­trolled car, in line with other rumors we have heard recently.
– Legions of Decep­ti­con drones, resem­bling Frenzy, will cause car­nage in the Witwicky house­hold.
– Sam fights for his life on top of a car against Pre­tender Alice.
– Cap­tain Lennox also gets to see some seri­ous action against the Decep­ti­cons, with full heli­copter backup.

IGN sat down with TF2 writer Roberto Orci to try and get some scoops out of him, noth­ing major was revealed but it is good to see some of the rumors float­ing around being con­firmed by an offi­cial voice; Rav­age and a Pre­tender are in Revenge of the Fallen.

IGN: Last time we spoke, you revealed that Sound­wave was in the movie and hinted at the pos­si­bil­ity of Rav­age, so I’m won­der­ing if you can say any­thing more about what new char­ac­ters will be in Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen.
Orci: So I said Rav­age… maybe?

IGN: Pretty much, yeah.
Orci: [As if giv­ing a big reveal] Ravage!

IGN: [Laughs] Damn, I should have told you that you said Rav­age for sure!
Orci: Hmm… I’ll give you an exclu­sive here. There is a Pre­tender. I’m going to get killed for say­ing that.

IGN: Sto­ry­wise, how does the sequel com­pare to the first one?
Orci: It’s an extreme [jump] from the first one. The out­ra­geous, crazy humor is more out­ra­geous, but then so is the seri­ous side of it and so is the stakes of the Trans­form­ers plot and the seri­ous­ness with which some of their mythol­ogy is treated. So it kind of swings wildly between those two extremes, and that I think was one of the suc­cess­ful parts of the first movie. Again, some of the die hard fans will be equally annoyed at some of the things they see, but I can also say they will be more grat­i­fied than they were for the first one, to see how some of the Trans­form­ers story and how their bat­tle takes place in the sec­ond one.

IGN: There was a leaked image the other day of a Side­swipe toy. I don’t even know if Side­swipe is in the movie, since the toys some­times include extra char­ac­ters, but the look of this toy was more like the orig­i­nal Trans­form­ers than the first film. On the design side, are the Trans­form­ers look­ing the same in this one, or are there some tweaks?
Orci: Well, you know, your favorites – Opti­mus and Bum­ble­bee – look the same. Some of the new Trans­form­ers com­ing up, even the old Trans­form­ers that we had, have ben­e­fited from the fact that — I actu­ally heard this from ILM — because they had all the ren­der­ing and the stuff from the first movie, they were able to get much more spe­cific and artic­u­late with their range of motion and emo­tions in the sec­ond movie, which has a big­ger bud­get and it has all that research and devel­op­ment sunk into the orig­i­nal mod­els. So there’s going to be more artic­u­la­tion of the char­ac­ters facially, so I’m look­ing for­ward to see­ing that. I have not seen how far they’ve taken it.

Many are tout­ing the multi-part auto­bot Supe­rion toy as proof of a Devastator/Constructicon oppo­nent in Revenge of the Fallen, solely on the toy’s pack­age description:

The mighty union of the five AERIALBOTS, SUPERION thinks of lit­tle else besides destroy­ing any DECEPTICONS he encoun­ters, and pro­tect­ing any inno­cent bystanders nearby. The robots that com­bine to form this pow­er­ful war­rior are expe­ri­enced team­mates, work­ing in tan­dem to see that the AUTOBOTS emerge vic­to­ri­ous from the fire of THE ANCIENT WAR.

Sil­ver­bolt — Aeri­al­bots leader
Aira­zor — Small but fierce
Fire­flight — Eas­ily dis­tracted day­dreamer
Sky­dive — Aer­ial strat­egy expert
Air Raid — Reck­less divebomber

In actu­al­ity this toy is sim­ply a resprayed Trans­form­ers: Ener­gon toy. It has not been redesigned to match the ROTF robot theme, and is prac­ti­cally the same as its out­ing in 2006 — sug­gest­ing, instead of Supe­rion appear­ing in the movie, that Has­bro are cash­ing in on the ‘trans­form and com­bine’ theme preva­lent with Dev­as­ta­tor and pos­si­bly the twins and Arcee.

As hinted by Nel­son on Michael Bay’s Shoot for the Edit blog, Empire and USA Today do indeed have the first offi­cial pic­tures from Trans­form­ers 2 along with some juicy scoops and rumor con­fir­ma­tions — SPOILERS herein: Dev­as­ta­tor con­firmed. Dev­as­ta­tor made up of mul­ti­ple robots con­firmed. Sound­wave con­firmed. Jet­fire crossover confirmed.

USA Today

Arti­cle 1: LaBoeuf, Fox Really under fire in Trans­form­ers 2

Juicy spoil­ers and plot synopsis…

This time, the story finds Sam and Mikaela under attack by the evil Decep­ti­cons because of some­thing Sam has learned about the ori­gins of the Trans­form­ers and their ancient his­tory on Earth.

To acquire this knowl­edge, the invad­ing Decep­ti­cons need to cap­ture Sam instead of kill him. Mean­while, the U.S. mil­i­tary and an inter­na­tional coali­tion has united with the good-guy Auto­bots to fight back the vil­lains’ attack.

Some of the most impor­tant new­com­ers are in the robot cast: Decep­ti­cons Sound­wave, a fear­some com­mu­ni­ca­tions expert, and Dev­as­ta­tor, whose arms and legs are built out of other Trans­form­ers. And on the Auto­bots’ side is Jet­fire, a vil­lain whose age and broken-down phys­i­cal­ity leads him to help the Auto­bots [see scratched out decep­ti­con logo on Jet­fire].

Arti­cle 2: ‘Trans­form­ers’ breaks out the big guns for sequel

The U.S. Depart­ment of Defense gave its offi­cial stamp of approval to the Michael Bay-directed film, not only allow­ing pro­duc­tion amid the pris­tine dunes of the Army’s New Mex­ico mis­sile range, but also let­ting film­mak­ers fol­low jets and fighter planes through the sky from nearby Hol­lo­man Air Force Base. More scenes were shot on the Navy’s air­craft car­rier USS John C. Sten­nis, and Marines fill the ranks of the strike team bat­tling the invad­ing Transformers.

Among the equip­ment the movie is using in this desert sequence alone: two A-10 Thun­der­bolt II “Warthog” tank-killing jets; six F-16 Fight­ing Fal­cons; 10 armored Humvees; the Army’s Golden Knights para­chute team; two Abrams tanks; two Bradley tanks; two missile-launcher vehi­cles; two armored per­son­nel car­ri­ers; and a quarter-mile of the mis­sile test­ing range, cleared of unex­ploded ord­nance and built into an Egypt­ian town and tem­ple. (Signs warn not to cross a perime­ter just over the gyp­sum dunes, because live bombs could be hid­den in the sand.)

The final bat­tle the mil­i­tary is help­ing Bay cre­ate is sup­posed to be an enor­mous fire­fight in Egypt, but much of it is being shot in the White Sands dunes in a town built over the roughly quarter-mile cleared span.

Empire

Spoil­ers from the Empire arti­cle pro­vided cour­tesy of Alien­bot:

- Bay and LaBeouf con­firm the Fallen is a sep­a­rate char­ac­ter.
– Egypt­ian hiero­glyph­ics …turn out to be depic­tions of Trans­form­ers who vis­ited Earth.
– Bay claims Mega­tron is not com­ing back and the tank is just a new toy.
– Around 40 robots.
– Bud­get is $200 mil­lion.
– Ramon Rodriguez is the one hold­ing on for dear life to a pole while cars are flung.
– Dev­as­ta­tor appears at the pyra­mid, he’s prob­a­bly 50 feet tall because that’s the height of the cam­era crane they used on location.

Note the hand injury in this image — prov­ing it has been worked into the movie.

Pos­si­ble Fallen images

With Fallen now cited as a sep­a­rate char­ac­ter in ‘Revenge of the Fallen’, it’s a good time to point out some mys­te­ri­ous shots found on Lin­ing up TV, which claims to have on set images of The Fallen. Behind an old pic­ture? Doesn’t seem to fit inline with the Egypt­ian plot arc we are see­ing, I’ll clas­sify as fake for now.

Hello all, hope every­one had a great Christ­mas and New Years, sorry for the lack of updates dur­ing the fes­tive sea­son, things got a lit­tle bit hec­tic. In the mean time it seems that the world of Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen has exploded with rumors, names and pic­tures — offi­cially and unof­fi­cially, best to start with the upcom­ing toys, amongst other news, which will be along shortly in the next post.

Jolt & Megatron

Jolt, the recently revealed name of the Chevy Volt, is back with new close up shots of the ‘Fast Action Bat­tler’ via The Arker, along with some close up shots of the Megatron/Tank.

Jet­fire merged with Opti­mus Prime

Pic­tures of the Leg­ends Opti­mus Prime and Jet­fire toys merged together have been posted on TF08 and more recently TFW2005.

Inter­est­ingly the close up shots of the Jet­fire toy show a Decep­ti­con logo that has been scratched out. The toy has already been con­firmed as a Decep­ti­con, but this loosely sug­gests some sort of team changeover in the movie.

Roll­bar

TF08 have posted shots of the ‘Roll­bar’ toy, now with a con­firmed name. It is unlikely that this vehi­cle shall appear in the movie though.

Knock Out

Seib­ertron posted the scoop on this one, a motor­cy­cle shaped toy with the name Knock Out — could this be a con­stituent part of Arcee? It’s green col­or­ing sug­gests oth­er­wise, it’s unlikely Knock Out will appear in the movie.

“Though he is an incred­i­bly flashy and skilled fighter, KNOCK OUT is also des­per­ately inse­cure. He prac­tices awe­some com­bat maneu­vers con­stantly in pri­vate to be sure that the other AUTOBOTS will notice him on the bat­tle­field. His high­est ambi­tion is to be the leader of a spe­cial com­bat team, and to get the com­bi­na­tion retro­fit every­one has been talk­ing about.”

Dead End

Pic­tures of a red super­car auto­bot have been posted at ACToys, the name Dead End comes from a shot of the instruc­tion book­let that accom­pa­nies it. Another unlikely movie hope­ful — if this was X-men 3 I’m sure all these guys would get thrown into the mix at some point.

Leader Class Opti­mus Prime

TLAMB have also posted a pic­ture of the new Leg­ends Class Opti­mus Prime toy.

The pic­tures…

Dark Hori­zons have pointed out that on the upcom­ing release sched­ule for Ger­many a sec­ond Trans­form­ers sequel, which would be Trans­form­ers 3, has been sched­uled for a June 29th 2011 release date.