![]() ![]() The refinery, though, where the car transforms into Bumblebee, is back in LA – the AES Power Plant, 1100 North Harbor Drive, which dominates Redondo Beach, on the coast, south of the city towards Palos Verdes. It whisks Sam and Mikaela ( Megan Fox) away to a vast, deserted warehouse – which is the old Santa Fe Railyard in the Barelas neighbourhood of Albuquerque, New Mexico. When Sam is threatened by the cop car, which turns out to be the Decepticon Barricade (well, it is labelled "To punish and enslave"), the Camaro comes to his rescue. Just behind the New Los Angeles Convention Center, south of downtown, this is also the site of the brutal bearer bonds robbery in Michael Mann’s Heat. And, yes, the bridge does feature in Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River.īack to Los Angeles where Sam’s Camaro – having mysteriously disappeared – turns up and follows Sam, ending up beneath the Santa Monica Freeway on Venice Boulevard at Convention Center Drive. The house is at the foot of the Tobin Memorial Bridge over the Mystic River, which links Chelsea to Charlestown. Maggie arrives in Boston – at the house of wizard hacker Glen Whitmann ( Anthony Anderson), which is on Broadway, just west of the intersection with Front Street and Medford Street in the Chelsea district. Transformers location: the home of computer whizz Glen: Broadway, at the foot of the Tobin Memorial Bridge, Boston The ‘Middle Eastern’ base itself is Holloman Air Force Base (not generally open for tours), between White Sands and Alamogordo.Īpart from aerial shots of the Pentagon and the Capitol in Washington D.C., most of the film is shot around Los Angeles, though there are a few other locations you might not have expected. ![]() The 275 square miles of white gypsum sand (the largest gypsum dune field in the world) is no stranger to movies, having been seen in films such as Nicolas Roeg’s 70s cult favourite The Man Who Fell To Earth, Jarhead, White Sands (naturally) – and features again in sequel Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. ![]() The white sand desert of 'Qatar', where Decepticon Blackout (in the guise of a Sikorsky helicopter) attempts to hack the SOCCENT network, is White Sands National Monument on I-70, southwest of Alamogordo, New Mexico. Far better suited to the director’s whizzbang style than was Pearl Harbor, Michael Bay’s destructofest is lifted way above what you might have expected by an excellent cast and eye-popping designs. ![]()
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