Thanks a bunch man, but I need to know something, are they just filming at the post office on Friday because thats what it sounds like, because if they would be filming there on Saturday I might be able to make it, but if they arent Im not going to make a trip to nothing, but I hope they are there over the weekend so I could see some post office action
No way to tell, that info comes straight from the city, but is kinda confusing. I will probably head over to the PO for lunch and will see if anythign is going on, see what the signs say.
Friday Jimmy, I walked over there during lunch and the signs at the Post Office say until 7 am August 21...so that would be Friday only, but you never know, things can change. I walked by the parking lot on Clinton Street next to Beggar's Pizza and they appear to be using it again for TF3 tomorrow. The last time they used it is the only time I have seen all of the Bots together (including Ironhide, the two Datsuns, and the Twins), so somebody should check it out. I will try to be there at least once or twice during the day if work isn't too busy.
Dude that would be awesome where do you work??? yeah I know that lot seemed to have all the bots together and it seems like the last time they were over at the post office was the only time they used Ironhide.......
Friday update/something *BIG* for Sunday? Went past the LaSalle Street bridge Friday morning and they had some equipment there but not much going on yet. At the Post Office they had extras holding and vehicle parking lots reserved but as of 9:00 am no equipment and no vehicles anywhere. Here's the interesting thing though: overnight the entire stretch of Wacker Drive from about Michigan to Van Buren has been marked "no parking" for this weekend, looked like mainly for Sunday. This is a very long stretch of real estate, and means that they could basically connect the Post Office set on Van Buren all the way north and east to the Lasalle, Wacker, and Michigan Avenue sets. There is no way they could be parking equipment on that whole stretch, so my *guess* is that they are filming helicopter shots of the vehicles driving all the way down Wacker. If Sunday is indeed the last day of shooting here in Chicago, it should be a good one.
Just found this on Youtube ... more Bayhem in Chicago! YouTube - TRANSFORMERS 3 chicago footage by djelove for CHIRADIO films
Friday's filming/next week OK, they were filming all day today on the LaSalle Street Bridge. The bridge was on fire, lots of soldiers running around, the standard stuff. The Post Office shoot was apaprently delayed. All of the crew signs were up but no crew. The new parking signs say "no parking" until August 27, and the vehicle lot they used before is closed to the public until at least August 26. So they may be shooting there well into next week; whether they start on Saturday or not until next week is unknown. There are signs up not just on Wacker but all over the Loop for this weekend. Hopefully Jimmy or someone can make it down to see what they're doing.
I passed what I assume was a prop truck today on I-65 south of Indianapolis. It had a big movie Prime emblazoned on the side of the cab as well as California ICC tags. Didn't get a chance to take a picture though. Are they doing any filming down south, or do you think they were just taking stuff back?
I was out of town today; in the morning on my way out I went by the Post Office (nothing there) and LaSalle Street Bridge (a bit of equipment but not much.) I tried to go down Wacker but the cops had it closed at Washington so something was going on there. Came back late this evening, nothing at the P.O., nothing on Wacker or LaSalle, however there are trucks (including the Hog's Breath semi that I think is a vehicle hauler) parked on lower Water Street just east of Michigan. So basically they will be somewhere doing something tomorrow No debris anywhere so some driving stuff, hope somebody gets a chance to see what they are doing.
On Saturday and Sunday I could hear Helicopters doing their flyovers. So today (Sunday) at 2pm, I went walking around (it was beautiful here in Chicago) and ended up seeing them film some Red Chevy Truck on the Wells St. Bridge. No actors or Michael Bay (that I could see), just the drivers and crew using the camera/chase car and a camera on the ground. They were filming the truck driving slowly up to the corner and stopping (for the 5 minutes I stuck around). Didn't see any Autobot or Decepticon logos so it might just be a regular truck: Then I wandered behind the alley at Hotel 71 and saw piles of debris and rubble; basically the stuff we'd seen before (concrete, brick walls, rocks, etc). But what I noticed was this odd thingy (2nd shot is a closer look): I'm not sure what it is or what it's used for but it looks sort of alien and designed and has rigs & cables attached. Maybe it's suppose to be a piece of a robot or something? Who knows.
Finally, I went by the Old Post Office where NOTHING was happening even though the place is still made up like the NEST place. So, I took some closeup shots of the gate area and what look like these ray gun towers: Everyone was probably on lunch break because nobody was around on the "No Parking" streets or anything (except for the Red Truck stuff mentioned in above post, who were gone by 4pm). I just decided to walk home but of course, later I could hear the choppers flying around again. I was too lazy to go back out to see what was up so if there was any action today, I pretty much missed it. So, anybody got anything from this weekend?
Agreed! Plus, those laser security pylons/fences look awesome! It seems human technology has come along leaps and bounds since TF2.
The Red Chevy Silverado would make a great Gears or maybe a Huffer or Pipes character too!! If it was purple/gray it would an a great figure for Dropkick since he is a custom chevy truck from the first Transformers game...
Its clearly going to be Kiss Players Prime. They said Prime was going to look different and the Other "Prime" with his trailer is obviously a red herring.
Thanks for pointing-out the model for me, Sir Hmmmm.... Interesting! Soundwave had a Silverado as his vehicle mode on ROTF Concept Arts...
But a red Soundwave? That doesn't work on any level for me... it would look like movie Blaster. I do recall the Topkick being discontinued so maybe we're finally getting a red Ironhide in the movie? I mean we saw that all the other Autobots changed their forms a bit to redisguise themselves, even Prime slimmed down and added a trailer. Ironhide is the only one that's been identical so far.
