According to tformers.com who is covering the Hasbro New Product Unveiling at BotCon 2006, here are the news related to the TF movie in 2007, including related merchandise:
- The movie will be released in the 4th of July, 2007 (7-4-7 for easy remembrance)
- The main toyline will be out on the 2nd of June, when EVERYTHING will be released.
- There will be two new movie preview figures to be released on the 2nd of May, nothing yet on who those two will be.
- The movie line will be a full line. It will be broad and will have multiple scales.
During the unveiling, a clip from the movie has been shown to them lucky fans. A short summary includes, but is not limited to, a yellow corvette, pics of OP as a truck, army scenes, lots of explosions, a jet flying by, a hummer, a blown-up bus, and more explosions. Also, there were no scenes of anything in robot mode.
Also, when a question was raised whether who had the most input on the character designs of the TFs from the movie, and they said that it was a great and fun partnership with Hasbro and Bay, one that is on trying to make cool characters that looked good on screen, but have a certain heritage. There were other stuff that were tackled, mostly on the IDWs, toy releases, and well, Optimash Prime, so read them all here.
On a side note, I’m ecstatic that they chose Red Alert to be the official mascot (?) for this year’s con. Power to the field medics!
From tfw2005 and the transformers 2007 movie blog
A pool of images related to the transformers movie has been created over at flickr. A total of 55 members and 271 images as of posting this article are in full force, showing pics from sketches of TF character designs to actual shots taken from movie shootings.
So far, we have sightings of a jet fighter canopy, chunks of a yellow transformer (believed to be Bumblebee), rumored chunks of megatron, prime running along what is thought to be desert sand, and many more. See for yourself at http://flickr.com/groups/transformersmovie/pool