Fox: Bay "...like Hitler"

When Megan Fox opens her mouth, often interesting things come pouring out. The latest is her talking about Transformers director Michael Bay's personality when he is working on a movie and comparing it how he is off the set in an interview with Wonderland Magazine. The interview, part of Fox's promotion of Jennifer's Body, is available in print but the Big Picture has Bay specific part.

...as Fox puts it: "[Michael] wants to create this insane, infamous mad-man reputation. He wants to be like Hitler on his sets, and he is. So he's a nightmare to work for but when you get him away from set, and he's not in director mode, I kind of really enjoy his personality because he's so awkward, so hopelessly awkward. He has no social skills at all. It's endearing to watch him. He's so vulnerable and fragile in real life and then on set, he's a tyrant."

Feeling the love here.

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Transformers #2 Covers

IDW Editor in Chief Chris Ryall has revealed the covers for the second issue of Transformers via his blog Ryall Time. Issue #1 is coming out in November. The write is Mike Costa, art provided by Don Figueroa. The Bumblebee variant cover is by Andrew Wildman. (via TFormers)

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ROTF The Game Concept Designs

Head over to The Bad Flip blog for a huge volume of concept artwork for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Game. The blog is from Luxoflux's Ken Christiansen who was the character design artist on the game. He writes and posts images about the design work of many of the characters in the game including the Map & Character DLC pack that just came out. Posts cover design for G1 Starscream, movie Soundwave, the OmniBots, Stunicons, Aerialbots, and much more. It is interesting to read just how much thought that goes into many of these designs. From what I can tell the Transformers related posts go all the way back to January 2009 so there is a lot of material to look at so click here to get started. Thanks to Scorpio for the link.

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Masterpiece Grlimlock, Prime in Packaging

Two new Masterpiece line Transformers (well repaints anyway) are coming soon and now the packaging for them has been released. One is for Masterpiece MP-8x King Grimlock that has a crown and color scheme based upon his appearance in the Marvel comic book back in the 80s. The Japan exclusive toy is estimated to be released in December and will cost around $150. The other figure is Masterpiece MP-01B Black Convoy (sometimes called Nemesis Prime) that is basically an evil alternate universe version of Prime (hence the all black look). That figure is also Japan only and will be out in January at a cost of around $110.

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Transformers ROTF Nominated for Scream Awards

Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen recieved six nominations for Spike TV's 2009 Scream Awards. The award ceremony will take place on Saturday, October 17th at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles. I guess the Transformers crew should feel honored but realistically the Spike Awards have no credibility to speak of as it is a popularity contest that attempts to mimic (poorly) the MTV Movie Awards.

The movie was nominated for "Ultimate Scream", "Best Science Fiction Movie, "Best Sequel", "Best Director", "Best Actor in a Science Fiction Movie or TV Show" (for Shia LaBeouf) and "Best Actress in a Science Fiction Movie or TV Show" (for Megan Fox). I am a bit suprised that the movie didn't get a nomination for "The Holy Sh#@ Scene of the Year" category for the forest battle or Devastator merge especially considering what was nominated (see below).

The nominations were decided by the awards "Advisory Board" that includes Tim Burton, Wes Craven, Roland Emmerich, Neil Gaiman, Frank Miller and Eli Rith. If you want to vote for your favorite movie, head to the Scream Award website.

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Play Luxoflux Developers in ROTF Game

Considering the lack of any real information, it seems the chance to play Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen The Game with Megan Fox fell flat. However, that hasn't stopped XBox Live from continuing this time for their "Game with Developers" program which will include more people and longer play time compared.

Ten Luxoflux developers who helped create the ROTF Game will be on XBox Live this Friday, September 4th from 5PM EST to 9PM EST for your buttkicking enjoyment. To participate you will need an XBox Live Gold account and the Map and Character Pack DLC that was released last week. The gamer tags to send invite to are LuxoDev01, LuxoDev02, etc all the way up to LuxoDev10. Good luck. (via TFormers)

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Disney Label Donald Duck Images

New images of Disney Label Donald Duck have popped up online thanks to Hobby Search. The images show off the Japan only figure in his yellow painted glory. His alt mode a Bumblebee-like Voltswagon Beetle. The tentative release date is December for around $45.00. (via Tformers)

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