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News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 9:28 am

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the Transformers film (of which we have done as well in this article), Ript Apparel has released three new Transformers themed t-shirt designs. These are available for a limited time and will be gone in about 14 hours (from the time this article is published). You can see the t-shorts at this link or click on any of the images below. As usual, these shirts revolve around puns and cross references, like the Tron/Unicron shirt and a Transformers themed old school cereal box design featuring the Quintessons.

News Credits: 7 · by **Noideaforaname** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:33 am

SPARE ME THIS MOCKERY OF BREAKFAST!

My god, that Quintess-O's is delightfully ridiculous.

News Credits: 90 · by **Tyrannacon** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:39 am

Noideaforaname wrote:SPARE ME THIS MOCKERY OF BREAKFAST!

My god, that Quintess-O's is delightfully ridiculous.

I love that shirt actually out of this bunch. The others are nice too, but the Quintess-o's is probably the best one I feel.

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 10:50 am

I just like that Grimlock is drawn with toy-accuracy which I always preferred to his goofy animation model.

News Credits: 12 · by **shauyaun** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:33 pm

Is the last one a reference to something too?
If so, to what?

Website · by **PhunkJunkion** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:33 pm

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That is one dangerous cereal!

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 12:44 pm

Holy shirt that UniCRON one. I just need to figure out if I'm buying the tee and the hoodie or just one or the other.

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:00 pm

This one's pretty good too, as a celebration of the 30th of TF:TM!! :lol:

Or this!

by **halfshell25** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 1:33 pm

Are these officially licensed?

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 2:12 pm

halfshell25 wrote:Are these officially licensed?

I don't think try are. Look at hot rods autobot symbol.

that said I ordered the Quintess-o's in a heartbeat. You can't beat a graphic T for only $11

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 2:34 pm

halfshell25 wrote:Are these officially licensed?

Not that I am aware of.

News Credits: 12 · by **shauyaun** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 2:36 pm

halfshell25 wrote:Are these officially licensed?

To be honest I don't care!
But they look amazing! Specially the cereal one :lol:

News Credits: 79 · by **Sigma Magnus** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:26 pm

I want these way more than I should.

News Credits: 3 · by **Randomhero** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 3:38 pm

I showed a buddy of mine and he knows a lot about them and told me their name says it all. their model is they make a shirt, take it down in 48 hours so they avoid cease and desists orders.

News Credits: 17 · by **Starscream** » Mon Aug 08, 2016 6:00 pm

Randomhero wrote:I showed a buddy of mine and he knows a lot about them and told me their name says it all. their model is they make a shirt, take it down in 48 hours so they avoid cease and desists orders.

I would say that the daily sale cycle is done in such a way as to get the utmost efficiency out of the screen print process and maximize the potential sales within a 24 hour period and then pay the artist who made it a large commission on their unique work, more so than to avoid any sort of infringement problems. These designs are all parodies of various source material and gives people an alternative way to share their love for their fandom. But that's just me /kermit

News Credits: 22 · by **Rodimus Prime** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 1:50 am

The Quintess-O shirt is pretty good, as is CRON. The Grimlock/Wheelie and the Turtles? Kinda lame.

News Credits: 15 · by **galvatron00** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 7:31 am

Ordered the UniCRON tee, and a Arus Lions baseball tee. I missed out on the Cybertron Space Camp one though, which makes me sad.

News Credits: 6 · by **EmirateXaaron** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 4:40 pm

I ordered the Quintess-O's shirt last night, and I was able to snag the "Visit Unicron" and "Believe in the Cosmos" shirts from their store a week or so ago. The Unicron one is fantastic, and I've gotten several remarks about it when I went comics shopping.

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Tue Aug 09, 2016 5:27 pm

Randomhero wrote:I showed a buddy of mine and he knows a lot about them and told me their name says it all. their model is they make a shirt, take it down in 48 hours so they avoid cease and desists orders.

Terms like "parody", "satire", and "fair use" come to mind, actually. Ever heard of Big Dog? Quality aside (thinking of Big Dog again, for clarity), the guidelines for avoiding actual infringement on this stuff is fairly well defined, and any company worth their salt doing this kind of work has certainly looked into it.

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 1:15 am

Just thought everyone would like to know ript has 3 transformer inspired shirts today.

https://www.riptapparel.com/

by **wilcosu35** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 2:43 am

I saw it, ordered the capped-megatron shirt

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:38 am

While the products are not officially licensed, the team at RIPT Apparel have been nice enough to let some of us on staff contribute to one of the currently available Transformers t-shirt designs (for the next 24 hours only) - and several Seibertronians have sent us notifications about them, so here's a news post: check out the two musical riffs, and a movie spoof below!

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 3:51 am

Saw this in my email earlier as well. All three are great, not a bad one in the group.

I don't know what surprises me more about that "My Mechanical Romance" t-shirt: that there's an IDW fan submitting designs to Ript (most of the TF shirts tend to be cartoon based), or that someone at Ript got the reference enough to promote the design.

Emerje

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Sat Sep 10, 2016 4:03 am

Emerje wrote:Saw this in my email earlier as well. All three are great, not a bad one in the group.

I don't know what surprises me more about that "My Mechanical Romance" t-shirt: that there's an IDW fan submitting designs to Ript (most of the TF shirts tend to be cartoon based), or that someone at Ript got the reference enough to promote the design.

Emerje

..want to know a secret? The owner/founder of Ript is a big IDW fan. And you've probably all heard from him before, if you follow the podcasts. :-$