X17Online have sniped some photos of Shia LaBoeuf and Megan Fox on set, clearly showing Shia’s bandaged left hand. Under the inglorious banner “Megan Fox adjusts her boobs”, this unhelpful article provides no mention of a location or date.

Yesterday filming began at Princeton. Scott has provided this set report:

I work in Princeton and just watched the TF2 crew crash a silver Saturn Astra into the installed lamppost on the corner of Washington Road and William Street around 2 p.m. today. Before the crash itself they ran a few “test crashes,” where the stunt driver screeched to a halt a foot or two before hitting the post, with the camera (on a boom) following the action from above. The actual crash knocked the ground-level cover off the post and ripped off the car’s front bumper. After the crash the driver backed up slightly, then drove forward again for a few feet with the bumper under the front wheels, then stopped, opened the driver’s side door, and fell to the ground. After the shot was over, the driver put the bumper in the car’s backseat and drove the car down Washington Road (headed south), and as it passed me I could see that the front windshield had a hole the size of a baseball in it (with the appropriate spider webbing pattern in the surrounding glass). I’m not sure if that was there before the crash or not (I was about two blocks away from the crash itself). According to one of the PA’s the next shot won’t happen until tonight, though she didn’t say where.

Shia Filming at Princeton:

A barrage of images have also been unloaded onto the internet by BP, JD, JFuller, Cheeseburger and Mike:

Scott’s images:

Contributing source: TLAMB

Zacklur is back with more Transformers 2 pictures from the night of Bumblebee’s 180 degree skid; with further close up shots of Isabel Lucas (Alice in the movie), Michael Bay directing and Shia LaBoeuf. This time we can clearly see the green goo on Lucas’ shoulder – spurted from some unknown source.

Kendall Whitehouse has also updated his Transformers 2 image set (View in slideshow)

Prior to the Isabel Lucas shoot we saw yesterday and the Bumblebee skid, shooting was taking place at the Castle fraternity – on campus, “where the party’s at”, or some such.
TFW2005 have provided pictures leading up to this, showing Michael Bay, Isabel Lucas and Shia LaBoeuf preparing for the scenes and taking time out with some fans. I especially like the shot of Shia taking some time out to sign a toy Bumblebee. Bumblebee, the real thing, can also be seen under his cover – rather indiscreetly:

Reporting to Powet.tv, Josh Landow was there later that day to capture video of Bumblebee screeching away and provide a report of the events that unfolded:

The frat house is known as The Castle because it looks like a castle. Bumblebee was parked out front and they made it look like he was parked in the bushes. There was a huge lighting screen over the car, and 2 giant light balloons (not sure how else to describe them) floating above the set.

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The first shot was a bunch of well dressed good looking college coeds walking around to and fro with some of them seemingly converging on the BB Camaro, saying things like “Wow! Cool car.”

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Next shot was the most involved and took about 3 hours to shoot from every which way, with different lighting, and with slightly different lines even. Shia and a few of the bit players were definitely ad-libbing or at least taking some liberties with the script. This shot consisted of Shia running out of the party because BB’s alarm was going off. Like I said BB was parked in the bushes which gets Sam into some trouble with the frat boys who came running after him asking “Hey Freshman, is that your car parked in our bushes?” Sam replies “uh uh no, it’s a friend’s car – he went to get a new shirt” (or something dumb like that – they kept changing that line). Fratboy responds “How about I park my foot up your ass?” Sam says “I’ll move the car now.” He gets in and has (fake) trouble closing the door because of all the shrubbery. It was hard to hear, but when he got inside the car, I think he said something about Decepticons. And yes it took 3 hours to shoot this.

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Then they moved the crowd back a good ways to shoot some more extras walking about before finally getting to the scene that I knew had to be coming. Bumblebee backs up and drives away (as seen in my video). This was shot using Bay’s camera rigged Porsche Cayenne. I think they shot this like 4 or 5 times with the cars backing up to reset after each take

Filming continues at UPENN, this time it’s a frat party involving Shia LaBoeuf and newcomer Isabel Lucas, TLAMB has provided a set report which describes the in-doors scene via J Fuller:

I was in one of the party scenes. I had to get fitted with jeans and a button down dress shirt, we all were and Shia was wearing dark jeans and a black button down shirt. In the scene which they shot 3 times from different angles Shia was sitting on a old wooden chair when this girl [Isabel Lucas] in a green short dress (who I thought was an extra) was dancing in front of him and kept leaning into him. That’s it for the scene I was in but there is a lot more to it.

Action then moved outside, to a scene involving Bumblebee – Isabel (character named Alice?), leans into the car to speak with Shia, before stomping away. It also looks like there is “green goo” involved, at least that’s the impression you get from the pictures. A second scene with Bumblebee in motion was also filmed – with the car performing a 180 degree skid to line up perfectly with the building entrance (Drexel main building), Jszack got a great video of this scene:

These are some absolutely fantastic shots from zacklur showing Michael Bay, Isabel Lucas and Shia up close:

Filming has now started at the University of Pennsylvania and you can be sure reports and pictures galore shall start pouring in shortly, much as they did in Bethlehem, PA.

First up, a local website, “Dueling Tampons” (I don’t know – best not to ask), managed to capture a shot of Shia LaBoeuf up close and personal, sporting a green “recycling” t-shirt:

TLAMB and FadeSilverScreen have both posted pictures from filming yesterday (at the Quad) and today (at the Castle). One set of images comes via BP, showing the setup at UPENN, stating that filming at the Quad lasted most of the day – almost exclusively with Shia LaBoeuf, though it has also been confirmed that Kevin Dunn (Sam Witwicky’s dad) was on set – as pictures from FadedSilverScreen reveal. Images from today show Shia dressed in blue as he strolls past the camera as shooting begins at The Castle. Michael Bay shows up at the end to greet and sign HD-DVDs for waiting fans.