Built in 1917 and abandoned since the 1980s, there’s been talk of repurposing, but its future still remains uncertain. The huge, arch-ceilinged facility is Philadelphia’s disused Delaware Power Plant adjacent to Penn Treaty Park on the Delaware River waterfront. Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen location: Sam and Leo are captured by Grindor: Delaware Power Station Philadelphia | Photograph: Mario Burger The classical pillared exterior of the university library is the Greek-Revival Founder’s Hall which you’ll find on the campus of Girard College, 2101 South College Avenue, a couple of miles northeast of Penn.Ĭaptured by a ’copter, which turns out to be Grindor, Sam and Leo’s car is dumped into a vast industrial space where the naughty creatures intend to get information from Sam by the down-and-dirty method of removing his brain. Returning to college, he’s attacked by a comely humanoid Decepticon Pretender, leading to a wild chase through the campus – and beyond. Optimus reveals that the bit of AllSpark has been stolen but Sam’s reluctance to become involved soon comes back to haunt him. If you don’t believe me, you can see her headstone just south of the main entrance. By the way, this is where Rocky visits the grave of his wife Adrian in 2006’s Rocky Balboa. In Camaro mode, Bumblebee turns up at Sam’s frat house to transport him to a meeting with Optimus Prime among the extravagant monuments of Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery, 3822 Ridge Avenue, in the East Falls district overlooking the Schuylkill River. The panther-like Decepticon Ravage retrieves the splinter from ‘Diego Garcia’ facilitating the revival of Megatron who’s been rusting away under the sea since the end of the last movie. The circular structure you can see in the background of the shot is not a tiny sheep pen, but a sophisticated antenna to communicate with submarines. There is a real Diego Garcia, a tropical in the central Indian Ocean used as a naval ship and submarine support base, but the facility seen in the film is the Naval Station Point Loma ULF/VLF facility in San Diego. Sam’s fraternity house, where roommate Leo ( Ramon Rodriguez) coincidentally turns out to be running an alien conspiracy website, is Penn’s Psi Upsilon fraternity, known for obvious reasons as ‘The Castle’, at the southwest corner of 36th Street and Locust Walk.ĭecepticons are on to the fact that another shard of the AllSpark is being held in the NEST (Non-biological Extraterrestrial Species Treaty, as you probably know) HQ at ‘Diego Garcia’. In fact, much of the film was made around Philadelphia and most of the college scenes were shot on the campus of the University of Pennsylvania (though both Princeton and Penn University requested that their names were not associated with scenes of Sam’s mom ( Julie White) getting stoned on hash brownies).

Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen location: Sam’s fraternity house: The Castle, University of Pennsylvania The skirmish was shot at a mix of two widely separate locations: the old Bethlehem Steel site in Bethlehem, about 60 miles north of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and in Long Beach, south of Los Angeles.

Sideways and Demolishor are destroyed but not before issuing the ominous warning that 'The Fallen will rise again'. Lone Pine not only has a Film History Museum but in October hosts its own annual Film Festival.įast forward to present day ‘Shanghai, China’, where Autobots acting in concert with the US military clear up a little problem with a couple of troublesome Decepticons. The rock formations, above the town of Lone Pine have been a staple exotic location since the Thirties, regularly providing a stand-in for the likes of the Himalayas in films such as Gunga Din and King Of The Khyber Rifles. The portentous prologue set in 17,000BC, revealing the backstory of the human race’s first meeting with ancient Transformers as they scour the universe for sources of energon, is filmed in the familiar Alabama Hills, Central California, against the imposing backdrop of the Sierra Nevada Peaks. Bumblebee crying? The Jar Jar Binks ice-cream truck twins? Despite the undoubted spectacle, Michael Bay scuppers the sequel by confusing kid-friendly with infantile.

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