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This rumor comes from a car site, not a movie site, so cover it with grains of salt before you baster it up your pee hole.  But… could the breakdancing, gold-toothed, illiterate, minstrel bots from Transformers 2 be back???  Michael Bay had said a few weeks ago that they wouldn’t, but Michael Bay is also tricky, a self-described MASTER OF DISINFORMATION (*tears Lone Ranger mask off of pet cheetah*).  Muhahaha!

Here’s what sparked the talk, from LeftLaneNews‘ spy account of the Transformers 3 set:

Sporting “Autobot” center caps on the wheels, these two vehicles were captured doing some pre-production work before principal filming starts in a few weeks. We think you are looking at Skidz (green) and Mudflap (orange).
Skidz is looking much sportier than in Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen, with new front and rear fascias, larger fenders, sportier wheels and a big wing. Mudflap was previously based on the Chevy Traxx concept, but for this installment, it appears both cars will be built off the Chevy Spark.

Hmm, I don’t know, between the spoiler and the ground effects, that car looks more Asian to me.  Not to mention the slanted headlights.  But I wouldn’t be surprised if they brought back the minstrel bots after all.  GM has cars to sell.  Of course they don’t want the bad publicity.  What they should do is bring them back, but make it clear that they’re committed to a much more dignified portrayal of robot cars based on black people.

SKIDS enters drawing room, smoking pipe.

SKIDS
Why Mudflap, whatever is that you’re reading?

MUDFLAP
[seated at desk, looks up from book to regard SKIDS over the top of his reading glasses] Why it’s Jame Joyce, my dear brother.  Ulysses.  Please tell me you’re familiar.

SKIDS
Of course I am, Mudflap.  But Mudflap, did you not find the stream-of-consciousness narration and use of obsolete vernacular to be nearly impenetrable?

MUDFLAP
[now standing, putting tire/hand on SKIDS' shoulder] I did at first, Skids, I certainly did at first.  But ever since I got my life together, earned my GED, and received a scholarship to undertake a course of English at the local University, my professors have turned on my lights to entire new ways of thinking.  Works of art I couldn’t appreciate before, I now find riveting. [chuckles] Believe me, I was as surprised at my personal growth as you are.

SKIDS
That’s amazing, Mudflap.  It seems like only yesterday we were idling on the curb together with no concern for the procuring of knowledge, let alone our future.

MUDFLAP
Indubitably, Skids, indubitably.  It’s incredible what one can accomplish when one only sets his mind to it and pulls oneself up by the proverbial hubcaps.

SKIDS
Too right, Mudflap, too right.