The Energon Pub

News Credits: 665 · Mon Sep 22, 2008 8:33 am

Hot on the heels of yesterday's leak of Megatron's tank mode from Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, we now have two new images of what appears to be design sheets for the vehicle mode of a Megatron toy. The sheets showcase wheels under the tank treads and where the tank's gun should rotate.

See the images below:

***Spoilers***

Mon Sep 22, 2008 9:19 am

Interesting. . .

News Credits: 2 · Mon Sep 22, 2008 10:56 am

hmm. That's... interesting. We'll see how this works out.

Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:11 am

I'm mostly curious as to why his new alt. mode is still cybertronian instead of an earth mode.

One reason could be due to how they already had Brawl as a tank, but I'm more curious as to what the STORY/PLOT reason is.

Looks nice, though.

Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:43 am

Cool... that seems to be a deluxe version (due to the size of the "performance wheels.") I wonder if there'll be a leader class version.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Sep 22, 2008 11:44 am

Is this Wheeljack's work? Who else could raise him from the dead?

Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:01 pm

First, alien crap spaceship.

Now, alien crap tank.

No more, Optimus Prime! Grant us mercy, i beg of you!

Better just put that in the garbage.

Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:33 pm

We know Megatron can't stand our planet, why would he want to look like something we made?

Mon Sep 22, 2008 12:57 pm

Classic Unicron anyone ??

This looks like a pile of junk.

Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:02 pm

My question is how does this one source continue to provide all of this secret information? It has been reported that some of the images he posted were removed at the request of Hasbro and Dreamworks. If this is true, how is he still able to “leak” pictures?

I don’t know . . . all of these pictures coming from the same person smells a little funny to me. I think this is all part of the planned misinformation campaign. I am not saying the images are fake, but I think the reason we are seeing them is planned.

News Credits: 3 · Mon Sep 22, 2008 4:22 pm

Looks like they made a movie version of Armada Megatron.

Mon Sep 22, 2008 7:55 pm

Thunderscream wrote:Looks like they made a movie version of Armada Megatron.

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that.

Find it hard to believe I had to scroll down long enough to see someone else say it, though.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 12:15 am

There will be no fun in Transformers anymore if Cybertronians wants to transform into alien-whatever-crap-vehimode.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:43 am

The more I see the more my expectations keep falling to the ground.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:16 am

Wow. Guess I'm in the minority of people who really like this design. The Cybertronian modes are more impressive and "alien" than yet another big tank ala Devistator/Brawl. Megatron is huge compared to the others, and an earth vehicle just wouldn't look as impressive or as frightening to humans as this design would.

The first thing I thought of when I saw it was the HK tanks from the Terminator movies.

Also, I agree about the Deluxe size theory. As for a Leader class version, it would only stand to reason that yes, a larger version would be made (maybe with working tracks?) since there are Voyagers of OP and Megs and a Deluxe of Brawl.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:28 am

Predaprince wrote:
Thunderscream wrote:Looks like they made a movie version of Armada Megatron.

I'm glad I'm not the only one thinking that.

Find it hard to believe I had to scroll down long enough to see someone else say it, though.

I like Armada Megs, I can dig this.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:30 am

If he's gonna stay Cybertronian, why the need to reformat into tank mode? And what's the extent of his capability to keep on reformatting into other kind of Cybertronian modes?

The jet should be more powerful and agile than a tank on the ground. Should this be considered a "downgrade"?

It's really going to be senseless if this alien tank thing pushes thru.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 1:54 pm

meh, it's ok I guess

Tue Sep 23, 2008 7:29 pm

MatchTheyIgnite wrote:We know Megatron can't stand our planet, why would he want to look like something we made?

I was just thinking along the premise of "robots in disguise".

We know Megatron in the first movie had no time nor reason to disguise himself with "local camoflauge" like the other deceps did. So, I'm just wondering what the story line reason will be in TF: ROTF for why Megs doesn't choose an earth mode to "disguise" himself (that is... if these pics are really what he's going to become.)

I agree with the others who said that they're thinking of Armada Megatron. If this tank design is legit and the spoiler of those autobots doing that thing together that the other thread mentions (trying to stay vague in case you avoided it), then it definitely appears that elements of Armada/Energon/Cybertron are making it into this movie.

If it's cool and looks good on camera and doesn't totally go against the TF universe, then I'm all for it.

(Funny how in the Transformers Universe, Megatron's alt mode keeps changing, but yet Optimus Prime, Starscream, and others do not. I just find that interesting when I step back and think about it.)

Tue Sep 23, 2008 8:08 pm

Perhaps, this design is an "earth mode". It is a possible plot design to have this be a Top Secret tank that the government is working on and Megatron scans it.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:39 pm

oldskooltf wrote:
MatchTheyIgnite wrote:We know Megatron can't stand our planet, why would he want to look like something we made?

I was just thinking along the premise of "robots in disguise".

We know Megatron in the first movie had no time nor reason to disguise himself with "local camoflauge" like the other deceps did. So, I'm just wondering what the story line reason will be in TF: ROTF for why Megs doesn't choose an earth mode to "disguise" himself (that is... if these pics are really what he's going to become.)

I agree with the others who said that they're thinking of Armada Megatron. If this tank design is legit and the spoiler of those autobots doing that thing together that the other thread mentions (trying to stay vague in case you avoided it), then it definitely appears that elements of Armada/Energon/Cybertron are making it into this movie.

If it's cool and looks good on camera and doesn't totally go against the TF universe, then I'm all for it.

(Funny how in the Transformers Universe, Megatron's alt mode keeps changing, but yet Optimus Prime, Starscream, and others do not. I just find that interesting when I step back and think about it.)

I think they can't give Megatron a proper alt mode that really clicks. So he keeps on changing.

This problem started in G1, the gun mode.

Tue Sep 23, 2008 9:50 pm

secret earth tank? that does not look like an Earth tank by any stretch of the imagination.

It is interesting to note megatrons changing form. Maybe its to give Prime and the autobots a "new enemy" dynmaic to fight, rather than having repetitive prime/megs fights. Personally I think the gun was the best form by far, and that theme should have been kept. I have many reasons for liking the gun form, but I wont go into them now.

Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:16 am

Of all the Megatron's alt mode, this alien tank could be the worst of all.

Wed Sep 24, 2008 5:55 am

Such negativity over a possible design sketch.

Like I said before, I think it's a really great concept that I'm excited about much more than the possibility of a combiner or whatnot.

With other rumors around Megatron's return, the design could be explained like this:
-Scorpinok sacrifices his spark to revive Megatron.
-Scorpy is land based, and some of his design is transferred to Megs, hence the jagged tank mode.
-The engines on the back indicate the remnants of the jet mode, and allow fast travel, if not a slight flying ability.
-The general tank mode is a nod to G2 to satiate the crying fan-boys which Bay apparently wants to please.

Personally, I'm just happy there is a TF movie franchise at all. If the figs and designs don't perfectly match G1, I could care less. It's fun either way.

Fri Sep 26, 2008 7:28 pm

another crappy alien style vehicle...

I prefer a real earth tank mode for Megatron...

this will look like crap just like his alien spaceship mode in the first movie. :evil: