Nelson, the admin of Michael Bay's website and message board, has posted the following update regarding the DVD and Blu-Ray released of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen that will contain the extra footage shown at the Imax.

"I spoke to Paramount today and here's the lowdown on the Imax TF2 release:

Walmart will have exclusive rights on selling the ROFT (w/ Imax) on DVD and Blu-ray."

There is no word on how this will affect non-US releases of the film

Michael Bay has posted an announcement confirming that the third Transformers live action movie will be released on July 1st 2011 less than 2 years time.

Well its official: We have a great Transformers 3 story. The release date is now July 1st 2011. Not 2012.

Today is Day One. This morning started with an ILM meeting for five hours in San Francisco. Currently I'm flying with writer Ehren Kruger to Rhode Island to talk to Hasbro about new characters.

P.S. Megan Fox, welcome back. I promise no alien robots will harm you in any way during the production of this motion picture. Please consult your Physician when working under my direction because some side effects can occur, such as mild dizziness, intense nausea, suicidal tendencies, depression, minor chest hair growth, random internal hemorrhaging and inability to sleep. As some directors may be hazardous to your health, please consult your Doctor to determine if this is right for you.

Pain and Gain is right after shooting of Trans 3.

Michael

TFClub.com­ has been updated with images of ­Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Wideload, a recoloured version of Rollbar.

The images include the packaging as well as Wideload's bio.

eBay seller 911Gabriel-g1 has put up an auction for a Transformers Movie Scorponok Hardcop­y for sale.

The figure is all white, and if it is actually a hardcopy then it shall be made out of resin.  The figure includes some molding differences including 2 exrta eyes (with this version featuring 6 rather than 4).

Transformers ­Revenge of the Fallen concept artist Steve Jung has updated his website with a new piece of concept artwork which reveals his design for what the merged form of the motorcycle gang Arcee, Chromia and Elita-1 may have looked like.­

You may recall that back on the 12th September we reported a news story titled Crew Members Respond to Megan Fox's Insults­, ­in which we published the "Open Letter" that three members of the Transformers and Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen crew had written about Megan Fox in response to comments made by her regarding Michael Bay.

We we rightly predicted Michael Bay came out in her defence and had the original post removed from his message board.

Well now Miss Fox, via her publicist has issued the following short statement.

"I have spoken with the parties involved privately, I am very fortunate to be involved in this amazing franchise and look forward to Transformers 3."

Credit to Digital Spy for the quote.

Transformers Revenge of the Fallen concept artist Ben Proctor has posted some of his work with Concept Art World.­  The images include alternative designs for Devastator, Sideswipe, a model T Ford Transformers and various other images.

Credit to Ras for posting the link on TFW2005.com

In yet another update to MichaelBay.com Nelson, the sites administrator, has posted the following comments in regards to Michael's involvement with the third live action Transformers Movie.

"Nelson here...

I spoke to Michael today and he had a little update on his future projects:

• He will be meeting later this week with Steven Spielberg, and Ehren Kruger to discuss ideas for Transformers 3. By the end of the week he should have an idea if Transformers 3 will hit your local cineplex in the summer of 2011 or 2012.
• In the meantime "Pain & Gain" is looking very possible as is...
• ...Bad Boys 3. Either film coming to a theater near you before or after Transformers 3.

"

Following up from the story we ran last night, as predicted regarding the open letter from three Transformers Revenge of the Fallen crew, and sent to Nelson (editor of Shoot for the Edit)regarding Megan Fox's recent comments about Michael Bay, the letter / comments have now been removed from Michael's website (as we predicted).

Michael Bay has posted the following comment.

I don’t condone the crew letter to Megan. And I don’t condone Megan’s outlandish quotes. But her crazy quips are part of her crazy charm. The fact of the matter I still love working with her, and I know we still get along. I even expect more crazy quotes from her on Transformers 3.

Michael

If you want to read the crew's original reaction then you can still do so on Transformers At The Moon and the news story which we posted last night, mirroring the story for exactly this reason.

Nelson, the admin of Michael Bay's website and message board has posted the following "open letter" response from three disgruntled members of the team that worked on Transformers and Transformers Revenge of the Fallen in reference to comments that were made by Megan Fox and recently published in various magazines and newspapers around the world.  Her comments included a line that compared Mr Bay to Adolf Hitler when he was on the set.  You can view a copy of the letter below just in case it gets retracted.

"Nelson,

This is an open letter to all Michael Bay fans.  We are three crew members that have worked with Michael for the past ten years.  Last week we read the terrible article with inflammatory, truly trashing quotes by the Ms. Fox about Michael Bay.  This letter is to set a few things straight.

Yes, Megan has great eyes, a tight stomach we spray with glycerin, and an awful silly Marilyn Monroe tattoo plastered on her arm that we cover up to keep the moms happy.

Michael found this shy, inexperienced girl, plucked her out of total obscurity thus giving her the biggest shot of any young actresses' life. He told everyone around to just trust him on his choice.  He granted her the starring role in Transformers, a franchise that forever changed her life; she became one of the most googled and oogled women on earth.  She was famous!  She was the next Angelina Jolie, hooray! Wait a minute, two of us worked with Angelina – second thought – she’s no Angelina.  You see, Angelia is a professional.

We know this quite intimately because we’ve had the tedious experience of working with the dumb-as-a-rock Megan Fox on both Transformers movies. We've spent a total of 12 months on set making these two movies.  

We are in different departments; we can’t give our names because sadly doing so in Hollywood could lead to being banished from future Paramount work.  One of us touches Megan’s panties, the other has the often shitty job of pulling Ms. Sour pants out of her trailer, while another is near the Panaflex camera that helps to memorialize the valley girl on film. 

Megan has the press fooled.  When we read those magazines we wish we worked with that woman. Megan knows how to work her smile for the press. Those writers should try being on set for two movies, sadly she never smiles.  The cast, crew and director make Transformers a really fun and energetic set.  We’ve traveled around the world together, so we have never understood why Megan was always such – the grump of the set? 

When facing the press, Megan is the queen of talking trailer trash and posing like a porn star.  And yes we’ve had the unbearable time of watching her try to act on set, and yes, it's very cringe-able. So maybe, being a porn star in the future might be a good career option. But make-up beware, she has a paragraph tattooed to her backside (probably due her rotten childhood) easily another 45 minutes in the chair!

So when the three of us caught wind of Ms Fox, pontificating yet again in some publication (like she actually has something interesting to say) blabbing her trash mouth about a director whom we three have grown to really like. She compared working with Michael, to “working with Hitler”.  We actually don’t think she knows who Hitler is by the way.  But we wondered how she doesn’t realize what a disgusting, fully uneducated comment this was?  Well, here let’s get some facts straight.

Say what you want about Michael – yes at times he can be hard, but he's also fun, and he challenges everyone for a reason – he simply wants people to bring their ‘A’ game.  He comes very prepared, knows exactly what he wants, involves the crew and expects everyone to follow through with his or her best, and that includes the actors.  He’s one of the hardest working directors out there.

He gets the best from his crews, many of whom have worked with him for 15 years.  And yes, he’s loyal, one of the few directors we’ve encountered who lowered his fee by millions to keep Transformers in the United States and California, so he could work with his own crew. 

Megan says that Transformers was an unsafe set? Come on Megan, we know it is a bit more strenuous then the playground at the trailer park, but you don’t insult one of the very best stunt and physical effects teams in the business!  Not one person got hurt!

And who is the real Megan Fox?  She is very different than the academy nominee and winning actors we’ve all worked around.  She’s as about ungracious a person as you can ever fathom.  She shows little interest in the crew members around her.  We work to make her look good in every way, but she's absolutely never appreciative of anyone’s hard work. Never a thank you.  All the crewmembers have stopped saying hi to Ms. Princess because she never says hello back. It gets tiring. Many think she just really hates the process of being an actress.  

Megan has been late to the sets many times. She goes through the motions that make her exude this sense of misery. We’ve heard the A.D’s piped over the radio that Megan won’t walk from her trailer until John Turturro walks first! John’s done seventy-five movies and she’s made two!   

Never expect Megan to attend any of the 15 or so crew parties like all the other actors have. And then there's the classless night she blew off The Royal Prince of Jordan who made a special dinner for all the actors. She doesn’t know that one of the grips daughters wanted to visit their daddy’s work to meet Megan, but he wouldn’t let them come because he told them “she is not nice."

The press certainly doesn’t know her most famous line. On our first day in Egypt, the Egyptian government wouldn’t let us shoot because of a permit problem as the actors got ready in make up at the Four Seasons Hotel. Michael tried to make the best of it; he wanted to take the cast and crew on a private tour of the famous Giza pyramids. God hold us witness, Megan said, "I can’t believe Michael is fucking forcing us to go to the fucking pyramids!" I guess this is the “Hitler guy” she is referring to.

So this is the Megan Fox you don’t get to see. Maybe she will learn, but we figure if she can sling insults, then she can take them too. Megan really is a thankless, classless, graceless, and shall we say unfriendly bitch. It's sad how fame can twist people, and even sadder that young girls look up to her. If only they knew who they're really looking up to.

But ‘Fame’ is fleeting.  We, being behind the scenes, seen em’ come and go. Hopefully Michael will have Megatron squish her character in the first ten minutes of Transformers 3. We can tell you that will make the crew happy!

-Loyal Transformers Crew­­"

TFCToy has posted a testshot of a green early version of the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Voyager Class Megatron figure on ebay

Evem if you are not interested in bidding on the item it is well worth taking a look at this "Minty Movie Megatron".

Thanks to Mr Neurie for letting us know about the latest Transformers Revenge of the Fallen toys to be released in Ireland which include the Ice Cream version of Skids and Mudflap.