With images via TF08, we have a lit­tle descrip­tion about the Skids char­ac­ter (Green Chevy Beat/Spark):

Because he is slightly less hyper­ac­tive than his brother MUDFLAP, AUTOBOT SKIDS has always thought of him­self as “the smart one.” He likes to point this out at every oppor­tu­nity. While MUDFLAP zips around like a maniac, AUTOBOT SKIDS prefers to impress his supe­ri­ors among the AUTOBOT high com­mand by behav­ing in a way he thinks of as mature, which usu­ally involves talk­ing non­stop about any­thing that occurs to him.

Peaugh is back, this time with a video review of The Fallen, show­cas­ing its Cybertron­ian Jet alt mode for the first time:

More pic­tures from the Toy Fair this week have revealed the pack­ag­ing for the Audi R8 toy, a CG face and a name… “Side­ways”, not Sideswipe — not at all confusing.

Source: TForm­ers

With the 2009 toy fair comes images of new Revenge of the Fallen toys. So far we have two ver­sions of the Dev­as­ta­tor toy (one being a sim­pli­fied FAB ver­sion), all SIX alt modes of the con­struc­ti­cons, names for each of them (Ram­page, Scav­enger, Scrap­per, High­tower, Long Haul, and Mix Mas­ter) and images of Rampage’s robot mode, Skids and Mud­flap robot modes and toys (these are the Chevy Beat and Chevy Trax). The gallery fur­ther down also includes boxes for some of the toys, show­ing CG ren­der­ings of their heads (e.g. Demol­isher, Ram­page Bull­dozer, Side­swipe, Skids, Mud­flaps). There is also a rac­ing game enti­tled ‘Dev­as­ta­tor Show­down’ which shows a ren­dered ver­sion of Dev­as­ta­tor try­ing to eat Skids.

Dev­as­ta­tor, Constructicons

Com­pare with con­cept rendering

High­tower (the crane), Long Haul (dump truck), Mix­mas­ter (cement mixer), Ram­page (bull­dozer), Demol­isher or Scav­enger (exca­va­tor, names seem to con­flict), Scrap­per (loader)

Skids and Mudflaps

Other toys

Sources

Trans­form­ers Club, TForm­ers, TFW2005, TheAllSpark

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A video review of the Mega­tron FAB toy, show­ing its tank alt mode — ‘he rolls, he shoots his cannon’:

Jolt FAB Video Review

TF08 have the scoop on yet another Trans­form­ers 2 toy, this time it’s the super-sweet Cen­ten­nial oth­er­wise known as Side­swipe. This is a deluxe class model, fea­tures to note include the auto­bot logo on his right shoul­der and scythe like pointy weapons/shielding above the arms.

This is the alt mode for the redesigned Mega­tron, a tank mode (as pre­vi­ously seen), which comes via TFW2005. The par­tic­u­lar class of this toy is up for debate, some believe it to be a Fast Action Bat­tler whilst oth­ers pre­fer to think it’s a deluxe model.

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.