The lengthy bit of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen footage that screened at ShoWest found its way online last week via a site no less official than MichaelBay.com.  Above is a cool screencap from the footage of a Megatron battle — yep, the same Megatron that Bay has been insisting doesn’t appear in the movie.  (The Cinema Source has a few more caps.)

The online footage would certainly warrant posting this as a featured article — except that a day after its online debut, Paramount Pictures went nuts, taking down the video from Bay’s site and erasing the billion or so copies that had popped up on YouTube.  Perhaps the keepers of Bay’s site jumped the gun on debuting the footage?

Paramount’s actions are pretty futile, because now that it’s gotten out it won’t go away.  Below is a copy I found on YouTube without much trouble.  It might be deleted by the time you read this, but a quick YouTube or Google search is bound to turn something up.  (And if all else fails, you can just read a description of the ShoWest footage here.)

The full trailer for Revenge of the Fallen, by the way, will screen in front of X-Men Origins: Wolverine when it comes out on May 1st.