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Optimus Prime Made of Junk Cars In China
rmaureira writes "An awesome 33-foot-tall, 6 ton Optimus Prime replica is being shown at Beijing's Olympic Park. Made from junked car parts and scrap metal parts, it is impressive."
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That energon consisted of the power of human right violations, lead and Yao Mings broken foot.
You know there's a problem when chinese knockoffs are getting more awesome than the original american-made toys.
We like to talk up the Big Bad MPAA, but on a global scale they're strictly penny-ante. Sure, they can bankrupt you, but all joking aside, they can't (yet) have you executed and harvest your organs for sale.
I guess when you live day to day with the real threat of being shot in the head for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, you don't feel particularly scared of receiving a Strongly Worded Cease and Desist.
For erecting this honking great virile "Fuck you!" to corporate lawyers, China, I salute you. Every repressive totalitarian regime has a silver lining.
If you were blocking sigs, you wouldn't have to read this.
"We like to talk up the Big Bad MPAA, but on a global scale they're strictly penny-ante. Sure, they can bankrupt you, but all joking aside, they can't (yet) have you executed and harvest your organs for sale.
I guess when you live day to day with the real threat of being shot in the head for saying the wrong thing in the wrong place, you don't feel particularly scared of receiving a Strongly Worded Cease and Desist.
For erecting this honking great virile "Fuck you!" to corporate lawyers, China, I salute you. Every repressive totalitarian regime has a silver lining."
Why does everything have to be about intellectual property and how evil the US is? Why can't this simply be about fans taking their passion for Transformers and creating an incredible statue?
That's not a replica. That's the real Optimus Prime. He's really good at holding still, but he's starting to get sick of everyone staring at him. "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings. Gawking is not." *STOMP*
Because fans constantly receive cease and desist letters from these same assholes "protecting" their IP ?
Don't those Chinese know that they do not own pop culture -- you can't just riff off of other people's intellectual property like that. The world isn't a 6 billion-person jazz ensemble!
the growth in cynicism and rebellion has not been without cause
Everyone knows the real Optimus Prime is made from trucks, not cars.
See that "Preview" button?
it would be hard to beat crummy, masturbatory, gluey, plastic looking CGI effects.
Yeah, the Chinese know you can't beat a full scale in your face prop!
That is just down right cool. I give who ever thought of this credit the work and time put into this project must have been intense.
http://www.thetechnologygeek.org
I expect this Optimus Prime will soon be destroyed due to an attack by a lawyer.
Fear the awesome power of lawyers.
That's not Optimus Prime. That's some bastardized, hollywoodized, modern re-imagining of the true Optimus Prime.
The real Optimus Prime died inside Autobot City after handing the Matrix of Leadership to Ultra Magnus.
Always a ridiculous waste of money and space after the olympics is through. This is pretty cool, though.
--- Do you believe in the day?
But can it change into a truck? Isn't that the most important feature?
So dragging a bunch of old, junked cars out, welding them together, and transporting 30 tons of scrap as a display dedicated to a cartoon... is green?
"Composed of junked car parts and various bits of scrap metal, the interesting irony of this unofficial knockoff is that if Transformers really existed this is probably what they would look like. Let's all agree that this is probably the coolest way the world's nations could encourage more participation in green environment initiatives."
and people wonder why nobody takes hippies seriously...
Freedom is the right of all sentient beings
--Optimus Prime
I put on my robe and wizard hat..
Even made of out of garbage, he still looks better than the actual garbage masquerading as Optimus in the Bay films...
Every repressive totalitarian regime has a silver lining.
If you mean the iPhone 4, that's actually the antenna.
This showed up on The Awesomer like 3 or 4 days ago.
First China shows off the latest additions to their military machine, one of them cleverly hidden in plain sight as a "replica", but in reality a message to the Pentagon, and then they shoot down another satellite.
sucks. It doesn't transform. I want the 1min of my life back that this story just stole.
An Optimus prime is a hand-pressurised paraffin cooking stove.
Kids today - get off my lawn!
Birds are not dinosaur descendants;birds are dinosaurs, for all useful meanings of "birds", "are" and "dinosaurs"
Hmm, in China, they have earthquakes, right?? :)
That is a pretty impressive sight, but the idea of it dropping an arm on innocent bystanders is not very pretty...
That looks like some crappy knockoff Go-Bots shit.
Now they just need to get him functional.