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Japanese website ACTOYS has posted the first good image of the Fallen from this coming summer’s Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…

And guess what else ACTOYS has snagged? I hate hate hate that Michael Bay wasted the name “Devastator” on a mere army tank in Transformers, so I’m betting they’ll stick another name on the Constructicon combiner.

Whatever it’s gonna be called, the Constructicons gestalt is one pure angry design that looks hella kewl!

Seibertron.com has a lively discussion going on now about the Fallen and, ahem…, “Devastator”.

I just hope it won’t require a Masters degree in engineering to put the toy of that thing together....

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In a radio interview about the effects of the global recession on Great Britain, that country’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown has admitted that one of his heroes is Autobot leader Optimus Prime from the Transformers franchise…

Listeners to the show seemed to agree. One said that “Optimus Prime would be one hell of an advisor to the PM. He stands for honour and justice and I would vote for him as Prime Minister if he were real.”

Personally I think that if Mr. Brown is heartfelt about his admiration for Optimus Prime, that the British people are generally in good hands. Not too many mythic figures from the past few decades that are as virtuous and upstanding as Optimus Prime.

Thanks to Phillip Arthur for passing along the story!...

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About twenty-seven e-mails were waiting for me when I got home late Thursday night, all of ’em with the following tantalizing teaser poster for Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen…

And according to Seibertron.com, the first glimpse of the trailer is gonna come during the Super Bowl on February 1st. Also confirmed movie spots that will run during the big game are Star Trek, G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra, Angels and Demons, Monsters vs. Aliens, Land of the Lost, the fourth Fast and the Furious, Pixar’s Up, and probably for X-Men Origins: Wolverine....

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While I was gone for over a week (and I’m working on getting a report, some photos and video of the trip up soon) a number of people wrote in asking if I knew anything about whether or not Steve Jablonsky (left) would be returning to score the sequel to last summer’s smash-hit movie Transformers (right now the next chapter is being called Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen but I’m still wondering if Michael Bay might have another title up his sleeve). Anyone who’s read this blog over the past year will recall how it became a focal point for the drive to have Jablonsky’s amazing music for Transformers released on CD. Happily it was, but it’s now no longer being published and unless you pay literally hundreds of dollars for it on eBay the only way you can get it is via iTunes or Amazon’s digital download. Hopefully we’ll ...

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A year ago the big movie in theaters was Transformers, which Yours Truly may have become overwhelmed with enthusiasm about especially in regards to its awesome orchestral score 🙂 If you couldn’t get enough the first time, right now production is under way on Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (I’m still saying Michael Bay is trying to fake us out with that title) and it’ll hit screens next June. Meanwhile…

Tim Flattery and James Clyne have just published on their respective websites some of the concept art that they came up with for the first Transformers movie. Clyne’s work includes some terrific depictions of Megatron being held captive by Sector 7 and Scorponok’s attack on the SOCCENT survivors. Flattery’s art features a lot of paintings of the often-mentioned aircraft carrier Transformer (said to have been a Decepticon) that Bay wanted to use in the first movie…

Maybe it’s a ...

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The one that we did back in the fall of 2007? Transformers composer Steve Jablonsky gave us a signed copy of score CD and we put it up on eBay, with the understanding that 100% of the proceeds would go toward music education here in Rockingham County. When all was said and done the sale netted over $300!

So, wanna know what the money went toward?

The original plan was to assist the funding of a special concert for the elementary students because at the time we didn’t know if we would be able to have it this year. Fortunately that was taken care of. But we were still able to put the proceeds to some good music use.

This is what’s called an Orff Xylophone. Its specially made for use with the Orff Approach to music education. Most of the funds from the auction went to purchase ...

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By Primus, I never thought that we’d be going through this again. But, it looks like we will! 🙂

If you’ve been reading this blog for awhile, then you’re no doubt familiar with the hijinks (among numerous others) that happened this past year regarding the movie Transformers and it’s amazing orchestral score by composer Steve Jablonsky. After seeing the movie I went looking for the score’s CD in stores. It wasn’t available. I made sure to write about it on this blog that I was looking forward to a release of Jablonsky’s Transformers score. Lots of people were looking for it too and began coming to this blog, seeking any information for it. Almost on a lark, I set up an online petition requesting that the Powers That Be release the score. And it got slammed! Some drama ensued and I tried to chronicle it here. In ...

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If you’re watching Super Bowl XLII on Fox right now, you might have noticed that they’re making lots of use of Steve Jablonsky’s awesome Transformers score. I just caught them playing “Autobots” in the minutes leading up to the kickoff, in a spot featuring Troy Aikman. And earlier they were using some of the music from the final fight in a video spot with the Patriots and Giants introducing themselves. Very, very cool. Way to go Steve!! 🙂...

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And over the past week it’s actually become more popular (some of that might be due to Christmas shopping, no doubt). While a few days ago it was ranked around #260, the CD of Steve Jablonsky’s amazing score for the movie Transformers is currently #184 in Amazon’s music sales. It’s also #4 in the Orchestral Pop category and #8 in Movie Scores (behind the Sweeney Todd soundtrack – which I got for Christmas – at #1 and The Polar Express at #7) and #12 in overall Classical.

I still haven’t heard anything about that 2-disc set that we were told might be in the works if this album sold well. I’ll say this though: my own copy of Transformers: The Score has easily been the most played work of music at the Knight household during the past three months. And ever since I got my new car, there’ve been darned ...

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