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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:39 am

No, the Junkions have not taken over the design duties for the Transformers movie franchise, but if they had these might have been the resulting bots. The same creative team that brought you that awesome life sized movie Megatron tank is at it again. Only this time they're focusing on movie-verse robot modes made entirely of scrap metal. The sculptures were designed and built by Chinese metalworks factory, Wing Wah, as part of their "Legend of Iron" project. Check out the scrap metal versions of Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Ironhide, Jetfire, Starscream, Megatron, and the Fallen below. More images available at Zcool (Chinese site, be prepared to translate if you want to read the text)

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 12:56 am

Oh my awesome!

For a second though, based on the title, I almost thought that this would be about "Ze little one".

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:05 am

Sabrblade wrote:Oh my awesome!

For a second though, based on the title, I almost thought that this would be about "Ze little one".

Well I guess there might me a little of him mixed in there.

Website · by **Fires_Of_Inferno** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:20 am

So awesome, very nicely done. I'm sure that if he doesn't donate them t somewhere he'll get a good price for them. Wish I could do work like this.

by **BATTOUSAIXD** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:25 am

Awesome!

by **MINDVVIPE** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 1:41 am

I don't like them. Just looks like arranged, painted garbage. The likelyness to the characters are dece, but when looking at the details, I just see junk, soo... guess this art ain't for me.

News Credits: 6 · by **BeastProwl** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 3:13 am

Megatron, The Fallen, Starscream, And Jetfire, are all EPIC (Starscream especially) But the others............. need work............... :roll:

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:47 am

Mostly good but just like Hasbro, the black ones are wrong colour.

News Credits: 668 · by **Autobot032** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:10 am

...wow, some of these responses are exactly what I expected, they just came through in record time.

These were made from SCRAP METAL, PARTS!

They're not meant to be perfectly accurate, merely impressive work produced with what pieces they have currently available.

The work is incredible, simple as that.

News Credits: 1 · by **FanimusMaximus** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:20 am

Woah, that must have taken a long time.

News Credits: 1 · by **mattyc1007** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:27 am

Bumble Bee and Sideswipe for me is meh, but dang that Jetfire wins hands down for acuracy stakes! I mean for out of scrap metal thats better than the actual toy :lol:

Oh and thanks alot Saber... I just spent 20mins looking at that article... poor guy :sad:

by **agentdc7** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 7:48 am

Reminds me of when I went to watch ROTF when it came out. The theater we were at had a scrap metal Transformer as a center piece in the lobby made by someone. Everyone was looking at like it was some kind of masterpiece. To be honest, it looked horrible. It was like a metal stick figure with a one piece bumper on the chest and 6 pipes on the right arm to resemble a minigun. I wish I had my camera with me that time to show you how dreadful it looked.
But these look 10x better than the thing I saw, not to say I particularly like these sculptures.

News Credits: 3 · by **Samsonator** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:09 am

That is all kinds of epic

by **Rated X** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:10 am

Is the top green one with the KFC sign in the backround suppossed to be Optimus ???

News Credits: 1 · by **mattyc1007** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:26 am

Rated X wrote:Is the top green one with the KFC sign in the backround suppossed to be Optimus ???

I believe sideswipe

by **Godzillabot Primal** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 9:30 am

Awesome! I love it! A little off topic I’m sure but don’t you think it would be cool in the new film if Bumblebee used “The Touch” in his voice!

by **Nightwalker** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 10:13 am

Autobot032 wrote:...wow, some of these responses are exactly what I expected, they just came through in record time.

These were made from SCRAP METAL, PARTS!

They're not meant to be perfectly accurate, merely impressive work produced with what pieces they have currently available.

The work is incredible, simple as that.

I couldn't say it any better.

News Credits: 4 · by **craggy** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 4:51 pm

scap metal parts that have little or no relation to the vehicle modes of the characters? I'll give the guy this, at least he made them movie-accurate

honestly, these are pretty decent. I've seen the concept used well before, but it fits so well with these characters.

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Thu Apr 14, 2011 6:32 pm

My God, they did the Fallen, Jetfire, Megatron, Starscream, and un-armored Optimus beautifully! If these were on sale at an affordable price by my standards, I would have them on display on my front yard! As for Ironhide and Bumblebee, meh. For some reason, Bumblebee looks like me (and trust me, I'm not a pretty sight), and Ironhide looks like he tasted some lemon juice. :lol: