ravage USB

Ravage (of the transformers) has been reinvented into a usb flash drive. My favorite transformer as a kid was Soundwave and all of his transforming cassettes - including the dog ravage.

michael lau - gardener toys

These figures got some swag. They can strut on your desk for $90.

hiphop lego covers

20 classic hiphop album covers recreated by lego via formatmag.

yao ming tranformer

First Yao Ming does a funny T-Mobile commercial:

Almost as funny as his old Visa commercial:

Now he's a Transformer. Just in time for xmas...or chinese new year. This plastic bball transforms into yao with wings.

homer's oddysey

Kid Robot x The Simpsons

Homer: a photo a day for 39 years

paper cuts

Cubecraft.com has cool paper toys featuring popular icons like Super Mario, Batman and Star Wars characters. Just download, print, cut and fold.

nooka x shin tanaka

Alternative watchmaker Nooka and Shin Tanaka team up to make this paper watch monster named Nookaboy.


















This is a cool creation for sneakerheads.

NiceBunny / HedKase

Toy designer NiceBunny has created some downloadable DIY paper toys. Fold and cut away. There's even optimus and bumblebee transformer cut-outs!

yoda origami

5 pages of PDF instructions if you're up to the challenge.

nike/transformers

Sneakerheads and transformer fans unite!
Nike Japan and Tomy teamed up to make optimus prime and megatron into sneaker version.































Nike Air Trainer III - no word on if these will actually be released.

more than meets the eye

As a little boy, I desperately begged my Dad to take me to Toys-R-Us to buy some transformers. I would nag, tug on his hand and attach myself to his leg...but he would always refuse - claiming we were too poor. So, I resorted to making my own transformer paper cutouts. It was actually an involved process. I would tape the tv show on our VCR (my parents used to be proud about how I mastered the VCR at an early age haha), sit right in front of the tv, pause the playback at certain frames and draw the robots as accurately as I could. You can say it was my first attempt at live figure drawing - except it involved robots on video. I would color the drawings and cut out the robots. Then I would re-enact the episodes with my paper cutouts for hours. Pretty creative for a kid huh? Those cutouts were all forgotten when my grandfather passed away and my father began spoiling me by buying the actual transformer toys. But to this day, I still remember the cutouts more fondly than the toys. Although, I wouldn't deny being nostalgic if I came across an old toy. I actually still have my favorite Soundwave transformer.

Some Japanese dubbed transformer commercials from back in the day. As an 80's kid, this takes me way back.


By the way, Michael Bay better not mess up this movie on July 4th.