So I did this a few times before and put simply this is a mass theory post based off the scenes/images revealed to us already. The following contains heavy spoilers - but I hope you enjoy my thoughts based on the images and other spoilers we've had over the last few months.

I also find it intriguing viewing just how much of this movie could potentially be spoiled in the trailers if this theory does turn out to be even 99% accurate...


Opening;

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• Opening Spaceship scene
  
• 'Cyberforming' scene & 'Evolution of Dinobots' scene
  
• Ratchet is shown being hunted/killed
  
• Autobots forced into hiding

Yaeger Farm;

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• Cade buys Optimus and brings him to Yaeger Farm
  
• Cade discovers its a Transformer
  
• Lucas reports Optimus Prime's existence at the Yaeger Farm

Yaeger Farm attack;

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• Harold Attinger meets with Cade, threatening him
  
• Harold Attinger sends hired thugs, led by Savoy, to the Yaeger Farm
  
• Optimus reveals himself and saves the humans

Calling All Autobots;

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• A car chase ensues with Shane being introduced
  
• Lucas is forced to leave the group as they don't trust him
  
• Optimus gets a new alt-mode
  
• The Autobots are united
  
• Optimus introduces the humans to the other Autobots

Birth Of Galvatron;

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• Harold Attinger uses some recovered Cybertronian matter (With the help of Joshua) to create Galvatron
  
• Harold Attinger plans to trigger a fight with Optimus to promote his Human-built Transformers/Vehicons to the world as a form of anti-Autobot protection
  
• Galvatron attacks Optimus
  
• Varying governmental figures are shown watching via Galvatron-monitor
  
• Optimus defeats Galvatron and almost destroys Galvatron

Lockdown's arrival;

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• Lockdown appears and attacks Optimus, wounding him badly
  
• Harold Attinger looks on shocked...
  
• Optimus questions Lockdown
  
• Tessa is accidentally captured in the same net as Optimus
  
• The Chinese government agrees to the use of Vehicons to protect Hong Kong - the first place the Vehicons will be used
  
• Cade and Shane team together with Bumblebee

Savoy - Joshua;

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• Cade tracks down Savoy and goes to interrogate him, the two fight
  
• Cade manages to escape having learnt that Joshua created the Transformers for Harold Attinger
  
• Shane ends up meeting Joshua and attempt to convince him to work with the Autobots, however Joshua initially refuses
  
• Bumblebee scans a new alt-mode from Stinger
  
• Joshua is confronted by Li Bingbing who expresses doubts in the human-made Transformers, convincing him that something is wrong

Lockdown interrogation;

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• Lockdown tortures Optimus to try to find the location of 'The Key' an item capable of activating a mass Cyberforming of Earth
  
• Lockdown's ship docks with a building
  
• Cade and Shane launch a rescue attempt where Cade acquires the Sword-Gun (Star Saber?)
  
• Cade talks to Optimus about 'not giving up'
  
• Tessa is chased by Wolves however manages to escape
  
• Tessa escapes with Cade, Shane and Bumblebee

Dinobots;

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• Realising Lockdown's plan Optimus discovers the Dinobots
  
• Optimus fights Grimlock for leadership of the Dinobots
  
• The Autobots ride the Dinobots to attack
  
• Joshua ends up finding Cade again and reveals that he was wrong and that Harold Attinger is planning on using the Vehicons as his own personal army
  
• Joshua believes its all over... Hound expresses his distaste of the idea

Rise Of Galvatron;

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• The Autobots and Dinobots storm into Hong Kong
  
• The Autobots plow their way through the Vehicons to get to 'The Key' housed in Harold Attinger's factory
  
• Harold Attinger goes crazy
  
• Galvatron is rebuilt in a massive new body and Harold Attinger uses 'The Key' to give sentience/life to Galvatron
  
• Optimus arrives and battles Galvatron, with Galvatron escaping in the confusion

Lockdown Battle;

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• Cade, Savoy, Tessa and Joshua acquire 'The Key'
  
• Lockdown begins his attack on Hong Kong
  
• Lockdown begins sucking up things
  
• With the humans narrowly escaping being squished
  
• The humans flee
  
• Spotting the humans Lockdown engages and gives chase
  
• Optimus arrives and fights with Lockdown
  
• It seems Optimus might be winning...
  
• However Lockdown is much stronger and Optimus is outmatched
  
• Optimus is impaled while protecting Cade
  
• Cade fights Lockdown however he is also outmatched even with his sword-gun (Star Saber?)
  
• Bumblebee confronts Lockdown protecting Cade
  
• Lockdown and Bumblebee battle with Lockdown being defeated/killed and it turns out Optimus was only wounded
  
• Knowing their is a bounty on his head Optimus leaves Earth
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZtMHSOq50Q
• Battle Cry plays in the credits
  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9GEPqBssVk
• I look sadly at the credits as the song playing is not 'Thousand Foot Krutch - E for Extinction'

Hope you enjoyed this delve into my mind and its interpretation of the structure of the movie  

 

wow this is a really long post and you sure put some thought into it! Have yet to read but im sure it will be good.

 

Lucas isn't forced to leave the group. He's sitting in the Sonic. And is seen later again in Hong Kong in the blue truck as they are driving backward to get away from the stuff being dropped. Lucas: "we are in so much trouble!"

 

Hope you enjoy

Ah ok - might have missed that as I cant find him In any of the scenes between that so it seems like he leaves and then re-appears in that scene...

 

Holy crap dude.. that's a theory and a half.. Good read though!  

 

It really seems like Bee will kill Lockdown, which will be really lame. If he does actually die, of course

 

maybe Prime refuses to say something, Lockdown then goes to earth to destroy things to make him talk playing on his sympathy.
Cade convinces him to help Earth and not just leave.

 

You did your homework, i commend you, great job !

 

Good read

 

Awesome post! Definitely close to the movie.

 

It's good, but the Dinobots sound like they will be wasted! I mean, after fighting all those vehicons and Galvatron... What happens to them? Because it looks like they're not needed fighting Lockdown.

 

The explosions Cade, Tessa and Shane are running from look a whole hell of a lot like those from the prehistoric extermination scene. Very liquid-like.

 

Thanks to everyone who enjoyed :3

Going off theory I'd probably say that as well as battling the Vehicons and Galvatron that they would possibly taking down Lockdown's spaceship, however I'm not sure.

As for their resolution at the end of the film they will probably either leave the planet or be killed off in battle. Strafe being the most likely to be killed due to his scenes with Bumblebee.

Hence while I feel its linked to the factory destruction scene with Galvatron that the 'Factory Battle' Kre-o set teased. If they are messing with Cybermatter then it could be a Cybermatter explosion of sorts - caused by the destruction of the factory where the Vehicons are manufactured. The style of explosion does seem very liquid-like.

 

Hmm, still sounds like they will be wasted  

What if the "end scene" is actually before the big battle? Maybe Optimus told everyone he will give himself up so lockdown leaves Earth? But when he confronts Lockdown again lockdown decides he doesn't want him and attacks him which leads to the massive battle? Or if Lockdown accepts, Optimus tries to surprise attack him on the ship, and it's up to the Autobots to help him? I dunno, I'm just choosing to disbelieve that it's the final scene :/

 

What's the point of this? We're little more than a week away

 

It's fun, and it's even more fun when we are proved wrong!

 

What about Lockdown watching Ratchet get killed by the humans with his camera-face? When does Lockdown get his alt-mode? But what happens to Galvatron...? And how far away is Wahlberg's farm from the Utah desert? Why does Optimus return to that grassy-backroad-america and gets captured? Don't you think the Cade vs. Lockdown happens AFTER the Bee vs. Lockdown (Bee is seen prone on the floor while Cade and Lockdown fight!) What happens to the Dinobots, one ass-kicking scene and they're gone? What about Stinger and the garbage truck?
Also, spot on theory. Looks like the plot to me!

 

I would like to know why you've spent so much of your time to effectively spoil a majority of the movie for yourself and others? Hell, with all these new TV spots I've practically forgotten the first few!

There really needs to be a section of this forum devoted for *SPOILERS* out the bastard way.
I went straight to the comment section BTW...

 

Good read!

I personally, however, think that the factory shot (in your pictures "The Birth of Galvatron) will be shown earlier on in the film. To me the shot (the one in the second trailer where some people are walking in the foreground with the old factory in the back) just seems like it's gonna be part of the 'opening' scenes after the prologue.

I always thought that the Optimus interrogation scene would take place directly after Optimus got shot by Lockdown. But your idea of that scene taking place a little later (and having the humans do other things meanwhile) makes more sense.

In a TV-spot a while back we were shown a shot of Lockdown looking over his left shoulder as if noticing something. I think he does this because he notices Cade and Shane on his ship trying to rescue Optimus, it just seems obvious. It could nonetheless turn out otherwise.

Furthermore I never noticed that the shot with Cade and Optimus was inside a ship! And neither did I notice that Attinger was sitting in a car during the shot taking place in the night, I thought it was an office....

Hey, thought; if he's sitting in a car and it's night, could this be during the time that Ratchet gets killed/wounded?

Your idea of Attinger "going crazy" is very plausible, then he would rebuild Galvie to try to prove to everybody that he is capable of taking out Autobots with a human made Transformer.

I have to say that I don't think the scene with Lockdown and Optimus comes before the Dinobots. I mean Bay stated that Lockdown is here for on person, one alien and then he's outta here. So I think this scene comes before the Dinobots, then the Autobots go find the Dinobots and then go fight all the Vehicons and Galvatron.

I also think or kinda hope, as I've said before, that the shot of all the Autobots is not the last scene in the movie. I hope they wouldn't show the ending scene in so many TV-Spots. I think this is scene is some of the following options;

•A shot of the Autobots before the final battle in Hong Kong
•A shot with Optimus leaving earth, the rest of the Autobots fighting the final battle in Hong Kong. Lockdown has now left earth
•Optimus leaving earth, and we get a long scene of Optimus and something in space. As Bay have hinted that there's gonna be more scenes set in space.

Lastly, as we've recently seen in the "Villain" TV-spot, there's a lot that we haven't seen. I think we will be surprised once we're watching the movie in theaters. There's something they aren't showing us.