MTV revealed the Fallen in an exclusive image earlier today, along with Shia talking about what to expect from Michael Bay's latest horrorbot:

Basically, the Fallen is to them what cavemen, Neanderthals were to us... He's the ancestor, the first version of this exoskeleton. He's the first version of this sentient being. That's what he is. He's the origins of what they came from. [The relationship between him and Megatron is] the Emperor and Darth Vader - it's that kind of situation... He's the main villain, so two and two makes four. He's a badass. He has to be. The Fallen, his transportation method is really unlike any other robot's transportation method. The way he fights is also very different. It's spectacular, visually stunning, really incredible.

MTV will be premiering footage from Revenge Of The Fallen during tomorrow's MTV Movie Awards show.

Shia LaBeouf Reveals 'Transformers' Villain The Fallen [MTV Movies]

Admittedly, toys of Transformers can be deceptively shitty - something that we've written about before - but there's nothing surprising or cool about this version of the Fallen to warrant him getting his name in the title of Michael Bay's robotic sequel. And, yes, we know that it looks like he has a scary giant robotic penis, but that's still not enough to get us that interested.


The pics first appeared on TF fan forum TF08, where the reaction is slightly more excited than ours; the figure gets called "EPIC" and "awesome indeed." We'll wait until Transformers: Revenge of The Fallen arrives in cinemas this summer before making that announcement, thank you very much.

2009.2.8 rotf the fallen!!!!!!! [TF08]