A new section of the Transformers: The Movie site has been created to promote the upcoming DVD release, and it makes Optimus Prime your trained telephone monkey! Visit http://optimus.transformersmovie.com/, answer a few questions, and Prime himself will ring up you or one of your buddies to warn about a potential Decepticon threat. He'll mention the DVD too, but that's probably just a coincidence. 

Check out http://optimus.transformersmovie.com/ yourself, and hope your name isn't too unusual for Prime's vocal processors to handle. Thanks to Jarodimus of the 2005 Boards for the tip!

And if that's not enough personal attention for you, upload a photo of yourself to http://www.suityourself.tv/ and see what you'd look like as a sort of freaky human/robot alien cyborg monstrosity. Use it as a template for a Halloween costume, or to scare your mom back home into thinking you've been blown up and resurrected as the new RoboCop.

Credit goes to Seibertron.com for pointing out the Suit Yourself site.

With just over ten days until Transformers: The Movie comes out on DVD, interesting tidbits of news keep rolling in. Check these out:

-An early review of the set has been posted at HomeTheaterForum, and it confirms something many fans have been hoping for: deleted and extended scenes! The reviewer reports the scenes are integrated into the featurettes on Disc 2, but at least they're present. Read the full review for more.

-ComicsContinuum has posted screenshots of the menus for the two-disc set. Click this link and scroll down to see. Thanks to TFW2005 for pointing out the link.  

-A poster at DVDTalk provides more details about Best Buy's U.S. exclusives: The two-disc set with bonus Robot Heroes doesn't seem to advertise any special gift-box packaging, and the metallic Voyager Ratchet and Megatron repaints will be available for $19.99 alone, or $14.99 with the purchase of the Transformers DVD. More solid confirmation should be forthcoming soon, but for now, click here for his post.

Finally offering us clear pictures of just what exactly we'll be getting when we buy Transformers: The Movie on DVD at our favorite retailer. First good look at the Best Buy Robot Heroes (battle damaged Optimus Prime and Cliffjumper) along with confirming Target's transforming case and a Circuit City giftcard with around fifteen minutes of exclusive online content when you purchase the film there.

See the full bounty here.

Thanks to DVDTalk for the news.

This rumor is about as rumory as they come, as it's based on some guy talking to some other guy at Target. Regardless, it's interesting, so here's the rumor. A poster on DVDTalk.com says that he was told by an employee that Target would be carrying an exclusive edition of the 2-disc Transformers: The Movie DVD, in a special case that transforms into a 15" tall Optimus Prime. If the rumor is true, it sounds an awful lot like a U.S. edition of the Australian DVD set we reported on back in August (and pictured at left).

Visit DVDTalk for the original rumor. As it's only a week and a half until the DVD release, we should have confirmation on this rumor one way or another very soon. Rumor.

Simon Furman has updated his blog by talking about the IDW Transformers: Mosaic project. He also shares a little about a story that he has written for the project entitled "Hail and Farewell," which will feature Hunter O'Nion and Sunstreaker!

You can read the blog entry here. 

Entertainment Earth has put up a new listing for an upcoming case of Transformers: The Movie Cyber Slammers. The case will contain Optimus Prime, Brawl, Ratchet, and the new figures Jazz and Cliffjumper (Concept Camaro Redeco)! This wave is due out December 2007, but there are no images yet.

You can see the listing here. Thanks to TFW2005 for the link. 

Along with the regular release of the Transformers: The Movie DVD, Walmart will also offer a 2-pack with a bonus DVD featuring an animated prequel. The prequel will be titled "Transformers: Beginnings" and will be narrated by Peter Cullen!

You can see the entry for this set here at Walmart.com.