Jalopnik: Optimus Prime

Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen Hummer H3 Spotted Near Phoenix

Wes Siler — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 13:00:00 EDT

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.

I'm staying at a hotel in Arizona and this trucker was checking in at the same time as me. I overheard him talking about having something in the back that he did not want a lot of people to know about.

After he went up to his room I went to the back of the building to check out what he was talking about. Turns out he had the semi used for Optimus Prime on the back of his truck, in addition to a new vehicle. Looks like a humvee with the word Nest stenciled on the side. I took the pictures with my Blackberry as I don't have my camera with me.

Went to dinner and came back, noticed he covered up the Humvee.

[via Tformers.com]

Oh Optimus, What Have They Done To You?

Ben Wojdyla — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 17:00:00 EDT

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]

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

Ben Wojdyla — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 16:40:00 EDT

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]

7-Foot Recycled Optimus Prime Sculpture Is A Junkyard Nightmare

Travis Hudson — Mon, 19 May 2008 12:20:00 EDT

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.

The company behind this model, Robot-Models.com, also has a smaller version of Optimus Prime currently available as well as Bumbelee. A descriptive paragraph also suggests that Jazz, Ironhide, Megatron, Barricade, Starscream, Blackout and Frenzy will also be available for purchase soon. [Robot-Models via Giz]

Optimus Prime Spotting Reaffirms Transformers 2 Filming

Travis Hudson — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 18:15:00 EDT

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.

I would assume that the Transformer beauties are being relocated to the film set from their respected storage areas. We'll just have to wait and see for ourselves as more pictures begin to pop up. [Superhero Hype via TFW2005]

Homemade Optimus Prime Costume Also Deserves Props

Travis Hudson — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:15:00 EST

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]

Optimus Prime Hit With $236,000 Insurance Premium

Wes Siler — Mon, 09 Jul 2007 13:45:00 EDT

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.

A Letter to Optimus Prime from his Insurance Agent [McSweeney's Internet Tendency]

Photo credit: Mike Bernardo

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

Ray Wert — Tue, 03 Jul 2007 14:30:00 EDT

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...

...to provide an "Origins" story — something more akin to the first three episodes of Generation One cartoons. If anything, Johnny-boy should have been trying to relate the new Bay-directed film to those episodes rather than attempt something so silly as trying to say "the original Transformers movie is better than the new one." I mean, come on — there's no comparison. The original movie had more of an impact on our generation of males than any other cultural event coming from 1984 cartoons — this new movie doesn't replace that. If anything it does an excellent job of retelling the mythos, doing as good a job, if not better. But here's to hoping the sequel of this movie will cause the same type of nightmares the original movie caused and allowing the Swan to compare it to the '86 movie. You know, by like, killing Prime again and stuff for all of the kiddies of today. Let the slaughter begin, I always like to say. – Ray Wert

When Orson Welles Was a Transformer [Slate]

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

Ray Wert — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 00:01:00 EDT

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.

For the next few weeks General Motors is the luckiest and most important automaker on Earth. Seriously. I'm not kidding. Forget the June sales numbers next week, forget the job losses, forget the gas-guzzling SUV's and trucks from the past ten years and a recent history of shoddily-built vehicles. None of that's important — at least for the next few weeks. That's because the General has an opportunity to be the most important automaker on earth — well, at least they will be to a very important demographic for GM — 18-35-year-old males.

And really, that's because watching this movie's like watching a 144-minute commercial for the General. But, if I were really watching a 144-minute commercial for GM, you'd find me face down on the floor of the theater after the lights came back because I'd have performed some form of ritualistic suicide after minute number eleven. But the reason I'm still alive and able to talk about my experience, and do it in such an exuberant way is because despite feeling sometimes like I'd spent hours watching that Michael Bay Super Bowl ad over and over again, I didn't. That was because deep down I understood that the driving scenes which seemed to come ad nauseam — interspersed with intensely visually stunning transformations and bot-battling of course — were nothing more than the realization of just about every scene of the Generation One Transformers. The only difference was in the cartoon, they weren't real cars. In the live-action movie however, they were — and necessitated a real automaker to play a role. In this case that automaker's General Motors.

It makes sense that Michael Bay would choose GM for this movie — he's worked with them in the past on almost every one of his movies and even on the previously mentioned commercial ( Hey, we're assuming the dude needed some cash, ok?). But what makes this arrangement so amazing is that GM didn't pay Paramount a single dime to get it done. That's right — not a single penny changed hands between the big n' beefy automaker and the big n' beefy studio. Sure, GM provided some in-kind contributions of concept vehicles and the like, and of course they've got their own marketing budget running their own marketing campaign — but unlike other automakers, they didn't drop a single pence into Paramount's pocket for the privilege of having themselves featured in a movie about good-guy cars that change into robots.

So all I'm saying is — this fell into GM's hands. So give the General a break when you see the shots of their vehicles every other second. Suspend disbelief for a moment and let yourself get transported back to when you were a kid and Optimus Prime was your latchkey surrogate father, and just let the memories flow. It may be what GM's hoping will happen to you — and the reason why I've said they're the most important automaker in the world over the next few weeks to men of my age and demographic — but, just because it's what GM wants doesn't necessarily mean it's a bad thing. As two of us can attest — suspending disbelief for a few hours can allow you to have one amazingly fun ride.

And now — here's the plot spoilers and little stuff to watch out for that I wrote down while watching the movie:

-Automobile magazine gets a shout-out in the movie — in the form of Sam Witwicky carrying a copy of it in the car on the way to pick up his first car.

-The Decepticon tank's called "Devastator."

-Check out the Bee-Otch rearview mirror ornament in the old-school Camaro.

-One of the most funny car lines of the movie is when Sam calls Bumblebee "Satan's Camaro."

-I knew this was fiction at the point I saw a Saturn, Hummer, Cadillac and a Pontiac all in the same dealership.

-Best lines were a tie between "What's up bitches?" (Jazz) and "You want to lay the fate of the world on the kid's Camaro?" (Agent Simmons)

-Best car porn of the movie: Every dessert shot of the Autobots rolling out. Seriously, I got the chills every single time.

-Bumblebee loses his legs and has Megan Fox drive him around.

-Best scene of the movie: Mustang v. Camaro — seriously had a cargasm, then a robogasm, then a cargasm...epic.

-Megan Fox is hot.

-Jazz gets ripped in half by Megatron on top of a building and dies.

-Optimus has a power-sword, and he wields it like a mad sweet gladiator.

-"One shall stand, one shall fall..."

-Most important thing I have to say about this movie: I owe Michael Bay an apology — Bay delivers with a robotic tour de force unlike anything I've ever experienced. It was the best robogasm of my life and I'm going to see it again and again."

And that's all I've got to say about that. – Ray Wert

Vote For Brian Lam, Our Little Gadget Bitch

Ray Wert — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 20:15:00 EDT

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

Why Megatron Will Never Beat Optimus Prime [Gizmodo]
Honk if You Like Gizmodo: Business 2.0's Poll [Gizmodo]

Transformers Movie Update: MTV Shows Over A Minute Of New Hot Robot Action!

Ray Wert — Mon, 04 Jun 2007 12:00:00 EDT

We just got a chance to check out the new shots of the live-action Transformers movie coming out next month that were shown on MTV last night. Until you've got a chance to check them out above we'll try not ruin it for you — let's just say the footage is — right, robogasmic. Yeah, so what if it's kind of like watching a long commercial for GM products — how many chances do you get to see Optimus Prime battling the Constructicon-like Bonecrusher on a freeway, and toppling over the edge to fall in front of a Cadillac. Crap — now it's a friggin' commercial again! Damn you, Michael Bay! – Ray Wert

Optimus Prime vs Bonecrusher [MichaelBay.com]

Transformers Movie Update: Fifty Hot Screen Shots Of Movie Action!

Ray Wert — Mon, 07 May 2007 14:32:00 EDT

Despite the whole "Optimus Prime with lips" thing, we've got to say we're still pretty excited about the upcoming live-action movie. Of course, maybe that's only because we were able to snag these fifty some-odd PR shots from Paramount Pictures. Enjoy the ensuing robogasm. [Please note, we cannot be in any way held liable for those of you having a robogasm and any other -gasm simultaneously due to the hot robot action spliced in with the hot Megan Fox action. Just sayin'...] – Ray Wert

[via /Film]

Transformers Movie Update: Michael Bay Forum Reports Optimus Prime WILL Have Lips

Ray Wert — Sat, 05 May 2007 17:58:41 EDT

It looks like there's now a definitive answer on the question of "will he or won't he" when it comes to giving Prime the lips that whatever robotic god never wanted him to have over the past however many years he's been around. TFW2005's pointed us to their scoop on everyone's favorite Autobot leader via Nelson over on the Shoot For The Edit forum. He's saying:

"The photo of OP in the LA Times [above] should tell you what the final decision is on the mouth/faceplate/battle mask is."

Guess that means there's still potential for Michael Bay to create some kind of Optimus on Megan Fox makeout session as part of his desire to push the boundaries of unnecessary love stories in an action movie. The part though that's killing us is that the site Admin who tossed it out there is asking for us to "quit the whining." Yes, well — one of us will quite the whining when his boss decides not to so liberally toss around my childhood memories like an empty energon cube. Just sayin'... – Ray Wert

It's time to rest and relax [Shoot For The Edit via TFW2005]
He's not toying around [LA Times]

Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime, It's You -- It's Really You!

Ray Wert — Mon, 30 Apr 2007 16:00:00 EDT

In case you can't tell from the splice below, the Lam-man and the Chenster from Gizmodo have the first hands-on with the Optimus Prime toy from the new live-action Transformers movie. I think I just had a robogasm over this here long-nose semi. We've got a taste of the gallery below, but head over to our gadget-obsessed friends to check out the hands-on. – Ray Wert

Hands-on With the New Optimus Prime Transformer [Gizmodo]

Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime Will NOT Have Lips -- So Sayeth Michael Bay!

Ray Wert — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 02:01:00 EDT

The Bay speaks, and here's what he has to say about our little video we obtained of Autobot king trucker Optimus Prime speaking with the lips:

"The unreleased ad (Prime speaks) that was posted on youtube was a test that European were making with the ads. The clip where OP was "speaking," lets just say that it wasn't OP or Cullen speaking. It was something the European studios added on their own. In fact, it was a test shot."

Glad he finally cleared that up. Oh yeah, we've also got some new screen shots from the movie to show you — enjoy. We know we will, because tonight will be the first night in a long while we can finally sleep soundly knowing Bay hasn't fubar-ed at least this one tiny part of our most cherished memories of childhood. – Ray Wert

Spoke to Michael [MichaelBay.com via freezedriedmovies]

Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime Has Lips?!

Ray Wert — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 18:50:26 EDT

WTF? That's it — Bay officially may have just ruined the movie for me. I'm going to go cry in my corner now and remember back when I was a kid before I accidentally crushed my Optimus Prime toy with a rock. Ooh, I know, maybe I'll spend some time looking through other, non-lip pictures from earlier posts. – Ray Wert

Transformers Toys For Tots: Bumblebee And Optimus Prime Show Their Stuff At ToyFair

Ray Wert — Tue, 13 Feb 2007 13:43:12 EST

The Transformers loving kids over at our favorite hangout for all things robots in disguise is live from New York City's Javits Center, home this week to the annual ToyFair show. This year it would seem it should be renamed something like "BotFair" or "TransFair" or something similar as the big news appears to be something we've been covering over here for quite a bit now, the upcoming Transformers live-action movie. The kiddies at TFW2005 have put together some galleries of what's cooking over on 11th Avenue. And in addition to what appears to be some amazing shots of the Camaro concept-transforming Autobot known as Bumblebee and his big boss truck, Optimus Prime, we've also now got Hasbro's official pictures of the toys — all ready in a gallery below to sate your fan-boy cravings. And if you've even got to ask why we're so excited, just take a stroll down the memory lane of our past posts here. – Ray Wert

Toyfair 2007 [TFW2005.com]

This Is Our Country, This Is Our Autobot: Transformers Trailer Hits The Web, Features Camaro Concept

Ray Wert — Wed, 20 Dec 2006 10:25:00 EST

Although we've heard the General was late to the game of connecting its products to the new Transformers movie, as you can see from the above screen cap we've taken of the trailer from the live-action Transformers movie, they've certainly popped right in faster than a headmaster's crappy little action figure head. The movie will have the Camaro concept car playing an integral role in — oh for Primus' sake, just read this if you haven't been following — there's more important things to be telling you. Because although the US trailer site's not yet live — the UK site is, so hop over across the pond to get a piece of the robot goodness before your friends who aren't reading us see it later this afternoon. Also, feel free to peruse the screen caps we've pulled from the trailer's transforming goodness below. [UPDATE: Apparently Macs with Intel Inside (TM) are outta luck on the full-screen version for now. Watch the tiny Bumblebee-sized one on the site, and then come back over here to gawk at the screen caps.] – Ray Wert

Transformers Trailer [yahoo.co.uk]

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Exclusive Transformers Update! Michael Bay Is Leaking Robot CGI All Over The Interwebs

Ray Wert — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 10:43:14 EST

We received a couple more pics this AM from one of our own embedded "Deep Throat" tipsters in the land of Michael Bay. And this here tipster got us some gems — how about that Bumblebee blaster above, eh? We've got four of the larger-than-life CGI and prettily-painted pics of the Camaro-y Bumblebee, the diesel-y Optimus Prime and of course, the — err — metallic crap-y Megatron in the gallery below. [Hat tip to faithful reader and Studebaker owner Mike!] – Ray Wert

Transformers Live-Action Movie Update: Jazz Is Driving Excitement And Ratchet's Hummer Gets A Robot Mode

Ray Wert — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 18:18:43 EST

Well, it's been a while since we last updated folks on what the interwebs have been abuzz with — Transformers movie leakage. We're more than happy to give you folks an update courtesy of the nice young fan-boys over at TFW2005 — who've come up with some great sketches of two Autobots — Jazz and Ratchet. We've sneak-peeked Jazz above, and showed off how even if Pontiac's not driving excitement so much anymore, he's still showing off that Pontiac arrowhead logo, front-and-center. Pontiac had better hope Mr. Jazz makes it through the movie alive, or else there's going to be much talk (at least here there will be) of how it'll be serving as an analogy for the brand. Also, we've got Hummer-licious Ratchet below the jump and a screen-cap of a scene from the new film picked up from the folks at AintItCoolNews. Hit the jump for the fun. Remember, if you want to keep up to date — there's always our Transformers tag and to keep up visually, there's always the Transformers gallery. – Ray Wert

Transformers Live Action Movie Exclusive! Optimus Prime And Starscream Are So Cybertron, They Don't Even Know It

Ray Wert — Tue, 24 Oct 2006 18:15:00 EDT

Before landing on Earth to delight us with their lovely auto- and machina-riffic disguises, and while still on the planet of Cybertron, the Transformers have some other type of alternate form. That's because, you know, Cybertron may have a lot of things, but we're guessing they probably don't have any Steve Saleen Mustang's or Camaro's. Instead, they'll have what one tipster is calling a "protoform" — the form they have before they get to Earth. It'll be techie — it'll be metallic — and it'll be interesting looking. Unfortunately, in order to make them for little Earth fan-boys, there's a decent amount of lead time involved, and now we've got the first look at the prototype "protoform" toys and packaging of two big names in the big bot universe — Optimus Prime and Starscream. Full gallery via the link below (beware, there be potential spoilers). – Ray Wert

[Optimus Prime and Starscream Protoform Gallery]

? , ? ? ? Part-4 [ACToys.net]

Transformers Movie Exclusive! First Five Pages Of Transformers Script!

Ray Wert — Mon, 11 Sep 2006 16:21:40 EDT

We've seen the entire thing and just to prove it to you — here's the first five pages of what sources tell us is the actual script of the new live-action Transformers movie, named "Prime Directive" in the pre-production. This script is from February, and although we spent a very late night last week running through it — we don't want to ruin anything for you — but be warned, there be spoilers ahead. We also wanted to remind you many Bothans died to bring you these four pages plus the one above, but one who didn't was Matt Hickey, who we now tip our hats to.

UPDATE: Dreamworks hates us for our freedom — but at least we know the script's real.

Transformers Movie Update! Mommy, Bumblebee And Optimus Prime Are Scary Looking!

Ray Wert — Thu, 31 Aug 2006 17:10:32 EDT

So seriously — we'd have never been Transformers fans if this we'd learned about 'Robots in Disguise" from pictures and toys of what you see above and below the jump. Above we've got what's purported to be a full body shot of Autobot bad-ass n' brave leader, Optimus Prime (courtesy of our friends at TFormers.com). And below the jump we've got a full-on facial of what used to be the lovable and huggable Bumblebee — a 'bot who now looks like he'd scare the shit out of us as young'uns (courtesy of our friends at the movie blog). But maybe it's just us. What do y'all think? [Hat tip to tr!]

Seriously, if Bay fucks this up...we're gonna totally cry.

Exclusive Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime And Starscream Robot Modes Are Teh Suck -- And The Pictures Prove It!

Ray Wert — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 15:39:17 EDT

Our Transformers main man, Hue Hughes, gave us the lowdown on some pictures found over on one of the biggest Transformers fan-sites, TFW2005.com. The pictures are none other than robot-modes of Autobot main man himself and sporting the long-nosed semi look, Optimus Prime. And if that isn't enough to get your fan-boy love juices flowing, they've also got first-looks at Decepticon bad-boys Starscream, Blackout and Scorponok. Take a look through the photo gallery below and then click the jump for our two cents.

Ok, now that you've had a closer inspection, I think we'd all be in agreement that these, while definetly rock' n' sock 'em robots, are not what we remember from our childhood — despite the obfuscating mixtures of alcohol and what-not since — and although they're cool, they're really not what we had in mind. But here's the fun part — since they all are going to be done digitally, Michael Bay & Co. can still right these wrongs and give us what we really want — our classic G1 robot modes we all knew and loved instead of these uber-techie monstrosities we all see before us. So yeah, who's with us?

Transformers the Movie Toy Prototype and Character Images (reg. req.) [TFW2005.com]

Exclusive Live-Action Transformers Update: Megatron Must Be Stopped, And Prime's The Robot To Do It

Ray Wert — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 21:54:01 EDT

So there you have it — Megatron in all of his what appears to be frozen glory. We've also got another shot of the Camaro-rockin' Bumblebee fully transformed, as well as another picture of Prime as a long-nosed Semi and finally what looks to be "Team Autobot" — the Black GMC TopKick (Ironhide), the modified H2 (Ratchet) and the Camaro concept (Bumblebee) all surrounding a ready-to-roll-out long-nosed Semi (Optimus Prime). Looks like a fanboy circle-jerk to us! But wait-wait, there's more — click the jump to find out the names of all the Autobots and Decepticons appearing in the movie from an online chat with the producers held this AM. [Hat tip as always to our boy Hue Hughes!]

Autobots
Optimus Prime (semi)
Bumblebee (camaro concept)
Jazz (unknown)
Ratchet (modified h2, medical truck)
Ironhide (black GMC pickup)

Decepticons
Megatron (tank, modified m-1 or something)
Starscream (YF-22 raptor)
Brawl (unknown)
Bonecrusher (probably yellow construction loader)
Barricade (black, mustang police car)
Skorponok (giant robot scorpion)
Frenzy (unknown)
Blackout (probably some large transport military vehicle)

EXCLUSIVE Transformers Update! Optimus Prime CG Partial Reveal!

Ray Wert — Thu, 17 Aug 2006 13:30:00 EDT

So our boy Hue Hughes totally has the inside line on all things Transformers — and he's snagged us some shots purported to be CG tests of the main man himself, Optimus Prime. In addition, there's also a pic of our Camaro buddy Bumblebee, and his brawny brother Brawl. Click through the jump to check out the pics in all their gallery glory.

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EXCLUSIVE TRANSFORMER PICS: Ratchet And A Tease Of An Optimus Prime Leg Send Fanboys Into Fetal Position

Ray Wert — Sun, 06 Aug 2006 23:00:02 EDT

What happens when a YouTube video surfaces with a slide-show of three quick pics of Autobot leader Optimus Prime in truck form, what looks like a leg and potentially Ratchet in vehicle form? Each and every webmaster of each and every Transformer fan site on the web collectively loses control over their sphincter muscles and pubococcygeus muscles and simultaneously release fecal matter and semen into their husky-sized shorts. Sounds graphic? Well, we just wanted to know what we're dealing with over here. All the pics after the jump.

Now Here it Is, Your Jalopnik Moment of Zen: Optimus Prime Is Jewish?

Ray Wert — Mon, 31 Jul 2006 00:30:00 EDT

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New Transformers Movie Update! Optimus Prime Is In The Picture; The Army's Acting Up

Ray Wert — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:03:27 EDT

Our friends over at Double Viking threw this fanboy pant-wetting tip our way — there's been a picture snagged of what is reported to be Optimus Prime from the new live-action "Transformers" movie. We don't know yet whether this is true, but we do know in our search for the facts we did find the great video put together by the boys and girls of Holloman Air Force Base — the set for many of the scenes of next year's big summer bockbuster. The coolest part is how excited the airmen are about the film. Check that out below the jump. Remember, to keep up with all of the amazing fan-boy action, just continue to check out our Transformers mini-site or drop the RSS into your fave reader.

Optimus Spotted! [Filmwad]

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