This Bumblebee Could Hold His Bladder Around John Turturro
You’re looking at an 18-foot-tall, 1200-lbs. statue of Bumblebee — regular, classic ’80s Bumblebee, obviously — made out of an honest-to-Krom Volkswagon Beetle by a dude named Tom Rhodes who lives in Lemoore, California. He is awesome.
Now, some of you might think this is proof positive that the classic cartoon Transformers designs would look dumb in a live-action movie, but c’mon — this was made by a dude. In his yard. Somehow I think if Rhodes had $200 million and team of a thousand working for him, I imagine it would probably look damn pretty good, and hell, at least I would know where Bumblebee’s face is. Besides, apparently Rhodes’ next project involves some kind of semi-truck… Check out more pics over at Daily Stab. (Via Geekologie)
About The Author
Robert Bricken is one of the original co-founders of the site formerly known as Topless Robot, and its first editor-in-chief, serving from 2008-12. He brought the site to prominence with “nerd news, humor and self-loathing” as its motto, raising it from total internet obscurity to a readership in the millions, with help from his savage “FAQ” movie reviews and Fan Fiction Fridays. Under his tenure Topless Robot was covered by Gawker, Wired, Defamer, New York magazine, ABC News, and others, and his articles have been praised by Roger Ebert, Avengers actor Clark Gregg, comedian and The Daily Show correspondent John Hodgman, the stars of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and Rifftrax, and others. He is currently the managing editor of io9.com. Despite decades as both an amateur and professional nerd, he continues to be completely unprepared for either the zombie apocalypse or the robot uprising.