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Sentinel Prime is definitely the most likely based on the colouring and age. But Michael Bay isn't exactly known for his accuracy.

How about Kup? He's old and he's been getting around the galaxy on his own. None of the other Autobots would even know that he's there. But he could reveal some interesting info and revelations for the Autobots. Maybe he has heard of or met Unicron?

I've just had a new thought; the Golden Autobot that awakens looks like it has shoulder restraints, so I'm surmising two possibilities:

1) It's an Autobot ship devastated by a Decepticon attack; the Gold Guy (we don't know who it is yet, so that's what I'm calling him! Hehe) strapped himself in (maybe to jettison away from the ship, or he was in the pilot's seat), but it was too late and he has been 'unconcious' in the wreck up until the astronauts arrive.

2) It's a Decepticon ship and the Gold Guy is their prisoner...

Just an idea or two to throw in, there!

anDarty wrote:...Oh and also, as they so often do with trailers, how about that final shot of our gold clad Autobot waking up is actually from much later in the movie when Prime and Co. realise the Ark crashed on the moon and not, as he's not, as we're lead to believe, waking up in the 60's

If he's Sentinel Prime, I'd have to be if ROTF would still make sense, since Optimus was "The last Prime." Right?

*Thought occurs*

He's Sentinel, alright. But not Sentinel PRIME. How 'bout Sentinel Minor? Sentinel Magnus? (The other two classes that I can remember in Animated) How about just Sentinel? It makes him sound like a drone, but there's worse names out there in Transformers.

SLUGSLINGER81 wrote:WTF!!! So how much is the Fraggin' government hiding about the transformers, first they were discovered in the Artic circle, hid them in Hoover dam, learned that they were in mars & now they knew of them since the 60's!!!

The Gov/S7 knew about TFs'/MBEs' before this as shown in ROTF with Model T fords etc shown as TFs.

Caelus wrote:You know, after thinking about the fact that he is gold, I briefly wondered if he was going to slip outside and replace the Moon-lander, to return to Earth with the Astronauts in cognito.

Then I remembered that the LEM had to split in half (the gold half being left behind) in order to leave the moon and reunite with the CSM, and then that half would have been left behind in orbit to crash back into the moon.

Life would suck for that guy, huh?

DavidT wrote:

budmaloney wrote:But what does it mean that this guy is waking up? Usually in trailers like this, it's a foreshadowing, he's evil, he wakes up. But this guy is good (sort of). What would him waking up mean? That he is a messenger warning us of the impending doom ? (Unircon for example). Why would they tease us about someone waking up who will end up being good and friendly. It's definitely not the discovery by the human race. Because by now, I think the human race already knows.

The trailer takes place in the 60's... The human race doesn't know yet
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Sector 7 Uncovered Megatron in 1898.

Actually, not they didn't. Archibald Witwicky stumbled across Megatron in 1898. The founding members of S7 didn't start the organization until 1913. It was a considerable amount of time after that (time frame varies depending on whether you go by the Movie or the prequel novel) before Megs was transported to the Hoover Dam facility.

As far as this orange guy waking up and the whole menacing "portent of doom"...all that means is that Bay's done his job. He and his crew have engineered a series of clips in such a way that every fanboy has been totally sucked in and worked into a frenzy. The actual clips, once shown in context with the rest of the movie in it's entirety, will mean exactly jack-diddly-squat in the grand scheme of things. Just like the Mars Rover clip from the first movie. Made to look all important in the previews but in the end it was nothing more than a 15 second snippet on Banachecks laptop for the Sec. of Def. to view. Not exactly a climactic plot point, was it? But hey, it sure as hell sucked in the Trans-Fans attention when it first came out. I have no intentions of letting my imagination linger any further on what the bot in the clip is because I have better things to do than let Mikey Bay and his crew mind-**** me for even one second. I would advise everyone else to take a similar approach. You all will be a lot happier in the long run. I've seen how a lot of you fans handle disappointment and all I can say is, damn, it ain't pretty!

I could buy it being sentinal prime or alpha trion easy enough. But with Bay..... after how Wheelie came out and Devestator, could it be Unicron? But not the planet hungry robot we expected? Similar colors and head?

But he has blue eyes.

yep, as soon as I saw that face... Alpha Trion. but they are going back to the best parts of the Transformers mythlogy, ROTF was rushed and this time they focus on the faces of the bots and cons and not let this be a runaway train.

T-Macksimus wrote:

Caelus wrote:You know, after thinking about the fact that he is gold, I briefly wondered if he was going to slip outside and replace the Moon-lander, to return to Earth with the Astronauts in cognito.

Then I remembered that the LEM had to split in half (the gold half being left behind) in order to leave the moon and reunite with the CSM, and then that half would have been left behind in orbit to crash back into the moon.

Life would suck for that guy, huh?

DavidT wrote:

budmaloney wrote:But what does it mean that this guy is waking up? Usually in trailers like this, it's a foreshadowing, he's evil, he wakes up. But this guy is good (sort of). What would him waking up mean? That he is a messenger warning us of the impending doom ? (Unircon for example). Why would they tease us about someone waking up who will end up being good and friendly. It's definitely not the discovery by the human race. Because by now, I think the human race already knows.

The trailer takes place in the 60's... The human race doesn't know yet
.

Sector 7 Uncovered Megatron in 1898.

Actually, not they didn't. Archibald Witwicky stumbled across Megatron in 1898. The founding members of S7 didn't start the organization until 1913. It was a considerable amount of time after that (time frame varies depending on whether you go by the Movie or the prequel novel) before Megs was transported to the Hoover Dam facility.

As far as this orange guy waking up and the whole menacing "portent of doom"...all that means is that Bay's done his job. He and his crew have engineered a series of clips in such a way that every fanboy has been totally sucked in and worked into a frenzy. The actual clips, once shown in context with the rest of the movie in it's entirety, will mean exactly jack-diddly-squat in the grand scheme of things. Just like the Mars Rover clip from the first movie. Made to look all important in the previews but in the end it was nothing more than a 15 second snippet on Banachecks laptop for the Sec. of Def. to view. Not exactly a climactic plot point, was it? But hey, it sure as hell sucked in the Trans-Fans attention when it first came out. I have no intentions of letting my imagination linger any further on what the bot in the clip is because I have better things to do than let Mikey Bay and his crew mind-**** me for even one second. I would advise everyone else to take a similar approach. You all will be a lot happier in the long run. I've seen how a lot of you fans handle disappointment and all I can say is, damn, it ain't pretty!

I think this will be way more important than Bumblebee stepping on the rover on Mars.

It was a good teaser trailer. As for the guy at the end, we know that he is a Prime. A friend of mine, Shadow, gave me this image...the Prime Cybertronian glyph is clearly shown.

MichaelBay.com has released the 1080p HD version of the Transformers Dark of the Moon teaser trailer!
Click here to see and/or download it!

Well I wasn't to thrilled about the name of the movie, but this teaser does bring me a little hope. I look forward to the first non teaser trailer.

It's not a secret now. Either that's Sentinal Prime, Vector Prime or Alpha Trion. I'm hoping for Alpha Trion. Also hoping for the Quintsons or maybe even for Galvetron, Cyclonus & the Sweeps. Ooohh, maybe Hot Rod, Kup and Ultra Magnus. This time with out killing a bunch of Autobots in the first 15 minutes of the movie to sell newer toys. Ahhh wishful thinking.

DavidT wrote:

Has anyone thought about Scourge? He certainly has the head sculpt. I can't assume that he's an Autobot because he doesn't have blue eyes. If you notice, he has a reddish tint to his eyes.

It is not Scourge...it is an Autobot. The red tint may be due that his optics are offline in the picture. A second later, they turn blue.

T-Macksimus wrote:
Actually, not they didn't. Archibald Witwicky stumbled across Megatron in 1898. The founding members of S7 didn't start the organization until 1913. It was a considerable amount of time after that (time frame varies depending on whether you go by the Movie or the prequel novel) before Megs was transported to the Hoover Dam facility.

As far as this orange guy waking up and the whole menacing "portent of doom"...all that means is that Bay's done his job. He and his crew have engineered a series of clips in such a way that every fanboy has been totally sucked in and worked into a frenzy. The actual clips, once shown in context with the rest of the movie in it's entirety, will mean exactly jack-diddly-squat in the grand scheme of things. Just like the Mars Rover clip from the first movie. Made to look all important in the previews but in the end it was nothing more than a 15 second snippet on Banachecks laptop for the Sec. of Def. to view. Not exactly a climactic plot point, was it? But hey, it sure as hell sucked in the Trans-Fans attention when it first came out. I have no intentions of letting my imagination linger any further on what the bot in the clip is because I have better things to do than let Mikey Bay and his crew mind-**** me for even one second. I would advise everyone else to take a similar approach. You all will be a lot happier in the long run. I've seen how a lot of you fans handle disappointment and all I can say is, damn, it ain't pretty!

Hadn't thought about it like that, but you're probably right ... it's probably a flashback to the before times of long long ago.

Some of you seem to be forgetting that all the Primes are dead except for Optimus, this means Optimus's father is dead too.

#Sideways# wrote:Has anyone thought about Scourge? He certainly has the head sculpt. I can't assume that he's an Autobot because he doesn't have blue eyes. If you notice, he has a reddish tint to his eyes.

LMAO...ridiculous assumption.

Why is everyone coming up with such silly guesses?? I mean, c'mon guys...LOOK AT HIM. I think it's pretty damn obvious that he's a Prime! And Cascadia's post with the Prime Cybertronian symbol pretty much confirms that anyway...

So no Wreck-Gar, no Scourge, no Kup, no Prowl...and certainly no damn Unicron (that's just plain stupid, pointless and too much wishful thinking, sorry!).

A few of you mentioned that Optimus was the last of the Primes...but:

A: What if it was only BELIEVED that Optimus was the last? Maybe there's a whole new story behind this orange Prime's existence which will be unravelled in the movie...

B: T-Macksimus made a good point in his last post, where he says that this specific short orange Prime scene probably means JACK-ALL and probably won't even play a major roll in the movie...just like the Mars Rover clip in the first Transformers 1 teaser.

See, this is exactly what Michael Bay WANTS us to do - speculate, discuss and hype ourselves and eachother up until the movies actual release. It's a genius marketing and promotion strategy that most definitely works, by the looks of it...looool...

Let's not get too worked up over this anymore...but i'm still 200% sure that it's a Prime...and almost 99% sure that it's Sentinel Prime. There are just too many reasons and similarities that support it, which make it obvious, if you ask me..

Soundwave1979 wrote:

#Sideways# wrote:Has anyone thought about Scourge? He certainly has the head sculpt. I can't assume that he's an Autobot because he doesn't have blue eyes. If you notice, he has a reddish tint to his eyes.

LMAO...ridiculous assumption.

Why is everyone coming up with such silly guesses?? I mean, c'mon guys...LOOK AT HIM. I think it's pretty damn obvious that he's a Prime! And Cascadia's post with the Prime Cybertronian symbol pretty much confirms that anyway...

So no Wreck-Gar, no Scourge, no Kup, no Prowl...and certainly no damn Unicron (that's just plain stupid, pointless and too much wishful thinking, sorry!).

A few of you mentioned that Optimus was the last of the Primes...but:

A: What if it was only BELIEVED that Optimus was the last? Maybe there's a whole new story behind this orange Prime's existence which will be unravelled in the movie...

B: T-Macksimus made a good point in his last post, where he says that this specific short orange Prime scene probably means JACK-ALL and probably won't even play a major roll in the movie...just like the Mars Rover clip in the first Transformers 1 teaser.

See, this is exactly what Michael Bay WANTS us to do - speculate, discuss and hype ourselves and eachother up until the movies actual release. It's a genius marketing and promotion strategy that most definitely works, by the looks of it...looool...

Let's not get too worked up over this anymore...but i'm still 200% sure that it's a Prime...and almost 99% sure that it's Sentinel Prime. There are just too many reasons and similarities that support it, which make it obvious, if you ask me..

THIS. I uploaded the trailer, and every one sems to think it's Alpha Trion or Unicron. How in f*ks name could that be Unicron? In all honesty, I would love to see a live action Unicron, but just...no. That's not him, its stupid! The only thing that resembles Alpha Trion is those spikes on his head, and his broad shoulders. Everything else resembles Sentinal Prime. He is definately a Prime. He has the same nose as Optimus, he has the same antene as Optimus and everything. IT IS A PRIME BY DAMNIT!!!

#Sideways# wrote:

DavidT wrote:

Has anyone thought about Scourge? He certainly has the head sculpt. I can't assume that he's an Autobot because he doesn't have blue eyes. If you notice, he has a reddish tint to his eyes.

Ever heard of rust?

This would not be Galvatron, we all know who Galvatron is... has anyone made a head count in the Tomb of the Primes?

I_AM_MEGATRON wrote:Some of you seem to be forgetting that all the Primes are dead except for Optimus, this means Optimus's father is dead too.

That has been argued in so many topics that I ain't gonna say my theory again.

SlyTF1 wrote:

#Sideways# wrote:

DavidT wrote:

Has anyone thought about Scourge? He certainly has the head sculpt. I can't assume that he's an Autobot because he doesn't have blue eyes. If you notice, he has a reddish tint to his eyes.

Ever heard of rust?

What if he is a good guy with a dark side that shows? Kinda like Two-Face in Batman? Maybe its a TF completely unknown to us all. Like Michael Bay did with that Mountain Dew TF in the first movie.

I_AM_MEGATRON wrote:Some of you seem to be forgetting that all the Primes are dead except for Optimus, this means Optimus's father is dead too.

And you don't seem open to the notion that this particular robot is offline. To Optimus and Co. he may be PRESUMED dead because he disappeared, contact lost when he crashed on the moon.

Not only that, this is the entertainment industry, dead doesn't always = permanent. Optimus was dead after all ...

Burn wrote:

I_AM_MEGATRON wrote:Some of you seem to be forgetting that all the Primes are dead except for Optimus, this means Optimus's father is dead too.

And you don't seem open to the notion that this particular robot is offline. To Optimus and Co. he may be PRESUMED dead because he disappeared, contact lost when he crashed on the moon.

Not only that, this is the entertainment industry, dead doesn't always = permanent. Optimus was dead after all ...

Not to mention Megatron, who was reactivated and remodelled under 5 seconds.