USA Today and Yahoo.com Reveal List of ROTF Characters

That's strange...

Why is Demolishor no longer listed as a Constructicon? And who is Overload?

No mention of the two other fembot-bikes either. We know Chromia is one... What the hell is going on?

Also, "The Doctor" is a silly name.

I think we've already seen Scalpel's toy. "The Doctor" is probably a case of code names, old information, and the media not having a full load of bricks concerning the film.

I love the bit at the end about making Spielberg swear.

OMG! I love that new picture of Ravage! He looks like he'll be amazing in the movie. The Doctor, as it is called, looks too much like the recently revealed Scalpel, we'll see.

could be April Fools joke. We've seen the toy model for Devastator...there were 6 bots. And Demolisher = Scavenger.

Plus, there are other motorcylces. We've seen them....

cool stuff... i cant wait to see it!

can't be complete i count like 11, what i assume to be protoforms, in the trailer.

Brakethrough wrote:I think we've already seen Scalpel's toy. "The Doctor" is probably a case of code names, old information, and the media not having a full load of bricks concerning the film.

I love the bit at the end about making Spielberg swear.

that's exactly what i thought when i saw the name "Doctor"

oh thats great the scaple figure turns out to be real not a scout class thats just strange what can he do in this versoin.?

should be intersting to find out

Something Is defiantly Up. I mean we all KNOW Sideswipe is gonna be in the Movie, but he is left out. I mean we've seen the trailer with him, we've seen the toy....While I don't think it's an April Fools Joke, Bay is still holding back big time.

Mathew.Henderson wrote:Something Is defiantly Up. I mean we all KNOW Sideswipe is gonna be in the Movie, but he is left out. I mean we've seen the trailer with him, we've seen the toy....While I don't think it's an April Fools Joke, Bay is still holding back big time.

Sideswipe is mentioned... he under "new recruits"



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Does anyone else wonder why Wheelie is listed as a Decepticon?
In the first Yahoo article there, that is.

"In the spirit of 'more than meets the eye,' Ravage isn't just lethal because of his sharp teeth," says screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. "There's actually another skill set Ravage has that didn't exist before, so there's going to be a surprise for fans."


Surprised this has not been mentioned. I have been posting for months now that Ravage turns into Megatron's right arm/cannon.

secret power, awesome
Reboot refrince, awesome
The rest, awesome

Rocketeer wrote:Does anyone else wonder why Wheelie is listed as a Decepticon?
In the first Yahoo article there, that is.

He's listed as a Decepticon in both articles.

rpetras wrote:

Rocketeer wrote:Does anyone else wonder why Wheelie is listed as a Decepticon?
In the first Yahoo article there, that is.

He's listed as a Decepticon in both articles.

Ah, but WHEEL-E Five will end up as an autobot sometime during the movie, on his toy bio, it mentions that he is a side-changer.

Mechabreaker wrote:

rpetras wrote:

Rocketeer wrote:Does anyone else wonder why Wheelie is listed as a Decepticon?
In the first Yahoo article there, that is.

He's listed as a Decepticon in both articles.

Ah, but WHEEL-E Five will end up as an autobot sometime during the movie, on his toy bio, it mentions that he is a side-changer.

I was just about to say that myself! Probably the news sites just didn't know or were told that, or simply couldn't be bothered to post that tidbit of info up. Scalpel looks like a scaaary little terror there. Now I really wonder who the pretender "Alice" will be here. Sigh, can't wait for the movie, so many more months left.....

Couple of quick thoughts/theories based out of the USA Today article...

The article states (after quoting Bay, which is somewhat misleading) "Like the Insecticons, which were giant bugs in the original series and Hasbro toy line, but are now tiny creepy-crawly infiltrators."

At 1:20 in the trailer, Sam looks like he's pulling apart a flying insect, and it appears to be mechanical. Has anyone else caught this? I'm curious how big of a role Insecticons play in the movie.


Also the article quotes, "In the spirit of 'more than meets the eye,' Ravage isn't just lethal because of his sharp teeth," says screenwriter Alex Kurtzman. "There's actually another skill set Ravage has that didn't exist before, so there's going to be a surprise for fans."

What are the chances that Ravage turns out to be the Pretender that was previously rumored? I was thinking there was a video posted where students are fleeing a scene where a blonde girl was walking after them....


Any potential with these theories?

Skowl wrote:That's strange...

Why is Demolishor no longer listed as a Constructicon? And who is Overload?

No mention of the two other fembot-bikes either. We know Chromia is one... What the hell is going on?

Also, "The Doctor" is a silly name.

I think these articles are being fed with old information and/or mis-information. Much of it seems like old news......

Yes... why isn't Demolisher listed as a Constructicon? I kind of agree with Scavenger = Demolisher by what I saw in those leaked pics of his toy in vehicle mode. Why did they do that? Why not just call him Scavenger??? I really hope this doesn't turn into a Brawl/Devastator confusion. Ugh.

I know Bay is criticized left and right on many fan sites. I for one actually like what he's done... but my one gripe is this name confusion that I think is at least partially his fault. Like him calling Scorponok "Scorpinox" and him not remembering what Frenzy's name was. I also recall watching one of those behind the scenes parts of the BluRay disk where he called Blackout "Blackhawk".

I attribute this Brawl/Devastator confusion to him and Demolisher/Scavenger confusion to him too -- and the fact that he chose Bonecrusher as the name of the "Buffalo" military vehicle in TF1 and now it can't be used for a constructicon in TF:RotF. If he just would have chosen a different name like Onslaught or even Crumplezone or make him called "Demolisher", then we'd have Bonecrusher for a Constructicon name and perhaps Scavenger would be Scavenger and not Demolisher -- I know I'm a G1 fanboy... and I'll get over it and still enjoy this new movie. I'm just ranting on my one beef with Bay. It's seriously my only real issue with him.

Autobot Firestorm wrote:What are the chances that Ravage turns out to be the Pretender that was previously rumored? I was thinking there was a video posted where students are fleeing a scene where a blonde girl was walking after them....

The information states that Ravage will not be able to speak like other Transormers do, nor will any other animalistic Transformer. So I don't believe the Pretender is Ravage.


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