[preview]Today marked the release of the Issue #4 of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Alliance comic by IDW Publishing. Issue #4 is the final issue of the story arc and directly leads into the sequel that will hit theatres on June 24, 2009. Because of the tie-in nature, several details that will be featured in the sequel were revealed in the comic. Before clicking the link below, be forwarned that the information contains spoilers.
Revenge of the Fallen Movie Spoilers Courtesy of Alliance #4
[/preview]Today marked the release of the Issue #4, of the Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Movie Prequel: Alliance comic. Issue #4 is the final issue of the story arc and directly leads into the sequel that will hit theatres on June 24, 2009. Because of the tie-in nature, several details that will be featured in the sequel were revealed in the comic. Details include:
– The company McClaren Robotics is a government front/cover for arriving at Transformers battle scenes and cleaning up any evidence of an alien presense at the scene. The only previous mention of McClaren Robotics was that actor Steve Tom was cast as McClaren Robotics CEO.
– An AllSpark fragment is seen in a government storage facility. The storage containment unit looks very much like the containment unit seen in promo pictures.
– In the issue, the Autobots discover that several Autobots have received the beacon call Optimus made at the end of the first movie. Five new Transformers are revealed in their vehicle modes: the Centennial Corvette (Sideswipe), three motorcycles (the Arcee bikes), and the Ice Cream truck.
– On the final page, the Autobots and human allies are in a dark command center as Optimus calls for the team to head out to Shanghai. Seen on the monitor is Demolishor. Although not all details can be made out due to the room being dark, one can clearly see Sideswipe and two of the motorcycles in their individual robot modes.
Omega Charge
Read this one today. Found it very exciting and the end was awesome.
To be continued… in Revenge of the Fallen!
Dinobot Nuva
The two bots Prime takes out are Dropkick and Incinerator (the Sideswipey one).
The bot behind Ironhide is one of the fembot bikes.
Also, is it THAT difficult to go to your local comic store and buy the issue? Barring that, get one on the internet (IDW does subscriptions guys, c'mon).
Surge
Wow, people are still saying that the ice cream truck is a Decepticon? Look at the second picture that Nidaram12 put up on page 4. Optimus addresses the small group of Autobots and asks them to show themselves; you see Sideswipe, Arcee, Cromia, the other unknown bike, and the ice cream truck. All the other Autobots don't look fearful of the ice cream truck's presence so there you go! Cream truck is an Autobot and obviously the twins.
Icon1
The picture of the ice cream truck isn't clear enoughe for you to 'know', I'd put money that it's an Autobot.
ThaRizla
I thought the same thing. I does look more like a con symbol. And as stated in other threads it was prob a hoax by Bay knowing that the ice cream truck would have its picture taken and leaked out. So Bay did it on purpose to throw people off.
kjeevahh
i think what you mean to say is that a small grainy picture of an ice cream truck revealed a dark splodge on teh side of it, that kind of looked like it might be narrower at the bottom than the top. not exactly proof..
tpainzbro
Man, i know they wanted to precent the cons as stronger. but to do that u didnt have to make the autos handicapped.
WarMachine73
Son of a gun! I blew up 2 different pics. of that goofy Cheech & Chong like Ice Cream Truck and would almost have put money on the fact that that symbol was a 'Con logo. Oh, well. This just ups the degree of handicap the 'Bots have going into the 2nd Movie. They now have Wheelie (sorta) Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Dumber (the fugly bros.) a schizophrenic moto-fem bot(s), an eco-friendly sub,sub compact, a geriatric SST, Commander Soft Serve and our core group minus one since Jazz "had ta split" in the last film. (Sideswipe might make it out of this alive, but don't place your bets just yet) All going up against Deavastator, The Fallen and Starscream returning with his minionsfrom Cybertron.
Remember the scene when Mojo whizzed on Ironhides foot? Yeah, that's how effective the 'Bots are gonna be going into this new fight. Drop-kicked over the fence like a yappy Chiuahuah. This is going to be as one sided as a Rambo flick. I may have to catch it on the IMAX screen twice this time.
SKowl
Add that to the Autobots we already know about, it's going to be one colourful cast:
Bike #1: pink
Bike #2: purple
Bike #3: blue
Skidz: green
Mudflap: red/orange
Jolt: indigo
Sideswipe: silver
Bumblebee: yellow
Optimus Prime: blue & red
Ratchet: day-glo yellow/green
Ironhide & Jetfire: black
Transformers: Revenge of the Skittles!
Cth
The blue container was spoiled last issue and mentioned in the 'what's in the blue container' thread
megatronkicksas
OK, so Animated stole ideas from the movie and now the movie steels ideas from Animated. I mean even the space bridge/sun destroyer looks like it did in Animated.
Nachtsider
Curioser and curioser.
[Wing_Saber-X]
Interesting titbits, guys! Definetely picking up this issue for sure!
Fit For natalie
Breakaway is most likely just a toy, and if he was a movie character, his Lockheed Martin-produced plane mode would have been licensed and thus considerably more accurate than it currently is.
Malunis_T
Spectacular! I also like the color choices for Arcee – I was thinking, somehow, the colors would be random… Like blue, green and yellow. But blue, pink and purple go together rather nicely.
Ironhide546
Are these from this issue? Found em on /toy/
Goldbot
Surge
Is Soundwave in this issue?
SKowl
Nice! Cool to see some hints at the new Autobots – I still can't believe we're 3 months away from the film's release and we still don't know the entire robot cast.
The bike bots look cool… wish we knew who they were. The pink one is Arcee I'm guessing… by the looks of that amazon.co.jp listing, and the timing of the figure leaks, the blue one is probably Chromia… I wonder who the purple one is, and if they'll all end up combining or not.
I'm a sucker for motorcycle Transformers – what do bike modes look like when they're shown in the comic?
PrimePower04
Springer is a v-22 osprey which would be large enough to transport Optimus, possibly a few smaller ones