There's definitely more to these Transformers than meets the
eye.
Industrious (and perhaps slightly bored?) farmers in rural China
have built their own versions of the iconic Transformer robots out
of car parts.
"It's a personal hobby," Wang Shizun, one of the farmers who built
the robots, . "I watched the movies and learnt the models online,
so I wanted to make my own."
And did he ever. The tallest of these impressive
robots — some styled as the
brightly-coloured Autobots like Optimus Prime and Bumble Bee,
others in grey like the evil Decepticons — is a whopping 12 metres high.
Unfortunately, they're just statues for the time being, and don't
actually fly or transform into vehicles, like the "real"
Transformers.
"We're thinking about making them transform," Wang said, "but it's
hard to make them transform into cars at this stage."
Wang and his partner oversaw the group of 11 farmers who
participated in the construction of the giant robots. They'll
apparently sell for about $1,600-$16,000 each.
Transformers started out as popular toys in the 1980s made by
Hasbro, and were promoted to children through a cartoon television
series. They've found a new audience with the live-action film
series that has taken off over the last few years.
In fact, just days after the farmers put their homemade
Transformers on display, "official Transformers showed up
elsewhere in China to promote the upcoming
film Transformers: Age of Extinction.
Maybe they're just trying to get the whole gang together?
