Fun with Transformers

Optimus Prime spotted live in ROBOT form! (Transformers 3 movie Chicago filming)

November 14, 2015 / Chicago, Pop culture / 1 minute of reading

Transformers 3 is filming outside my window at Tribune Tower. I’m capturing the highlights in HD video and posting them to Youtube. Actors carry around poles with the transformers face to represent the Transformers. Here two transformers are in this scene while Shia LaBeouf and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley have a dialogue inside a burnt-out car. Shia …

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Optimus Prime uses eBay… for real, there is a optimusprime username on ebay

November 14, 2015 / Pop culture, Tech / 1 minute of reading

In the Transformers movie, Optimus Prime says that he used earth’s “eBay” to find the glasses imprinted with the Allspark’s coordinates. So I’m thinkin, there’s gotta be a user on eBay with the name Optimusprime. Sure enough there is: http://myworld.ebay.com/optimusprime. Being all geeked up, I took the courage to send a message to Optimus Prime: …

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Increase productivity with Transformers in your dock

November 14, 2015 / Design, Pop culture / 2 minutes of reading

Mac OS X users, put your frequently-used folders in your dock where they are very handy. The only problem is that you get a dock full of identical folder icons. How to tell the difference? Transformers to the rescue! Customize the icon for each folder with a transformer. The three volumes of icons are available …

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Transformers Monopoly board game: collector’s edition

November 14, 2015 / Pop culture / 1 minute of reading

Transformers Monopoly board game: collector’s edition is going to be available in May 2007. I wonder how they ranked the transformers. Obviously Optimus Prime and Megatron would be Park Place and Boardwalk. But where would Soundwave rank on the board? Even though Bumblebee should have a lower value property, I betcha they put him as …

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FOX’s NFL transformer robot is much better than the NHL’s robot

November 14, 2015 / Pop culture / 1 minute of reading

For all you FOX NFL robot hatas out there, be glad it ain’t like the NHL robots. NHL Transformers: NFL Transformer: The Fox NFL transformer rules. The first week of football this year I thought it was cool and wondered if I would get sick of him. It’s now week 14 and I still enjoy …

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Download G.I.Joe and Transformer logos in vector eps format

November 14, 2015 / Pop culture / 1 minute of reading

There’s a site called “The best brands of the world” and they have a ton of logos available for download including some cool Transformer and G.I.Joe logos from the 80s and today. G.I.Joe G.I.Joe G.I.Joe cartoons new logo G.I.Joe logo TV version Cobra Emblem G1 Autobot logo black and white G1 Autobot Logo G1 Decepticon …

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Transformers Transfigured: review

November 14, 2015 / Chicago, Design, Pop culture / 1 minute of reading

Chicago’s Review Aug 30 – Sep5: Tranformers Transfigured at Rotofugi. Summary: Nice effort, but disappointment. Cool stuff, but there were like only a handful. And they weren’t even of the real Transformers. They were of some Japanese anime robots. Granted Japanese anime robots are still cool. But they ain’t no transformers that *I* grew up …

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Intellectual quotes from Swoop the Dinobot

November 14, 2015 / Pop culture / 1 minute of reading

The quotes on the transformers tech spec cards tend to over-intellectualize the transformer being depicted. None better at representing this polarization is Swoop the Dinobot. His tech spec quote is: “Fear can hit targets unreachable to bullets.” And then in the cartoon he leaves us with these great nuggets of wisdom: “Me glad me not …

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