Some more new Info
http://movies.ign.com/articles/896/896137p1.html
from the way they are talking if this information pans out then it looks like we were right about the movie being a segue to Unicron
New Transformers 2 related Info ::Spoiler possibly::
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16 years, 3 months ago
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16 years, 3 months ago
Mjollnir
Thats true. It always does. It always comes full circle like that.
Anyone collecting or reading the bridging comic series Wrath of Starscream? I'm sure everyone wants to know what he did after the first movie ended.
I know he retreated back to space. Most likely declared himself the new leader of the pack, and then went out in search of other Decepticons to follow him back to Earth so they can get into another seismic sumo wrestling match against the Autobots.
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16 years, 3 months ago
pffft! everyone knows they should just make two hours of the Dinobots stumbling around and being generally awesome. best film ever.
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16 years, 3 months ago
Adam BestlerLets just say. The first teaser trailer from the first film is a hint to where he went and where the battle continues.Mjollnir
Thats true. It always does. It always comes full circle like that.
Anyone collecting or reading the bridging comic series Wrath of Starscream? I'm sure everyone wants to know what he did after the first movie ended.
I know he retreated back to space. Most likely declared himself the new leader of the pack, and then went out in search of other Decepticons to follow him back to Earth so they can get into another seismic sumo wrestling match against the Autobots.
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15 years, 7 months ago
Article on the front page of the Life Section of the USA Today caught my attention (we get them at work to give to guests so I happen to catch small glimpses every once and awhile.):
::Spoilers Alert: Do not read past this point if you do not want to know::
Pounce for pounce, once sharp Decepticon
By Anthony Brenznican
USA TODAY
It’s always the quiet ones you need to fear.
Ninjas. Serial killers. Boba Fett. Gastrointestinal Functions.
In Transformers lore, the mechanical jaguar Ravage has been a villain favorite since the 1980’s for his stealthy tactics and deadly force. Ever since a four-legged mechanical beast prowled though the trailer for summer’s sequel, Revenge of the Fallen, fans have been awaiting more word about the feline-ish Decepticon. As more robots in the June 24 movie are revealed, Ravage comes into focus.
“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.”
This version of the cat already looks far different from the original, with a single glowing red eye and a swinging, mace-like tail, but his role will be similar to the 1980’s cartoon and the Hasbro toy – the ultimate spy.
Ravage often was dispatched to monitor the heroic Autobots and their human allies, reporting back to the Decepticons by transforming into a cassette tape and replaying his recordings through the larger robot master Soundwave, who switched into a Walkman-sized tape deck. (How a giant robot became a small piece of sound equipment was a comical hole in logic never fully explained.)
The cassette tape transformation is gone, of course; 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.
“They are still connected,” fellow screenwriter Roberto Orci of Soundwave and his pet. “But rather than trying to hold onto a notion as antiquated as an audiotape, which some members of out audience may have never laid eyes on, we wanted to go a new way.”
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.”
Ravage from the Trailer
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On the back page of the Life section (8D) they have some more.
It’s ‘Fallen’ in place
By Anthony Brenznican
USA TODAY
Michael Bay’s mechanical menagerie is growing.
The bombastic filmmaker has amassed an army of new robots for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, due out June 24, including many redesigned favorites from the original 1980’s incarnation.
“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.
Bay, who collects the Vanguard Award tonight at ShoWest, helps give us a peek at the new cast joining Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for another rock-‘em robo-brawl
Autobots (Good Guys)
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. The 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.”
New Recruits: Sideswipe, a candy-apple red Lamborghini in the original, joins the cast this time as General Motor’s silver Corvette Stingray concept car. Jolt is a new foot soldier played in four-wheel form by the Volt, a forthcoming Chevy hybrid plug-in. Two of GM’s other concept cars (the Trax and Beat) play the Twins, nicknamed Skids and Mudflap. “Some of the junior Transformers are just dumb,” Bay says with a laugh. “But it is great for kids because they’re like the Little Engine that Could. They’re (screwed)-ups, but they get really heroic at the end.”
For the gals: Arcee is the only female and turns up as Megan Fox’s hot-pink motorcycle. Co-screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci says she was in an early draft of the first movie. “But we felt we needed to win the audience over before asking for suspension of disbelief: a feminine alien robot,” Kurtzman says.
Decepticons (Bad Guys)
The Title Character: The Fallen is an ancient robot, sort of the Transformers’ version of Lucifer. He’s one of the original robot aliens, and his defiance and arrogance led to his banishment into another dimension. The screenwriters say that The Fallen holds the key to life on both Earth and Cybertron, the Transformers’ home planet.
Other troublemakers: A smaller, but no less malevolent Decepticon is known as The Doctor – a spider-like droid that transforms into various implements of torture and has a not-so-nice encounter with star Shia LaBeouf. The there’s a giant one called Demolisher, and another tinier one with a sportier name of Wheelie.
Constructicons: These seven robots – Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload, and Mixmaster – transform into construction machinery, but also link up with one another to form one gigantic robot stomper named Devastator. “He’s made of vehicles designed to build, and he turns into 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 an uncharacteristic reaction out of the films 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.”
First look at The Doctor
::Spoilers Alert: Do not read past this point if you do not want to know::
Pounce for pounce, once sharp Decepticon
By Anthony Brenznican
USA TODAY
It’s always the quiet ones you need to fear.
Ninjas. Serial killers. Boba Fett. Gastrointestinal Functions.
In Transformers lore, the mechanical jaguar Ravage has been a villain favorite since the 1980’s for his stealthy tactics and deadly force. Ever since a four-legged mechanical beast prowled though the trailer for summer’s sequel, Revenge of the Fallen, fans have been awaiting more word about the feline-ish Decepticon. As more robots in the June 24 movie are revealed, Ravage comes into focus.
“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.”
This version of the cat already looks far different from the original, with a single glowing red eye and a swinging, mace-like tail, but his role will be similar to the 1980’s cartoon and the Hasbro toy – the ultimate spy.
Ravage often was dispatched to monitor the heroic Autobots and their human allies, reporting back to the Decepticons by transforming into a cassette tape and replaying his recordings through the larger robot master Soundwave, who switched into a Walkman-sized tape deck. (How a giant robot became a small piece of sound equipment was a comical hole in logic never fully explained.)
The cassette tape transformation is gone, of course; 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.
“They are still connected,” fellow screenwriter Roberto Orci of Soundwave and his pet. “But rather than trying to hold onto a notion as antiquated as an audiotape, which some members of out audience may have never laid eyes on, we wanted to go a new way.”
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.”
Ravage from the Trailer
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On the back page of the Life section (8D) they have some more.
It’s ‘Fallen’ in place
By Anthony Brenznican
USA TODAY
Michael Bay’s mechanical menagerie is growing.
The bombastic filmmaker has amassed an army of new robots for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, due out June 24, including many redesigned favorites from the original 1980’s incarnation.
“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.
Bay, who collects the Vanguard Award tonight at ShoWest, helps give us a peek at the new cast joining Optimus Prime and Bumblebee for another rock-‘em robo-brawl
Autobots (Good Guys)
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. The 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.”
New Recruits: Sideswipe, a candy-apple red Lamborghini in the original, joins the cast this time as General Motor’s silver Corvette Stingray concept car. Jolt is a new foot soldier played in four-wheel form by the Volt, a forthcoming Chevy hybrid plug-in. Two of GM’s other concept cars (the Trax and Beat) play the Twins, nicknamed Skids and Mudflap. “Some of the junior Transformers are just dumb,” Bay says with a laugh. “But it is great for kids because they’re like the Little Engine that Could. They’re (screwed)-ups, but they get really heroic at the end.”
For the gals: Arcee is the only female and turns up as Megan Fox’s hot-pink motorcycle. Co-screenwriters Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci says she was in an early draft of the first movie. “But we felt we needed to win the audience over before asking for suspension of disbelief: a feminine alien robot,” Kurtzman says.
Decepticons (Bad Guys)
The Title Character: The Fallen is an ancient robot, sort of the Transformers’ version of Lucifer. He’s one of the original robot aliens, and his defiance and arrogance led to his banishment into another dimension. The screenwriters say that The Fallen holds the key to life on both Earth and Cybertron, the Transformers’ home planet.
Other troublemakers: A smaller, but no less malevolent Decepticon is known as The Doctor – a spider-like droid that transforms into various implements of torture and has a not-so-nice encounter with star Shia LaBeouf. The there’s a giant one called Demolisher, and another tinier one with a sportier name of Wheelie.
Constructicons: These seven robots – Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Longhaul, Rampage, Overload, and Mixmaster – transform into construction machinery, but also link up with one another to form one gigantic robot stomper named Devastator. “He’s made of vehicles designed to build, and he turns into 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 an uncharacteristic reaction out of the films 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.”
First look at The Doctor
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15 years, 7 months ago
I wish they would have kept ‘Soundwave’ as a micro-cassette recorder, or at least made him an MP3 player (for the sake of being “modern”), but a satellite dish? that's worse than what they did to ‘Bumblebee’ in the first movie! Dont' get me wrong, I like the “updated” versions, but as far as the nastalgia of it all…it's almost nonexistant, which (for us, children of the ‘80s) really sucks! IMHO. Plus! I really don’t like the fact that, they've basically turned a respectable franchise, into two “long-ass” car commercials!
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15 years, 7 months ago
Speaking of which, I seem to remember Hasbro making a Soundwave figure for the Asian market that was a working MP3 player yet looked like his Cassette player form from the original series. Ravage and Lazerbeak were working headphones.
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15 years, 7 months ago
rockstar232007;138428
Plus! I really don't like the fact that, they've basically turned a respectable franchise, into two “long-ass” car commercials!
*Sentiment double agreed with (*peter)…
*Now I wonder who Soundwave's “sponsor” will be? NASA? Dish Network?
*Cheers.
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15 years, 7 months ago
Adam Bestler;125766
He's like a female version of the Death Star.
brain hurt