Seibertron are reporting, despite the statement on Michael Bay’s blog that filming had wrapped, that TF2 has been filming aboard the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier over November 1st and 2nd.

Pictures from the set

These images show Shia LaBoeuf with ‘battle damage’, Michael Bay filming shooting a catapult launch, Josh Duhamel and Tyrese.

Set Report

Skalor’s Postcard
Greetings from San Diego! Just got back today from deployment at sea on board the U.S. Navy carrier Stennis and thought I’d fill everyone in on what I experienced this past week with the ROTF cast and crew. It’s true, filming did take place this past week, all shooting was completed in a two day span, Saturday the 1st with the IMAX folks filming flight operations, and Sunday the 2nd with Michael Bay in action around the ship. Rumors flew around for weeks about what exactly was going to happen with the movie so it was really cool to see it all go down.

Saturday afternoon two transport planes arrived, the first carrying Shia Labeouf on the first and on the second were Michael Bay, Tyrese Gibson, Megan Fox and Josh Duhamel. They arrived in costume (at least Tyrese and Josh did) and began working almost immediately. From what I saw, all of the filming with the cast was done in “closed” sets. The rest of the filming on the flight deck seemed to be flight operations, of which I was there and will hopefully make the final cut. We were told to just act natural and continue our jobs as normal, which is easy to do when you’ve actually got work to do. I did however try really hard to get into one shot in which I just walked back and forth for about 20 minutes.

The whole experience was a lot of fun and everyone in the cast and crew were really cool. Shia Labeouf and Megan Fox were really hard to find on the ship, I think they were working just about their whole time there. I’m not sure which part of the movie was filmed there but it is probably somewhere toward the end, (Shia had “beat-up” make up on, and Duhamel and Tyrese were in dress uniforms). Overall it was an awesome time.

Sorry if I didn’t give you any good spoilers or anything like that, but I think the suspense is more fun anyway. By the way, the crew working on this movie have been busting their asses to make a good film, that much I can attest to.

This should put to rest any of the rumors that they’ve completed filming for now, although this may have been the last of the filming (I didn’t ask). [...]

Seibertron’s s250 has posted some more rumors, again concerning the possible Devastator toy made up of constructicons, previously reported in early September to have seven distinct pieces.

S250 now suggests that each of the constituent parts will also have their own robot modes:

In the Gestalt version, most construction vehicles [are] just transformable drones as a part of Devastator, [with] no robot mode. These vehicles will get Deluxe versions [that] can transform to robots, but I think Deluxe version [won't] combine.

Meanwhile TFW have provided a structure for this beast:

Dump Truck – Right Leg, Bulldozer – Left Leg, Wheel Loader – Right Arm, Truss Crane – Left Arm [no robot mode on this one], Excavator – Right Shoulder, Articulated Dump Truck – Left Shoulder, Cement Mixer – Head

The structure is said to be similar to that of the Energon Optimus Prime’s combined form:

The TFW insider has returned with another rumor ’scoop’, proposing that Isabel Lucas’ character, Alice, will be a Pretender.

The TFW TF2 Insider has confirmed that the character of Alice, as played by Isabel Lucas, in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, is a Pretender. For those not familiar with Transformers sub-lines from the 1980s, Pretenders are Transformers that are hidden inside a shell that acts as their disguise. In the case of Alice, the shell will be an attractive human woman while the inner robot is best described as a hybrid of the Frenzy robot design from the first movie. The Pretender Transformer will have an arm that transforms into an energy weapon, a long tongue, and a scanning tentacle.

This block of text explains what a Pretender is; principally a robot surrounded by an organic shell – in this case Isabel Lucas. Wikipedia reveals more details about the fiction behind them, their introduction in 1988 and so on. We’ve already seen Alice involved with some messy green goo and an angry bumblebee, what does that now suggest? Another scene also shows Alice walking calmly away from some sort of panic or destruction suggesting something sinister.

Thanks for the heads up Miguel!

The Gossip Girls earlier reported that Shia LaBoeuf had flown back to LA after wrapping the filming of Transformers 2 and his role as Sam Witwicky.

Now Michael Bay’s blog has been updated, confirming that principal photography on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has wrapped:

Nelson here..

As of this week, principal photography for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen has ended.

Congrats to Michael and his team.

Now the editing and finalizing of the FX can begin; most importantly we should begin to see some shots of the computer generated robots. Still no date on the teaser trailer.

A member at the Michael Bay forums claims to have seen Michael Bay in and around L’Arc de triomphe in Paris around the end of October. This could be fake, but if not, is likely padding or filler footage to build on the French setting we earlier saw, involving Sam Witwicky’s parents.

Forget the Middle East, he’s in France right now…

… in Paris, more specifically.

And this is what he was shooting: L’Arc de triomphe.

Now that was weird… I was walking home from work, and just happen to see a small group of people around a camera… When I got closer, I saw that Bay was riding it (literally). The last thing I would have expected is to see Bay shooting in my neighbor.

The scene was about a news anchor from CNN doing a report… It feels like main photography is getting closer to the end.

Producer Ian Bryce was here as well.