DOTM unanswered and answered questions (lots of spoilers)

[Krittle]

MY real question is this.....

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DID ANYONE TELL OPTIMUS IRONHIDE WAS DEAD! No. I mean there wasnt an actual scene where someone informed him... i know we can assume they would have sent him a message immediately... but i always think for a laugh at the end of the movie, when he is doing his 'epic speech' someone will pop up and say 'Oh btw Optimus... Ironhide is dead' :0 Prime: "WHAT!?" (roll credits... directed by Michael Bay)

[GoktimusPrime]

In Washington a Decepticon scanned a green dump truck. Later in Chicago we saw a large green transformer with long arms. Was that the same 'con?

No. The green Decepticon in Chicago is a "Long Haul" type Constructicon.

DID ANYONE TELL OPTIMUS IRONHIDE WAS DEAD! No. I mean there wasnt an actual scene where someone informed him... i know we can assume they would have sent him a message immediately... but i always think for a laugh at the end of the movie, when he is doing his 'epic speech' someone will pop up and say 'Oh btw Optimus... Ironhide is dead' :0 Prime: "WHAT!?" (roll credits... directed by Michael Bay)

Autobots do have internal communications. And don't forget that Quejack died too! Oh wait, we don't care about him do we?

And besides, we all know how Optimus Prime mourns for his fallen comrades, as seen in the end of TF1 when he "mourned" Jazz.

"Meh."

[Verno]

Whats Bay's fascination with the number '4500X'? It was the code on Blackout in the 1st movie, and appeared on the engine of the private jet in DOTM.

[Krittle]

Whats Bay's fascination with the number '4500X'? It was the code on Blackout in the 1st movie, and appeared on the engine of the private jet in DOTM.

That must be his explosion equation... take a normal explosion and times it by 4500! If he does two explosions, it will be OVER 9000!

[5FDP]

Whats Bay's fascination with the number '4500X'? It was the code on Blackout in the 1st movie, and appeared on the engine of the private jet in DOTM.

It's explained in the audio commentary on the Transformers DVD (2007) that 4500 X is the serial number on his real-life private jet. That was his inspiration for Blackout.

[Bartrim]

MY real question is this.....

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DID ANYONE TELL OPTIMUS IRONHIDE WAS DEAD! No. I mean there wasnt an actual scene where someone informed him... i know we can assume they would have sent him a message immediately... but i always think for a laugh at the end of the movie, when he is doing his 'epic speech' someone will pop up and say 'Oh btw Optimus... Ironhide is dead' :0 Prime: "WHAT!?" (roll credits... directed by Michael Bay)

I would of liked if when Prime shot Sentinel he said "This is for Ironhide"

[Paul Agnew]

DID ANYONE TELL OPTIMUS IRONHIDE WAS DEAD! No. I mean there wasnt an actual scene where someone informed him... i know we can assume they would have sent him a message immediately... but i always think for a laugh at the end of the movie, when he is doing his 'epic speech' someone will pop up and say 'Oh btw Optimus... Ironhide is dead' :0 Prime: "WHAT!?" (roll credits... directed by Michael Bay)

Optimus was informed shortly after once recieving a message through his internal communication system, and before he confronted Sentinel at the Lincoln Memorial. Moments later he also discovered the fate of Skids and presumed Mudflap. When an Autobot hears static, there is still a chance they can be saved, but when there is utter silence, the Spark is utterly destroyed.

As Goktimus said, Prime doesn't exactly respond strongly to a character demise (bar Elita-1 in Rising Storm). Moments later, Prime forgets Ironhide and makes excuses that Sentinel must have been brainwashed and under Decepticon control.

It was in the novel.