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This story is a couple months old but I couldn’t find a whole lot of information about it on the web so I thought I would re-share it with you. A Lemoore man decided he liked the Transformers so much that he built a life size replica of the cartoon version of Bumblebee in his front yard.
“I’ve always been a fan of the Transformers,” Tom Rhoads Rhoads stated to the crew at mim. “And when my son was born I decided to make the statue.”
The statue stands at 18 feet tall and built from a used Volkswagen, yes that’s right a used Volkswagen, in this economy who can afford to chop up a new Camaro and besides some of us liked the cartoon characters better!
The statue took him and a friend a year to build in their spare time:
“Sometimes it seemed as if we would never get through it, all the parts spread out, but then it just came together.”
A crane had to hoist the 1200 lb robot onto its feet after the welding was completed. Its legs are made of steel and angle iron to keep it secure.
If you asked me, he should have killed two birds with one stone (sorry PETA) and made the gun in its hand be Megatron. We all know he was a lame gun in the cartoon version, right?
Stay tuned, as Tom’s next project is the semi truck in the back. I wonder what he has planned for that…..
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
T-Macksimus wrote:With all the VW's for sale in my area I had thought about how cool it would be to do something like this.
Now I know what the finished product would be like. This is pretty cool.
Personally, I would have gone straight for the top and overhauled that Peterbilt in the background but I suppose 'Bee would be a better project for a trial run. This guy and his friend did great for it being a "backyard" kind of project.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
no. thats exactly how longg i think he was.Sabrblade wrote:Wow that's really cool.
But BB wasn't that big in the G1 cartoon. He's was about the height of the stereotypical "freakishly-tall basketball player" person.
Still, this is very awesome.
Ultra Markus wrote:T-Macksimus wrote:With all the VW's for sale in my area I had thought about how cool it would be to do something like this.
Now I know what the finished product would be like. This is pretty cool.
Personally, I would have gone straight for the top and overhauled that Peterbilt in the background but I suppose 'Bee would be a better project for a trial run. This guy and his friend did great for it being a "backyard" kind of project.
Go for it there can never be to many bumble bees
I believe that is a 1 ton chevy flatbed in the background and not a peterbilt
No, he was about a head taller than Sparkplug.christo wrote:no. thats exactly how longg i think he was.Sabrblade wrote:Wow that's really cool.
But BB wasn't that big in the G1 cartoon. He's was about the height of the stereotypical "freakishly-tall basketball player" person.
Still, this is very awesome.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Dead Metal wrote:If you asked me, he should have killed two birds with one stone (sorry PETA) and made the gun in its hand be Megatron. We all know he was a lame gun in the cartoon version, right?
Delta Supreme wrote:Dead Metal wrote:If you asked me, he should have killed two birds with one stone (sorry PETA) and made the gun in its hand be Megatron. We all know he was a lame gun in the cartoon version, right?
1. I don't think G1 Meggy would really go for Bumblebee holding him.
Though...
2. If he adds a black metal stock, and paints most of the barrel black (and a day-glo orange barrel tip), he would have a quite passable MP Megatron...
G1 Megs is a standard P-38 pistol, with "rifle extensions" and scope. The front of the gun looks like it has the rifle scope on it already, so all that's left is needing the stock and proper paintjob...
Jeep! wrote:Why do I imagine Dead Metal sounding exactly like Arnie?
Intah-wib-buls?
Blurrz wrote:10/10
Leave it to Dead Metal to have the word 'Pronz' in his signature.
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