Thanks to Matrix Prime for posting a thread about a new note from Michael Bay, director of the upcoming Transformers: The Movie, on his blog, about the reaction to the trailer yesterday.  Of particular interest is a push to get the movie released a day early, on July 3rd. 

"Hey, i want to thank everyone for the kind words on the trailer. I'm so used to seeing robots I kind of got bored with the trailer. I forget you have not seen them. When they put the piece together I kept wanting to show our truly awesome shots - but we didn't. I can without a doubt, say we have just teased you on this trailer. We have so many huge shots that will never be in our ads. I bet this will be one of the rare trailers that does not show you the true money shots of the movie.

I would also like fans opinion on opening on July 3rd instead of the 4th. The studio kind of sort of is thinking about which might mean "no". If you spread the word on the Net - everywhere - they might listen. The 3rd everyone is off from work, I say "what the %^\$" play the movie - "give'em giant %^#&ng robot early"!!!

Bay"

Our own PiratedTVPro went to see Shrek III last night, and he reports that the Transformers: The Movie trailer attached to it is definitely different from the one recently shown on Yahoo! .  While the two trailers start the same way, the Shrek III trailer is "definitely focused on the Alt Modes," in his words.

Visit his thread in the Movie Forums for more details. 

Moonbug of Transformers @ The Moon stopped by in this thread to tell us some news about Transformers: The Movie in the UK.  Among the highlights:

• Confirmation of July 27th as the UK release date.
• Details of Paramount's movie marketing.
• The BBC will debut the international trailer (the Phillipines one) on T4 soon.  (It's already on their site here)
  
• Another company will also be doing Movie t-shirts.

A full set of photos of the upcoming Transformers: The Movie Leader-class Megatron toy have been posted on TFW2005 by board member 1UpCheatachu. The images show Megatron from many different angles, in and out of box. 1UpCheatachu also provides a brief review, praising the robot mode and... well... not so much the alien jet mode. But praising the robot mode!

Click here for a look at the stealth jet that obviously believes if it can't see you, you can't see it. And discuss it in our Movie Forum. 

Allspark staffer Onyx Minor has been hard at work this afternoon and now you can enjoy the fruits of his labor.  The Allspark welcomes you to browse our Movie Toy Galleries.   Inside you will find brand new galleries of the following figures:

Voyager Ironhide

Real Gear Speed Dial 800 

Booster X10 

Stay tuned for more galleries.  We will be posting up several more over the next few days.

TFW2005 board member Primus has posted a link to images of an upcoming line of Transformers: The Movie radio-controlled cars that will be sold at Radio Shack. The Transformers Xmods will be customizable but vehicle-only versions of characters from the movie. Barricade and Bumblebee are pictured, and Ironhide, Ratchet and Jazz are expected to follow.

Click here for the original post on the Camaro Z28 forums, featuring images of Bumblebee and Barricade with optional deadly weaponry enabled.  

Rossicles at the TFW2005 boards, with an amazingly good eye, caught a glimpse of a new Sector 7 code in one of the new trailers.  Find and discuss it in this thread started by lonegamer8 in our forums, or you can scour the trailers again for it if you'd like an adventure and an excuse to watch  the trailers continuously (HINT: it's in a Bumblebee scene). 

TFW2005 reports in this post about two Ebay auctions for FAB Brawl (he's FABrawl-ous) and FAB Ratchet seen in package (Click the links to go to the auctions and images).  Credit to Wreckage of the TFW2005 boards.

They also have more news on the massive marketing blitz, which now includes cardboard cutout standees!  Optimus Prime, Megatron, Bumblebee, and Barricade are to be represented, but no news on price point yet.  Click here for the original post. 

Yahoo! Entertainment reports that Transformers: The Movie stars Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox will lend their voices to the upcoming Transformers: The Game.  The always articulate LaBeouf says, among other things, "I've played the game, and it's awesome."  He also describes the joy of working on the project with voice actors from the original series.

Click here to see the original article.