This post contains spoilers, beware. The May edition of EW contains a Transformers 2 article with excerpts from Michael Bay, it’s main focus is on Shia’s hand injury and the troubles of incorporating it into the movie.

To summarise the piece:

- To build Shia’s injury into the movie the screenwriters added a scene showing Sam Witwicky being injured by a “Space Bridge”
- Shia was given a custom made protective and photogenic cast after delaying surgery
- The Pyramids in Egypt are the setting for the final battle
- Bay likes to blow things up, nothing has changed: “A fish tank, a helicopter, concrete tubes. We blew up a library. This set you’re looking at? This will all be gone.”
- Using CGI to cover up Shia’s injury was too expensive and “a pain in the neck”.

Space Bridge

The bridge is from the G1 cartoons and was built by the constructicons:

The space bridge appears in several universes. The exact properties of the space bridge vary, but typically they serve as a more convenient means of moving Transformers from one planet to another than the traditional means of space travel. [e.g. Cyberton to earth]

Scans after the break…

Scans

Via “reave”