Slash Film have reported, via Jason X, that TF2 producers were scouting locations with scale models of Optimus Prime, Megatron and Star Scream:

My girlfriend works at Eastern State Penitentiary in the Fairmount area of Philadelphia. It was used as a prison from 1829 until 1971, and is now a historical site and museum. Anyway, at the prison today producers for Transformers 2 were on site with scale models of Megatron, Optimus Prime and Star Scream and were scouting filming locations in cell block 1 and the prison kitchen. Just thought I’d let people know that filming should begin here soon.

TFW2000 state:

The Pontiac Solstice vehicle prop of Autobot Jazz arrived on the set of Transformers 2 earlier today. In addition we’ve received confirmation from a second tipster that Darius McCrary, the voice of Movie Jazz, is now on set as well.

On Don Murphy’s forums he has publicly stated that the production team and co are hoping to achieve a set of 20 robots in Transformers 2, with roughly 10 on each side:

“I’d love and think we could almost barely manage ten on each side, with some front and center and others as more supporting.”

Transformers 2 has a subtitle! In a posting made by producer Don Murphy on his forums, he linked to a blog post, revealing the full title to the sequel:

DreamWorks - Paramount Pictures have release the new title - Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen - for Transformer sequel directed by Michael Bay. The Office’s Rainn Wilson joins the original cast of Shia LaBeouf, Megan Fox, Josh Duhamel, John Turturro and Tyrese Gibson in Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.

Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen is written by Ehren Kruger, Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci and produced by Tom De Santo, Don Murphy and Lorenzo Di Bonaventura.

Preparation at the Steel Works site has begun, and the first images of the area have started to appear online.

It is thought that most of the shooting will be on the western side. A concept car not seen before shall be used during the shoot, and rumors suggest this could be a Transformer, two Blackhawk helicopters will also be in use. Additionally, a car hauler with “2 Saturns and 5 chines styled cop cars” has been spotted on location. The Chinese symbols read only “Import / Entrance”, “Export / Exit”, “Docking”, etc. - vehicle imports we can assume?

Pictures and information come via TLAMB and TFW2005.

TFLAB are reporting, through a tip from “Gwen”, that Nina Dobrev (Degrassi: The Next Generation) may be featuring as a university student in TF2.

Chud have confirmed that John Voight (Defense Secretary John Keller) and Tyrese Gibson will be reprising their roles in the movie sequel:

‘I just talked to Shia a second ago, and left John Voight a message 15 minutes ago,’ he said, inadvertently letting slip that Voight’s Secretary of Defense character returns for the sequel.

‘Michael Bay is going to up the ante on round two and raise the level. I can’t go into any details , but it’s going to be some real one of a kind things in this movie that no one has seen visually in their life. Michael Bay is really fired up to try and outdo what he did on the first round.’

A promotional newsletter released by Dolby for this year’s ShoWest contains a list of upcoming 3D feature films in 2009 - at the very bottom is Transformers 2, amongst Avatar and Tintin.

Via Comics2film

In a very brief post on his blog “Shoot for the Edit“, Michael Bay responded to claims about Jonah and Teresa Palmer:

No we have stopped negotiating with Jonah, and Teresa Palmer was not considered for a role - you have wrong info.

M

Isabel Lucas’ management agency, Meissner Management, has listed Isabel as a cast member of the Transformers sequel:

ISABEL LUCAS
NEW - Feature Film “TRANSFORMERS 2” DreamWorks US Production. Role of ALICE.

Alice is not listed in the cast breakdown we saw leaked a short while back.