I was eagerly looking for this trailer the other night when it was airing on Entertainment Tonight but I didnt see the show and figured it would be online. Well the either didn’t show it on ET, or they kept a tight lid on people bootlegging it to YouTube, but now International Friend Godfather tipped me off that Apple Trailers has the Teaser Trailer and it explains a bit about the title.
Or you can check the embedded clip here:
I wonder if they will make some sort of suggestion that the conspiracy suggesting man never stepped foot on the moon (and that it was supposedly filmed in a soundstage) is a planted theory by the government to divert attention away from this bigger secret they do want to keep.
But also, this makes you wonder about that teaser used for the first Transformers movie (filmed by Bay with a cam corder and minimal effects in the dessert) that features the Mars Rover encountering what looks like a robot. If Nasa secretly knew about these extraterrestrial bots all along and the lunar landing was intentional to explore a crashed Transformer ship, wouldn’t it seem strange that the Mars Rover footage was such a shock to them?
It looks cool as always, and I hold out hope that this will be better. Visually the movies kick ass, and its been enough for me to tolerate the weak plot so far. But maybe, just maybe this will be as good as Shia LeBeouf was on speed about.
Pretty good tease. Hopefully it will be better than the last film.
Guys
The trailer is still up on Apple.
I haven’t kept up with the storylines apart from G1 and very minimally afterward. Still, I would think that with some of the posts above that people point out as an ancestor to Optimus, I would lean that way myself. With the original G1 storyline being that the Autobots were leaving Cybertron to find a new source of energy, it could work with this as well (ship losses power and crashes on the dark side of the moon, just mere inches [figuratively] from a new power source – Earth).
The trailer has me as excited as the original trailer did (for the Bay movies) and I saw that one 4 times in the theatre. I seriously can’t wait for July, but until then, it’s gonna be awesome speculating what’s coming and what new robots/story will be involved!
The trailer is still up HERE.
Nope. I’m getting “video cannot be found” when i try to play it from the embedded video.
um,… im sure the trailers all over fucking youtube, amigos
Damn,… i wanted to see that trailer.
Me too!!!!
Just thought you should know the video is no longer working. It was removed because of copyright issues.
Take this with a grain of salt wikipedia is already saying its Alpha Trion.
I have to believe that the above is the “Arc” with the last robot they show being Alpha Trion. Perhaps when they say “no signs of life” that means that Alpha Trion does not have a prominent role in the movie.
I also have to believe that this ties in to the first Transformers teaser with the Mars Rover and NASA being shocked by what they found. Mars Rover was sent to search for other findings based on the crash landing found on the moon….
Regardles- I like the way this movie is shaking up. Dark and mysterious definitely fits the movie better…
That’s a little less than a grain of salt there my friend.
I could go to that page and edit it to say that Bot is HotRod and it would be as “valid” an information source.
Wiki is interesting and there is a lot of information on it, but I take any information I find there as valid as “some guy on the street told me” Entirely possible its true, but not “proof”
SO lets break down this mystery bot by defining features
Blue eyes = auto bot – but wait Unicron has blue eyes
Yellow Tint – Sentinel Prime, Unicron
Fu man chu/gotee – Alpha Trion, Unicron
Prominent Pointed Shoulders – Alpha Trion, Unicron
Unicron meets every portion of the defining features but is missing legacy characteristics (viking horns/demon wings). Alpha Trion and Sentinel Prime are not everyday characters and fan service has been attempted in every movie.
If i were a betting man it would be Unicron but it could also be a new bot all together.
Unicron had Green Eyes not Blue
Unicron is on his own team. He is neither blue or red eyed.
Unicron’s eyes are violet and when he yells they beam BLUE. I am looking at it right now.
As for the wiki, i know it isn’t any kind of source i was just adding to the conversation.
And also Unicron is the size of planet. Thats the main reason why I don’t believe it’s him but rather Sentinel Prime or someone else. But hey, you never know with what they decide to do. It would be kinda cool to see Unicron but in a way, it’s been done already.
Blue Eyes: Autobot
Red Eyes: Decepticon
That bot is a Autobot. And the ship it’s “The Arc”
its Alpha Trion
but anyone else notice that the first Transformer we see is clearly Optimus Prime as the moon dust falls away from his face!
Clearly Unicron or Alpha Trion
Ok! now this is what I’m talking about! That peaked my interest more than any action set piece they have done for the previous movies. Hopefully they will built on this sci fi element and give us a great sci fi story to go along with the action. Something that makes sense and pulls you further into the Transformer universe. We’ll have to wait and see but so far I’m liking it.
It could be Unicron, it certainly looks like a way smaller version, but clearly the same design.
he probably gets bigger by devouring planets, starting with the moon or something.
and if you want it to make more sense then that, just remember- in ROTF Devastator was fighting as the Decepticons that made him up were fighting soldiers in another place AT THE SAME TIME.
And remember that Unicron is the size of a planet. He is a transformer that devours other planets, accorind to the animated movie. So I am leaning more towards Sentinel Prime instead of Unicron.
I thought it was kinda cool how they made the ship resemeble the Ark from the series and I think that bot they show might be Sentinel Prime, the leader of the autobots before Optimus.
Not to mention they already had Megatron BEFORE the Mars Rover stuff, so even the first movie made it clear that the Mars Rover video and photos wasn’t their first time encountering these aliens, just their first time getting a glimpse of a LIVE one.
To offer one explanation – the stuff on the Moon is all centuries old and not in working order – Nothing more then recovered relics. Then the Mars Rover sent back video and images of a RECENT, LIVING one. That’s where the shock comes in.
Is it just me or does that transformer look a little like Unicron?