At Wizard World Philadelphia, the Transformers toy line received recognition for its long life, two major motion picture and continued fan support with an induction into ToyFare's Toy Hall of Fame. The award was accepted by Aaron Archer, Design Director for the Transformers brand.

You can watch a YouTube video of the induction here!

The Universe of the Transformers is vast, and populated by many characters. Their universe is a large tapestry, made up of the stories and points of view of countless experiences that serve the larger whole. These are some of those stories. This is: Transformers Mosaic.

6/22/09 Mosaic: Sometimes, A Brief Madness is ALL it takes to make a decision...

Fan of M&Ms and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, check out these collectibles now shown at the M&Ms site! Other than a candy dispenser, there's also figure stands of Red cosplaying as Optimus and Yellow as Bumblebee, alongside two miniature handheld fans, plus M&Ms Transformers Tins!

Take a look at the collectibles' page!

Courtesy of Jim (no relation to Jim Sorenson) at the IDW boards, we now have a look at IDW's solicitations for September! Do mind that some of the summaries might be considered a bit spoilerish.

• TRANSFORMERS: ALL HAIL MEGATRON #15
  Nick Roche, Denton J. Tipton (W), Roche, Casey Coller (A), Roche, Coller (C)
• TRANSFORMERS: TALES OF THE FALLEN #2
  Simon Furman (W), Carlos Magno (A), Magno, Alex Milne (C)
• TRANSFORMERS BEST OF THE UK: PREY #2
  Furman (W), Geoff Senior, Jeff Anderson (A), Andrew Griffith (C)
• THE TRANSFORMERS: ALL HAIL MEGATRON, VOLUME 2
  Shane McCarthy (W), Guido Guidi, Emiliano Santalucia, Robert Deas (A), Trevor Hutchinson (C)
• TRANSFORMERS ANIMATED VOLUME 11
• Marty Isenberg (W), Various (A)

Read the original post at the IDW boards and sound off at this thread!

ComingSoon.net has a transcript of a Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen press conference held at the Four Seasons Hotel in Los Angeles, while the Los Angeles Times' blog the Dish Rag has video clips. Those present was Michael Bay, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, Kevin Dunn (Ron Witwicky), Megan Fox, and Ramon Ridriguez (Leo Spitz). What's covered at the conference was: them trying to represent every military facet and working with the military, the Twins Skids and Mudflap, Ramon revealing (and surprising Bay) on being injured during the Devastator take, mentioning President Obama again, how they worked around when Shia injured his hand, and other various points. Also revealed is the length of the IMAX cut, that of 2 hours and 20 minutes.

Read up the transcript at ComingSoon.net, and check out the various video clips at the Dish Rag, courtesy of the Rag's writer Elizabeth Snead!

You can catch the cast of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen comprising of Josh Duhamel (Army Major Will Lennox), Shia LaBeouf (Sam Witwicky), Megan Fox (Mikaela Banes), and Isabel Lucas (Alice) on Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC over the course of the next week! Isabel shows up on June 23, whereas Duhamel appears on the 24, June 25 is with Shia, and June 26 will be with Megan.

Thanks to RichardX1's thread for giving us the headsup!

Dave Itzkoff of the Arts Beat blog from the New York Times recently sat down with Michael Bay, covering how Bay was persuaded by producer Steven Spielberg, how Bay approached to shooting both Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, and how the Jordanian kids recognized Bumblebee when they were shooting in Salt, Jordan.

Read the entire thing at the NY Times' Arts Beat blog!