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Constructicon toy surfaces January 17th, 2009

ACToys board mem­ber ‘Star of Cybertron’ has posted shots of what looks like a new mem­ber of the Revenge of the Fallen toy fam­ily — a white, red and grey con­struc­tion vehicle.

It is strongly sug­gested that this is the first con­struc­ti­con toy we have seen and a con­stituent part of the enor­mous Dev­as­ta­tor. Note the robot head vis­i­ble in the final two shots. It still remains to be seen whether a com­bined 7-robot Dev­as­ta­tor will appear in the movie.

A pos­si­ble alt mode for this toy:

Ultimate Bumblebee, Voice Changer helmets, High priced Combiner January 17th, 2009

Voice Chang­ers

Red Mer­cury have listed two new Voice changer hel­mets for Trans­form­ers: Revenge of the Fallen. The Opti­mus Prime model has been updated with new sound effects, voice clips and bat­tle dam­age dec­o­ra­tion. The sec­ond is a Bum­ble­bee hel­met (no images yet):

Ulti­mate Bumblebee

Red Mer­cury also have a pre-order page for the new Ulti­mate Bum­ble­bee: the flip down mask has been remolded, the paint work is more accu­rate and there is also a new arm weapon:

Bumblebee Ultimate Toy

High priced Combiner

TFW2005 has found one more DCPI listing:

087–06-0292 TRA Dri­ver MV2 Human Driver

And have also revealed the pri­ce­points for the two com­biner listings:

087–06-0146 TF MV2 Com­bin­ers = $29.99
087–06-0294 TRA Com­biner TF MV2 = $99.99

So, the Supe­rion and Briti­cus Max­imus sets are likely the $29.99 list­ing, while the $99.99 list­ing could be some­thing else. Maybe some­thing… ‘devestating’!

Hat tip to Seib­ertron.

Superion toy shows up, don’t get too excited January 15th, 2009

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.

Sideswipe toy in full January 10th, 2009

From the vehi­cle based on the GM Cen­ten­nial, this is the first full pic­ture of ‘Side­swipe’ via TF08:

Ransack and Depthcharge toy shots January 10th, 2009

Updated, higher qual­ity toy shots of the Biplane and Gun boat, named Ran­sack and Depthcharge respec­tively. These pic­tures come thanks to The-Arker:

More ROTF toy images: Biplane and boat January 8th, 2009

The-Arker have returned with new card shots of two more Revenge of the Fallen toys — their alt modes being a biplane and a gun boat respec­tively, despite being a lit­tle bit blurry. Once again these are unlikely to appear in the movie.

The-Arker have also posted new shots of the Jolt FAB toy’s packaging:

Would you be inter­ested in more Trans­form­ers toy news? At the moment I am restrict­ing the news to ROTF related devel­op­ments with an aim to stay on the topic of the movie. What do you guys think?

New Transformer Toys, do any reveal movie secrets? January 4th, 2009

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…

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