Electric Playground were onsite at BotCon 2009 and as part of their "More Than Meets The Eye" week coverage prior to Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen's US release date, they showed off two interviews. First one is a quick interview with the ever loveable Peter Cullen, covering the differences of voice acting when he did the original cartoon as compared to voicing for the video games. Second video is with Stan Bush, how  "The Touch" had a different movie in mind and how he didn't expect the song to have such staying power post 1986's Transformers: The Movie.

Watch Peter's video here and Stan's video here at Electric Playground!

Amazon.com has put up two new listings for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Robot Heroes Battle Scenes. While there are no images yet, we now know that "Shanghai Shootout" and "Desert Devastation" will be joining "Battle for the Allspark" and "Battle of the Fallen" in this line of multi-figure sets. Desert Devastation sounds like a good place to expect that colossal Robot Hero Devastator that we saw awhile back!

Click here and here to see the listings, and then discuss discuss these sets here in Nevermore's thread!

Vansch of HK-TF.com has posted images of a new Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Arcee toy. Possibly. It's not yet clear what the toy is, but guesses are pouring in! Legends? Scout? Fast Action Battler? No one really knows, but the guessing game sure is fun!

You can see the images here, and then share your guess as to what the figure is here. Thanks to Nevermore for the news!

Curious on the experience of Michael Bay, cast, and crew when it came to shooting on the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt as well the ruins in Petra, Jordan for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? In the case of the Pyramids, it was when their permit wasn't ready by the time they got to Egypt that they got lucky with a loophole on reaching the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities, Zahi Hawass. On Petra, Bay had to get his crew back to work when they were shooting home video of the ruins rather than shooting the film.

Check it out at Bay's site or at USA Today!

Arriving at Footlocker stores in the next couple of weeks is a series of Nike sneakers inspired by popular Transformers Generation One characters.  These sneakers feature packaging that are an homage to the original Transformers packaging.  Three sneakers are announced so far, with Bumblebee and Soundwave shown at Sneaker News.com.  The third set looks to be inspired by Megatron, based on concept photos.

You can discuss the news on our forums.

*Update* There are now images of the Megatron shoes. Classics fans will be pleased to see the colors used. Henkei fans, not so much. You can see the shoes here. Thanks to Solarstorm for the link!

Interested in some of the mechanics behind the special effects for our beloved transforming alien robots? Read up these two articles! Visual Effects Supervisor Scott Farrar worked not just on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, but also Transformers, Jurassic Park, Men In Black, and Minority Report, to name a few other big films. Farrar talked to The Film Yap about the changes done to the original Transformers and alongside improvements. Some of the ILM crew talked with Studio Daily on the more technical details when it came to dealing with the IMAX format, such as shooting an entirely new library of effects (smoke, dust, dirt, etc.) due to resolution differences of a normal 2000 resolution to 4K resolution that works on IMAX.

Read up Scott Farrar's words at The Film Yap, and check out Studio Daily's interview with some of the ILM crew!

Wondering about "Transformers: Art of the Movies " that's supposed to have glorious hi-res photos from Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen? There's a bit of a catch. As most of the online retailers are showing the book is either out-of-stock/print, release date of next year, or none at all, it's because the book has hit a bit of a delay. Simon Furman's response on the TF Generations 2009 entry at his blog indicates that it's waiting approval and clearances, and it's out of his and Titan's hands at the moment.

Read his response at his blog.