TeacherScribe: Fan Boys, roll out!!

Well, it's almost here. And by it's, I mean Transformers 2: Revenge of the Fallen.

Three summers ago when I saw the first one, I was blown away. It was like I was 12 again. When Bumblebee rescues Sam from Barracuda, I was so thrilled I had to choke back a tear and keep from gleefully bouncing in my seat. Sad. I know.

Now it's a Michael Bay film, so we know a few things: lots of stuff will blow up, plenty of action (at the expense of plot and character), and the military will be involved. Oh yeah, and even more stuff will blow up.

But that's what's great about the Transformers, unlike the newest Terminator or even some of the Star Trek films, this franchise doesn't take itself too seriously. I mean we're talking about a whole story line built from toys (and they are the coolest toys ever invented).

This was the spot that previewed during the Super Bowl.

Again, when Optimus leaped onto that thing's head, I almost fell off the couch (in the picture below, he is outlined in red). I thought, that has to be devastator (the giant robot that the Constructicons can combine into), but it seems I was wrong. That giant robot is just ONE of the Constructicons. So just imagine how huge Devastator is! (and one early review I was reading said this was just the first scene!)

Here is the second trailer for the film, where Devastator makes his debut. He is the large monstrosity scene scaling a pyramid and then sucking up the whole damn desert in the final clip.

Here are some leaked photos of the new toy line featuring the Constructicons individually and combined into Bay's version of Devastator.

Now, what you ask, could possibly defeat this?

Well, it just might be this

It seems that Optimus will be able to combine with Jetire (who used to be Skyfire in the cartoon series). Impressive.

They sure have come a long way from my own original line of Transformers (Mom ordered me several, but the catalog was sold out of them, so I got GI Joe's instead. They were okay, but everyone had the Transformers . . . and if you were really lucky you had Optimus Prime. Since I had zero Transformers, the best thing I could do was create my own line of them!)