TF4 Movie promotions around the world - random & minor ones
Now that quite a few promotional displays and cross-promotions are popping up that aren't significant news on their own (and clogging up this section), I figured an all-in topic might be worth doing for the few who might be curious.
In Texas, the whole side of a 13 storey carparking building is one big movie poster, of Lockdown and his ship.
Not the biggest promotional poster for Transformers, as I remember there being a few for the each movie that covered the sides of 20-30 storey buildings (including this one I took in 2009 in LA)
(this is why the marketing campaigns of big-budget movies these days sometimes cost as much as the movie itself)
Speaking of big, these TF3 statues in China look to be about 6-storeys tall. Not sure if it is for something official, as they are TF3 figures... or maybe they took so long to build, they didn't know what the fourth movie figures would look like.
And this 3-D (flat layered) display outside of Paramount Studios in Hollywood, of Optimus riding Grimlock.
AOE Then & Now figures (TRU?)
I believe griffin has these listed as May TRU (AU?) exclusives, however, I just saw this over at TFormers.net: http://tformers.net/g/generated/2323...scaled_800.jpg (from the news article at: http://tformers.com/lion-city-roars-...3235/news.html) regarding the TRU Singapore event for AOE.
Looks like the Then & Now sets may be mini metal figures, according to the description and pictures. Since the "leaked" TRU images included photos of existing Takara MP Prowl, a custom Sunstorm, and hybrid-style Prime, I would assume they are all totally fake, and the Singapore details for "Then & Now" are probably accurate. Whether the regular versions are painted or what, I have no idea, but I thought it was interesting enough to post, and I hadn't heard anything else about it.