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Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:34 am

I call hoax. A rather good one mind you, but still a hoax.

The Bot just doesn't seem to follow the same design pattern that all the bots over the previous two films seem to follow. Even Jetfire, whom turned out to be a Nursing Home Bot, had more meat on him..and he had a bloody cane.

Unless it is just a two second shot, then it wouldn't really matter. Figure he's on the ground, fire cannon, jumps in the air, shoot rocket, blows up...use explosion and scrap shower to X-disolve to the next shot of Optimus cutting something in half.

End Scene

Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:10 am

Good shout 5150 Cruiser, looks to be the 'Typhoon' euro fighter, man them things can manouver in the air.

If this indeed genuine, i think he may be mid transformation.

Now if it is fake, why such an obscure view of a bot, the wheeljack fake someone mentioned gives you a clear frontal view, this pic makes me feel like hes standing/landing on top of me, oblivious to the insignificant fleshling hes about to squish.

Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:10 am

Sweet Blitzwing!

Hasbro better not **** up the toy by making it a deluxe or a voyager.

News Credits: 24 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:29 am

Great find about the alt mode 5150 Cruiser.

News Credits: 9 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:58 am

I bet the toy's gonna suck.

Unless they give us a leader class!

News Credits: 187 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:39 am

I have talked too much trash about this film for it to started leaking coolness!!!

:sad:

I don't wanna eat my words!!! I don't wanna... :sad:

Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:44 am

sucha hoax.... I can see a wing and treads...thats a little too obvious for bay's tastes.... i'm sure if it really was blitzwing, a picture screenshot like this wouldn't really let you who it was at all even the slightest. Coz lets be honest, if most of you were showed bonecrusher's original movie concept before you were told who it was, I doubt many would have guessed right.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:03 am

Now, I'm not saying this is for the movie....but....

if either a fake, or from the game, or whatnot, it's more than likely "A" blitzwing. Maybe not for the movie maybe so. But no way is he a robot ripping up a jet or a robot ripping up a tank. You can see the rest of the fuselage tucked under his chest, just above his waist. The jets missles or external fuel tanks on it's thigh.

Unless it's a robot that just picks up a plane or a tank and wears it as a backpack it's more than likely Blitz. Now.....if it's for the movie or not, I'll wait and see. And he does look a bit scrawny to be Blitzwing.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:42 am

Looks fake, like a fanboy's best attempt at rendering a movie styled character. It is far too simple looking and not broken up enough for the movie style. It looks fake.

News Credits: 409 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 8:59 am

What's the purpose of having a triple changer in the movie (other than a character appearance) since the robots can turn into anything they want at anytime?

Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:25 am

Well, the Eurofighter and the word Blitz are both European, so if Shockwave is related to Russia in this film, it could be one of his boys.

The background strikes me as too Rotf to let my brain register Dotm for the time being.
If it's Dotm related, there'll be more sightings.

Blitzwing, as one of a group of named triple changers trashing Abots and Cons alike in the name of Shockwave...that I'd like to see.

Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:45 am

Just hope the toy is deluxe size and G1 colors so I can put in my classics collection next to Astrotrain and Octane.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:24 am

Nice, very nice.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:07 am

I'd also like to question how (if real) has been revieled so late compared to some of the others? It would seem to me that Megs new look, Shockwave and Primes Trailer would be more secretive than this guy?

I'm a blitzwing fan, but I just think some of the other TF's would have been harder to come across than this? And even his appearance looks too homage to his G-1 to be movie verse?

If he is in the movie though....awesomesauce.

Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:13 am

My thoughts for what its worth...

1. It is most likely not a fake. I have seen some "leaked" photos of transformers in the past, particular the wheeljack one and this does not look like there was any photoshopping errors, particularly if you look at the edges of the bot and the background. Usually you would see some misalignment but the lighting, the shadows, etc. just look too perfect.

2. Like others have said I am wondering how they are going to pull off a realistic triple changer that has two earth modes. Mixmaster had an earth mode and cybertonian canon mode. There's a possibility that it could be Duocon where two alt modes merge to one robot.

3. This character "Blitzwing" may play a minor background role where he is shown for 5 minutes and then blown apart or something.

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:38 am

guarayakha wrote:Looks great, but at the same time too polygonal and simplistic to be a Bayformer. Probably character from the DOTM game though.

QFT.

While Bay can make anything canon that he wants to with Habro's permission, (ie a movie blitz) this model and especially it's design aesthetics lack many points that make up the transformers in the film. I agree that it might make the game - who knows - maybe it started in the game and they're just throwing the mold in for a shot in the film as cannon fodder, or a small nod to something that happens in the game/comics/etc.

But this bot is VERY simplistic, which is my main case against it.

One other thing I'd like to bring up is does a triple changing movie bot have to have visual cues to both modes in bot mode? Only if the designer wanted it to be so. The tank treads could easily disassemble, ESPECIALLY in that upper arm - which is one of the easiest places to see the simplicity of this design - It's got that horrid long crack down the middle that doesn't have anything disturbing it (ie blocking the crack, wheter it be a wire, piston, or more kibble). It would constitute laziness on part of the designer to just say, "well, just stick the treads, and that's the upper arm." I would hope the art director would have made them redesign that to keep all the bot's sufficiently different in bot mode versus moving larger chunks around. Bayformers is all about stuff operating on a smaller level.

Detail is easy to fake. That's why I don't think this is, or was at least initially meant to be, in the film. Somebody with a computer that can't render a million poly mech in reasonable time along with compositing effects that would lengthen the rendering time considerably....

But for all my opinion is worth, I return to an original thought...Bay can make anything canon...If he wants this bot in there, it'll be in reghardless of whether I think it fits with the existing aesthetic of movie bots or not. XD

Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:52 am

Jazz-1982 wrote:Hope this rumour is true!

If not F YOU BAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sat Feb 19, 2011 11:54 am

I read somewhere the guy that is sliced in half in the superbowl may be blitzwing.

edit: saw the screenshot .. hard to tell :oops:

Sat Feb 19, 2011 1:13 pm

rpetras wrote:
Caelus wrote:Honestly, what makes me most skeptical is how much he looks like his G1 self. The tracks and wings are in the right place and the wings have the same silhouette as G1 Blitzwing's MiG-25 alternate mode.

Totally agree!

If it IS from the bay film, and it is a triple changer that looks like that, he'll be called "Bruticus"

Wouldn't "Octane" sound cooler? That's kinda the reason Optimus got those flames and Brawl in the 2007 movie was named "Devastator": they were cooler.

Although, which do you think is cooler name:

a) Blitzwing, b) Bruticus or c) Octane?

Sat Feb 19, 2011 2:58 pm

I don't think this is TRANSFORMERS material at all, probably just a leaked screenshot from asylums ripoff TRANSMPORPHERS

News Credits: 5 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 6:19 pm

NatsumeRyu wrote:
guarayakha wrote:Looks great, but at the same time too polygonal and simplistic to be a Bayformer. Probably character from the DOTM game though.

QFT.

While Bay can make anything canon that he wants to with Habro's permission, (ie a movie blitz) this model and especially it's design aesthetics lack many points that make up the transformers in the film. I agree that it might make the game - who knows - maybe it started in the game and they're just throwing the mold in for a shot in the film as cannon fodder, or a small nod to something that happens in the game/comics/etc.

But this bot is VERY simplistic, which is my main case against it.

I don't get how so many can write this off as being overly simplistic based off one screen shot that doesn't even show the entire bot. For me, this look nothing like a game rendering and looks more on par with movie still. A game shot would be more pixeled, this is fairly clear with more distinct lines.

Sat Feb 19, 2011 7:40 pm

Well this afternoon I was at the library watching youtube videos and somebody had made a knock-off TF commercial for the third TF movie, it seemed to have video meshed with it from some other movie I’m not sure what the movie was called but I can remember a seen from it, it showed a jumbo jet transforming into some sort of robot, what does this have to do with the image, I kind of think its from the movie mentioned previously

P.S. if anybody knows the name of this movie please tell me

P.S. by the way it is not transmorphers

Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:09 pm

godzillabot wrote:Well this afternoon I was at the library watching youtube videos and somebody had made a knock-off TF commercial for the third TF movie, it seemed to have video meshed with it from some other movie I’m not sure what the movie was called but I can remember a seen from it, it showed a jumbo jet transforming into some sort of robot, what does this have to do with the image, I kind of think its from the movie mentioned previously

P.S. if anybody knows the name of this movie please tell me

P.S. by the way it is not transmorphers

It actually seems like I might have saw this too. Guess it's time to watch some fake trailers...

EDIT: It wasn't Terminator: Salvation, right? Just asking because I haven't seen it and it seems like it's a fairly popular movie to get fake TF bits from.

News Credits: 37 · Sat Feb 19, 2011 9:17 pm

Random question: Wasn't the movie "I am number 4" supposed to have a trailer for DOTM!?

Sat Feb 19, 2011 10:01 pm

Autobot Megatron wrote:
godzillabot wrote:Well this afternoon I was at the library watching youtube videos and somebody had made a knock-off TF commercial for the third TF movie, it seemed to have video meshed with it from some other movie I’m not sure what the movie was called but I can remember a seen from it, it showed a jumbo jet transforming into some sort of robot, what does this have to do with the image, I kind of think its from the movie mentioned previously

P.S. if anybody knows the name of this movie please tell me

P.S. by the way it is not transmorphers

It actually seems like I might have saw this too. Guess it's time to watch some fake trailers...

EDIT: It wasn't Terminator: Salvation, right? Just asking because I haven't seen it and it seems like it's a fairly popular movie to get fake TF bits from.

Well I think it had robots that turned into a copying machine, and a space shuttle :???: