Yayabee at The Arker has posted images of a new Transformers 2 toy. It is an autobot that appears to have an alt mode of a Antonov An-225 aircraft – inside it carries a very small Optimus Prime. The AN-225 is a Russian craft that matches the rear wing and underside design of the toy as well as carrying a spacecraft on top, though it has two additional engines and the nose cone appears different. It also has similarities with the C-130 Hercules.

Whether this character shall appear in ROTF is debatable – it is plausible that the Autobots board the craft (maybe at the Boneyard) to travel to Egypt, but it doesn’t make sense for a Russian plane to be there. Another angle is the craft is originally supplied by the combined UN force in a bid to help fight the Decepticons.

TF08 have posted an image of the blue RC truck, Wheelie, in his alt mode:

TF08 return with pictures of Jetfire, Skids, Rampage, Long Haul, Bumblebee and Ratcher Deluxe toys – including a shot of Long Haul matching Josh Nizzi’s concept art pose.

A Fallen toy is on sale over on eBay at the moment, complete with images of the transformed Cybertronian Jet alt mode.

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More images in the seller’s gallery.

GM have released a website dedicated to the new Autobots, “Autobots Rollout” – it comes with Bios that do not reveal anything, some new images of the vehicles in the sand, each of the released trailers and a video showing a team putting together the Bumblebee model.

More pictures from the Toy Fair this week have revealed the packaging for the Audi R8 toy, a CG face and a name… “Sideways”, not Sideswipe – not at all confusing.

Source: TFormers

Now that our 1080p high resolution trailer is out on Yahoo, it’s time for 70 odd high resolution screenshots that pick out the key parts of the trailer:

The Fallen

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Screenshots

With the 2009 toy fair comes images of new Revenge of the Fallen toys. So far we have two versions of the Devastator toy (one being a simplified FAB version), all SIX alt modes of the constructicons, names for each of them (Rampage, Scavenger, Scrapper, Hightower, Long Haul, and Mix Master) and images of Rampage’s robot mode, Skids and Mudflap robot modes and toys (these are the Chevy Beat and Chevy Trax). The gallery further down also includes boxes for some of the toys, showing CG renderings of their heads (e.g. Demolisher, Rampage Bulldozer, Sideswipe, Skids, Mudflaps). There is also a racing game entitled ‘Devastator Showdown’ which shows a rendered version of Devastator trying to eat Skids.

Devastator, Constructicons

Compare with concept rendering

Hightower (the crane), Long Haul (dump truck), Mixmaster (cement mixer), Rampage (bulldozer), Demolisher or Scavenger (excavator, names seem to conflict), Scrapper (loader)

Skids and Mudflaps

Other toys

Sources

Transformers Club, TFormers, TFW2005, TheAllSpark

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