My apologies if you've already seen this video -- it does have more than 360,000 views -- but it's just a touch over a week old, and if you haven't seen it, you absolutely need to. This guy has made a remote-control car that can transform into a remote-control robot, and back again. The car drives, the robot stands up on his own, he can raise his arm in triumph, throw a few punches, and dance like a 60-year-old white man. It's impressive as hell, really. Hasbro needs to hire this dude stat. Or use their elite team of snipers to kill him, steal all his notes, and make his body disappear, never to be seen again. One of the two. Just give me the opportunity to buy one of these damn things. Thanks to Hans D. for the tip.
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I got the impression the designer hated the robot face, what with hardly spotlighting it at all and the couple of times it does pop up, it quickly fades to a new view. Weird.
Dude, the guy is saying he wants to make a Brave robot. A FLYING, COMBINING Brave robot. He is insane in all the right ways.
For those who don't know, Brave was a metaseries that replaced Transformers in Japan for most of the 90's. The toys were made by Takara and the shows were all throwbacks to old school super robots like Mazinger Z, Getter Robo, Voltes V, etc. The most well-known (and reportedly the best) was GaoGaiGar, a direct reconstructive response to Evangelion's deconstruction. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
Also, just to let it sink in how nuts this guy is, here's GaoGaiGar's combination in full:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v...
He basically wants to do that in real life.
That is awesome, but Jesus, I hope it transformers into a mixing board for a third mode, because the audio levels on the video are "really" annoying. Otherwise, I love that the robot is apparently hijacked by the spirit of Revolver Ocelot given how often he's throwing his fist in the air.
Yeah, the audio levels on this were really distracting, to the point where I was paying attention to that more than the incredibly awesome RC transformer.
Eh, I'll admit it's not "that" awesome, outside of posing like Revolver Ocelot. It's just a shame the robot isn't saying, "YEAH!" or whatever that old man said during that fist fight at the end of MGS4.
I would pay good money to have one of these. Seriously, this is awesome. Wonder if the next version will be able to shoot chest rocket or something.
Somebody needs to combine this with the robotic butt, pronto! Only then will my life be complete.
If no one else is going to say it............. Alright then......... "All the butts, troll out!"
Awesome. Actually from it's look it reminded me more of a Gobot then transformer. I would buy two if I could.
Big deal, this was done in 2007 by Johnny Lightning. It was called V_Bot. The commercial does not do it justice...great toy!http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...
That's a cool toy but, from an engineering standpoint, it doesn't touch this one. it does too many difficult things that the V_bot just took the easy way out on. which is fine for a toy but you can't really compare the two.
from a "toy that's just fun for kids to play with" perspective they're a lot closer though.
1000 times cooler than Bay's Confuse-O-Vision sequence ending with a vehicle driving away that bears no resemblance to the robot that they started out with.
Hell, yes. This guys accomplishment proves exactly why Michael Bay is a d-bag. Of course you can make live action transformers look like the comic and cartoon versions! This f-ing guy did it with probably 1/10th the budget!!!
The Dreamwave and IDW comic series showed modernized and more complex versions of the Transformers designs, and how they should have appeared in the films. But I think I would have been more angry seeing the original Transformers designs used in Michael Bay's films. I was already angry about hearing the original Transformers voices (Peter Cullen, Frank Welker) appear in such an awful series of films. Michael Bay's "Transformers" series are the Joel Schumacher's "Batman & Robin" films of the Transformers Universe.
I was actually referring to the fact that the cartoons and comics were able to make each transformer different from one another. Not just talking, fighting masses of metal.
The issue was never making them look like the cartoon, the issue was that the cartoon designs are very simple designs that just aren't visually interesting for live action. It is not interesting seeing 12 giant parts shift around and ask the audience to just assume that the robot is cable of walking.
Basically unlike most comics, making it accurate is too damn easy and cheap looking.
My problem with Bay's Transformers is not the Tranformers' design.
It's everything else...
