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I wouldn't grab the torches and pitchforks quite yet, folks. Though the basic story outline of the novelization will probably match the movie, history has taught us that the printed versions of the Transformers movies tend to stray from the on screen canon. The "little" details, like which characters die and survive during the movie, are subject to change. Any scene in the book involving The Twins should be taken with a grain of salt, as Bay has been swearing up and down that they are not in the film, period. Early screenings have confirmed as much. If you've read the novel or the spoilers, I'd say you probably have a good idea of how the story will progress, but don't take ANY detail for granted until the movie is actually released.

griftimus prime wrote:horrible. wake me when they reboot it.

I suggest Prozac because a reboot isn't likely. THey are making way too much money on the movies as they are currently made. Why change a good formula?

Sam kills Starcream!

Seriously, f@ck you Ehren Kruger and Micheal Bay.

Everything else, meh. The ending sucks, the Prime/Megs team up is cool, but then Prime lets Megs go back to Cybertron!?!?!?!?!?!? LAME! Bummer Ironhide buys it and Shockwave does much of nothing. Sentinel Primes's betrayal is a cool angle. Meh overall, though at least it reads better than ROTF, so that's positive.

Just got mine @ K-Mart today; already taken a couple of glances but I won't spoil anything.

EDIT: Nevermind. It's just not worth it. *facepalms*

The book was amazing. Great story, great characterizations, and awesome ending. I read it all in one night. Couldn't put it down. Optimus 's spark-ache over Sentinel 's betrayal would make a stone weep. The humans’ interactions with the bots are great. Peter David is, in my humble opinion, the best in the field at screenplay novelizations. But now I'm afraid to watch the movie for fear Bay will spoil it....

I can't wit for the movie, it sounds pretty awesome. can you give any more spoilers about the twins and the wreckers? and is jolt in it?

Wolfman Jake wrote:I wouldn't grab the torches and pitchforks quite yet, folks. Though the basic story outline of the novelization will probably match the movie, history has taught us that the printed versions of the Transformers movies tend to stray from the on screen canon. The "little" details, like which characters die and survive during the movie, are subject to change. Any scene in the book involving The Twins should be taken with a grain of salt, as Bay has been swearing up and down that they are not in the film, period.

I'd say that Ironhide, Sentinel Prime, Starscream, Shockwave, Laserbeak and Soundwave are most definately doomed: they have died in the same way in two adaptations, Ironhide and Sentinel in three. Furthermore, Ironhide and the Twins are adsent from all filming in Chichago, leaving him the in the "deader than dead" category.

The ONLY character I think may survive is Wheeljack, as he has, so far, only died in one adaptation.

Wolfman Jake wrote:Early screenings have confirmed as much. If you've read the novel or the spoilers, I'd say you probably have a good idea of how the story will progress, but don't take ANY detail for granted until the movie is actually released.

The early screening reviews mentioned that the Twins WERE in it but "toned down".

Starscream GaGa wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Any scene in the book involving The Twins should be taken with a grain of salt, as Bay has been swearing up and down that they are not in the film, period. Early screenings have confirmed as much. If you've read the novel or the spoilers, I'd say you probably have a good idea of how the story will progress, but don't take ANY detail for granted until the movie is actually released.

The early screening reviews mentioned that the Twins WERE in it but "toned down".

You need to pay closer attention to the Seibertron news feed, my friend.

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Starscream GaGa wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Any scene in the book involving The Twins should be taken with a grain of salt, as Bay has been swearing up and down that they are not in the film, period. Early screenings have confirmed as much. If you've read the novel or the spoilers, I'd say you probably have a good idea of how the story will progress, but don't take ANY detail for granted until the movie is actually released.

The early screening reviews mentioned that the Twins WERE in it but "toned down".

You need to pay closer attention to the Seibertron news feed, my friend.

Oh. Huh. Never saw that update.

i really hope bay didn't cut the twins, i was one of the few that loved them, and from what i've heard they die pretty epicly (or at least Mudflap does). were the wreckers really racist, or not so much in the book? i cannot wait to see them in the movie

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I'm pretty sure the novel is based on a script that didn't include the robot dialogue and as sch, everything said in the novel is just assumptions made on descriptions within the scripts.

HoundimusPrime wrote:I would rather not... Novels kinda ruin the movie, Rotf's as nothing like the movie, but prime still died.... it might also give false hope for the movie plot

This is why I have the novel, however not touching it until I've seen the movie. i did it for ROTF also. I like to see the movie magic before I read the book.

other than some of the good characters dying it will be good. RIP iron hide twins? i like them, just dont care too much.

I actually liked the twins in this. They both went in an epic fasion.
BTW, the book was actually really good.

Can someone who read the book post spoilers n the wreckers and the twins?

The wreckers rebuilt the spacecraft that the autobots eventually get exiled on. Oh and leadfoot or topspin gets his leg blown off by soundwave... i cant remember. The twins die right after Ironhide. Setinel Prime aims for bumblebee but skids jumps in front of the blast and melts. Mudflap yells out a howl and pushes all the autobots away and attacks setinel prime directly, and does a pretty good job at it. Finally setinel stops him and shoves the acid down mudflaps throat, and he soon melts too.

this is gonna be an epic movie. i hope they don't stop at this one, it'd be cool to see prequals on cybertron, or sequals on cybertron where megatron lied and took over instead of aiming to fix it and call prime like he said he would.

Ummm... Page 99 was... disturbing.

Oh and I think that the Igor head is the head of the Fallen.
Other than that, I read "just the good parts". I'm not going to read 400 pages about humans and Auto bots! Give me more Decepticons!

I have not been able to find this anywhere in Canada. I mean, I could order it online but I want to just walk into a book store and buy it. Why not a single store in my city is carrying it yet is a mystery to me. They have a plethora of other TF books in stock.

Bleak5170 wrote:I have not been able to find this anywhere in Canada. I mean, I could order it online but I want to just walk into a book store and buy it. Why not a single store in my city is carrying it yet is a mystery to me. They have a plethora of other TF books in stock.

It's Canada. Don't they wait on EVERYTHING until the NHL Finals are over?

First-Aid wrote:

Bleak5170 wrote:I have not been able to find this anywhere in Canada. I mean, I could order it online but I want to just walk into a book store and buy it. Why not a single store in my city is carrying it yet is a mystery to me. They have a plethora of other TF books in stock.

It's Canada. Don't they wait on EVERYTHING until the NHL Finals are over?

Good point.