Revenge of the Fallen Best of the Worst?
Critics abuse has no affect on Fallen - In a report at Breitbart.com, it is stated that Transformers Revenge of the Fallen may be the worst reviewed movie ever to possibly reach $400 million in sales domestically. Read the full report here.
"To all the Transformers Fans, Thank you." M Bay
A message for you - Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Director Michael Bay took time out from his ridiculous schedule to post a message on his Shoot for the Edit website specifically for us Transformers Fans. Read it here.
Explosive Box Office Sales Lift ROTF
Revenge topples Potter by $15M Domestically - The reports are in and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen has earned $60.6 Million in domestic Box Office earnings on it's Wednesday opening, making it the highest grossing film for that day ever! Read the report by clicking here.
ROTF game Reviewed
Seibertron.com Exclusive! - Seibertron.com staff member Counterpunch received a package from Activision last Friday and spent the last few days reviewing the PS3 version of the highly anticipated game tie-in of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Check out everything Counterpunch has to say about the new game by clicking here.
Setup Pics from ROTF premiere
Showtime - Earlier today we received some exclusive pictures from the Seibertron.com Hollywood Insider. He sent us some pictures of the setup for the party for the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen premiere at the The Fox Theater in Westwood Village. Check out the pics here.
NEW! Real Devastator notified us that frenzy_rumble posted a video review of Transformers Revenge of The Fallen Supreme class Devastator. See it by clicking the links or right here. Part 1 Part 2 Part 3 Stay tuned to seibertron.com for all your Transformers related - Read More
With any massive production, like Transformers Revenge of the Fallen, there are bound to be some errors in the final product. According to MovieMistakes.com there are over 40, making it the most mistake ridden movie of 2009. With the film Angels & Demons pulling a distant second with 19 errors, its hard to justify the large amount of movie mishaps, but some of these seem to be more of personal point of view issue than an actual mistake. With some of them humorous and others just down - Read More
Seibertron.com members Justicity and Darren Snowball have reported that Supreme Class Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Devastator is now available for purchase at select Argos stores in the UK. Here's what Justicity had to share: We got him in stock at Argos Worthing, but the catalogue number hasn't been released yet so you can expect to see him available in Argos's all over England when the new catalogue comes out later this month. For all you UKers, you can go to the Argos website and - Read More
In a report posted on the official US Air Force Air Education and Training Command webpage, we get a look at how the everyday lives and support that the military gave for the filming of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen helped add to the realism of the film. The US Air Force members of Altus Airbase started off as consultants for the film, but soon became more than that: "Initially we were just there to kind of babysit the airplanes but then, before you know it, the director started - Read More
The fine folks over at Paperkrafts have done yet another amazing art piece, this time of the head of Transformers movieverse Optimus Prime, made completely of paper. This piece is listed as "Part 1" and we can expect to see the rest of Prime to be done over time. Paperkrafts also did this with movieverse Bumblebee a while back which we had reported on here. As always the format for these amazing designs are available for download but the folks at Paperkrafts want to remind you - Read More
Several members of Seibertron.com have reported seeing Leader Class Transformers Revenge of the Fallen figures at Costco wholesale stores. Only leader class Megatron is listed online, but both Optimus Prime and Megatron are available for purchase in stores. The leader class figures are available at the bulk retailer for a price point of $35.99, a $9.00 savings off the retail price for the figures. No word on whether any other leader class figures will be available for this price - Read More
For fans of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen's Devastator, who've been waiting eagerly to get your hands on the upcoming Supreme Class toy, your wait may not be much longer. Seibertron.com member Real Devastator has just posted some release date information for the combiner team for Singapore and Taiwan. Here's what he had to share: Toys R US Singapore posted the date of release for Supreme devastator on 27th July 09 http://www.toysrus.com.sg/inside/TF2-landing.htm Toys R US Taiwan - Read More
Seibertron.com member Real Devastator has posted image links to new Transformers Revenge of the Fallen merchandise that could be hitting store shelves in the near future. Tapping into the days of ole', it looks like Hasbro and Takara will be playing to the inner child in all of us while still drawing in today's kids with this new line. Badges, Ultimate key chains, insignia danglers, collectible coins and more will be available for Transformers fans - Read More
HK-TF member vansh posted images of something very interesting. The images are of what seems to be Transformers Revenge of The Fallen Arcee, but not of a toy we know of. the transformation is different along with the overall toy design. Could it be an early prototype for the deluxe version? Or could it be a test shot for the 3rd Arcee component? Or is it a legends or even FAB Arcee? Only time will give us these answers. Click here to see the original post with all images. Stay tuned - Read More
Seibertron.com member Rodimus Prime found an interesting article stating that Transformers Revenge of The Fallen has made $449 million worldwide! Paramount and DreamWorks' Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen is close to becoming the highest-grossing film of the year at the worldwide box office in less than two weeks in release. Through Tuesday, the film's global take was $448.4 million, says Variety. The current No. 1 title, Angels & Demons, which opened in mid-May, has grossed $469 - Read More
Seibertron.com has obtained images of several upcoming toy releases in the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen line. Also included are character bios. Wave 4 Deluxe Skids and Mudflap (Ice Cream Truck Version) AUTOBOT SKIDS and MUDFLAP have always been close, but this is a little ridiculous. Equipped with experimental combination technology, they use their newfound ability to help the other AUTOBOTS® hunt rogue DECEPTICONS® wherever they hide. Unfortunately, they have so much - Read More
Michael Bay's Blog has been updated, this time around it's an intriguing article that gives us insight on how Bay was able to use the Pyramids as his backdrop in Revenge of the Fallen. Here's what the article has to say; LOS ANGELES — Throughout history, great leaders have stood in marvel at the foot of the pyramids of Giza —Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Napoleon Bonaparte. Now it's Optimus Prime's turn. Moviegoers who helped Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen earn $200.1 - Read More
Much of the box-office smash hit Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen was filmed in New Mexico. Want to see where Optimus Prime met his match, where Shia LaBeouf was implanted with an alien brain probe, and where The Fallen returned to Earth? You can when you road trip through southern New Mexico to visit the filming locations for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Find out all the details at - Read More
The Film Yap has posted an interview with Scott Farrar the Visual Effects Supervisor for both Transformers (2007) and Transformers Revenge of The Fallen. With effects work on 38 films to his credit, you’d be hard-pressed to find a more seasoned effects man than Scott Farrar. After accepting an invitation to the set of “Star Wars,” Farrar saw the first motion control system in action. Inspired, he embarked on a career that would see him work on some of the most groundbreaking effects - Read More
Japanese artist Touma has been given the honour of creating exclusive Transformers Revenge of The Fallen art. As part of an exciting crossover project, Touma has been tapped to create interpretations of Autobots and Decepticons for a line of very-limited Transformers Revenge of the Fallen merchandise which includes, key covers, clear files (pencil boards?), and stickers. All of the product is Japan only and apparently hard to come by even over there. Also it sounds like additional Touma - Read More
Seibertron.com members Real Devastator and Robinson have let us know that the LA Times reported that Ramon Rodriguez might have a bigger role in the next Transformers Movie instalment. Rodriguez played the character of Sam's college room-mate "Leo Spitz". Read the article by clicking here. How big will "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" get? The movie was closing in on $400 million on Monday, a number that surprised even some of the people at Paramount Pictures. We've had tons of - Read More
A group called TechPedition sent a video crew over to the midnight showing of Revenge of the Fallen in my city. After much technical difficulties, they've finally posted their videos for the world to see. There are two separate videos, one before the film and one after. If you watch the post-movie video, you'll see yours truly advertising Seibertron.Com and babbling like a fool. Check out TechPedition's videos - Read More
The Los Angeles Times ran an article today which featured Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen as well spotlighting the past success of director Michael Bay. While such articles are appearing all over the country this week, this story contains some rather interesting data about "exit polls." Paramount's national exit polling revealed several notable facts. While the first "Transformers" film, released in 2007, skewed 60-40 toward men over women, the split in the new film was more even at 54% - Read More
Here's an update from one of Seibertron.com's sponsors, PastGenerationToys.com: We have the new Star Wars Saga Collection, GI Joe Movie: Rise of Cobra, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Transformers 2 - Revenge of the Fallen toys in-stock! We have also beefed up the Preorder section dramatically. Defiantly worth taking a look at the Closeout and Overstocks with 200+ items starting at $1.95! Featured Toy Lines 2009 Star Wars Sage - Read More
In a report at Breitbart.com, it is stated that Transformers Revenge of the Fallen may be the worst reviewed movie ever to possibly reach $400 million in sales domestically. It's been common knowledge that movie critics and mainstream movie goers don't always agree, but this difference could mark one of the biggest in movie history. Critics "forget what the goal of the movie was. The goal of the movie is to entertain and have fun," said Rob Moore, vice chairman of Paramount, which is - Read More
We at seibertron.com received an e-mail from none else than Josh Nizzi's mother! Yes the woman that gave birth to the artist that is responsible for Transformers Revenge of The Fallen Long Haul design has sent us an e-mail. We feel very honoured. Now she gave us a link to her son's homepage and the link to an interview with Josh. Read it by clicking here or right here on seibertron. ore than meets the eye? The motto of "Transformers," whose sequel, "Revenge of the Fallen," is opening at - Read More
Fender Bender found out about a new sale at ToysRus: All this week, Toys R Us will be having the following: $9.99 Deluxes $17.99 Voyagers $39.99 Leaders For the most part, it's the same, HOWEVER, if you buy $30 worth of Transformers, you get a $10 collectible gift card featuring Bumblebee on it! You will have to do the mathematics on your own to determine whether getting $10 back is better than 20% off, but buying two Voyagers for $35.98 and getting $10 back, thereby making them - Read More
San Francisco radio station's morning show, Sarah and Vinnie's Secret Show on Alice 97.3 KLLC-FM, interviews ILM animator Shawn Kelly. Shawn Kelly is an award winning animator known especially for the Bonecrusher skating on the highway scene in the first Transformers live action movie. In the interview Mr. Kelly discusses with the hosts Star Wars, and of course, Transformers Revenge of the Fallen animations. Of note is that he describes how they come up with the fight scenes and - Read More
Based on the initial weekend receipts, Yahoo Movies and BoxOfficeMojo.com are reporting that Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen took in over 201 million dollars in it's first five days, easily topping this week's Box Office. To put things in perspective, last week's champ, The Proposal, took in 18 million. According to the numbers, the Transformer's sequel brought in roughly $201,246,000 in this US since it's release at midnight on Tuesday night. Added with the current foreign totals, the - Read More
I just received the following message from BBTS. They're receiving a lot of new stuff right now, including the ROTF Devastator Set. Read the full list below: -------------- NEW PREORDERS: -------------- STAR TREK MOVIE FIGURES - NEW 3-3/4", 6", 12" We've just received info on the second wave of Star Trek movie figures. Preorders are now available for sets of figures in all three of the different sizes. There are more great characters as well as some creatures in these - Read More
Member ShGarland_1383 has found an article in Cinematical where Michael Bay responds to calls about racial stereotyping in Revenge of The Fallen: Among the criticisms leveled at Michael Bay's rock 'em, sock 'em Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are charges that two of Bay's secondary robot characters, Mudflap and Skids, promote offensive racial stereotypes. The director doesn't disagree -- he just doesn't see anything wrong with it. Lest you think that these critics are being - Read More
According to Variety.com, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen had another great day Friday. Here are some updated earnings numbers. Paramount-DreamWorks' action-sequel "Transformers: The Revenge of the Fallen" continued to dominate the box office Friday raking in $36.7 million and raising its running domestic cume to $125.9 million over three days. While "Revenge of the Fallen" is heading for a five-day worldwide B.O. record, box office observers have estimated that its domestic haul - Read More
TakaraTomy.co.jp- TakaraTomy has updated their official Transformers website with information about a new special edition Voyager Optimus Prime for the International Tokyo Toy Show 2009. Seibertron.com community member Real Devastator, the source of this information, states: "This version only on sale during the show. Remaining few number will be available at e hobby shop after the event. Takara website said this figure colour is "real life colour" and different from oversea - Read More
Does the new Transformers movie, Revenge of the Fallen, leave you wanting more and more Transformers toys? Check out what is soon to be available from TakaraTomy. The non-Constructicon Transformers are out in Japan, and we have a package image for you, as well as, new images from the TakaraTomy Transformers website. TakaraTomy also has updated their website with their EZ collection (legends class) showing the 7 Constructicons in their alt mode images, and when you mouse over the middle - Read More
Thursday, Kevin Lukis of Unicron.Com had the pleasure of being interviewed with Mark Ryan, the voice of Movie Bumblebee & Jetfire, on Minneapolis/St Paul talk radio. A slideshow, along with the interview audio, is available on YouTube - Read More
Special thanks to Seibertron.com member (and Target associate) bumble_bee_68 for alerting us to a Target sale which starts on this Sunday, 6/28. Here are the details he provided us. Starting this Sunday, June 28th, all TF: ROTF toys will be on sale Deluxe Class on sale for $8.99 Target Exclusive Combiners sets on sale for $27.99 - while supplies last. Plus all other TF: ROTF toys will be on sale as well! Don't forget to pick up the Power Coupons and save up to an additional 20% on - Read More
No sense in me adding to it, so here it is from the man himself: The 400 critics around the globe spoke. Then fans around the world spoke. Transformers made $60.6 million dollars in the United States for a total of around $100 million from the world on opening day! One of the biggest single days in movie history. [They] never seem to understand that I make movies for people to take a ride and escape. To all the Transformer Fans - Thank You Michael And from Seibertron.com, - Read More
Not that anyone should be surprised at this point, but the phenomenon that is Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen shows no signs of slowing down any time soon. With each passing day, the film seems more and more poised to cement its place as one of the greatest blockbusters of all time. Here is an excerpt of an article from Variety.com Paramount's "Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen" is on its way to scoring one of the top five-day openings of all time at the worldwide box office. The - Read More
Michael Bay's website has been updated, this time featuring an interview with the Wall Street Journal over topics involving Hasbro, Transformers, and the future of the 'trilogy'. Here's what went down... This coming weekend could make Hollywood history for Michael Bay, the movie director behind the big-budget epics “Armageddon” and “Pearl Harbor.” His latest release, the $200 million action-adventure movie “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen,” is poised to possibly become the - Read More
The Arker has released more box images, this time around it's a Revenge of the Fallen Box Set, entitled "Autobot Strike Mission". This set includes RotF Deluxe Breakaway, Movie 2007 Deluxe Longarm, a Battle-damaged RotF Deluxe Sideways, and RotF Deluxe Rampage. Breakaway, Longarm and Rampage are identical to their original releases. While Sideways seems to have 'battle-damage', the changes compared to his original release are minuscule. Galleries of these figures can be - Read More
Real Devastator posted a photo of TFC's new GOW 2 Transformers Revenge of The Fallen blaster for Optimus Prime. The image shows two of the weapon attached to Prime. One seems to have gray parts while the other is all black, we do not know which is the final version as both might be unfinished test shots. Stay tuned to seibertron.com for all your Transformers related - Read More
Everywhere you turn these days, there are reports of the sagging US auto industry. However, in part due to the popularity of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen and the Bumblebee character General Motors has been seeing incredible demand for its 2010 Chervrolet Camaro sports car. Here is an exceprt from a Bloomberg report. June 25 (Bloomberg) -- General Motors Corp., rushing to emerge from bankruptcy as a profitable automaker, can’t keep up with demand for the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro - Read More
Sources have tipped us off on a possible repaint or remold of Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Ratchet, entitled 'Alien Form Ratchet'. A listing on Play.com (UK) gives us insight on this possibility. The listing can be found here; Alien Form Ratchet Alien Form Ratchet would be based on the original mold, 2007 Movie Ratchet, who was also made to make a G1-deco styled Ratchet entitled, Rescue Ratchet, and a more movie-accurate, metallic finish, Premium Ratchet, an exclusive to Best Buy. - Read More
Seibertron.com member Robofreak has just let us know of his sighting of Jetfire from the Revenge of The Fallen toy line. A few other members in our sightings section have also reported finding the figure at retail. Scroll on down to see Robofreak's photo with his receipt as proof of his finding: Be sure to report you're findings in our Sightings Section right here on - Read More
Tim Wassberg from the Inside Reel dropped us a line to inform us of an interview they did with Shia LaBeouf, star of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Among other things, Shia speaks about the heavy military involvement, the numerous explosions and his perception of the franchise as the "Star Wars" of his - Read More
Want an autographed piece of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen memorabilia? Want to donate money to a charity? Why not combine both! Variety the Childrens Charity is auctioning off an autographed Transformers: revenge of the Fallen Movie poster on ebay, with all proceeds going to Variety the Children's Charity - Southern California. The Poster is autographed by Revenge of the Fallen stars: Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Tyrese Gibson, and Ramon Rodriguez, and comes with a Card of - Read More
According to an article on VH1, R2-D2 of Star Wars fame has a cameo in ROTF in one of the desert scenes. The article also mentions an allusion to the T-1000 from the Terminator movies. To find out more about these cameos, as well as some other fun facts about the film, check out the article - Read More
A new column in People's Daily Online discusses the way some Chinese people feel about the depiction of Shanghai in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. As most of you know by now, the first long scene in the film shows a battle in the Chinese city of Shanghai. In fact, this scene was not shot in China at all, but instead in Bethlehem, PA at the former Bethlehem Steel Plant. Originally, this scene had been billed as taking place in a "fictional Chinese city" but was changed later - Read More
Toy-world.com.hk- Toy-world.com posted scanned pages of Japanese toy magazine- Figure King. Two of these pages are dedicated to Transformers Revenge of the Fallen toys. You can see page 1 and page 2 for yourself by clicking on the links. Of special note, combined Leader Class Jet-Optimus images, Deluxe Ravage alternate mode, and the EZ (Legend class) Constructicons also showing the ability to combine with one another to form other robots/or vehicles. Thanks to Real Devastator for the - Read More
In a report done by Variety's Pamela McClintock, the one day earnings for Transformers Revenge of the Fallen is revealed. Factoring the $16 million that the hit sequel earned domestically, making it the largest Wednesday Midnight release ever, we find that the total one day earnings for the film put it at $60.6 million dollars, surpassing the previous record holder Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which earned $44.2 million on a Wednesday. Revenge of the Fallen also earned an - Read More
Just hours before the worldwide release of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen hit the theatres, Transformers movie scribes Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman chatted with i09.com about certain robots being anatomically correct and returning for the 3rd film. Although they couldn't remember the origins of Devastator's testicles. Orci thought that Bay had demanded "a big pair of testicles." But Kurtzman reminded him that it was actually co-writer Ehren Krueger's idea, when the three of them - Read More
Much like Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Jolt's first images in-package, we get our first images of Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Stalker Scorponok in-package from an Ebay auction. Stalker Scorponok is a repaint of the 2007 Movie Scorponok, who was packaged individually and also in a TRU Exclusive with 2007 Movie Blackout. For Seibertron.com's first look at RotF Stalker Scorponok, the gallery can be found linked through here For the link to the Ebay auction, proceed here. Stay - Read More
Seibertron.com member Real Devastator has informed of us an Ebay auction of Revenge of the Fallen Deluxe Jolt. This auctions gives us our first picture of Jolt in-package, and his package art work. For Seibertron's first look at Jolt, the link is here For the link to the Ebay auction, proceed here Stay tuned to Seibertron.com for your Revenge of the Fallen - Read More
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen enjoyed a spectacular debut on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, according to Fandango, the nation’s leading movie ticketing destination. Among the stats: • Last night Fandango sold out more than 2,000 midnight and late night/early morning show times nationwide. • Fandango has been selling more than 8 Transformers tickets per second during peak periods, prior to opening day. That number could rise today. • Transformers 2 currently - Read More
A new Burger King ad had appeared on YouTube. The promo features the Ice Cream truck twins (Skids and Mudflap) and everyone's favorite Camaro, Bumblebee. BK definitely seems to be going all out in their promotional tie-ins with Transformers: Revenge of the - Read More