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Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers

Transformers News: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers

Saturday, March 21st, 2015 4:05PM CDT

Categories: Movie Related News, People News
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This news piece comes to us, courtesy of fellow Seibertronian NuclearConvoy and you can read the full article over on the Lost At E Minor website, right here.

Two farmers, a father and son team, based in China, have been taking scrap metal pieces and creating statues of movieverse Bumblebee, Jetfire and Optimus Prime, among others. Scrap metal has always been big business, for example, cast iron tubs are made from scrap and they go for a pretty penny, but this takes the cake. Farmers Yu Lingyun and Yu Zhilin made around $160,000.00 for their endeavors and they show no signs of stopping now.

Their replicas (and any replicas, for that matter) are a hot item in China right now due to the success of Age Of Extinction, which was 2014's biggest movie and one of China's biggest in history. With fans that rabid, it's no surprise that custom works such as these would do big business.

Transformers News: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers

Transformers News: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers

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Re: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers (1665209)
Posted by NuclearConvoy on March 21st, 2015 @ 4:06pm CDT
I particularly like the Jetfire.
Re: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers (1665211)
Posted by Autobot032 on March 21st, 2015 @ 4:12pm CDT
NuclearConvoy wrote:I particularly like the Jetfire.


Bumblebee's my favorite, actually. They did an excellent job of making their model match the CGI as close as possible given the materials. That and he's HUGE. That's a ridiculous amount of work and awesome.
Re: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers (1665276)
Posted by griftimus prime on March 21st, 2015 @ 6:41pm CDT
these are some of the better ones i have seen.
Re: Chinese Farmers Become Junkions, Build And Sell Their Own Transformers (1665277)
Posted by Rated X on March 21st, 2015 @ 6:47pm CDT
Would I be wrong to call these farmers a "third party" ? Theyre making profit from Hasbro IP without a license. Weve seen these junkyard sculptures created countless times, but this is the first time its so blatently been acknowledged to be a business. Not that I give a crap about IP theft, but I know some here do. ;)

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