Buell Firebolt Becomes Fembot in Transformers 2
June 12th, 2008 at 1:43 pm by Paul Crowe - "The Kneeslider"
With all of the press Buell is getting these days, their PR department must be working till the wee hours of the morning or maybe the producers just thought a Buell was the best choice. Either way, according to this leaked call sheet for the upcoming Transformers 2 movie, there is a Buell Firebolt that transforms into a female robot among the various multi hinged vehicles ready to do battle with the decepticons. Hmm, … doesn’t look like a factory color.
UPDATE: The first comment below by Clive points out the Buell part is speculation not actually specified, only a motorcycle is called for. Guess we’ll have to see the movie.
Caution, spoilers in the link below.
Link: ComicBookMovie via Autoblog
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June 12th, 2008 at 1:59 pm
Actually, this is incorrect. While the leaked call sheet does confirm the presence of the Arcee character and describes it as a motorcyle, there’s absolutley no mention of Buell or an XB12S, that information exists solely as speculation based on old concept renderings drawn up before the first film by Ben Procter.
June 12th, 2008 at 2:00 pm
Good for Buell.
I have been a fan of their bikes for some time now.
I wonder if they are worried that they will be branding themselves as feminine to people who are currently not familiar with the bikes.
June 12th, 2008 at 3:37 pm
Does this mean they can reproduce now that they are gender specific?
It looks like the only parts she kept when she transformed was her turn signals.
-todd
June 12th, 2008 at 3:49 pm
while i love the tranformations and the animations in the movie, it’d prefer to see at least some link to the original car/bike/truck. why couldn’t the muffler become a cannon or something.
June 12th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
Never knew the firebolt was a chick bike… har har.
June 13th, 2008 at 2:57 am
It wasn’t before now.
June 13th, 2008 at 12:33 pm
Where’d the wheels go???????
June 13th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
As I originally posted at Autoblog: it’ll be easy to pick Arcee out of a parking lot full of XB12R Firebolts, since it’ll be the only one with the brake rotor, exhaust headers and final drive on the LEFT side of the bike…
June 13th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
@davefla
are you suggesting that the animators used a mirror image of the bike to model the robot?
June 16th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
Funny, the bike’s way better looking than she is. Any word on whether Shia “Tough Guy” Lebouf (sp?) is coming back? He was the worst thing about the first movie.
October 14th, 2008 at 1:32 pm
funny enough my bike is painted exactly like this bike except i have white stars on it as well.
i was in shock to find out that they may be using this bike…just know i did it first!