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Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen Hummer H3 Spotted Near Phoenix

A reader over at Tformers.com spotted this Hummer H3T sharing its flatbed trailer with Optimus Prime in vehicle mode. The H3T is painted in the same NEST colors as the Hummer HX concept spotted back in July, with NEST appearing to be some kind of mysterious quasi-governmental organization in Transformers 2. Click through for the full report.

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1:00 PM on Tue Sep 30 2008
By Wes Siler
2,006 views, 8 comments

Latest by polizei144: Does anyone else here think "Revenge of the Fallen" is the most melodramatic name ever created? I feel like it should more »

gadgets

Oh Optimus, What Have They Done To You?

JList, purveyors of all things Japanese and crazy, is offering for sale an iPod dock in the shape of Optimus Prime towing Convoy. The trailer acts as the actual dock, while Optimus' job is apparently to transform and protect the all spark iPod. It's available in original colors, but it also comes in all-white, which is interesting since white is the symbolic color of death in Japan. Perhaps they're beating the dead horse of marketing and have decided to just run with it. It's available for $138 plus shipping if you happen to be an iPod fanboy and a Transformers dork (...Wert?). [JList]

5:00 PM on Fri Aug 1 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
4,568 views, 23 comments

Latest by MrSpyder: Yeah, i had a white Optimus too, it was called Ultra Magnus. He was a car carrier. [mykooltoyz.tripod.com] or [www.ultimatetoys.com.my] more »

transformers 2

Shia LaBeouf's Passenger During Alleged DUI-Related Accident Was Transformers 2 Co-Star Isabel Lucas

The name of the passenger in Shia LeBeouf's alleged DUI accident in LA this weekend wasn't initially released: Turns out it was Transformers 2 co-star and Aussie hottie Isabel Lucas. If you happen to be Shia "The Beef," and find yourself inexplicably famous after last summer's Transformers movie and this summer's horrible crap-fest Indiana Jones flick, you'd be aiming high on the lady ladder too. Oh Beef, you know Megan Fox is going to be all jealous now, stewing on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. She'll probably throw herself at you, even though you never had a chance with Isabel. You sly, sly fox. [TFW2005]

4:40 PM on Tue Jul 29 2008
By Ben Wojdyla
5,159 views, 38 comments

Latest by Collins1: Fox > Lucas more »

novelties

7-Foot Recycled Optimus Prime Sculpture Is A Junkyard Nightmare

This Optimus Prime sculpture should debatably be part of our Junkyard Finds series because this seven-foot monstrosity is constructed entirely of car parts. Unlike the original Optimus Prime, this sculpture lacks color and any Mack truck affiliation, but nevertheless, it's pretty spectacular. The best fact of all is that this 551-pound Optimus Prime is even for sale for a blistering $4,838.71 (likely plus shipping). And Optimus isn't the only Transformer receiving some artistic love.

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12:20 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Travis Hudson
3,095 views, 16 comments

Latest by Nick_Bentley: Wish I had a corn field because that would be an awesome scarecrow. Hmm could always launch bottle rockets out more »

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Optimus Prime Spotting Reaffirms Transformers 2 Filming

Who's that familiar truck spotted on a Los Angeles freeway? Oh! It must be Optimus Prime! This Optimus Prime spotting comes less than a week after we saw twin Barricades in Culver City, Calif., and it just continues to affirm that the sequel to the robogasm Transformers is, indeed, in the early filming stages.
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6:15 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Travis Hudson
9,174 views, 28 comments

Latest by jaimster: The pix show the 170 fwy, not Culver City... more »

transformers

Homemade Optimus Prime Costume Also Deserves Props



It may not quite be the Citroen transformer, but these kids still deserve props for creating a Optimus Prime costume worthy of recognition. It appears to be around 10 feet tall, which is inching closer to a scale model of the real (and by real, I mean not-real) Optimus Prime [Blasphemy! — Ed.] Click the video above for a very anti-climactic video of Optimus Prime getting dressed and ready for work in the morning (and by work we mean killing Decepticon assholes). And y'all thought it would be the new boss-man doing the Transformers posts around these parts, eh?

[Techeblog]

4:15 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Travis Hudson
186,151 views, 34 comments

Latest by sonjica: that "kid" is actually a 30 year old guy.. he has another 3 videos uploaded on his youtube account (username: more »

freedom isn't free

Optimus Prime Hit With $236,000 Insurance Premium

Saving the world from evil Decepticons isn't all it's cracked up to be. For one, the overheads are ridiculous. With gas set to hit $4.00 a gallon, Matrices of Leadership running a cool $6.5 million and less than understanding insurance agents, we're surprised they don't pack it all in for a lucrative reality TV show gig or just subcontract the work to Halliburton. More »

1:45 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By Wes Siler
2,298 views, 7 comments

Latest by Worf: Well, if all our technology came from Megatron, then the Allspark would make Decepticons by default, no? (And Megatron really doesn't more »

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Slate's Swansburg Pits 1986 Transformers Movie Versus 2007 Transformers Movie, Forgets About Generation One

I cannot believe I'm about to engage in a toolerific blogosphere tête-à-tête with John Swansburg on Transformers mythos — but whatever, I must defend an egregious display of fan-boy cultural blasphemy. Swansburg tries to provide a compare and contrast on the 1986 Transformers movie and the 2007 Transformers movie debuting today. The problem is Swany has totally missed the point here and is making the cinematic error of basically correlating apples to Decepticons. The new movie was never meant to be any kind of a replacement, re-do, remake or re-anything of the 1986 movie. Rather, it's an attempt... More »

2:30 PM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Ray Wert
2,830 views, 14 comments

Latest by thnikkamax: Bah weep grana weep nini bong, bee-otches! more »

jump on the gm bandwagon today!

The Jalopnik Transformers Movie Quasi-Review: An Ameribot Revolution!

Last night Ben Wojdyla and I made our way over to Birmingham to take in a sneak preview showing of the new Transformers movie. This review is split into two parts — one that's safe and spoiler-free (starting here above the fold) and then the nitty-gritty of the film (at the bottom of the area in italics below the fold). Peruse the part below the fold at your own risk and may the maker have mercy on your non-robotic soul. Oh and the pictures, there's some LA preview pics in there and some pics the General gave us of some of the designers — oh, that first one's Brian Smith, he put the stripes on Bumblebee, and yes, that's the light-up Autobot t-shirt. — Ed. More »

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12:01 AM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Ray Wert
7,007 views, 29 comments

Latest by JayP71: Finally saw it yesterday. Anybody that hasn't yet: do so when you're able. That was a great movie and it more »

i want my transformers toys!

Vote For Brian Lam, Our Little Gadget Bitch

This is Brian Lam. Brian runs our little site obsessed with gadgets. Brian's usually a good guy, but today he's pissed one of us off a little. Can anyone guess why he may have pissed off one of us? If you can't figure out why, then you obviously haven't been reading us enough. But we won't hold any grudges against Brian. Oh, wait — is there some sort of nerd popularity contest poll going on over at Business 2.0 today where you can vote whether or not Brian matters? We wouldn't want to influence that in any way now would we? Hmm — well — just to show we're good sports — we ask you guys to head on over and help Brian out by giving him "100" after you're done looking at him playing with toys below. – Ray Wert More »

8:15 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Ray Wert
894 views, 11 comments

Latest by Ray Wert Jr: @Ray Wert: Wouldn't I be Ray Wert IV? Or am I Jr. till you die? Or how does that work? more »