In what may be one of the biggest acts of nerdiness ever, a man in California has actually constructed a life-sized statue of the Transformer Bumblebee in his front yard. To make it even cooler, he based the design on the 80's cartoon and not the movie. In a final act of awesomeness, he used an actual VW Beetle to build the thing.The funny thing is that the builder showed more respect to the original cartoon in this single act than Michael Bay did with the whole franchise (although I give Bay props for using some of the original cartoon voices in the movies).
Granted, car styles have changed a lot since the 1980's, but the VW Beetle is back in style and changing Bumblebee to Chevy Camaro seems sacrilege. My guess is that Michael Bay simply wanted to buy American.
So which Transformer do you think he should build next?
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6-22-2009 @ 7:00PM
DJ said...
Optimus of course!
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6-22-2009 @ 6:21PM
StillBash said...
Optimus for sure.
I guess for a buck he could get the actual manufacturing complex. Never been cheaper (of course all those retirement funds attached to it could pose a problem in the near future) ;-)
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6-22-2009 @ 8:53PM
John said...
"Granted, car styles have changed a lot since the 1980's, but the VW Beetle is back in style and changing Bumblebee to Chevy Camaro seems sacrilege. My guess is that Michael Bay simply wanted to buy American."
Actually, Germany has a pretty strong stance regarding their products being used in a military way and getting a licence to use the volkwagen isn't going to happen, be you Bay, Hasbro or Takara
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6-23-2009 @ 3:11AM
Paul said...
I love Transformers as much as the next guy, but how much "respect" does a cheesy cartoon from the 80s, created solely to sell a toy line, really deserve?
For the record, "Revenge of the Fallen" is a pretty sweet movie, even WITH Michael Bay directing it!
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