• There are two definitions of the dark side of the Moon. One is the side not facing the Sun, thus dark. The other is the side never facing the Earth, thus "dark," i.e. unknown. The trailer shows us a ship crash landed on the Moon, lit by the sun, with the Earth clearly visible in the sky above it. So it's facing the Sun, AND facing the Earth. The movie fails at its own title. It's like if Star Wars was about an underground civilization, or Jaws was about a shark with no mouth. It also means that the ship would be visible by telescope since it crashed, so there's no way it could be secret. God DAMN it Michael Bay.

• I'm not a big Transformers nerd, but I definitely thought Unicron as well. However, since this IS a movie they may not follow Trasnformers mythos THAT closely enough that they are governed by 'you must make Unicron really big and giant'. We'll just have to wait and see for more information in time then.

• So, after clearly establishing in the first two movies that transformers travel through space as protoform meteor things, this 'plot' revolves around a crashed intergalactic transformer space ship that everyone just kinda didn't notice before? Please stop making these movies.

• What... no love for the OG goatee... Alpha Trion?

• Apparently we're enemies now. We want different things. But no worries. if Prime isn't to your liking, you've always got Revenge of the Fallen for all your humorous robot needs.

• I actually disagree somewhat with TF: Prime's tone. I hope it LIGHTENS THE HELL UP. Why? Because Transformers is inherently ridiculous, and has always had a sense of humour. Even the grim-dark of Beast Wars season 2 had comic relief. Transformers shouldn't take itself too seriously. Look at what happened to Beast Machines, the grim-darkest TF show. That thing sucks the joy out of watching robots beat each other up.

• rob were you drunk when you wrote this?

• And I bet it's "Mr. Sector Seven" that explains why we haven't heard about this particular event till now.

• my food comes from china and chile. dont fool yourself with your gov subsidized corn.

• "You're a liar, and a fake, and a-OOF!"

• Of course! Moustache! It's Alpha Trion.

• Wow, way to be a bigot there. I guess all us workin' folks here in flyover country aught to jus' stop sending you city folks food, since you is all so smart you can grow it yourself on yer rooftops. It's people like you that are ruining political discourse.

• I like the mustache, but for maximum Gentlebotness, add a tophat and monocle.

• woah

• Wait, a mustached robot on the moon? Could it be... http://farm1.static.flickr.com/69/178301613_b6b1743561.jpg

• The hell it ain't. Some of us were hoping they would take the franchise seriously for once. They're doing it in Transformers: Prime.

• I recall the trailer for the first film to be interesting too, but then the movie was terrible. Michael Bay has a way of taking the good things and events in life and putting his pea-brain elementary spin on it while whoring it up and making it inappropriate. No other director can compete. I won't be seeing it since his first two attempts were horrendous. How many times in a single film can the camera rotate around a character? Half of the second movie was filled with cameras rotating 360 around one thing. The third film should just be cameras rotating the entire 2 hours.

• pocahontar. nuff said.

• your inner five years old doesnt like giant robots beating the hydrolics out of each other? POD PERSON!!!

• WTF? No roboballs? LAME. I was getting all ready to be worked up about the horrible-and-completely-pointless-on-a-robot-moustache until Michael Bay cleverly distracted me with the most unnecessarily complicated eye of all time.

• Isn't it time for a reboot?

• One more quick addendum. The title of this movie sounds like the name of a really shitty Pink Floyd cover band.

• Probably Imaginary Forces made the trailer. I know they at least made the titles. Also, am I the only one who thinks this would make more sense if they had called it Transformers: Turn Off the Dark?

• Uh, I'm torn. As much as I hated the second Bayformers (and wasn't fond of the first one to begin with) I kind of want to check out the third one. Why? It has Soundwave *sigh* That trailer doesn't look too shabby either. Sure, the emotionless goofy face of the new Transformer on the moon is stupid, but maybe Bay has really learned something and will finally make this more about alien robots fighting and less about humping dogs, toilet humor and bouncing titties. The only thing I'm really worried about: Does he mean the twins with "two little characters"? If he does then please disregard everything I said, because I think I won't be able to take more of their wigger antics.

• Yeah, the problem isn't comedy, but the SORT of comedy in the film. Revenge of the Fallen, for the most part, had terrible comedy. However, I admit that I laughed when Leo (Sam's roomate) shocked himself with the taser.

• Yeah, quite a few Transformers have moustaches in the 1986 movie, as well as episodes before that movie, and after it. Rob is just bitching for the sake of bitching on that one.

• I doubt mysterious robot guy is Unicron, as it wouldn't make sense. Regardless of what you think of the quality of Bay's Transformers movies, the Transformers bits more or less conform with the basic rules of previous Transformers series.

• Cybertron is only ever that small in the original cartoon... because it was just a rush job cartoon made as quickly as possible. The people making it didn't have time to think about how Cybertron being so small didn't make sense, because the audience wouldn't care. Elsewhere in Transformers, Cybertron is a normal-sized planet.

• We can always hope it's a different kind of comedy than before. Hope being the key word here.

• Michael Bay happened.

• He has done it before. Not used any of the footage from the trailer in the actual movie. http://comicsunleashed.blogspot.com/2010/12/transformers-dark-of-moon-teaser.html

• Got rid of the dorky comedy, huh? Hey Rob, check this out... http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/transformers-movie-just-movie-31/transformers-3-to-have-more-comedy-170772/ Are he and Lorenzo di Bonaventura working on different films?

• I dunno, his career does seem to be pretty compelling argument for the existance of Satan. And that he's willing to barter 'success' for souls.

• Sorry, my inner five year old just isn't that dumb.

• Wasn't the Fallen's base on the Moon? You'd think he would have noticed a crashed Transformer ship literally right in his own backyard.

• Uh no, this is grade school science and you fail at it. The moon does in fact rotate, just very slowly with its orbit so we just see the one side. My god.

• To quote Eric Idle... "And the answer is... UNICRON!" ...maybe.

• yeah. Cuz that plan went off smashingly for Avatar.

• Fluffers gonna fluff.

• Quit spamming this on all the articles. Christ what an asshole.

• Tell the general populous to stop being a bunch of fucktards in the flyover states and Hollywood wouldn't have ginormous plot-holes in their science. Or you could calm the fuck down and enjoy the movie like your inner five year old wants you to.

• It's an Autobot. Clearly. Same head/helmet as Optimus. Face resembles the Autobot logo so it's most likely a version of Zeta Prime/Vector Prime/Sentinel Prime/AUtobot X. Doesn't fit the colour scheme or robot form design aesthetics of the previous 'cons.

• for a franchise with an estimated worth in billions of dollars and practically printing it's own currency it seems they can do whatever the fuck they want as long as wee keep buying the merch.

• It's a teaser not a trailer. There's a cinematic and marketing difference.

• No, but he did have a goatee, if I'm not mistaken.

• Transformers have no business popping up in the 60s. Have these guys never watched a Transformers episode at all? Look, the plot goes like this: There is a McGuffin. Egatro wants it and Potimus wants to keep it safe. Megatron will stoop to taking hostages, ambushes or other trickery to get it, and then either ends up betrayed by Starscream or beaten by Optimus or a plucky and unlikely group of autobots. Jesus fuck, that's not so hard to figure out. Also, whoever designed these things should simply be terminated with extreme prejudice. Why did they purposely make them so ugly?

• I've heard about this, uh, thing before. Now after actually seeing that article, I'm about to disown Japan like a crackhead son.

• I'm 2nd or 3rd-ing (I lost count skimming through all the posts) the notion that the transformer is Alpha Trion.....

• They even referenced that when Buzz was on Monday Night Raw. It's awesome.

• I will admit that is is a pretty lame TF teaser. But, a small part of me believes that this would have been an awesome Alien sequel teaser. Imagine the Apollo crew slowly gestating an Alien inside them, for decades. Then 2010 rolls around and Buzz Aldrin is at some NASA ribbon-cutting ceremony and _splat_ his chest explodes. Something scurries away from his corpse and everyone is screaming. That movie would be ten times as awesome if they could get Aldrin, Armstrong and Collins to play themselves and it was filmed like a documentary.

• Hey, I dislike Bay as much as the next guy, but if you want to see raped childhoods, nobody does that shit worse than Japan: http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Kiss_Players_%28franchise%29

• Galvatron didn't have a mustache.

• I'd be far more interested in this 5 years ago. There is nothing in this teaser that makes me think, "Oh, this might be good."

• I don't usually weigh in here with the comments, but after watching the trailer again, I'm willing to bet it's the Michael Bay version of Unicron. The coloring is right, he's got the stache, and he looks pretty large (and if we're being honest, as large as they could probably do in a non-animated film.)

• So all the shenanigans that have transpired in the last two movies--including a lot of Transformers' interstellar travel--and no one noticed the GIANT TRANSFORMERS SHIP that's been on the moon? And/or the the government has known about transformers for at least 40 years and when the first two movies happened they were all 'OMG! Whuzzat?!' I want to be able to appreciate these movies on an absurd societal-test-type level, like they make them as nonsensical and shitty as possible just to see how much the world can take, but JESUS. They're just so BAD. Also, apparently transformers don't see using any traditional means, rather they somehow process light signals with a series of MINIATURE BUZZSAWS.

• Well! I mean really!! That was a cliffhanger mystery from AOTC that was never addressed! I guess I thought of it because Lucas is another childhood memory killer!

• Speaking as an outspoken (and friendly) atheist, I think that's pretty funny. :)

• finally, some good 3d coming. I was wondering how long it would take for someone to come along and teach James Cameron how to do it... yes, that was sarcasm.

• Well OBVIOUSLY! Everyone knows that! ;) Did you ever see the footage of Buzz Aldrin punching a guy in the face for telling him that the moon landings were a hoax? It's worth looking up, and made Buzz my favorite astronaut ever! :D

• You know, if I were an atheist, I wouldn't bring up flying spaghetti monsters or old testament violence. I'd simply point to the continued career of Michael Bay and ask that any theist I encountered square that with the existence of a loving God.

• I don't know, I'm still willing to suspend judgment till I see it. The crashed ship is reminiscent of the G1 crash site. Yet I know it is insanity to do the same thing and expect a different outcome.

• Fluffer.

• I love interwebs hyperbole, ala "HE'S RAPING OUR CHILDHOOD!" I still have all the g1 eps sitting on my DVD shelf, and they haven't been touched by anyone. He can't change the past, and your childhood is still completely intact. If you think it's going to suck, then don't go see it. Maybe, if enough people do this, the studio will think twice before sinking $200 mil into an undecipherable mess of CGI overload.

• I'll wait for this one the same way I waited for Revenge of the Fallen...Until the Rifftrax comes out. It's the only way to make the film enjoyable.

• Going to go for the easy joke here: Yeah, but the original landings took place in a studio anyway....

• Still, I want my Unicron to be Ginormous. Figures. It would be the one thing Michael make-everything-bigger-and-louder Bay would downsize.

• Yeah, that's kind of what I was thinking as well. There are tons of better explanations than screwing up Apollo 11 like that. Also, even with the CGI, the missed an easy visual givaway that it was happening in a studio on Earth: Dust doesn't billow in a vacuum. It follows a parabolic arc. Watch footage of the moon rover some time, and look at the dust coming off the wheels and you'll see what I mean.

• Good point. Although the "dark" side isn't really any more dark than the side we see. It gets as much light as the side we see, but we call it dark because we never see it. Whichever part of the moon that's in shadow is the dark side. So when you look at full moon, the "dark" side is actually dark, and when you look at a half moon, the "dark" side is actually half-lit. :)

• Gonna see it anyway, screw the haters. Hayers gonna hate.

• At least this time the facial hair doesn't make the Bayformer look like C'thulhu "got it on" in a menage a trois with an old TV set and a helicopter.

• The saddest thing is, this is probably the closest thing we're going to see to an actual lunar mission for the next 25 years. Longer, if you're looking for an <i>American</i> lunar mission. Nice CGI and low-gravity effects, though...*slightly* spoiled with the obviously unpressurized spacesuits. Arghygh. It also occurs to me that they could have sidestepped the technical problem of being out of radio contact by having the movie feature one of the <i>cancelled</i> Apollo missions (say, 18), have it land on the lunar dark side, and they're using the CM to relay signals back to Earth, conveniently passing out of range for enough time for the unobserved secret mission. (This part mostly ripped off—er, "inspired" by James Michner. If Harlan Ellison was good enough for James Cameron, Michner can do for Michael Bay.)

• He got rid of the "dorky" comedy? What's that mean? He got rid of the actually funny parts, and kept all the poop jokes? There's nothing dorky about poop jokes; they're just stupid.

• That's Alpha Trion, biotches. Of course he has a mustache.

• Hey, at least the moon landing stuff was pretty cool. I'd actually watch a movie about that. *touches earpiece* What? They already made that movie? When?

• Courtesy of the dictionary: –noun 17. the absence of light; darkness: I can't see well in the dark. 18. night; nightfall: Please come home before dark. 19. a dark place. 20. a dark color.

• Let's not forget that for the being underground on the dark side of the moon, there's a surprising amount of light.

• Did you really just say "dark" can not be used as a noun? So if you are in a room, and the lights are off, can it not be said that you are in the dark? Dark in that situation would be a place...never mind, just read this...http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/dark You are welcome...

• Bay doesn't make the trailers, some other company does it, how much you wanna bet that half this footage doesn't even show up in the movie.

• Shockwave's head has been seen in set photos. He definitely looks like Shockwave

• You know what we should all do? Ignore these movies. Don't report on them, don't talk about them, and for Gandalf's sake, DON'T GO SEE THEM. No matter what we think about the movies, reporting on them, linking to them, and discussing them is 'buzz'. Please stop helping Bay rape our childhoods.

• Rob, just think of it this way.. it's almost over next year the crapfest TF film and then the year later, the end of the world to erase this from history. =D Ok, I had a few shots. I think I'm ready to see this video now.

• Also, let's put razors in his eyes. Robots need razors

• This seems highly unlikely. MICHAEL BAY, I AM DOUBTING THE VERISIMILITUDE OF YOUR MOVIE ABOUT GIANT TRANSFORMING ROBOTS FROM SPACE. As for mustache robot, maybe it's Emirate Xaaron?

• Or maybe Beagle II, since that one of the ones that was lost.

• Mars Pathfinder mission.

• I was still writing when you posted, work distractions and all :-)

• "Who knows who it is- maybe it's the guy who erased the planet files from the Jedi Library?!" I haven't laughed that hard all day, thank you sir.

• The moon landing sequences in the trailer look quiet and suspenseful. It's too bad that this'll be destroyed in film with a blaring Aerosmith soundtrack, Shia shouting "WHOA-WHOA-WHOA-WHOA!" and interwoven with several glossy cuts of a military helicopter flying in slow-motion.

• Like you'd be able to recognise Shockwave's head if the robot design guys got ahold of it. "Why does he only have one eye? He should have two. People have two eyes, so should robots!"

• wasnt the original TF movie teaser trailer about the moon landing?

• I'd be lying if I didn't say that the premise of a secret mission inside the Apollo 11 landings is a pretty cool idea. Attaching that to the Transformers storyline could also be nifty. With that said, Michael Bay is basically the nerd anti-christ so I am preparing to be mind-raped again next summer.

• The more technical version of my point was appreciated, however. And, yeah, the whole "well, they can walk over to the dark side of the moon" thing was ridiculous. I guess the next comment from the Bay defenders will be "well, they had that car, they could've driven!"

• I fully expect the movie to tank a la RotF but just out of nerdy compulsion I feel the need to toss out there that based on design and coloring that appears to be Sentinel Prime. Alpha Trion (not a prime but he is one of the original 13 TFs) has a similar appearance but much different color scheme.

• I too found the gears in the eyes weird, and then it totally blew my mind that the film's logo was made up of the gears INSIDE the eye! Which can only mean, EVERYTHING in the universe is happening INSIDE that mustachioed robot! Crazy!

• I love that he has a big 'old man drunkard' nose!! Who knows who it is- maybe it's the guy who erased the planet files from the Jedi Library?! I feel like Bay has my childhood hostage! Like I'm obligated to see a Transformers film, but I cannot justify supporting Bay's crappy films! BTW: Check out my friends Transformers-parody cartoons on Youtube. It's called: ROBOTNOBOTS I have a Batman parody cartoon too called: THE MASKED RAVEN. Please check them out!!!

• There it is... That TF1 teaser. <url>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ItK90yvA44</url>

• I have to say, as much as I hated ROTF, I didn't dislike the first one all that much. Still not a great movie, but ROTF is the main reason why I hate Bay. I doubt this one will be better than ROTF, but I'm being cautiously pessimistic.

• No, they had awesome fu manchus.

• I think Revenge of the Fallen was soooo bad everybody is going to get out of DotM saying it´s wasn´t -_-

• ,.. also Canadian.

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