Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen teaser trailer

[LadyTevar]

"The Fallen" character is probably a red herring anyway.

What makes you think that?

You boys need to start picking up the Prequel Comics from IDW. As with the first movie, they are showing a lot of the background that probably won't make it into the movie.
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Prior to the Great War, Cybertron was being raided by aliens who had picked up on the AllSpark's energy signature. The same cycle that they make a major raid upon Cybertron, a curious object had been discovered by Prime's Scientists from a section of Cybertron 'nearly as old' as the AllSpark. As Megatron's Warriors fought off the raid, the object was moved to a 'safer place' for Megatron to examine it later. The object is engraved with a stylized Decepticon badge ... and reacted when Megatron touched it. Cue Spooky Music and the To Be Continued flashpage.

[Zablorg]

Okay, Arcee is pretty much confirmed as you can see maybe halfway into this video. Most of it consists of "whee we're filming woohoo!" and there's little actual footage, but it does have Sam and Mekaila riding a Pink Motorcycle. Two other motorcycles of similar make follow suit, which is interesting indeed.

They had better not make Arcee's character a huge piece of clockwork LAME. I can see so many ways of idiotic scriptwriting to ruin everything forever.

[SylasGaunt]

I do believe I saw a man wielding a minigun in that video.

[DarkSilver]

yeah, that was a older segment put out awhile back.....

We knew Arcee is in the movie, and she's three bikes in one robot (something like a duo-con from GenOne I'm guessing). I'm more concerned about the Wheelie toy I've seen pictures of for RotF.....

[VF5SS]

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Devastator is a giant troll.

Oh man, this is so bad. So very bad. Haha.

[Shroom Man 777]

That's ugly. I don't think that's how it's gonna look like.

[DarkSilver]

ugh...

dislike the Devestator design....looks far to much like a mechanized Troll from LotR...

[Zablorg]

That's ugly. I don't think that's how it's gonna look like.

Well, that's the toy art, so I'm guessing that's exactly what it's gonna look like.

Yeah, I don't exactly know what the concept artists were thinking when they did this. Why not just a standard humanoid form like in the cartoon?

[xerex]

I 've seen it said that they based the new Devastator on a Spoiler

giant gorilla

[FA Xerrik]

It looks like he's meant to be running and tilted slightly forward, so maybe the perspective is contributing a little to the illusion. That said, he certainly looks pretty top-heavy. I don't mind the design too much, but something about that big whopper head thing he's got going is a little jarring. It would be easier to gauge his appearance if they gave us a little context instead of that blueprint background.

[TheLostVikings]

It looks like he's meant to be running and tilted slightly forward, so maybe the perspective is contributing a little to the illusion. That said, he certainly looks pretty top-heavy. I don't mind the design too much, but something about that big whopper head thing he's got going is a little jarring. It would be easier to gauge his appearance if they gave us a little context instead of that blueprint background.

I second the "stupid perspective that makes him look like shit" notion, but with that out of the way I thinks he has the potential to look pretty bad ass as long as they show him from a non-retarded angle.

So apparently he is made up from seven constructicons, and not 6 like in the comics:
Torso = Excavator (aka Mr. Unicycle)
Left Leg = Bulldozer
Right Leg = Dump Truck
Left Arm = Crane
Right Arm = (Tractor like thing?)
(Head?) = Mixer

And I can't quite make out the top one, either it says back side, or back hoe. The silhouette is too generic for me to make out anything. Now if we could get a shot with a little less bayhem in it so we could see him properly.

[McC]

Cool bit of footage of the Autobots out for a drive. No robots; just a montage of the cars driving along roads, with the score in the background. Pretty nice little sequence.

[TheLostVikings]

Gah, double posted because I ran out of editing time
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I like how they dealt with the whole The Fallen being "covered in flames" ting.

[Anguirus]

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I didn't see Ratchet until the very, very end of that auto-clip montage. Wonder if he's an early casualty of "Decepticon shenanigans."

[neoolong]

The second teaser trailer for this got out. It's about 2 minutes long.

It's about what you'd expect, with additional explosions. Though the pyramids look to be a lot farther away from the city than they actually are.

[Spanky The Dolphin]

I'd say that's actually the genuine teaser trailer, while the previous thing was just a Super Bowl "spot".

A teaser of the teaser, really.

Has that been attached to any particular movie, like Friday the 13th, or is it just a leak?

[neoolong]

I don't know about this one in particular, but it's supposed to be attached to the front of Friday the 13th. So, it's probably from that.

[Zablorg]

Well, it seems that the aircraft carriers that were getting bombarded were actually getting smashed up by falling protoforms. Stategically atmo-entered protoforms, at that.

It wasn't obvious to me, okay?


EDIT: You know what would be awesome? The movie opening with a very closeup of a decepticon or something, picking up the crackly transmission, "...we live among it's people now, hiding in.... Optimus Prime, and I send this message to all.... We are here. We are waiting..."

[Admiral Valdemar]

JESUS CHRIST, IS SCORPONOK BACK?!

AWESOME!

[Spanky The Dolphin]

The additional Decepticons coming to Earth alongside the returning Starscream seems like it'd be a little less superfluous.

Plus dramatically it'd make more sense to show an Autobot receiving such a signal.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Well, it seems that the aircraft carriers that were getting bombarded were actually getting smashed up by falling protoforms. Stategically atmo-entered protoforms, at that.

It wasn't obvious to me, okay?

I'd have thought it was, but yes, the eerie imagery of the dead carrier is very nice and foreboding

EDIT: You know what would be awesome? The movie opening with a very closeup of a decepticon or something, picking up the crackly transmission, "...we live among it's people now, hiding in.... Optimus Prime, and I send this message to all.... We are here. We are waiting..."

I agree. Optimus may have basically signed his fate with that transmission by alerting others and giving Starscream's story weight. Revenge, with or without Megs, would be coming.

[DarkSilver]

looked like Skorponok is indeed back...we knew he didn't get killed in the first movie...

lots of explodey stuff...the scene with the sinking CVN was....chilling...

starting to look forward to it...and unicycle-con..

[Zablorg]

looked like Skorponok is indeed back...we knew he didn't get killed in the first movie...

lots of explodey stuff...the scene with the sinking CVN was....chilling...

starting to look forward to it...and unicycle-con..

you are... painful to my eyes... the blood seeps from the sockets and down my face... it's on the keyboard now... what a mess you've made...


Both of the teasers showed Optimus being headbutted, and a quick pause reveals that there appears to be grass behind him. This, and that we see Bumblebee battle-ready in an obviously urban environment makes me think this movie is going to have a relatively early fight scene, because most of the film is going to be set abroad. If we will recall, Frenzy was in Mikaela's bag when they were spending fifteen minutes stomping around the yard, so he knows the location of the Witwicky houshold, and thus the location of Sam the Destroyer, primary subject of revenge extracting.

[Admiral Valdemar]

Except, Frenzy bisected his head with his own blades. Unless he communicated this knowledge to Starscream, there's not much they can do other than go the Terminator route and check the Yellow Pages.

Which shouldn't be hard. How many Witwickys even exist?

[neoolong]

No real need to pull the Terminator systematic search. Barricade was able to track Sam's eBay account to him. Government databases would take care of the rest.