We have updated the Transformers Movie section of the website to include four new Dark of the Moon image galleries.  The galleries contain photographs taken by Getty Images during the Moscow and Berlin premiers of Transformers Dark of the Moon.  The image galleries are:

Transformers Dark of the Moon - Berlin Premier Press Conference (27 images)

Transformers Dark of the Moon - Moscow Red Carpet(15 images)

Transformers Dark of the Moon - Linkin Park performance in Moscow (60 images)

Transformers Dark of the Moon - Moscow Press Conference and Photo Shoot (37 images)

­We've received a few reports that Burger King Transformers: Dark of the Moon promotion appears to have finally started in Burger Kings. Previously many stores either just had the poster in the window or didn't even have that.  You can view an image of the poster thanks to a Tweet to us by Neurie.

If you are looking forward to Transformers: Dark of the Moon, but do not want to wait until the end of the month to see the film, then stay with us as we will have some news to excite you later in the evening.

GameChronicles.com have published their review of the X-Box version of Transformers: Dark of the Moon.  They game the score 8.3 our of 10 with the breakdown being 8 for gameplay, 8 for graphics, 9 for sound and 8 for value.  The game, which uses the Transformers: War For Cybertron engine and is a direct prequel to the live action movie is out now on all formats.  Here is how they summed up the review at the end.

"While Transformers: Dark of the Moon is certainly the best of the movie-inspired Transformer games it still falls short of last year’s amazing War for Cybertron. There was just something so imaginative and inspired about taking the franchise to the Transformers' home world. Dark of the Moon still offers a great deal of varied and challenging gameplay in both solo and online modes. I loved the new Stealth Force combat mode almost as much as I hated the conventional driving sections of the game. Fortunately, those moments are few and far between.

The bottom line is that any action gamer looking for awesome multiplayer combat with classes, skills, and upgrades, or any Transformer fan looking for a cool prequel story to the upcoming movie will love Dark of the Moon. I know I did."

Another TV spot for Transformers: Dark of the Moon has now aired and has also been published to YouTube by Paramount Pictures.

L-U of HK-TF.com has posted a collection of images of the Transformers Dark of the Moon Voyager class Sentinel Prime figure which you can view ­­here.

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­­­TFW2005.com board member apcomkai has posted images of some posters that advertise Transformers: Dark of the Moon using the Wreckers Roadbuster, Leadfoot and Topspin.­

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TakaraTomy have published the below adverts for their Transformers: DarkSide Moon Heat Scramble card game.  If that fails to load you can view the video ­here.

Stay with Transformers At The Moon for the latest Japanese Transformers news

A new Transformers: Dark of the Moon spot has been posted over on YouTube.  You can view it below.

In a strange turn of events, which will no doubt turn out not to be true, Michael Bay's message board administrator Nelson posted the following comment on on ShootForTheEdit.com when asked about who the red robot in Transformers: Dark of the Moon was following on from a post by him that it was not Mirage. I have embolden Nelson's posts below to help distinguish them from the questions that prompted the answers.

"All I will say is that he speaks with an Italian accent and is named after a famous Italian."

This was followed by the posts

"That doesn't mean s**t. In the comic and novels the twins are still in it." in response to a post by Jason Gould where Jason posted "Come on guys it's Mirage, his name is already in the toys, books, and Novelization.".  Nelson then went on to quote Plague1980 wh posted "Are we talking about two different red robots here? In the children's books besides Sentinel, the only other red Autobot is the Ferrari which we all know is Mirage. Now if you are talking about another bot that we dont know about and trying to hint at it, the first famous Italian name that comes to mind is "COSIMO" as in Cosmos lol" following up with the response "Don't act dumb. You know I'm talking about the red Ferrari."

This mean that Paramount must have had to hired a new voice actor to record all of Mirage's lines and also have re-recorded any dialogue that names the character, though going by the first two movies this is also feasible.  It must have happened fairly recently as not only does the novelisation of the film refers to the character as Mirage but so does the toys and the prequel video game by Activision in which he speaks with an Arabian-based accent.  All of the other characters within the video game are voiced by the same voice actors as the Dark of the Moon movie.

We will keep you up-to-date on this story as it develops

Update:

When we posed the following over on ShootForTheEdit "This is very interesting . I know you won't want to give out the new name for the character but I was wondering when this change took place.", Nelson simply replied with "In the movie script, he was never called Mirage to begin with.".

I have since replied to clarify my question and I will let you all know if Nelson replies to that.

Update 2:

Nevermore complied a great lists of quotes that Nelson posted on TFW2005.com over on the ShootForTheEdit thread linked to that the start of this article that go some way to explain what went down with the character.

"Think about it.Mattel owns the toy merchandising rights to Ferrari. Why would Ferrari allow one of their flagship car to be named after a Hasbro property name (Mirage) in one of the biggest movies this year––thus undermining Mattel and possibly creating a huge clusterhug? And before you say "Well the toy is not named Mirage," look again, that's no Ferrari.

"In all the treatments and scripts all the way up to the post production of the DOTM movie, the Ferrari was never referred to as Mirage. He was referred to by other names such as Rush & Enzo, but never as Mirage.Capisce?"

So, as Nevermore himself put it over on ShootForTheEdit, Dark of the Moon is "a movie based on Hasbro's Transformers property includes a character as a Transformer who must not be named after one of Hasbro's Transformers characters. I guess that shows how little say Hasbro has in these movies."

Sources of the quotes:

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103423

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103518

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103534

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transformers...tml#post6103650

Michael Bay has posted two new Transformers: Dark of the Moon TV Spots over on YouTube.  The spots are titled "Everything" and "Secret" and can be viewed below.