Um Wha?

- Pearl Jam and Tom Petty are touring together.

This makes no sense to me.

- The Transformers movie is now rumored to have Scorponok amongst its ranks.

This makes a surprising amount of sense to me, the more that I think about it.

The Autobots would try their darndest to keep themselves hidden amongst Earthlings (Robots In Disguise, and all). The Decepticons, on the other hand, wouldn't give a rat's pitooie about low profile, since they would consider themselves the dominant species. Their transformations, much like on Cybertron, would be meant more for function than form. Jet flies fast, Tank has big honkin gun, Truck can haul Tank and Jet.

So why would it be beyond the realm of imagination to have a Decepticon turn into a giant, robotic scorpion to terrify the populace?

Fans complained when it was said that you wouldn't see the Dinobots, yet you're going to see Scorponok. Ummm, yeah, because the Autobots wouldn't want Dinobots as, you know, dinosaurs don't exist anymore.

Decepticons would probably embrace Dinobots, Terrorcons, Predacons, anything to give them the upper hand in domination of the planet.