A little care when posting these images… not everyone will appreciate that image being displayed like that.

As for the designs, I think people were setting themselves up for a world of hurt if they expected this to be a litteral translation from cell to celluloid.

These are supposed to be alien creatures, not of this world.

Why would they look like they were made here?

I'm reserving judgement on the story, but appearance wise I can completely understand the visual redesign… even if Megatron bares a slight link to General Grievous. :p

PLUS they're making the transformations to size and physically possible. Bumblebee's no longer a Beetle because VW didn't want their most famous vehicle be considered dangerous or something to that matter.

CrimsonGhostbuster
PLUS they're making the transformations to size and physically possible. Bumblebee's no longer a Beetle because VW didn't want their most famous vehicle be considered dangerous or something to that matter.

The unconfirmed story is VW has a thing about their cars being used for a form of warfare. I'm sure someone could explain it better.

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CrimsonGhostbuster
PLUS they're making the transformations to size and physically possible. Bumblebee's no longer a Beetle because VW didn't want their most famous vehicle be considered dangerous or something to that matter.

The unconfirmed story is VW has a thing about their cars being used for a form of warfare. I'm sure someone could explain it better.

Certainly ironic for a company that was originally created by the Nazis. :p

lol

Kingpin

CrimsonGhostbuster
PLUS they're making the transformations to size and physically possible. Bumblebee's no longer a Beetle because VW didn't want their most famous vehicle be considered dangerous or something to that matter.

The unconfirmed story is VW has a thing about their cars being used for a form of warfare. I'm sure someone could explain it better.

The truth is that VW didn't want their heritage (aka the VW Beetle) to be used or associated with war, warfare, or guns. Film makers were also up in the air about it because a VW Beetle is not very big so the robot would not be large either. They didn't want to deal with the resizing of physical matter: ie; Megatron transforms from a huge robot down to a gun a robot his size could wield in one hand, etc…) The old Physics “Matter can neither be created nor destroyed.”

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Gh0stbuster
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Thank you for your consideration, Gh0st.

The last few days have been full of more Transformers news and leaked pics.
Warning Spoiler Pics:

Here is a pic of Barricade:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/jamsem81402/441824576db674a51f.jpg

Here is a bigger pic of Barricade:
http://img208.imageshack.us/my.php?image=barricadembody1680x1050gm9.jpg

Here is concept art of Ratchet:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/jamsem81402/441824571197aa1587.jpg

Here are pics of the toy versions of Barricade, Bumblebee, brawl, and Skorponok that were on sale on Ebay:

Barricade:
http://img306.imageshack.us/img306/2924/6f811pc6.jpg
http://img336.imageshack.us/img336/4299/200612050305391jj3.jpg
http://img306.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612050305501bj2.jpg

Bumblebee:
http://img306.imageshack.us/my.php?image=96f61oe8.jpg
http://img306.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612050306141ip8.jpg
http://img306.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612050306061vi3.jpg

Brawl:
http://img306.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612050306331ds7.jpg
http://img336.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612050305231fn7.jpg

Skorponok:
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612060244181eg4.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612060244241zo4.jpg
http://img176.imageshack.us/my.php?image=200612060244121zx9.jpg

Here are newly rendered images of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, and Megatron:

http://img177.imageshack.us/my.php?image=44182457449ed94457fp6.jpg
http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4418245744c9236ee6ts6.jpg
http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4418245744c920ea6ejs7.jpg
http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=4418245744c91f26fbrs5.jpg

Here is a pic of a prototype toy of Jazz:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v393/jamsem81402/39471456731dd7a3d7.jpg

This a pic of a possible new poster(not sure if it's official or fan made):
http://img155.imageshack.us/my.php?image=movieposter2ly6sf5.jpg

Here is concept art of Optimus Prime crashing to earth in his Cybertronian mode/Protoform:
http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=livemovieprimelandsli6.jpg

And there is news that the new trailer should be out at the end of December around by the weekend of the 22nd of December. Possibly shown before the movies Rocky Balboa, or Night at the Museum.

Here is a link to the article at tformers.com:
http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=6526

Here is a link to the forum at Michael Bay's site:
http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1277

The new TF movie trailer will be available on the internet on Wednesday, December, 20.

Here are some links about the announcement of the new trailer:
http://www.canmag.com/news/4/3/6067

http://tformers.com/Transformers-Mov…6876/news.html

At the movie section on Yahoo.com, the trailer will be available to be viewed on the 20th. At the Transfomers movie section there is a countdown to the release of the trailer. Here is a link:
http://movies.yahoo.com/feature/tran…dFJX8AyABfVXcA

Producer Don Murphy and Director Michael Bay have made comments about the upcoming trailer:

Don Murphy's comments:
http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=6894

HEAD STOOGE: The Last Sunday Post of 06, Now On Saturday
Come gather ye Stooges and Hear a New Tale….

This will likely be the last posting of 2006. I am basically gonna miss Christmas this year, since Susan and I are knee deep in WHILE SHE WAS OUT, prepping in Vancouver for a February shoot. We hope to go right from that into FACES OF DEATH, and then who knows what next year will bring. (WE 3 ? Yes Please!) If it is a year like 2006, then please, more, more!

SHOOT-EM-UP is now tentatively scheduled for September 7, 2007. The film is amazing, exciting and funny as ****. Can’t wait to show you the new trailer.

The TRANSFORMERS trailer comes out December 20th online. I’m not going to hype it. If it doesn’t silence the haters, nothing will. The reality is that this film comes out July 4th, 2007, and the producers and the studio are already talking sequel. We know what we have is an exciting and amazing summer blockbuster.

The Don Murphy Message Board was set up by a fan of mine to discuss my movies. Soon, certainly by the new year, there will be a banner on top of the page advising that Transformers discussion should be moved to http://www.transformersmovie.com. I mean, you can post whatever you want wherever you want I guess…except there is no point anymore. The film is shot. The first director’s cut comes in next week. ILM is rendering the film. We all think that the film kicks ass. But, no matter what you post, it isn’t changing. All the polls in the world no longer make a difference. It seems to make more sense to discuss the movie on the movie site.

I know that from the beginning of this board, I have done my utmost best to make the fan base as happy as I possibly could. You guys demanded Cullen and despite resistance from some quarters he is in there. I feel Welker will hopefully come in there as well. There were things you wanted that frankly made no sense in a live action movie. And there were things I could not deliver, because I was only one voice among many. I think the board served its purpose and along the way created a community and for that I am most grateful.

I hope you’ll all have a great Holiday Season and be good to one another out there. Make the internet a little less hatefilled. Enjoy movies that look good. Enjoy your families and take care, and hang tight, Stooges, hang tight.

Michael Bay's comments he posted on his message board:
http://www.shootfortheedit.com/forum…pic.php?t=1302

It has been awhile since I've posted. Finished shooting end of Sept., on budget, just came under $300,000. I beat Pearl by a $100,000. I had a great time making this movie, the cast and crew were amazing.

Today I just finished the new teaser for Christmas and I think it's AWESOME! The trailer mixing Guru who does all the big summer movies turned to me and said with a little more ump - it was “****ing awesome”.

I think some of my films have had good teasers but this one is just makes a statement. It's hard edged to show we are not a silly “toy” movie. We show just hints of robots - and almost none of our epic shots are in this teaser, but the movie just looks big. I had a room full of 20 Tranformers adult geeks, and they all applauded at the end.

It comes out the 22nd - see it in the theater! Let me know what you think.

Michael Bay

Spoiler Warning:

Here is a updated pic of Scorponok:

http://img334.imageshack.us/my.php?i…onokbighz6.jpg

This pic looks like ILM has put some more finishing touches on the CGI on Scorponok. Looks pretty cool so far.