China Creates Life-Size Optimus Prime Out of Rubbish
- Categories: Anime Figures, News
- Date: Jul 17, 2010 17:24 JST
- Tags: Beijing, Bizarre, Cars, China, Fine Art, Made in China, Mecha, Statues, Transformers
What do you do when you want to copy another country’s efforts to recreate a giant robot that has been part of its identity for years as life-size statue-cum-tourist trap, but find you have none of your own?
In China’s case, simply copy some other country’s robotic icon, in this case resulting in an impressive life-size rendition of Optimus Prime.
Located northwest of Beijing’s “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium, Optimus stands at 12m tall and weighs some 6 tons.
Seeing that useless junk is so abundant in China, sculptors apparently considered it as well to use them to make a giant Optimus Prime. Thus the replica was created, using 5 truckloads of used car parts.
With Japan and Korea the undisputed giant robot superpowers of Asia in both fiction and statuary, it seems China will have to devise an original indigenous creation if it is to have any chance of challenging the likes of Gundam.
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wow wonder if that will last long. since i read here that they created a bridge out of trash and it suddenly collapsed.
And then a magical meteor hits both countries and they fight each other.
with all the trash in china, they can create an army of optimus...
wow1 it really looks identical to that pile of shit they have turned Optimus into!
wow it really looks like the pile of shit they have turned Optimus into!
This is real art. Replicate something that only exists in fiction.
wow, it really looks identical to the pile of shit that
Optimus prime has been turned into. maybe it's old age affecting transformers because not only Optimus but all TF now look like shit from a scrapyard.
Gundam beats the crap out of Optimus, geez can't believe i am saying it.
Gundam makes Optimus look like a Go Bot!
This is probably the single most eco friendly thing China has ever done.
Is everyone pretending this isn't a shoop?
China is pig disgusting
Well let see which country will make a Giant Statue of a Giant Robot next.
simply awesome.
transformers are gay anyway
Trash --> Giant robot --> Army of giant robots --> Rule the world!?
Here's hoping it doesn't fall apart.
Being China I wouldn't stand too close.
this is absolutely awesome, i feel more impressed with this than the gundam.
Yeah, since it's made from used car parts. Harder than the manufactured parts specifically for the Gundam. This is really creative way to use trash for sculpture.
Hmm.. I can't but resist thinking this.. This are the Ork counterpart to the rest of the world in a Warhammer 40k scenario. Sure, they ain't got the best, but they have the numbers, and no one can cobble up guns out of things like cardboard like they can.
Waaaauuugghh!!
When are we going to start seeing robots in action poses fighting each other? Screw this standing around bullshit poses.
I don't care what country it comes from.
Helping their environment and building a transformer to battle japan's gundom,got to say am impressed, all we need is some pop corn and working weapons and we have a blockbuster live screening.
This is awesome also really creative to boot :3
hello world
Better Optimus than a bridge.
See China? You can be cool when you actually try.
agree with the article. China has no originality or creativity what so ever. They resort to stealing ideas and praising themselves about it. It's disgusting.
amen bro! amen!
It's Craptomus Prime.
yea. they might actually build something out of their own shit next time
China makes mother fucking OPTIMUS PRIME and all they get is ridicule, but Japan makes a Gundam and everybod is like "BEST THING EVER."
Fuck you racist pricks, I'm not even Chinese and I can feel the bias here. This statue is fucking awesome and if it had a fight with a Gundam it would kick its ass because ITS MOTHER FUCKING OPTIMUS PRIME.
you poor soul.
someone save him
so what's the problem if it's trash or icon or some robot Optimus. what's the big deal in bashing someones piece of work. Sometimes these people just say something typical for the sake of posting something to garner attention.
wow that's so cool. and this site is obviously anti Chinese.
everyone knows that:
g1 transformers>gundam any day everyday
even motherfucking bruticus wich a nuke cant even move him could beat any gundam.
also armada , cybertron , animated are hax generations everyone can beat most of gundams.
bw and prime are debatable since they doesn't seem that powerfull.
Wow... just like the actual movie...
Its junk.
Actually looks better than the movie.
Time for the life size Prime and the giant Gundam from Japan to meet!
what's in china should better fucking STAY IN FUCKING CHINA!!!
That's alot of lead paint.
made in china...
What a disgrace to the almighty Optimus Prime...
how is Korea a robotic super power? koreans are made of silicon and plastic and botox
And Zerglings. Don't forget Zerglings.
Now that's creative. That's excellent recycling right there.
Call me when they make a G1 or at least Animated Prime
ok... that's china... isn't it dangerous to even go near that thing? it might collapse you know...
yea. china has a reputation for that. from exploding chairs to toppling buildings to toxic jewelry and the fucking list goes on
China just helped solved a long-time debate, or answered a question of which I'm particular confident of...
Yep, Gundam will definitely slaugther the Transformers in battle. And even more so, "Made in Japan" definitely rules over "Made in China". no doubt about it.
btw, Korea have a big Giant robort on display, too? what is it, got pictures?
Damn Chinese! They really got that skill for piracy!
You gotta admit that does look pretty cool and was probably of no small effort, atleast they didn't try to make a giant gundam lookalike out of garbage..
Wow...
I can't say that I expected that.
Still, that's pretty awesome.
saya-chaaaaaan!!