The Hasbro Licensing Summit was recently held at Kuala Lumpur the capital city of Malaysia and according to TFW2005 the toy news provides some new insight into the characters for the film.The summit revealed the true name the Chevy Corvette Centennial as Sideswipe, so the place-holder name of Stinger no long applies.
In addition, they confirmed that Ravage, described as having a "very raw beast mode", will be in the film. I assume this is the same creature design seen on the Princeton set a few months ago that was named Frenzy for lack of a better identifier.
Next, the summit verified that Megatron's alt mode is a tank which confirms that the leaked images are possible design attempts for that alt mode. No confirmation on whether the designs are exact matches for what will be used in the film.
TFW2005 is also reporting their inside source has said that the toy line for Devastator will merge to form a Supreme sized figure. For Hasbro, a Supreme class tends to be the toys in the $50 MSRP range.
There is also a toy report on an Italian website here. A Babel Fish translation was a bit jumbled. The best I can tell they are saying that there will be assortments comprising of Devastator and Jetfire. A new gimmick for the Deluxe line will include gears that appear to transform similar to the movie. Bumblebee will have a gun with blades and something to do with a helmet. The site also verifed the tank mode for Megatron. Hopefully our international readers can provide a better translation.
Update: In regards to the Italian website, someone offered to properly translate it but instead discovered the post has been pulled. Since no images were involved, I doubt it was done because of Hasbro or anything so the end result is I am going to take what the site had said with a grain of salt until the info is confirmed elsewhere. I still have huge doubts about Devastator being in this movie.
So to sum, two new Transformers characters to add to the list - Sideswipe and Ravage. Alt mode for Megatron is a tank. And the rumor of Devastator continues.
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