US Air Force Airmen become stars in Revenge of the Fallen

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

Furman and Guidi Team Up for Transformers Manga!

Seibertron.com member M3Gr1ml0ck has let us know of some interesting news on the comic book front: Simon Furman (his announcement) and Guido Guidi (his announcement) have announced that they are teaming up to produce a Japanese Transformers comic strip for the "TRANSFORMERS GENERATIONS 2009" series published in japan by Million Publishing. Click here to see a sample sketch featuring Mirage and Ironhide. The book is scheduled to be released on August - Read More

Michael Bay Blog Update: Shooting at the Pyramids of Giza

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

Stan Bush Electric Playground Interview

Our friend Stan Bush has informed us of a video interview he did that has been recently posted online. The interview was with Electric Playground and was filmed at Botcon '09 in Pasadena, California. Watch the video to find out what so many of us already know - Stan Bush is a true class act. For the best Transformers news coverage in the universe, keep your optics locked to - Read More

Interview with Transformers ROTF VSF Supervisor Scott Farrar!

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

The Complete Ark & The Allspark Almanac finished!

Jim Sorenson has updated his blog Disciples of Boltax with news of just finishing work on the two books Transformers: The Complete Ark and Transformers Animated: Allspark Almanac. These two books will be published by idw and are resource books with background information like character models on both The G1 Transformers cartoon show and animes and Transforemrs Animated respectively. He even posted links to pre-orders on amazon. The Complete Ark The Allspark Almanac In the shadow of - Read More

Ramon Rodriguez will have bigger role in Transformers3?

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

TechPedition.Com Interviewers ROTF Moviegoers

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

Josh Nizzi's story of how he got to work on Transformers ROTF

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

Radio Interview Of Transformers ROTF ILM Animator Shawn Kelly

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

Very Limited Edition All Hail Megatron #12 Print Revealed

Artist Casey Coller pays tribute to the legendary John Romita Sr. again, with another variant on the Spider-Man #50 cover that he has designed for All Hail Megatron #12, this one for the 2009 London Film and Comic-con. The first variant cover that he did featured "Megatron No More!" and was an Apocalypse Comics Exclusive that took inspiration from a classic John Romita Sr. Spider-Man cover. Casey has now revealed a second even more exclusive print set up in the very same manner, but - Read More

Michael Bay Defends Robo-Racial Stereotyping

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

Interview With Andy Schmidt, IDW Senior Editor--Spotlight Metroplex, And More

IDW Senior Editor Andy Schmidt makes his voice heard with an interview on comicbookresources.com. In the interview, Andy discusses his editing work with Star Trek, Transformers, and G.I. JOE., and his writing on three books to come, an adaptation of “Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan” with artist Chee Yang Ong; a children's book titled “G.I. Joe Combat Heroes: We are G.I. Joe” (Similar to the 'I Am Optimus Prime' book released earlier) with Diego Jourdan and Gaston Souto; and the - Read More

Mark Ryan Interviewed on MN Talk Radio

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

A Message from Transformers ROTF Director Michael Bay

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

Michael Bay Blog Update: Wall Street Journal Interview

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

Transformers ROTF Shia LaBeouf Interview

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

R2-D2 in ROTF

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

ROTF: Orci & Kurtzman talk "wrecking balls" & TF3

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

"The Touch - Sam's Theme" is up on iTunes!

"The Touch - Sam's Theme" is up on iTunes! http://itunes.apple.com/WebObjects/MZSt ... 9&s=143441 The music video of this song has gotten over 150,000 plays! A lot of people have been asking if the song is available on iTunes. Since Transformers 2 ROTF is just released, the timing is perfect! Praised as a world-class rock singer, Stan Bush is best known for his song "The Touch" featured in the Transformers Movie. An anthem for Transformers fans around the world, "The Touch" has - Read More