Movies

July 12th 2011
SMEG news: FAB28 in Transformers 3

The FAB28 refrigerator appears in TF3, the third movie of the Transformers series. The film Transformers: Dark of the Moon, directed by Michael Bay, sees Optimus Prime and his loyal Autobots conflict once again with their enemies the Decepticons, who want to avenge the defeat that they suffered in 2009's film Revenge of the Fallen.

In TF3 the Decepticons are involved in a perilous space race between the United States and Russia, and Sam Witwicky (Shia LaBeouf) the Autobots' human friend, is called to the aid of the robots against a new and terrible enemy: Shockwave, the tyrant of Cybertron, conqueror of the home planet of the Transformers.

The FAB28 appears in the kitchen of Carly (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley), the on-screen girlfriend of Sam, the films star. The film was previewed to a worldwide audience on 29/06, and, since its release 2 weeks ago it has already made more than $645 million dollars at the box office.

http://www.transformersmovie.com/

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