There was a lot of Transformers news in the past few days that we passed over, so I wanted to do a quick round up of some of the things we missed in case you missed it too.

First off, the lenticular cover art was revealed for the 20th Anniversary release of The Transformers: The Movie. That can be seen here. Its a large animated gif, so it may take a minute to load. Magnus seems to have gotten the shaft on this one.

The Hartmans’ shared some images of a ‘few’ items they will be bringing with them to Botcon to be sold. The Hartmans’ have what is generally believed to be the most complete collection of Transformers and have stated that it will be on sale at Botcon. The images can be seen here on the 2005 boards. The wall of American carded figures alone leaves me speechless.

Registration letters and events schedules should be arriving in the mail for those who have pre-registered for Botcon.

An image of an upcoming 2-pack in the Classics line surfaced. It features a repaint of Prime as Ultra Magnus and Starscream as Skywarp. The package indicates it will be a Target Exclusive.

Saw the trailer for this new Martin Scorsese film “The Departed” the other day. Its a remake of a Hong Kong film Internal Affairs, part of a trilogy of acclaimed thrillers.
Leonard Dicaprio plays an undercover state cop infiltrating the Irish Mob in Boston, led by Jack Nicholson; who is stepping away from comedy for the first time in over a decade(with the exception of “The Pledge” which was terrible). Meanwhile, Matt Damon is a mob ally within the police force, keeping the criminals safe. Also featured are Martin Sheen, Marky Mark Wahlberg, and Alec Baldwin: The Greatest Actor Of All Time.
Scorsese is noted for his crime movies, I’m going to personally look forward to this movie a great deal.

AICN has posted three images of Optimus Prime from the upcoming Transformers Movie coming in 2007. I have mirrored them below after the jump. These images are much clearer than the images that surfaced several weeks ago.
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The ratings system here in Canada differs from that in the states and it takes a lot more to get yourself an R rating then it would down south. Mainly if there’s a sliver of nudity in a movie State side you’re pretty much guaranteed to get an R while the violence is more likely to get by. And I understand and respect that because a tit isn’t going to make kids go out and screw like crazy. Crank’s another story.

This movie got an “A” rating which means you have to be 14 to see it unless you’re with an adult in which case they could bring their 8 years old. And how they do! I still remember the time the mother and her 6 and 8 year old child made it all the way to the abortion joke in South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut before leaving. The onus is on the parents to decide what they want their kids to watch. Unfortunately the parents don’t know what the hell’s going on.

This movie is, simply put, the most offensive movie I’ve ever seen. It makes fun of black people, Jamaicans, Somalians, whites, Asians, Latinos, Muslims, gays, women and pretty much any group they thought of. A running joke of the movie is the main character verbally berating the vilains saying that he’s a “fag” and having sex with his brother. Women are nothing but objects and stereotypes. Amy Smart is his idiotic piece of ass girlfriend who he has sex with in public a number of times. Other women in the movie are the excessive number of prostitutes made to do extremely kinky things for both heroes and vilains as well as a number of Asian sterotypes mainly the Japanese schoolgirls and old Asian ladies.
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At last, we have our first full body glimpse of Optimus Prime. hop2hop over on the 2005boards has posted a couple images he took from the Magic Clothing Trade Show in Las Vegas, NV. This poster was at a licensee booth. I have mirrored the image below after the jump for spoiler purposes.
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Steven Seagal’s feature debut, broken down to only its most awesome moments.

On the anniversary of Judgement Day, The Movie Blog brings us news that the franchise seems to be getting ready for a TV property, following the life and times of Sarah Connor after the events of the second movie. David Nutter, of the Smallville pilot, will be directing.

Another day, another leak from the set of Transformers: The Movie. The Movie Blog brings us the face of Bumblebee. I have included the picture after the jump to avoid any spoiling. The only spoiler though is the face. It is good to see an Autobot sigil finally. Its good to know something hasn’t changed.

[Edit – Crazy: It seems that Roberto Orci has chimed in on the Don Murphy boards with this quote: “without confirming or denying anything, all faces will have CG elements augmenting them.”.]
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