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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.

SPARE ME THIS MOCKERY OF BREAKFAST!

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

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.

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

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

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That is one dangerous cereal!

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.

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


Or this!

Are these officially licensed?

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

halfshell25 wrote:Are these officially licensed?

Not that I am aware of.

halfshell25 wrote:Are these officially licensed?

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

I want these way more than I should.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

https://www.riptapparel.com/

I saw it, ordered the capped-megatron shirt

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!

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

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.

OMG IDW merchandise I am so there!


(And the orange cap one is hilarious )