Transformers Dark of the Moon in Theaters Today
The latest explosion fest from director Michael Bay – Transformers: Dark of the Moon – debuts in theaters today, June 29, 2011. To celebrate the movie’s most likely successful launch, Chevrolet, pardon the pun, is in full gear and ramping up production on their new 2012 line of Camaros. The latest General Motors vehicles including Chevrolet’s Camaro have debuted in every Transformers film since 2007. Based on a line of children’s toys created by Hasbro Entertainment, the Transformers are a race of sentient alien robots that hide on earth disguised as common machines from cars to giant mining excavators . In the film there are two warring factions of Transformers: the protagonists, the virtuous Autobots; and the antagonists, the villainous Decepticons.
In the first Transformers film, one of the main characters — an Autobot named Bumblebee – was disguised as a fifth generation Chevy Camaro. Bumblebee has had a recurring role in the Transformers series receiving an upgrade to the latest Camaro model with reach release, the latest film in the series – Dark of the Moon is no different. In the last film Bumblebee was disguised as an average yellow and black fifth generation Camaro, but in the new film the Bumblebee will appear as a new 2012 Special Edition Camaro with new deep amber paint jpob and dark black rims versus the chrome rims that were standard on the Concept Chevy Camaro.
And in a move that hasn’t surprised anyone, Chevy recently announced that dealerships will start accepting pre-orders for the new Transformers Special Edition 2012 Camaro in July, which is scheduled to be released this September. The new Special Edition Camaro is $3000 upgrade and only available to Rally Yellow 2SS and 2LT Camaro Coupes. To match the appearance of the Camaro in the film, the Special Transformers Edition Camaro comes with a two black racing stripes and a rear spoiler, not to mention the awesome black wheels. The car also features a leather interior with yellow trim and Transformer decals.
People will no doubt be lining up to purchase the new Special Transformers Edition Camaro, but the one thing that Chevy could include the make the entire package even better is unique manual. It would be awesome if Chevy included a Haynes manual that had in-depth information about how to repair a Transformer like Bumblebee disguised as a 2012 Camaro. Haynes has made some really cool manuals for auto body repair and have even been known to dabble in the more fantastical manuals (Star Trek space ship manuals anyone), so it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the company. And it’s not like it would be all that difficult to do since he is already part Camaro so they would only really have to add all of the other cool transformer parts. Dark of the Moon stars Shia LaBeouf, Josh Duhamel, Tyrese Gibson, and newcomer Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and is in theaters today.
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