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News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 9:31 pm

http://www.etonline.com/movies/140985_Transformers_Age_of_Extinction_Set_Visit/

At 1:50 in this video, the Pagani Huayra's character name is called out as Stinger.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Tue Nov 19, 2013 10:13 pm

Sabrblade wrote:http://www.etonline.com/movies/140985_Transformers_Age_of_Extinction_Set_Visit/

At 1:50 in this video, the Pagani Huayra's character name is called out as Stinger.

Well that's ... sucky.

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:14 am

ComingSoon wrote:Entertainment Tonight visited the Detroit set of Michael Bay's Transformers: Age of Extinction and has brought online a video that you can watch below!

Coming to theaters on June 27, 2014, the film stars Mark Wahlberg, Nicola Peltz, Jack Reynor, Stanley Tucci, Kelsey Grammer, Sophia Myles, Li Bingbing, T.J. Miller, Han Geng and Titus Welliver.

Although the plot of the sequel is still top secret, Dinobots are said to be heavily involved and Bay himself teased to ComingSoon.net that it will involve a "Chase from Hell."

Check out the video in the link below:

Source: http://www.comingsoon.net/news/movienews.php?id=111588

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:17 am

Thanks to Seibertron.com users sabrblade and Rodimus Prime, we found this article on Entertainment Tonight, in which reporter Rocsi Diaz chats to members of the cast as the shooting takes place on the Detroit set. They also take a closer look at some of the cars featuring in the movie, revealing the identity of the Pagani Huayra (image below) as Stinger. Check out the full video here, and leave your thoughts below!

While fans eagerly await the return of Transformers to the big screen with Age of Extinction, ET takes you to the set of the series' action-packed fourth installment.

Director Michael Bay and his revamped cast took to the streets of Detroit, dressed up to look like Hong Kong, to film a portion of the film, which is where ET's Rocsi Diaz got a special behind-the-scenes look at the explosive action film.

The new cast for the fourth installment of the live-action series, based on the Transformers toy line, includes some familiar Hollywood faces, including Mark Wahlberg as the protagonist (Cade) and Kelsey Grammer (Harold) as the main villain.

As you can see in the featured video, Bay wasn't stingy on the explosives in the Age of Extinction, as cars are being sent airborne like feathers on set.

"It's a lot of explosions all day long, a lot of loud noises, a lot of running," Jack Reynor (Shane) said of a typical day on set.

Watch the video to satiate your Transformers appetite, and check out Transformers: Age of Extinction when it bursts into theaters June 27, 2014.

News Credits: 2 · by **BERSEKAEL** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 5:35 am

wasn't Stinger a GOBOT instead? I mean, I know transformers bought Gobots at a percent of rights, but come on...

by **griftimus prime** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:23 am

stinger? lol wtf? i know its bay and he knows nothing about transformers but come on

by **SaTaN CoNvOy** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:35 am

mein gawd, what a fugly car. front looks like the ass end, ass end looks like the front.

by **Peridot** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 7:37 am

Are you sure that's not just a placeholder name? I highly doubt that Bay would actually name him that.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 8:21 am

A brand new character with a brand new name in a brand new form and a brand new identity? BLASPHEMY! TF4 should be crucified for ever daring to even consider doing something unique and original instead of recycling old existing names like we always get. :roll:

GROW UP, people! >:oP

by **SaTaN CoNvOy** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 9:32 am

Sabrblade wrote:A brand new character with a brand new name in a brand new form and a brand new identity? BLASPHEMY! TF4 should be crucified for ever daring to even consider doing something unique and original instead of recycling old existing names like we always get.

GROW UP, people!

chill out dude. car just isn't my cup if tea, regardless if its a TF or a gobot. so get the chopshop out ure butt, heheheh.

News Credits: 15 · by **PrymeStriker** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 10:46 am

I'm willing to bet you that if Stinger was a character/name from back in the day, fans across multiple boards wouldn't mess themselves in outrage as much.

Oh, wait! Stinger was supposed to be the name of one of Blaster's cassettes in the 1986 Movie!

Then fans would rage that he wasn't a cassette. Nevermind...

Seriously though, what's so mind-numbingly awful about the name 'Stinger' around these parts (especially when have names like Ratchet and Blaster in this franchise)? :???:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:10 am

SaTaN CoNvOy wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:A brand new character with a brand new name in a brand new form and a brand new identity? BLASPHEMY! TF4 should be crucified for ever daring to even consider doing something unique and original instead of recycling old existing names like we always get.

GROW UP, people!

chill out dude. car just isn't my cup if tea, regardless if its a TF or a gobot. so get the chopshop out ure butt, heheheh.

Was referring to the posts above yours knocking on this guy having his own name instead of being "Recycled character name #9847".

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm willing to bet you that if Stinger was a character/name from back in the day, fans across multiple boards wouldn't mess themselves in outrage as much.

Oh, wait! Stinger was supposed to be the name of one of Blaster's cassettes in the 1986 Movie!

Then fans would rage that he wasn't a cassette. Nevermind...

Seriously though, what's so mind-numbingly awful about the name 'Stinger' around these parts (especially when have names like Ratchet and Blaster in this franchise)?

Thank you!

Honestly, no one gave two cents about the names of Scalpel, Brains, Igor, Crowbar, or Hatchet, yet somehow the name "Stinger" is the one that gets persecuted? [-(

News Credits: 37 · by **SlyTF1** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:25 am

I just hope it's a Decepticon. Maybe a double agent Decepticon.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 11:31 am

SlyTF1 wrote:I just hope it's a Decepticon. Maybe a double agent Decepticon.

According to those toy listings we saw before, it is a Decepticon.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:31 pm

Meh. It's no worse than "Dino" or "Que". I guess every TF movie needs one "WTF" character.

And before we go blaming Michael Bay... do we even know if it was his idea to have Stinger as a character? How do we know it wasn't Hasbro who said to Bay "We'd like to introduce Stinger as a new character to our toy line, so we'd like you to make him a character in the movie"?

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:40 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
SaTaN CoNvOy wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:A brand new character with a brand new name in a brand new form and a brand new identity? BLASPHEMY! TF4 should be crucified for ever daring to even consider doing something unique and original instead of recycling old existing names like we always get.

GROW UP, people!

chill out dude. car just isn't my cup if tea, regardless if its a TF or a gobot. so get the chopshop out ure butt, heheheh.
Was referring to the posts above yours knocking on this guy having his own name instead of being "Recycled character name #9847".

PrymeStriker wrote:I'm willing to bet you that if Stinger was a character/name from back in the day, fans across multiple boards wouldn't mess themselves in outrage as much.

Oh, wait! Stinger was supposed to be the name of one of Blaster's cassettes in the 1986 Movie!

Then fans would rage that he wasn't a cassette. Nevermind...

Seriously though, what's so mind-numbingly awful about the name 'Stinger' around these parts (especially when have names like Ratchet and Blaster in this franchise)?
Thank you!

Honestly, no one gave two cents about the names of Scalpel, Brains, Igor, Crowbar, or Hatchet, yet somehow the name "Stinger" is the one that gets persecuted?

We can still go on an crusade about those names. Maybe a nice internet petition?

by **TimothyR** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:41 pm

Sabrblade wrote:A brand new character with a brand new name in a brand new form and a brand new identity? BLASPHEMY! TF4 should be crucified for ever daring to even consider doing something unique and original instead of recycling old existing names like we always get.

GROW UP, people!

yeah.. remember when batman battled butterman in the dark knight rises? or hey.. remember the evil architect, the super villain from the avengers movie.. or hey.. what about plasma tv guy the new hero of the x men.. or that time spiderman got his ass beat by curdled milk man.. but my favorite character HAS to be plastic bottleman, iron mans new trusty sidekick for iron man 4.

other franchises are able to keep their classic characters in major movies.. why does this franchise have to be different?

you have to be really naive to think people won't be annoyed with new characters when there are TONS of classic iconic characters to choose from.. especially when the alt mode is a car.

i am one of few who have enjoyed the movies for what they are.. they've changed designs, they've changed personalities, and they've changed colors.. i, at the very least, would like them to use some of the classic iconic names from the franchise..

black ironhide, silver sideswipe, green ratchet, muscle car bumblebee, tattooed starscream, mercedes soundwave.. i think the least they could do is give us names that we know. it's really not that difficult to do. they've shown us that they can change things to characters that we know.. but i'd still prefer them to be characters that we know, whether their colors or personalities are different or not.. i'd like a recognizable name.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 12:57 pm

TimothyR wrote:yeah.. remember when batman battled butterman in the dark knight rises? or hey.. remember the evil architect, the super villain from the avengers movie.. or hey.. what about plasma tv guy the new hero of the x men.. or that time spiderman got his ass beat by curdled milk man.. but my favorite character HAS to be plastic bottleman, iron mans new trusty sidekick for iron man 4.

Biggest hole in your argument: All of those films are adaptations of existing comic series. The Transformers movies are wholly original and new creations in their own right, with only a handful of callbacks to previous works.

TimothyR wrote:other franchises are able to keep their classic characters in major movies.. why does this franchise have to be different?

Maybe cuz the characters in these films aren't the classic characters of Transformers? They're ALL new guys with some who are based on old ones without being those old ones. Movie Ironhide isn't the old Texan warhorse veteran G1 Ironhde is, he's a cannon-toting maniac with a bit of a psychotic side. Movie Ratchet isn't a crusty, slightly angsty medic whose uncertain of his warrior skills and like to party, he's just a plain non-special medic. Though others like Jazz and Optimus are more similar to the originals, they're still a far cry from being those same characters that they're based on.

TimothyR wrote:you have to be really naive to think people won't be annoyed with new characters when there are TONS of classic iconic characters to choose from.. especially when the alt mode is a car.

i am one of few who have enjoyed the movies for what they are.. they've changed designs, they've changed personalities, and they've changed colors.. i, at the very least, would like them to use some of the classic iconic names from the franchise..

Do you honestly expect them to not recycle more classic names for this film's cast? We've already got Optimus, Bumblebee, Hound, and Grimlock confirmed for the roster. What legitimate harm does a couple of new names thrown in among the recycled ones do?

And it's not like this Stinger guy's gonna be taking away any major role from anybody since he's a Decepticon, and these films ALWAYS reduce the non-big name Cons to personality-less savages anyway.

TimothyR wrote:black ironhide, silver sideswipe, green ratchet, muscle car bumblebee, tattooed starscream, mercedes soundwave.. i think the least they could do is give us names that we know. it's really not that difficult to do. they've shown us that they can change things to characters that we know.. but i'd still prefer them to be characters that we know, whether their colors or personalities are different or not.. i'd like a recognizable name.

If the classic personality is gone and replace by a new completely different one, can they really be called the same character anymore?

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:00 pm

Stinger was Sideswipe's production name in RotF, so this is kind of like Star Wars VII being revealed as Blue Harvest...

by **MGrotusque** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:01 pm

That's one ugly car. I'm sure it goes well enough and goes fast but it certainly isn't easy on the eyes.
Stinger is a good name. I wonder if he'll have a speaking part or just be cannon fodder.

by **MINDVVIPE** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:23 pm

New character, sweet car, nothing wrong here. Least they didn't do something stupid like make him Blurr, coz then the colours would be all wrong.

News Credits: 62 · by **#Sideways#** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:26 pm

I actually reported this last night when the show came on... Huh. Guess they reported it before I did?

*shrugamigation*

But yeah. Stinger is actually a pretty cool name for this vehicle, and speaking of, this car is actually a pretty sweet car. I gotta actually side with Bay on this one; if there is fan-rage about this, people need to get over it. The character was never implemented in the movie and therefore does not have a canonical place in the universe.

by **Rated X** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:39 pm

What was the purpose of the little black box in the article censoring what I assume is the name "Stinger" ? I only know that because all the first posters mention it on their posts. Isnt this suppossed to be a news site ? I can understand not posting Botcon leaks, but Michael Bay leaks ??? Thats going to far....

BREAKING NEWS: The name of the red and black sports car is STINGER !!!

Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger Stinger

:lol:

News Credits: 3597 · by **Seibertron** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 1:41 pm

While I would have preferred to see a proper homage to a character that resembles the original version of a character, I don't have an issue with setting the precedent of a new character either. Blackout and Barricade are two of my favorite Transformers to come out of the past decade alongside Bulkhead, Lockdown, Dreadwing, and Knock Out ... all brand new characters that I have really enjoyed having as part of the Transformers cast. As long as I get a toy out of "Stinger" unlike we did with Mirage/Dino from TF3, I'll be a happy Transformers fansite owner.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Wed Nov 20, 2013 2:05 pm

i dont see what all the hate is about, hes not ruining another fan favorite character so im fine with this. Plus ive been saying from day one that they need to start making their own characters instead of slapping random names on cars. What would you rather have this guy called stinger or ramhorn, a new character or a name that doesn't fit. First thing bay & hasbro have done right with this franchise.