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Transformers Full Theatrical Trailer Available

roelbj writes "The full trailer for Michael Bay's upcoming Transformers movie is now finally available on Yahoo. Unlike the teaser trailers that have only hinted at what the final effects would deliver, we can at long last get a much better feeling for how the live-action CGI Transformers will look."

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  1. Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by karmatic · · Score: 5, Informative

    For those who don't have something that can read qtl files, here are some direct links:

    "Exclusive Trailer".

    Theatrical Trailer.

    Teaser Trailer.

    1. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by Rik+Sweeney · · Score: 5, Informative
    2. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by suv4x4 · · Score: 3, Informative

      Well, for those of us who don't have Core Quad Extreme and 50 yard screens, the 480p version:

      Exclusive Trailer

    3. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by yakumo.unr · · Score: 2, Informative

      If you can't deal with QTL files then your quicktime or quicktime alt install needs to be reinstalled to fix up the file associations.

      And/or you need to check your mime type application/x-quicktimeplayer opens with the OS default handler ( I used the MIME edit addon to fix firefox just now so I could watch this new trailer).

      When it's working Quicktime will load it up, or Quicktime Alt will popup a menu asking what you want to do (download to location / download and play with MPC or WinMplayer / Stream)

      Forcing .QTL to open with a browser, or directly with a media player doesn't work.

      finally, if you download it, and have media player classic with coreAVC installed, rename the file to .hdmov and it will open with directshow and coreavc instead of quicktime, and playback speed will be much improved.

    4. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by suv4x4 · · Score: 5, Informative

      Care to let us in on the secret?

      Watch carefully the Camaro dashboard sequence, the first time the boy goes inside.

      You'll see a little black square with cube logo saying "CODEBLACK" which looks pasted-on in post-production.

      I googled around and it turns out this is some sort of passcode to SectorSeven.org, which has the same logo, and a password box...

    5. Re:Direct Link to Files (1080p .movs) by The+Angry+Mick · · Score: 2, Informative

      It's a viral marketing site for the film - entering "takara83" at the password prompt is supposed to get you in. Some discussion can be found at this site.

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  2. Re:Disappointed by AbsoluteXyro · · Score: 4, Informative

    No can do. Volkswagon refused. Something about not wanting to be associated with a war movie. Go figure.

  3. Re:The sound !!! by loteck · · Score: 5, Informative
    For anyone wondering what this is referring to:

    A) turn in your geek card and slashdot ID at the door
    B) check the trailer at 1:38-39. the sound prime makes as he is in his final stage of transforming is right out of the oldschool.

    Incredible how a simple sound can induce such vivid recollection of days long gone by. They've got me, hook, line, etc.

    How much is nostalgia worth? We'll find out July 9th, after its first full weekend.

  4. Re:Disappointed by batkiwi · · Score: 3, Informative

    Using it as a general car in the background or random car the hero drives? No.
    Using the car itself as a main character and selling a toy with "VW Beatle" Stamped on it? YES.

  5. Re:Link to 480 or at least 720? by moriya · · Score: 5, Informative

    As requested.. the QTL files are XML files so just save 'em and open it with your favorite text editor. The content is easy to read so getting the URL takes little to no effort. I did not bother to include the teaser trailer. If you want to view it, you know what to do.

    "Exclusive" 720p
    "Exclusive" 480p
    Trailer 720p
    Trailer 480p

  6. Sector 7 code! by Allison+Geode · · Score: 4, Informative

    i don't know if any of you have been following the sector 7 arg but there's a new login for that in the trailer. it flickers during part of the trailer, if you pause it when bumblebee's radio is shown in close-up and fritzes out, you'll see it, the code is "codeblack".

  7. Re:Looking forward to... by Sesticulus · · Score: 2, Informative

    If you want a bad implementation check out Robot Jox http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0102800/

  8. Re:I'm Sold. by WhatAmIDoingHere · · Score: 2, Informative

    From what I read, they did the exact same thing for the movie. They wanted realistic space taken up by vehicle and robot forms.

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  9. Re:I'm Sold. by falcon5768 · · Score: 4, Informative
    Um no they didnt, the movie animators had a LOT of trouble trying to make the G1 designs work. Very often the Japaneses animators cheated and removed a piece here or moved a piece to a spot it could never have gone to. If your looking for care in animation, watch Gundam or Macross, but Transformers G1 had very little care in how they transformed.

    The fact that OP is not a flat faced truck in this one is a direct result of them trying to make him one, and realizing there was no way in hell he could have realistically transformed and look how he did in the TV show.

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  10. Re:Looking forward to... by Guppy06 · · Score: 2, Informative

    "However this is the closest I'm going to get to seeing FASA's MechWarrior's"

    If you were a true fan, you'd refer to it as "BattleTech."

  11. Re:Something to put my mind off Spiderman by seaturnip · · Score: 3, Informative

    It was a rubbish mercantile cartoon that was totally awesome.

  12. Re:I'm Sold. by xero314 · · Score: 3, Informative

    Um no they didnt, the movie animators had a LOT of trouble trying to make the G1 designs work. Then I am guessing they didn't have any of the original toys sitting around. Having owned an Optimus, many other Transformers, a number of the original Diaclones, as well as many transformable Gundam, I can tell you that most of them are fully transformable with out the need for removing parts and the operate in robot form as well as vehicle form just fine (i.e. they roll in car form and are full possible in robot form). The original cartoon, including the original movie, where based very closely on these transformable model toys, wether the animators took care in that or not I can't really say, but the designers certainly did.

    the could have at least kept the surface area proportional. What the heck happens to all the body sheets on Bumblebee when he transforms? I mean before transformation he is fully surrounded by yellow sheet metal, but after transformation it's like he is in tattered rags.