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News Credits: 129 · Sun May 31, 2009 1:59 am

Botcon attendees were treated to a very special preview of Transformers Revenge of the Fallen by Director Michael Bay. The footage was not complete graphics wise but featured some MAJOR SPOILERS!!!

Warning. Do not read on if you want to avoid spoilers.

The footage started with John Turturro and Sam's roomate in the middle of a construction zone looking on to a group of construction vehicles surround them. The constructicons were revealed when Mixmasters Decepticon symbol is shown and Scavenger begins to transform. At the same time the other constructicons move closer to form Devastator!!!

Scavenger literally forces all the other constructicons into the gestalt ala Scorpion in Mortal Kombat. Tuturro then runs with Sam's roomate when the scene cuts to Sam and Mikaela running from Rampage.

Rampage begins chasing Sam's father when Sam jumps in front of him to draw his attention. Sam then saya "Wait, it's not them you want. It's this, the MATRIX! He then holds up an item and continues to coax Rampage when Bumblebee arrives. The battle begins.

Rampage and Bumblebee fight ferociously with Bumblebee getting the better of Rampage when Ravage enters the fray. Using his hip cannons he blasts Bee and jumps on his back. Bumblebee then forces Rampage to the ground when Rampage lunges for Sam and takes Ravage and terrors him apart piece by piece.

Bumblebee then rips Rampages arm off and decapitates him.

More info to come.

Sun May 31, 2009 3:21 am

Prime Dies!

Sun May 31, 2009 3:52 am

Party at Paramount: $50.00.

Up close, rope-less photo opportunities with IronHide and Ratchet vehicles: $0.00, awesome.

Live performances by Stan Bush, Vince DiCola and band: $0.00, very cool.

Picture with Wierd Al: $0.00, nice.

ROTF Preview: $0.00, it was very sweet. Got to see what I wanted to see the most, the full combine sequence.

Tour of Paramount backlots: $0.00, neat.

And I think someone (who shall remain nameless, but not me) was so excited from seeing the preview, he forgot to go to the restroom before getting on the bus leaving Paramount and said "it's gonna be a long trip."...priceless. :mrgreen:

Sun May 31, 2009 4:12 am

Counterpunch wrote:Scavenger literally forces all the other constructicons into the gestalt ala Scorpion in Mortal Kombat.

WTF does that mean, does he pull off his face and set them on fire?

Sun May 31, 2009 4:22 am

Evil_the_Nub wrote:
Counterpunch wrote:Scavenger literally forces all the other constructicons into the gestalt ala Scorpion in Mortal Kombat.

WTF does that mean, does he pull off his face and set them on fire?

I don't think he did it with the legs, he might have done it with the arms (the sequence was kinda fast)...but definitely did it with the head (Mixmaster). He shot out several tentacles (like Scorpion with his stinger), and dragged Mixmaster to connect with him.

The legs he just shoves his end (the upper leg) into each limb, one at a time.

Sun May 31, 2009 5:00 am

Waitttt a minute....The Matrix is in this movie now? Was that the random thing Sam was holding in the trailer?

And I understand that bit about Devastator. He is shooting out those tendril things onto that pyramid in the trailer.

Sun May 31, 2009 5:22 am

Falkorich wrote:The legs he just shoves his end (the upper leg) into each limb, one at a time.

I just realized this might come across as being unimpressive...sorry...didn't get much sleep this weekend. :grin:

I'll try to rephase this part and hopefully convey better as to how cool it actually looked: Demolishor more like pile-drives his end with full force from really high up and slams it into the limb that is standing up as a leg already.

News Credits: 487 · Sun May 31, 2009 7:47 am

Wait a minute. How can Bumblebee beat Rampage when Devastator just combined, with Rampage forming the guy's left leg?

Sun May 31, 2009 8:21 am

neliz wrote:Prime Dies!

I said this months ago, and people said no way. Sounds like one more believer to me

News Credits: 3 · Sun May 31, 2009 8:28 am

Darth Bombshell, good question. Maybe they were different clips and that one with Rampage takes places after the Autobots are able to cause Devastator to split up?

News Credits: 487 · Sun May 31, 2009 8:31 am

Giant Purple Griffin wrote:Maybe they were different clips and that one with Rampage takes places after the Autobots are able to cause Devastator to split up?

Yeah, maybe. Except that the Autobots don't split Devastator up. The US navy does. And he doesn't split up, either. He gets...erm...blown up.

News Credits: 10 · Sun May 31, 2009 8:44 am

powersteamracing wrote:
neliz wrote:Prime Dies!

I said this months ago, and people said no way. Sounds like one more believer to me

SPOILER START

In the novelisation, Prime is killed by Megatron at the end of the forest scene. Sam brings him back to life with the Matrix of Leadership.

Darth Bombshell wrote:Wait a minute. How can Bumblebee beat Rampage when Devastator just combined, with Rampage forming the guy's left leg?

Demolisher dies in the Shanghai stuff at the start of the book but can be seen forming Devastator in the movie trailer.

SPOILER END

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 31, 2009 8:49 am

Why is Bumblebee such a bad ass? Come on, are any of the Movie Decepticons not weak? How can anyone feel a sense of urgency when we know Prime or Bumblebee can whoop them all. :-?

Sun May 31, 2009 9:28 am

ChrisR291 wrote: How can anyone feel a sense of urgency when we know Prime or Bumblebee can whoop them all.

No no no, BB is good for killing small appliances but prime needs jetpackjetfire to beat any con. he gets the sh*t kicked out of him by the other cons.

Sun May 31, 2009 10:01 am

Falkorich wrote:And I think someone (who shall remain nameless, but not me) was so excited from seeing the preview, he forgot to go to the restroom before getting on the bus leaving Paramount and said "it's gonna be a long trip."...priceless.

Hey if peeing your pants is cool then consider me Miles Davis :grin:

Sun May 31, 2009 10:27 am

Darth Bombshell wrote:Wait a minute. How can Bumblebee beat Rampage when Devastator just combined, with Rampage forming the guy's left leg?

The Rampage on Devastator is yellow. The Rampage fighting bumblebee is red according to the trailer. (2 bots)

Trikeboy wrote:
powersteamracing wrote:
neliz wrote:Prime Dies!

I said this months ago, and people said no way. Sounds like one more believer to me

SPOILER START

In the novelisation, Prime is killed by Megatron at the end of the forest scene. Sam brings him back to life with the Matrix of Leadership.

Darth Bombshell wrote:Wait a minute. How can Bumblebee beat Rampage when Devastator just combined, with Rampage forming the guy's left leg?

Demolisher dies in the Shanghai stuff at the start of the book but can be seen forming Devastator in the movie trailer.

SPOILER END

Demolisher is not what's on Devastator that Scavenger Demolisher as shown by trailer is white with red strips. Scavenger is red with white stripes.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 31, 2009 11:10 am

In the TV spot forms, pause at every frame during the Devastator transformation, you can see yellow tentacles/wires/claws qrapped around Mixmaster as he gets pulled up.

Just curious, is this that same scene? Or do we actually get to see Devastator TWICE?! The scene with Devastator in the TV Spot looked like it was in the Desert, especially when he starts sucking everything up.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 31, 2009 11:14 am

I think there's 2 Rampages. The one BB fights in the theatrical trailer is kinda red, while we se on Devastator it's yellow. Also rmember the exclusive 12-hour teaset sowed BB owning up on the Red Rampage.

Sun May 31, 2009 11:53 am

About Devastator:

I think the preview is the full sequence of that shown in the TV Spot. The angle showing Mixmaster being grabbed looks the same. But the preview scene seems to take place in a smaller construction quarry while the TV Spot seems to take place in a bigger area. But both are desert sandy area so maybe either unfinished CG work, since MB said CG (and sound) in the preview were not finished yet, or just different viewing angle. But man, I was in such shock watching and listening the sequence, it seems very fast and could have affected my judgement.

About Rampage:

In the trailer, while the foot chase Rampage was yellow, the actual fight sequence Rampage was redish (a little bit orange almost). The foot chase leads up to the fight scene. So the fight scene seems consistent with the preview. I don't recall seeing preview footage that ties directly to the S&M roof top jump so that yellow Rampage from the trailer might have been repainted by now. But yes, I seem to recall the preview combine sequence also had a yellow Rampage. Could be unfinished CG reason though.

Sun May 31, 2009 1:08 pm

YRQRM0 wrote:In the TV spot forms, pause at every frame during the Devastator transformation, you can see yellow tentacles/wires/claws qrapped around Mixmaster as he gets pulled up.

Just curious, is this that same scene? Or do we actually get to see Devastator TWICE?! The scene with Devastator in the TV Spot looked like it was in the Desert, especially when he starts sucking everything up.

I didn't see the tentacles in the TV spot, but I did notice something that seemed to be like a hand underneath Mixmaster that seemed to push him up toward Devastator. If the tentacles do grab hold of Mixmaster, maybe the "hand" underneath Mix aids the tentacles--the tentacles pull and the "hand" pushes...since I haven't seen the tentacles, I just assumed the "hand" pushed Mix up toward Devastator...

Sun May 31, 2009 1:37 pm

Okay, this has been bugging me for a while so I'm just going to it to anyone who knows the answer. Is Scavenger the same bot as Demolisher? The toy packages show 2 diffenent names between the single bot and the Devastor set, but they look the same. For anyone who knows, plz enlighten me (feel free to hide the answer to avoid spoiling for those who dont wanna be spoiled) Thanks.

Sun May 31, 2009 4:05 pm

Maybe they have spare constructicons in case one goes flat- I mean gets destroyed.

Sun May 31, 2009 4:50 pm

Hi, I just wanted to say that I Demolisher and scavenger are two different transformers. In my opinion Devastator is made up of different vehicles but is one mind. This is of course the opposite of the G1 cartoon. I own Demolisher RoTF and he looks very different than scavenger. I've read the book and any one still wondering should just read the first couple of chapters. Hope that helps!

News Credits: 22 · Sun May 31, 2009 5:07 pm

powersteamracing wrote:
neliz wrote:Prime Dies!

I said this months ago, and people said no way. Sounds like one more believer to me

But it's not true. He doesn't die.

News Credits: 1 · Sun May 31, 2009 6:24 pm

Falkorich wrote:About Devastator:

I think the preview is the full sequence of that shown in the TV Spot. The angle showing Mixmaster being grabbed looks the same. But the preview scene seems to take place in a smaller construction quarry while the TV Spot seems to take place in a bigger area. But both are desert sandy area so maybe either unfinished CG work, since MB said CG (and sound) in the preview were not finished yet, or just different viewing angle. But man, I was in such shock watching and listening the sequence, it seems very fast and could have affected my judgement.

About Rampage:

In the trailer, while the foot chase Rampage was yellow, the actual fight sequence Rampage was redish (a little bit orange almost). The foot chase leads up to the fight scene. So the fight scene seems consistent with the preview. I don't recall seeing preview footage that ties directly to the S&M roof top jump so that yellow Rampage from the trailer might have been repainted by now. But yes, I seem to recall the preview combine sequence also had a yellow Rampage. Could be unfinished CG reason though.

I thought the Rampage from the theatrical trailer when Sam and M. jump off the roof was Scrapper or soemone else. Rampage is the Redish one with th whps fighting BB in the trailer, seen right after BB puts down his battle mask. What I'm confused about is thare's no Red vehile in Devy, besides Scavenger, and the Rampage toy with whips is yellow.

Se 2:06 and 2:11 in this video and see the difference I'm talking about.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_1FzvCWo ... annel_page