The Energon Pub

As I posted on another thread here are some videos of some engine parts from a ship shot on blue screen in Detroit:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gae5be26VtQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X7eMKMF7SNs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3vQQ91Nx0Q
According to a guy who was passing by the set "Shia was jumping from the ship to a building" (thanks to ARIQ from TFW2005).
First it was believed to be a part from a ship. Now according to sigma1 (a member of Don Murphy's forum and a TF3 extra in Detroit):
The shoot involving the train derailed is called "Mayor's Mile" and is a continuation of the Chicago sequence. The scene itself will take place in Chicago within the movie. It involves the intro of a main antagonist, (which is the large construct with 2 turbines in the rear photographed earlier when Detroit production arrived). I won't reveal just yet who it is, but he will then transform and reveal himself to be orchestrating much of the chaos on Earth, most Autobots arrive (Bumblebee, Ratchet, Sideswipe, Wheeljack, and the Ferrari) to battle him. Prime, Ironhide, and Josh Dummal are involved in another sub-plot that will be revealed later.
This points that these turbines are actually part of a Decepticon which I believe is Shockwave. Another interesting info that we get from this spoiler is that Wheeljack is the blue Mercedes (the Einstein bot).
Here is a closer look at the turbines shot a few weeks earlier:
http://jalopnik.com/5623641/transformer ... auto-plant
Of course everything is just a rumor so take it with a grain of salt but still great possibilities here.

Huh, interesting. So are we looking at Astrotrain? I think it would be a great addition really, also tie in nicely the filming of the Space Center. Hopefully this Decepticon doesn't end up looking like a giant crab or Space Lobster.

Huh, so the Einstien Bot is still in the film huh? Honestly I had hoped they had dropped this design, I mean if you were going to experiment with LED fiber optical hair, you would think it would be characters like Arcee or other Female based characters....or even more organic characters like Ravage......not an old man bot. Better yet, "Another" old man bot....

Aw well, here's to what hopefully turns out to be Astrotrain.
~Josh

Joshua Vallse wrote:Huh, interesting. So are we looking at Astrotrain? I think it would be a great addition really, also tie in nicely the filming of the Space Center. Hopefully this Decepticon doesn't end up looking like a giant crab or Space Lobster.

Huh, so the Einstien Bot is still in the film huh? Honestly I had hoped they had dropped this design, I mean if you were going to experiment with LED fiber optical hair, you would think it would be characters like Arcee or other Female based characters....or even more organic characters like Ravage......not an old man bot. Better yet, "Another" old man bot....

Aw well, here's to what hopefully turns out to be Astrotrain.
~Josh

I think the train is a regular train. And the turbines are part of Shockwave's alt mode who caused the train wreckage.

i'm guessing its a combinder! it still would be cool if it was soundwave but it dosen't(to me) look like soundwave.
or maybe its shockwave!!!!!!!!

I have an interesting new interpretation of the engine thing shot on blue screen. We all know that Sam and Carly takes rescue on it by jumping from a building (which may be Patrick Dempsey's home or office - he was also on the balcony):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCRnB7Gy ... r_embedded
Now looking at the new photos that emerged on the web you can clearly see that it has a cockpit though no windows:
http://www.popsugar.com/Pictures-Shia-R ... ge=0,0,4#3
But why would you need windows when you have such a lovely camera in front of the cockpit which can project everything inside on a screen:
http://entertainment.webshots.com/photo ... 9453XgqmvH
So my assumption is that this is just a small jet that they use to escape from Dempsey's hands. You can clearly see the two engine turbines in the back the two big guns in the front and the pilot's cabin in between. This thing may be a transformer (though a little one) but also may be some sort of a secret NEST jet.
And the blue screen that they use around the jet is just to add the surround buildings and matte paintings so that it will look like the action takes place on a high skyscraper or another building.

Hmmmmm...... you have a point. maybe its silverbolt?!

invinceatron wrote:Hmmmmm...... you have a point. maybe its silverbolt?!

It looks too small to me to be Silverbolt but you never know. There is a strong possibility.

. . .
The Movie-verse is my favorite but...
They really disgraced WheelJack.
I hope WheelJack had some second name somewhere so I can make a custom with that name to serve as my Movieverse "Wheeljack."

I really hate the Einstein bot, just a bad design...
Well, the face at least...

I'm willing to bet its a transformer of some description.
Looks to me like it has some cybertronian stuff etched below the hatch to the cockpit

Joshua Vallse wrote:Huh, interesting. So are we looking at Astrotrain? I think it would be a great addition really, also tie in nicely the filming of the Space Center. Hopefully this Decepticon doesn't end up looking like a giant crab or Space Lobster.

Huh, so the Einstien Bot is still in the film huh? Honestly I had hoped they had dropped this design, I mean if you were going to experiment with LED fiber optical hair, you would think it would be characters like Arcee or other Female based characters....or even more organic characters like Ravage......not an old man bot. Better yet, "Another" old man bot....

Aw well, here's to what hopefully turns out to be Astrotrain.
~Josh

This better be Astro Train.

Here is another look at the engine thing. It looks more and more like a stand alone jet:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQNhdqxOCEg

Picture - Shadow from "Shoot for the edit". And here are more of his pics:
http://tfshadowcons.com/blogweb/index.php

it could be a decepticon

i would have to agree with some people, i thought it was silverbolt too.

Here is a little confirmation from the set report of J1000 that the jet is a Decepticon:

"When we met up with the girl I mentioned, she took us back on the set where the jet was filmed against the skyscraper section and bluescreen, and described some of what we would see in the movie regarding it. She said it would take place 18 floors up, when Sam would jump onto the ship, and the bluescreen would be replaced with Chicago skyline. Another crew member said "Did you guys see the Decepticon ship?".. soooo sounds like it may be Decepticon after all (unless he was mistaken)."

http://transformerslive.blogspot.com...ay-report.html

So the Shockwave theory gets stronger.

definately Shockwave or a nest air-ship of some sort but I'm leaning towards the Shockwave theory