Apr 08
The Bagger 288 is not only one of the largest earthmovers in the world, it’s one of the largest land vehicles anywhere, full stop. And now someone has turned the 13,000-ton coal-chewing crawling beast into a fire-spitting stomping Transformer
Apr 05
Football season may be months away, but that doesn’t mean we can’t daydream about tailgating. Forget about the rickety old camp grill and cooler in the back of your van: the future of tailgating is boxGATE, a brilliantly overkill pop-up party that unfolds from a shipping container. It’s the Transformers of tailgating!
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Mar 04
In this thundering Transformers: Extinction trailer, Stanley Tucci and all the humans tell the Transformers "we don’t need you any more." And then guess what happens next? BLAMMO: Dinobots! Watch the first real Dinobot-on-Autobot fight.
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Feb 26
I’ve seen stained glass Transformers and lamps done up to look like helmets, but this is the first time I’ve seen the two combined. This awesome handmade Tiffany stained glass lamp is sure to make any fan of Optimus Prime very happy.
It was made by 3rdEdgeStainedGlass, who spent over 80 hours making it using stained glass, copper foil and solder. The lamp measures in at about 14″ (h) x 12″(w) x 12″(d).
It’s available over on Etsy for a whopping $1150(USD). For that kind of money you’d better hope that there aren’t any Decepticons lurking around your house ready to smash it.
Feb 22
There is no better way to get a nerd’s money than to decorate a hotel with their favorite toys. Do this and they’ll line up and drop their money in your account as if their mint, on-card action figures depended on it.
The Asahikawa Grand Hotel knows how to lure said nerds out of their basement dwellings… with a limited time only Transformers themed room.
Basically you will be sleeping under a Transformers comforter and playing with Autobots and Decepticons. So, not much different from home really. You just won’t have to put up with your mother yelling for you to wake up at 1 P.M.
The hotel actually teamed up with Takara Tomy to make the room possible. It has Transformers magic everywhere. Guests even get gifts that go with the Transformers theme. Pretty sweet!
If you happen to find yourself in Hokkaido, Japan, you can rent the room until April 25th for roughly $90(USD) per night.
[Higekumatoytoy via Kotaku via Nerd Approved]
Feb 16
A few days ago, an unannounced Transformers game was spotted on Amazon. As the game had not been announced yet, we could only assume by its listing that it was close to being announced. Well the good news for Transformers fans is that it is official as Transformers: Rise of the Dark Spark has been announced during Hasbro’s presentation at the New York Toy Fair over the weekend. The game is expected to merge the canon in the games with those of the Michael Bay movies, meaning that we can look forward to a unified Transformers universe down the road. (more…)
Transformers: Rise Of The Dark Spark Video Game Is Official original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Feb 13
Between their remote locations and the ever present threat of ambush (or worse yet, IED), it’s simply getting too dangerous to deliver the average 100,000 pounds of supplies that far-flung American forward combat bases require each week. Air drops by cargo plane or helicopter are one option, but DARPA researchers may already have a better solution: shape-shifting, cargo-carrying UAVs.
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Feb 03
Man, do you guys remember how fun that Transformers trilogy was? Back when Shia was happy muttering no no no no when things went bad, back when we weren’t sure if Megan Fox was part of a new beautiful species, back when Michael Bay didn’t implode on a stage, back when it was just giant good transformers pummeling giant bad transformers.
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Jan 31
Nowadays, when you go see a big movie, you assume everything is going to be computer animation and greenscreen, and nothing is real. But a lot of the biggest, craziest movie stunts, past and present, have been entirely practical. Here are some of the most complicated stunt sequences that were created in reality.
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Jan 02
Most guys just get flowers, maybe some chocolates, get down on one knee, and pop the question. On the other hand, building a giant Transformers replica tops everything else that you can do. One man in China did just that.
Outdoing all other men, he constructed this 26-foot-tall model of Optimus Prime. It took him about 10 months to build it, all in the hopes that his girlfriend would say “yes.” This machine took 400 drawings, 40,000 rivets and nearly $10,000 worth of stainless steel and iron. There’s no way she could say no after this right?
Well, the news story doesn’t say what her answer was, but I’m guessing the answer was yes based on this image. This is how you get the girl and a cool statue at the same time.
She must be some catch for a guy to go through all this trouble. More than meets the eye.
[via Chris Buckley via Gizmodo]
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