Vote For Best Fan Blogging

The Total Film Movie Blog Awards ends January 25th as Transformers Live Action Movie Blog is up for contention. This site did have a pretty good lead until Twilight Movie News got into the game and now commands a 66% lead. We can not have that wimp of a movie beat anything Transformers related.

So vote for me, or at least Transformers here.

Update: Well it appears that polls closed much sooner then expected. I guess I forgot to account for time zone differences. Oh well. Thanks for those that voted, the support is appreciated.

Hearts of Steel Optimus Prime

This has nothing to do with the movie, just some good old fashion Transformer goodness combined with Transfan know how. A few years ago a limited series from IDW came out called "Hearts of Steel" that is kind of an elseworlds story of the Transformers landing on earth sometime around the Industrial Revolution in the early 1900s. Famed Transformer artist Guido Guidi was able to redisign our favorite Transformers based on technology of the time period such as Optimus Prime as a locomotive.

I guess "griffith_76" took a liking to it because he built his own Optimus Prime Transformer that turns into a locomotive that looks pretty darn sweet, complete with a Nemesis Prime repaint. Below are just two pictures but the full gallery is worth the time to check out.

If you do like the toy and have money to spend, you can buy an unassembled kit for $125. For additional money you can get it pre-assembled ($80) and painted ($80). Full details are at Monoblog. It just shows that Hasbro isn't even close to taking advantage of the many iterations and possibilities of the Transformer brand.

Bruticus, Wreckage Repaints

It appears a few more repaints will join the Transformers 2 toy line in the form of Bruticus and Wreckage.

Bruticus is a repaint of the Transformers: Energon toy that came out around 2005. A full gallery can be found here.

Wreckage orginially was released with the first movie toyline, based on a character that had been part of early drafts and designs for the movie. Now the character will be mostly green. A full gallery of that toy is here.

Peter Cullen's Knight Rider Appearance

The episode of Knight Rider where Peter Cullen's reprises his role as the voice of KARR aired last night. Over all the episode was rather bland and considering the build-up, the appearance of the very Transformers-like KARR was just so-so and very brief. How he was defeated just stuck me as strange as if it was a either a stunt that had to be saved in the editing room or maybe they ran out of money.

Thanks to wickweezl, below are two videos. The first is a converted version of NBC's sneak peak and the second is a voice only video (for copyright reasons) of only the moments from the episode that used Peter Cullen's voice.



If you interested in watching the entire episode, click here or watch below. Peter's part in the episode starts at 35:05 point.

Kyle Busch M&M Transformer Car

If you're a fan of Nascar, Transformers, and M&M's you might be interested in the Kyle Busch #18 Diecast car that is for sale. It's the person's car with Optimus Prime colors, Transformers 2 logo and the M&M TF characters. Buddytoy's has it for "sale" at $62 for those interested. Sadly the car does not transform.

Update: Turns out that the above car isn't the only version that will be available. A 1/64 scale will almost be made and can be ordered here for $5.50. I don't know much but I am guessing that size is about Matchbox sized.

Autobot Fleet, Helicopter Painting Pictures

A few pictures from past Transformers sets have come up again. First up is a gallery of pictures that show the work that went into converting helicopters into the Shanghai police copters used for the Bethlehem set back in June. Below is a before, during, and after pictures but a whole lot more are at the full huge gallery here.
Thanks to Mike taking and providing the pictures for us.

Spoiler-TV posted to pictures Queensway Bridge, Long Beach, CA that shows off the entire known Autobot fleet (except for the always absent Ratchet).

Jolt Video and More Constructicon Toy Pictures

The toy pictures and such keep coming. For those thinking "who cares about toys!", the reason is hey we like toys and the toys provide hints on the movie characters and their design. They are basically plastic spoiler alerts.

First up is a video review of Jolt the Volt Fast Action Battler brought to you by the same person that did the great Audi R8 review.


More Construction RH400 pictures have popped up that show off the vehicle mode and head, still no confirmation of character name of if this is 1 of many. Below are a few pictures, the full gallery is here.