Fort Irwin Behind the Scenes

The Desert Dispatch has posted an interesting article covering Fort Irwin, CA's involvement in shooting Transformers including the pilots flying the US Army, UH-60 Blackhawks in the film. The source that sent the link also provided some pics (see below) not in the article and pointed out that the NTC Aviation Company from Irwin where the ones that flew them in downtown LA through the "Valley of Skyscrapers" at the finale of the film.

The pilot for the film was Chief Warrant Officer (CW2) Eric Metcalf. He is in the same productions still pic with Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel and Michael Bay, wearing the gray colored NTC AVCO UH-60 Platoon Hat. Thanks for the information.

The article:

Fort Irwin’s Blackhawks transform into movie stars
Blackhawks transform into movie stars
‘Transformers’ stars NTC helicopters
By AARON AUPPERLEE Staff Writer

DAGGETT — When Hollywood director Michael Bay needed helicopters that could buzz through the streets of downtown Los Angeles and hover between skyscrapers for his summer movie, “Transformers,” he turned to the Blackhawks lined up on an asphalt strip at the Barstow-Daggett Airport.

Two of the National Training Center Aviation Company’s helicopters and several pilots from the base star in the movie alongside Optimus Prime, Megatron, Josh Duhamel, Shia LaBeouf and Jon Voight. Chief Warrant Officer Eric Metcalf, a pilot with the aviation company who flew in the movie, said the movie was one of the most intense experiences ever but also one of the coolest.

“I’ve flown about 500 hours of combat in Afghanistan and that was way cooler than that,” Metcalf, a Transformer fan as a child, said. “Instead of dodging bullets, I was dodging radio antennas and wires.”

Much of the action for Metcalf and the other pilots involved — Maj. Richard Campbell, Chief Warrant Officer Michael Carilo, Sgt. Sean Smeldly, Chief Warrant Officer Angel Rodriguez, Chief Warrant Officer Matthew Wagstaff and Spc. David Ayala — was through alleys in LA. The helicopters took off and landed in an abandoned Sears parking lot, flew over Dodgers Stadium and hovered above roof-tops. Metcalf said he would round a corner in his helicopter to find a pole or a wire in his way and change course.

“It was basically advance tactical skills,” he said about the flying through the streets. “The level of concentration was pretty intense.”

During one scene, Metcalf had to hold the large military helicopter steady while bouncing it up and down like a yo-yo between skyscrapers. He said the buildings were about 50 feet away from his rudders.

Although Metcalf could not give away much of the movie, which is scheduled to open in theaters on July 4, he said the helicopters were called into assist with the evacuation of a certain person and recovery of a certain piece of equipment. The mission, he said, was a bit different from the company’s normal routine of supporting training operations at Fort Irwin, shuttling military officers around California and standing ready to fly medical crews to Edwards Air Force Base if the space shuttle decides to touch down there.

The company received the request to participate in the project in July 2006 and spent two weekends on the set in August. Metcalf estimates it cost Paramount Pictures more than $60,000 to borrow the two helicopters and crew for the two weekends.

Metcalf flew many special operations in Afghanistan from March 2004 to April 2005 before coming to Fort Irwin, often times seeing the enemy eye to eye. However, in “Transformers,” Metcalf never saw the robots on set.

The computer generated Transformers in the movie were really guys with long poles on the set, Metcalf said. The poles had balls placed at the Transformer’s eye level so the actors knew where to look, but the rest of the machine body was added later. Metcalf said he has not seen a final cut of the movie.

“It wasn’t really the flying portion, it was being on set and seeing the whole process,” he said.

IESB.Net Transformers Videos

IESB.net has posted 11 videos regarding Transformers. Some of the videos are repeats of the MTV movie awards footage but most are new. There are even two pretty long behind the scenes clips that actually do what the title says. Its 100% a watch them film the movie view with none of the marketing and cheerleading that behind the scenes stuff usually is all about, just as the HBO First Look coming June 27th will probably be.

Also to see larger version of the clip, click the video title above the viewer. To an even larger version, click the X in the bottom right-hand corner of the viewer. Just ignore the white edge as couldn't figure out how to eliminate it. Let me know if its just better if I link to the videos rather then embed them as currently doing.

Apparently, my hack started failing causing Internet Explorer to crash and the page just to load really slow. So instead, just click here to view the various movies.

ENI Transformers Articles

ENI.com has posted to comprehensive posts that cover the making of Transformers and the history of the Transformers in general. Both are long articles but worth reading.

Transformers: Cast, History, Movie
Transformers: Making of

Transformers: Cast, History, Movie highlights:
- First part is the producers talking about how loves Transformers as kids or when first came out (depending on age).
- John Rogers wrote initial draft of the movie whose plotlines where used in the Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci drafts.
- Bay came onboard the movie after "Transformers School" at Hasbro HQ, which covers the history of the product. The idea of a transforming at 80 miles per hour is what sold him.
- Production designer Jeff Mann, fan of anime, helped design the Transformers (origin of the "must be Japanese" joke?)
- Bay: "The Generation One robots were very blocky which would have been like using the unarticulated marshmallow man from ‘Ghostbusters.’ Our Optimus Prime® has 10,108 parts, each of which move." (Rep, love the G1 but have to agree).
- Bay: "These robots are the most complex modules ILM has ever made. We couldn’t have accomplished this two years ago. I guess that’s my answer to people who complain that the robots will look a bit different from the originals. Sometimes it’s best not to answer your critics and just let the work stand for itself.” (Based on fan response to various trailers, seems to be working)
- Script secret during shoot with actors only receiving pages for own scenes.
- Kurtzman: “The idea behind the toy is that everything around us, our cars, and all technology, are sentient,” he explains. “Every thing has emotions and feelings but we don’t know it because they are in disguise. This seemed like a good jumping off point for a movie." (Add a word so it’s "could be everything" and it works)
- Bay: “The writers really helped narrow the choice of robots. At the beginning I had some very elaborate plans for these newer robots called ‘Combiners,’ but ultimately it became too cost prohibitive to create them just in terms of manpower, let alone the technology to make them look real.” (His made up version or the already existing Transformers combiners or gestalts such as Devastator?)
- “Steven wanted to make it an even five against five,” Bay continues, “so that’s where it took off.” (More like 7 on 5 but then never supposed to be even odds for the good guys)
- “It became obvious that we couldn’t make a movie without Bumblebee™, Optimus Prime® and Megatron®,” says di Bonaventura. “After that we took a poll amongst ourselves, found out who were our favorites and then asked fans who their favorites were. From there we put a list together that encompasses most peoples’ favorite Transformers™. We know that people are going to feel, ‘Oh I wish they’d have put in that one or that other one,’ but there were only so many robots we could deal with in one movie.”
- Shia LaBeouf's favorite is Bumblebee and Frenzy...I assuming from the movie, not the toy line.
- Megan Fox says she was familiar with the TF show but mostly read the comics (color me skeptical, article is full of references of everyone commenting on their past connections with the Transformers pre-movie for some reason. I would rather an honest "no clue about em until the movie.")
- Megan Fox first came to attention of Bay during audition for The Amityville Horror.
- Josh Duhamel also had previous meet with Bay when auditioning for The Hitcher which led to being asked to audition for Captain Lennox role in Transformers.
- Duhamel, Tyrese, Amaury Nolasco and Zack Ward went to a 3-day boot camp or basic training to help prep for filming with real soldiers used in scenes. Josh did understand that "boot camp for us was an abbreviated learning experience" compared to what real soldiers go through in training.
- “I’m carrying this 40-pound gun, wearing full body armor, the complete survival kit with magazines for this machine gun and all kinds of different stuff you need, and I’m running as hard as I can up the street, and I’m the leader of the group. I was dying after the first take! Then there’s take two, take three, and by the time we got to the fourth take, I could barely run,” he recalls. “It reminded me of running the 400-meter dash in high school where it felt like I was going to collapse and vomit. So whenever I could, I’d ask for the rubber gun. I’d pray we didn’t have to shoot in the scene so I could use that rubber gun. You look much more manly running up the street with the rubber gun,” Duhamel explains, poking fun at himself.
- “The Decepticons® are meaner looking and the Autobots® are just wicked cool,” [Duhamel] enthuses. “The people who come up with the concepts and art work for these things live in some other world to be able to think of this stuff.” (Couldn't agree more, the engineering alone amazes me)
- Duhamel is also star on NBC's Las Vegas, so filmed the show during the week and the movie during weekends. (Must have been a film scheduling nightmare for whoever handled that)
- Tyrese spent time with Captain Ray Bollinger to help with the technical dialogue used in the film.
- John Turturro (Agent Simmons, S7) joined the film in part do to influence of two sons who thought didn't even need to read to script to decide to do the movie.
- "According to [Fox], the actor’s portrayal of Agent Simmons is done as an homage to Bay."
- Jon Voight was not familiar with Transformers before joining the movie. (Yah for an honest answer)
- "When asked if he is familiar with Transformers™ action figures, Anthony Anderson will immediately break into song, “Transformers™, more than meets the eye, Transformers™, robots in disguise!” (This sounds a like a real honest answer rather then canned response reading from other actors and producers)
- Anderson’s favorite Transformer™ is Megatron®. “I like the bad guys now,” he says. “Growing up I liked Optimus Prime® and another one that was a big gun with a scope on it. I played with that guy until he broke.” (Again, details in answer that indicate a foundation of truth, other producers and actors, take note)
- Transformers is Aussie Rachaeal Taylor's first American film and had never heard of Transformers before the movie (again honesty always best). Bay decided her character would be an Aussie rather then American.
- "[Maggie] is a woman trying to succeed in a man’s world,” Taylor continues, “which parallels my experience shooting ‘TRANSFORMERS’ because it’s only Megan and me in a world dominated by men, all working for Michael Bay."

Making of Transformers highlights:
- Bay wanted military involvement from the get-go. Military installations used include Hollman, Kirtland, Edwards Air Force Bases, and the Pentagon.
- Hardware "borrowed" included CV-22 (combo helicopter and airplane), F-117, C-130 cargo planes, C-17 (Bay: "spooky gun ship"), and F-22 Raptor (Starscream I think).
- Major Daniel Ferris was main coordinator between movie crew and Holloman crew for film scenes and movie needs.
- Transformers "was the first motion picture to be permitted to film in and around the Pentagon grounds since 9/11."
- Usual bits about stars doing own stunts which is usually seen in all cheerleading, I mean behind the scenes descriptions and videos.
- Ken Bates, movie stunt coordinator, worked with the actors on the stunts and started with Bay in 1989.
- Car chases sequence (Barricade v Optimus) filmed at Interstate 210 (Foothill Freeway) in San Bernardino, CA. Used by film companies because construction seems to have no end date. Site was where Bay wanted to fulfill his 80MPH transformation and surpass his Bad Boy II MacArthur Causeway chase.
- Bus gag was prepped in one day. Gag is term to used in movie making for special effects setups and the like. Special effects are the physical real-world stuff that happens in a movie and visual effects is the computer, CGI stuff. The opposite of what use to think those term meant in the movie-making context.
- “Richard was towed into the action at 60 miles per hour,” Bates describes. “Once he reached speed, he threw the bus sideways, hit a charge, and cut away the tow cable. As the bus blows up, it splits in half and slides sideways, at which time Richard hit another button that triggered a ‘bomb’ that detonated three canons in the back of the bus that sent that back end tumbling end over end. The front half of the bus hits the median, jumps up and comes back down.
- "Bates, Epper, Corey Eubanks, and Steve Kelso were the main drivers responsible for the spectacular stunt driving throughout the film."
- For line of sight in filming humans interacting with Transformers an extension pole was used, height depending on the TF; 20ft for Bumblebee, 40ft for Optimus, and so forth. Basically the actors stared at the end of the pole during shooting.
- Mark Ryan was on set to help the actors by doing lines for the robots. (Dang, good secret keeping, that indicates he was hired up to a year ago but fans only found out a few months ago).
- Lots of descriptions about difficulty in acting with non-existing robots. (Me thinks theatre actors would roll their eyes at these comments).
- In developing TF designs, some rules created. For example, TFs can scan and replicate a vehicle but "each robot can only replicate into something equal to its own mass," according to Production Designer Jeff Mann.
- About 25 artists used in concept storyboards and designs for the Transformers. Each role was based on an expertise, one for eyes, one for facial structure, and so forth. Hasbro pitched in on design possibilities and took months to develop.
- “With Optimus® we had to make the ears bigger to get more of a samurai look,” he explains, “but we would vet most of these changes through Transformers™ geeks to make sure we weren’t way off track because they know the lore and they know why certain robots look a certain way or have the ability to do certain things.” (wonder who those geeks where, can I be one for the sequel?)
- Only Frenzy and Bumblebee where built practically for filming. Four feet, metal puppet of Frenzy was built by KNB using art department’s 3-D designs.
- John Frazier via Fxperts built Bumblebee. The puppet is 17 feet high, 13 feet wide and 8.5 feet deep, and an 8 feet 10.5 inch footprint. It weighs 8,150 pounds. It takes most of the day to assemble the robot when moved around filming locations. After filming, they further modified Bumblebee so can be assembled in 2-3 hours for public appearances (such as in Seoul, S. Korea).
- Transformers’ designs so complicated that something like turning a wrist has 17 mechanisms working.
- It takes ILM 38 hours to render one frame of movement. Generally I think it takes 24 frames for one second of footage. Usually there are render farms (basically a building full of servers) for this so not sure if it means that value is X computers times taking Y minutes = 38 hours per frame or if it means one huge render farm working took 38 hours.
- Hasbro schedule requires a year prior to filming to fabricate new toys so had to have designs locked in quickly. ILM, due to complexity, also needed designs sooner rather then later. (Sounds to me like before filming even began, ILM and Hasbro already had the final TF designs, supported by leaked looks all of last year)
- For car choices, all car companies where possibilities until GM took the extra step of showing Bay their design warehouse and concept cars.
- Turns out it’s not a 2008 Camaro, but 2009 Camaro that is used for Bumblebee. GM also helped with retrofitting the cars and prepping for filming as need at least three versions of each car, one for filming, one for stunts and a photo double in case one crashes.
- The truck choice for Optimus Prime was in part because of the aggressive look, size and a tip of the hat to Steven Spielberg's Duel.
- 2009 Camaro prototype driven by Shia in the film cost $500,000. (Does that mean the stunt and double cost the same?)
- Jazz's Pontiac Solstice mode was chosen after seeing a modified one for an automotive show that has interesting shape, ground effects and hard top.
- Ratchet, a Hummer H2, was designed from scratch based on military Hummer ambulances and Red Cross vehicles used in the 80s.
- Ironhide, 4500 series GMC Topkit, was fitted with 46'' Nitto Super Swamper tires further modified with embossed Autobot logo.
- Starscream, F-22 Raptor, is new design from Lockheed Martin undergoing testing. A prototype was used for filming.
- Bonecrusher, Buffalo MPCV, was found from the web and is used for mine-sweeping. The actual vehicle only has a 14 inch wide "fork" so an appliance was built to complete the look.
- Brawl, M1 Abrams, was already modified for another movie and further modified with the paint job of non-radar detectable paint used in future battleship designs.
- Blackout, Sikorsky MH-53 Pave Low helicopter, was chosen because of its sexy look and mass.
- Barricade, Saleen S281 Mustang, which was modified with headlights that convert into muli-bladed weapons.
- Larry Dias was the set designer.
- For Hoover Dam sequences, made-up interiors where built on sound stages where built that looked like fitted with in with the location naturally.
- Sets where built at Hughes Aircraft warehouses in Playa vista, CA.
- Iit Jones was the location manager that worked with Homeland Security in working out logistics of the sites and things such as fly zones and moving production from one site to another.
- First day of filming was April 19, 2006 with a pre-production shoot. Production shoot began on April 22 at Holloman Air Force base. Entire shoot lasted 83 days.
- For the Scoponok sequence, Bedouin village was built at the White Sands Missile Range (location of atomic and weapons testing) which had to be swept by UXB International for 28 acres and 4 feet deep for left behind explosives.
- Everything from productions explosives, to radio frequencies where checked to verify wouldn't interfere with base operations and security.
- Fuel costs and salaries for military personnel who worked in the film were played by the production company not the tax payers. Extras worked on off-duty hours. Basically saying film cost to tax payers was $0.
- For Los Angeles, several blocks where dressed to look like Transformers had passed through while blocking off the public from interfering. (This is where almost all the tabled stories will see in EW, People, etc will come from in the next month).
- Also filmed at Griffith Park Observatory, about a month before it was re-opened to public.
- Other locations (in CA I think): 110 and 105 freeways, Adams district (for Witwicky's home), Redondo Beach power plant (first human v Deceptions fight), City Hall (for DOD sites), Pasadena for auto dealer, San Fernando Valley, and Long Beach (for chase sequence). Also second crew for Detroit, Washington, DC, and Alaska.
- Scott Benza is the animation supervisor whose team worked on Transformers.
- To build the CGI Transformers required conceptual artists to design the mechanics of the TFs, how they move and look and so forth. The parts of the skeletons so to speak. Virtual mechanics then put the skeleton together, add the tendons, muscles, etc and makes sure it works as a unit. The animators then give then add the necessary movements and what not to make them seem "act".
- Bumblebee's facial expressions where based on Michael J. Fox in Back To the future.
- Liam Neeson from several movies was used to help with Optimus Prime.
- Animators did consider the physics of giant machines moving on Earth but Bay wanted them to move "with the agility of martial arts masters - agile warriors who travel in a very fluid, elegant way."
- For the TFs, Closer to camera, faster can move, further away, the slower to give sell their weight.
- After all the animation, Hilmar Kock's team steps in the give the proper effects and lighting that helps in selling their real look.
- After data was taken from sets (help mimic lightening, add reflections, etc), discovered the Transformers where not high enough resolution. Had to change from 500 pixels to 8000 to give the needed realism.
- After this comes layering in all the elements (backgrounds, foregrounds, etc) so looks like was filmed live rather then added in later, which was done by Digital Composting Supervisor Patrick Tubach's team.
- Re-timing was also done, for example having explosions occur sooner or later depending on need. Not just an editing trick but something that requires CGI to properly incorporate. If I understand it right, they basically play with the timing of a shot so things occur when want rather then how filmed. Also would digitally add elements so more stuff goes boom then may have been on set at the time.

Dang that turned into way much more then meant to do but the articles actually covered alot more information then expected.

Transformers Featurette From Bay's Blog

Michael Bay's blog has posted a brief behind the scenes featurette that shows in quick glimpses some of the moments for the movie being filmed with a few comments from Bay and Spielberg.

If this video seems familiar as a reader commented, this is the feature that came with the 20th Anniversary DVD edition of Transformers: The Movie (animated). Just confirmed with my copy. I think it also popped on YouTube at the time but can't remember for sure.

The video is located here, just scroll down a little. Also embedded the video below with semi-success but not sure how well it will play.

New Movie Set Pics

TFW2005 scored a few pics apparently during filming at Edwards Air Force Base. I especially like the one that shows all the Transformer vehicles in one shot.

Furby Truck Go Boom

As part of the leaked online script for Transformers is a bit about a Furby truck getting blown to smithereens during the climax of the movie. The non special effected, multi-camera, hyper edited version that will probably be in the film can now be seen thanks to YouTube.

Transformers Featurette

Transformers: The Movie 20th Anniversary DVD comes with a brief featurette (re: advertisement) for the upcoming live action movie. Out on YouTube the video has been put up for all to see. The video consists of the teaser trailer from earlier this year, followed by quick shots of the various Transformers vehicles, storyboards and various cheerleader comments from Bay, Spielberg and the writers.

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More USS Shoup Pics

Below are 5 more pics from the USS Shoup shoot props for Tranformers movie. Many thanks to the person that provided these fantastic pictures.

"The Bots Are Back" and Set Pics

The Boston Globe gave Transformers movie a bunch of free advertising by with its front page article today titled "The Bots are Back". The articles covers the history of Transformers, its new toys lines and the movie coming out next year along with transfans comments. The article writer mostly got everything right to my knowledge meaning they either are fans themselves or got their info from a knowledgeable source as this article doesn't have the usual inaccuracies nor disdain that most toy-centric articles tend to have.

Highlights of sorts but no movie news:
- Transformers are third largest selling boys' toy in the US behind Star Wars and GI Joe. (GI Joe is beating TFs? That sucks much.)
- Observations of Transformers in pop culture including the TF geek in Clerks II and Dane Cook's "My Son Optimus Prime" skit.
- Few TF centric websites get a shout out.
- Apparently the article has decided that renewed interest in Transformers did not start with Beast Wars but because of retro t-shirts printed in 1999. News to me. I figured it was the constant new lines that Hasbro has been pushing every year.

The full article is here.
Also if want more shoot pics of the Transformers vehicles and the blue Optimus Prime head, click here.

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First Look at the Energon Cube?

Shoot For The Edit forums have posted two pics showing Shia LaBeouf running if a black cube in his hands. The Energon Cube that is the object that both factions of the Transformers are hunting for cause its brings life or ends it. Basically its the McGuffin of the film to have things go boom. I would have thought the cube would have been all blue just like the Optimus Prime head so that special effects could be added later to give it that otherworldly power look.


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Optimus Prime's Head Prop

The flickr movie pic pool has posted a all blue Optimus Prime prop. The blue is for bluescreen purposes so the CGI effects can be put over the head. What the prop itself was used for during shooting though I have no idea. Best guess is for scenes where Shia had lines where he was sitting on Optimus. Generally speaking, if the actor touches something, a real prop has to be built or the CGI would be less convincing to the eye. The pic pool is here but no idea which page for the head.

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Pics From USS Shoup of Transformer Props for Filming

A Navy Sailor from the USS Shoup is reporting that Transformers film crew is coming on board Monday to film additional footage for the film. Whether this includes the actors themselves not sure. As can see below, its looks like a crashed plane, currently in many ports. If not for the lack of faction insignia, I would almost think it was blown up Transformer bits. The source wishes to remain nameless for privacy reasons, but many thanks for the information and pictures.

Update with spoilers: Based on speculation from the web including solid evidence here, appears that some of the parts could be from the Decepticon Blackout. Also, according the source, the ship is being used to film Megatron's body being dumped at sea (with I assume his destroyed buds) so its possible that the plane parts allude to Megatron's Earth jet form that producers hinted may be used for the film.










The above is about half of the pics. If you are interested in seeing the whole lot, TFormers.com was kind enough to host the entire gallery which you can see here.

Detroit Shoot Pics

MH.2 has posted many pics of shooting for Transformers in Detroit, MI on flickr. Looks like much pyrotechnics went boom and fun was had.

The pics are here.

In addition the Detroit News covered the shot, describing the film and that around 100 local Michigan residents where used as extras. Apparently being an extra means an extra $50 in your pocket, free food, and a few stories to tell. Filming was done at the Michigan Central Depot. I am betting much to the movie producers chagrin, the article refers to the live action movie as "Transformers: The Movie" and the cartoon movie as "Transformers". It should be vice versa. The article, with a few pics, is here.

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Snarky LA Set Report with Video

TheJay.com has posted a report of a visit to the LA set of Transformers with lots of pics, especially of robot Bumblebee. Its also includes to videos (see below) of two scenes shot with Michael Bay directing. The video is mostly of people running and driving haphazardly down the shoot in what I assume is panic from Transformers that will be inserted later. The photo and videos are courtesy of TheJay.com.

The full report, with lots of snarky comments, many more pics, and video is here.

Movie Shoot Reports from DC and Boston

Michael Bay and company has been traveling here and there to finish the shooting for Transformers. Several reports have appeared online including from official Michael Bay sites. Nothing new is revealed but check them out if bored.

Michael Bay blog has pics from the DC shoot here and here with Bay and various members of the shoot. For whatever reason, someone went into overkill to soft light the pic for Rachael Taylor so just skip to avoid eye strain.

Also is a report from an extra at the Boston shoot from Jester (he of the alternate fan made trailer, worth viewing). Exteriors where shot at Tobin Bridge in Chelsea and other locations in the city. Its a brief report, with a few pics but no spoilers. Click here.

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Bunches Of Move Related Pics

There is a pool of Transformers pic over on Flickr. The pool is a mix of old, new, of set visits, vehicles in the wild, and so forth. Really its probably the current one shop stop for pictorial viewpoint on all the TF movie related info out there.

The most recent pics is of the Optimus Prime trailer being filmed out in the desert or at least in an large area of sand.

The pool of pics is here.

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Optimus Prime's Back End

TFormers.com has posted two pics of the vehicle mode of Optimus Prime sitting out in a parking lot on 6th and Broadway (LA I guess). Apparently it was being cleaned and a reader of the site took a few cell phone pics (hence the pic quality). Thanks Julio M for the link.

More Transformers On-Set Footage

Additional footage of the LA shooting of Transformers has shown up on YouTube. At first might think its fake but really its just been spruced up a bit. The footage clearly matches previous pictures and television footage of the same set. It shows just a hint of the Bumbleebee robot and a few stunts involving crashing a tow truck into a car along with a view of the various set pieces on the street. Spoiler wise didn't really see much of anything but figured the curious might find it interesting.

Click here for the video and here for the site of the person that posted it.
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Set Pics of Something Going Boom

"hatchetgirl" has posted some pics of Transformer sets in Los Angeles on flickr. Based on the leak script this is part of the ending of the film but exactly what is going on is up in the air. Still worth a look see for the curious. Might even want to call this a spoiler warning except don't know what it might be spoiling.

Click here for the pics.

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Two Video of Transformers Set Footage Released

Two new videos have hit the web showing some of the filming for Transformers being done in Los Angeles. One piece of footage from TMZ.com (found by AICN.com) mostly shows the vehicles for Jazz and Ratchet being driven around and prepped for a scene. The other video,found by TFormers.com shows a little filming being done as a caravan of cars go down the street with Bumblebee.

The videos are here and here.