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News Credits: 905 · by **Mach** » Tue May 11, 2010 1:01 am

Transformers 3 has begin the principal shooting and YouTube user benbrown666 has managed to record a short sequence where a Smart car being thrown along the back alley. According to YouTube benbrown666, the small Smart car is thrown away by the Autobots Twins - Skid and Mudflap.

However, from the shootforedit.com forum, Director Michael Bay just replied with following statement:

"The Twins are not back in T3. "

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gl6UYrTJ ... r_embedded

So are the twins out of Transformers 3 or just another misleading campaign by Michael Bay?

News Credits: 9 · by **Editor** » Tue May 11, 2010 1:27 am

Michael Bay wrote:"The Twins are not back in T3. "

Take one:

Bay tells the truth wrote:"In fact I didn't see any twins in Terminator 3."

Take two:

Bay expands on his statement wrote:"The Twins are not in the back in T3. In fact they will be right in the front and in your face in 3D!"

Take three:

Bay switches it up wrote:"In fact you shall see that they were Soundwave's pawns in the last movie and will now reveals their true selves as Beastbox and Squaktalk"

and the least probable, Take four:

Bay breaks it down wrote:"Look we thought the kids would like them and hook on to them like Bumblebee and whats his name, right, Hot Shot. Instead we ended up with another Jar Jar Binks and Poochie. My bad. Sorry everyone."

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Tue May 11, 2010 2:34 am

^

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Let's just ignore any news article that quotes Michael Bay.

News Credits: 1 · by **gigazarak** » Tue May 11, 2010 2:37 am

They really are the TF equivalent of Jar Jar Binks, an abomination that should never have been, maybe that means they will appear, but in some vague cameo style appearance, it's a good question, I suppose we'll just have to wait.

by **Ultra Markus** » Tue May 11, 2010 3:19 am

no more skids and mudflap? that right there will make this movie better than the last
and if they trash more smart cars it could help too

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue May 11, 2010 3:59 am

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :sad:

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Tue May 11, 2010 4:01 am

Editor wrote:
Michael Bay wrote:"The Twins are not back in T3. "

Take one:
Bay tells the truth wrote:"In fact I didn't see any twins in Terminator 3."

Take two:
Bay expands on his statement wrote:"The Twins are not in the back in T3. In fact they will be right in the front and in your face in 3D!"

Take three:
Bay switches it up wrote:"In fact you shall see that they were Soundwave's pawns in the last movie and will now reveals their true selves as Beastbox and Squaktalk"

and the least probable, Take four:
Bay breaks it down wrote:"Look we thought the kids would like them and hook on to them like Bumblebee and whats his name, right, Hot Shot. Instead we ended up with another Jar Jar Binks and Poochie. My bad. Sorry everyone."

Hi-larious, man. HI-LARIOUS :lol:

by **DreadwindsGhost** » Tue May 11, 2010 4:07 am

Of course they'll be back. If they're not, that'd be like Bay admitting he was wrong to have them in ROTF. And let's face it, that's not gonna happen.

News Credits: 16 · by **It Is Him** » Tue May 11, 2010 4:10 am

What do you have against Poochie?

News Credits: 9 · by **Zeds** » Tue May 11, 2010 5:21 am

This proves that there is a God and he listens.

News Credits: 24 · by **Albershide** » Tue May 11, 2010 6:18 am

Zeds wrote:This proves that there is a God and he listens.

Actually there is Michael Bay and he listens.

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Tue May 11, 2010 6:39 am

I liked the twins too. Oh well, I didnt like them enough to put them in a sequel, but I dont think they're as bad as people think.

News Credits: 5 · by **Doctor McGrath** » Tue May 11, 2010 7:16 am

Well, he forgot about Barricade in ROTF so I guess its possible, but not probable.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Tue May 11, 2010 7:33 am

Isn't this guy the ONLY source of false info on TF2? And we're believing him now ... why?

News Credits: 125 · by **Counterpunch** » Tue May 11, 2010 7:51 am

I hope they ARE back in.

I mean, seriously, at this point I dine off the delicious fruit of this fandom's angst and I drink deeply from the cup of its tears.

::Off to tape over Beast Wars Season 2 with the Beast Machines final episode::

News Credits: 11 · by **joevill** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:21 am

This is great news! :APPLAUSE:

I felt they ruined ROTF for me. :BOOM:

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:33 am

They'll be in the third movie.

1.) I'll give the naysayers this much credit, when it comes to Bay: He lies his ass off in these misinformation campaigns. And, if he ever does end up telling the truth, it's simply due to a mistake, or miscommunication between him and his people.

2.) People have already sighted them on set (and considering they've shown us video proof of the Smart car being thrown around, why would they lie about the rest of the scene? I mean, c'mon....)

If anything, they might be killed off, early, in the film. Which would explain why he said they're not in the film, but that's all I can think of.

Otherwise, he's just lying through his teeth. Skids and Mudflap will be in 3, in some capacity. How long, where, when, and how remains to be seen, but they'll be there.

Barricade never returning, and never seeing his demise is just a terrible handling of the material, and yet one more I'll give the fans. I used to excuse it away as "Well, it's obvious that we're to assume that he was killed off camera in between movies and there's no point in going back to it, simply to move forward with his story." Not anymore. That's a really bad way to make a movie/story.

I watched the first one again, in Blu-Ray (amazing, btw), and it was just as bad as I remembered, even a bit more so. ROTF still wins it for me.

TF1 is just such a convoluted mess, the camera work still angers me to this day, and the robots were terribly underused. ROTF gave us plenty of robot screen time, more of a story, and even though not everything was explained, or we were expected to make the leap, we were able to do so in a reasonable manner because the second movie was laid out better and avoided being convoluted like the first one.

Too many loose threads to tie up in the first movie, and they weren't handled well. I think they could've focused on Sam meeting the Autobots better, and I think the military presence could've been far more serious. I think it should've been an E.T. meets boy/alien invasion film. It would've had more depth to it, more of a story, and no need for it to be convoluted.

I do like that humanity is telling the Autobots (and all robots, for that matter) to go home in the 3rd one. It's about time we had actual human interaction in this series. I'm glad they're finally getting to it, but I think THREE movies is not only a perfect example of wasted time and wasted chances, but shows that Hollywood can't write a movie to save their souls. They don't know their asses from a hole in the ground.

If they had take the E.T. story and replaced him with giant B.F.G. wielding robots, they could've done far better with the movie(s) than they have. That being said, I still enjoy ROTF. It's just a lot of fun.

by **zenosaurus_x** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:42 am

Hmmm, I actually liked The Twins....and Jar-Jar actually, never really got all the hate against them.
But seriously:They are really BeastBox and SquawkTalk.
That one was kinda funny....

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:50 am

I don't mind if they bring the Twins back for TF3 so long as, this time around, instead of CAUSING the collateral damage the Twins ARE the collateral damage. The only redeeming point either of them had in TF2 was Mudflap calling Leo a pu**y.

by **zenosaurus_x** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:55 am

I personally found that pretty stupid....
But Leo WAS horrible, if they're in part 3 I don't care, I'd just like the cooler guys to be focused on, ROTF only focused on them...

Like GEEWUN on Facebook · by **GEEWUN** » Tue May 11, 2010 8:56 am

Albershide wrote:
Zeds wrote:This proves that there is a God and he listens.

Actually there is Michael Bay and he listens.

Michael Bay is no God.... but he apparently has ears....

News Credits: 1 · by **T-Macksimus** » Tue May 11, 2010 9:14 am

zenosaurus_x wrote:I personally found that pretty stupid....
But Leo WAS horrible, if they're in part 3 I don't care, I'd just like the cooler guys to be focused on, ROTF only focused on them...

I did as well so for me to find that to be their only redeeming point lets you know just how much I think the twins sucked. Between them and Leo, the movie was drug down to toilet level humor aimed at a target audience around age 10. Seeing the Twins compressed into 3 X 3 metal cubes would absolutely make my day.

by **Windsweeper** » Tue May 11, 2010 9:30 am

If they just changed the heads, they wouldn't bother me. At least they had some semblance of character.

It's Leo who must go or if he appears in TF 3, he dies horribly in the first scene under the heel of a Decepticon. Preferably alongside the Twins and Ironhide.

by **RiddlerJ** » Tue May 11, 2010 10:15 am

Actually, it's only going to be Skids and Mudflap. The movie is going to be them on a cross country trip to help Leo Spitz get laid.

Interupted only periodically with scenes of Sam's mom zonked out on brownies.

Like GEEWUN on Facebook · by **GEEWUN** » Tue May 11, 2010 10:29 am

RiddlerJ wrote:Actually, it's only going to be Skids and Mudflap. The movie is going to be them on a cross country trip to help Leo Spitz get laid.

Interupted only periodically with scenes of Sam's mom zonked out on brownies.