Kid Drinks Gasoline To Be Like Optimus Prime

A 14-year-old Chinese boy has been admitted to the hospital with "gasoline dependance" after five years of downing the fuel in order to emulate his cartoon heroes and become a "valiant fighter" like "Optimus Prime." More »

Hilariously Awesome Throwback T-Shirts: Chariots Retired

TeeFury just released for sale an unbelievably cool ultra-limited edition t-shirt titled, 'Chariots Retired,' portraying our favorite TV and movie cars from the 80's including K.I.T.T., Optimus Prime, the Ghostbuster's Ecto-1, Airwolf and more. More »

Change Transformers Can Believe In

Tired of a seemingly corrupt and secretive Decepticon government, running up huge energon deficits and starting robot wars all over the place? Optimus Prime is the candidate you can believe in. Change, Into A Truck. More »

Transformers Revenge Of The Fallen Hummer H3 Spotted Near Phoenix

A reader over at Tformers.com spotted this Hummer H3T sharing its flatbed trailer with Optimus Prime in vehicle mode. The H3T is painted in the same NEST colors as the Hummer HX concept spotted back in July, with NEST appearing to be some kind of mysterious quasi-governmental organization in Transformers 2. Click through for the full report. More »

Oh Optimus, What Have They Done To You?

JList, purveyors of all things Japanese and crazy, is offering for sale an iPod dock in the shape of Optimus Prime towing Convoy. The trailer acts as the actual dock, while Optimus' job is apparently to transform and protect the all spark iPod. It's available in original colors, but it also comes in all-white, which is interesting since white is the symbolic color of death in Japan. Perhaps they're beating the dead horse of marketing and have decided to just run with it. It's available for $138 plus shipping if you happen to be an iPod fanboy and a Transformers dork (...Wert?). [JList] More »

Shia LaBeouf's Passenger During Alleged DUI-Related Accident Was Transformers 2 Co-Star Isabel Lucas

The name of the passenger in Shia LeBeouf's alleged DUI accident in LA this weekend wasn't initially released: Turns out it was Transformers 2 co-star and Aussie hottie Isabel Lucas. If you happen to be Shia "The Beef," and find yourself inexplicably famous after last summer's Transformers movie and this summer's horrible crap-fest Indiana Jones flick, you'd be aiming high on the lady ladder too. Oh Beef, you know Megan Fox is going to be all jealous now, stewing on the set of Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. She'll probably throw herself at you, even though you never had a chance with Isabel. You sly, sly fox. [TFW2005]

7-Foot Recycled Optimus Prime Sculpture Is A Junkyard Nightmare

This Optimus Prime sculpture should debatably be part of our Junkyard Finds series because this seven-foot monstrosity is constructed entirely of car parts. Unlike the original Optimus Prime, this sculpture lacks color and any Mack truck affiliation, but nevertheless, it's pretty spectacular. The best fact of all is that this 551-pound Optimus Prime is even for sale for a blistering $4,838.71 (likely plus shipping). And Optimus isn't the only Transformer receiving some artistic love. More »

Optimus Prime Spotting Reaffirms Transformers 2 Filming

Who's that familiar truck spotted on a Los Angeles freeway? Oh! It must be Optimus Prime! This Optimus Prime spotting comes less than a week after we saw twin Barricades in Culver City, Calif., and it just continues to affirm that the sequel to the robogasm Transformers is, indeed, in the early filming stages. More »

Homemade Optimus Prime Costume Also Deserves Props

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Optimus Prime Hit With $236,000 Insurance Premium

Saving the world from evil Decepticons isn't all it's cracked up to be. For one, the overheads are ridiculous. With gas set to hit $4.00 a gallon, Matrices of Leadership running a cool $6.5 million and less than understanding insurance agents, we're surprised they don't pack it all in for a lucrative reality TV show gig or just subcontract the work to Halliburton. More »

Slate's Swansburg Pits 1986 Transformers Movie Versus 2007 Transformers Movie, Forgets About Generation One

I cannot believe I'm about to engage in a toolerific blogosphere tête-à-tête with John Swansburg on Transformers mythos — but whatever, I must defend an egregious display of fan-boy cultural blasphemy. Swansburg tries to provide a compare and contrast on the 1986 Transformers movie and the 2007 Transformers movie debuting today. The problem is Swany has totally missed the point here and is making the cinematic error of basically correlating apples to Decepticons. The new movie was never meant to be any kind of a replacement, re-do, remake or re-anything of the 1986 movie. Rather, it's an attempt... More »

The Jalopnik Transformers Movie Quasi-Review: An Ameribot Revolution!

Last night Ben Wojdyla and I made our way over to Birmingham to take in a sneak preview showing of the new Transformers movie. This review is split into two parts — one that's safe and spoiler-free (starting here above the fold) and then the nitty-gritty of the film (at the bottom of the area in italics below the fold). Peruse the part below the fold at your own risk and may the maker have mercy on your non-robotic soul. Oh and the pictures, there's some LA preview pics in there and some pics the General gave us of some of the designers — oh, that first one's Brian Smith, he put the stripes on Bumblebee, and yes, that's the light-up Autobot t-shirt. — Ed. More »

Vote For Brian Lam, Our Little Gadget Bitch

This is Brian Lam. Brian runs our little site obsessed with gadgets. Brian's usually a good guy, but today he's pissed one of us off a little. Can anyone guess why he may have pissed off one of us? If you can't figure out why, then you obviously haven't been reading us enough. But we won't hold any grudges against Brian. Oh, wait — is there some sort of nerd popularity contest poll going on over at Business 2.0 today where you can vote whether or not Brian matters? We wouldn't want to influence that in any way now would we? Hmm — well — just to show we're good sports — we ask you guys to head on over and help Brian out by giving him "100" after you're done looking at him playing with toys below. – Ray Wert More »

Transformers Movie Update: MTV Shows Over A Minute Of New Hot Robot Action!

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Transformers Movie Update: Michael Bay Forum Reports Optimus Prime WILL Have Lips

It looks like there's now a definitive answer on the question of "will he or won't he" when it comes to giving Prime the lips that whatever robotic god never wanted him to have over the past however many years he's been around. TFW2005's pointed us to their scoop on everyone's favorite Autobot leader via Nelson over on the Shoot For The Edit forum. He's saying:

"The photo of OP in the LA Times [above] should tell you what the final decision is on the mouth/faceplate/battle mask is."

Guess that means there's still potential for Michael Bay to create some kind of Optimus on Megan Fox makeout session as part of his desire to push the boundaries of unnecessary love stories in an action movie. The part though that's killing us is that the site Admin who tossed it out there is asking for us to "quit the whining." Yes, well — one of us will quite the whining when his boss decides not to so liberally toss around my childhood memories like an empty energon cube. Just sayin'... – Ray Wert More »

Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime, It's You — It's Really You!

In case you can't tell from the splice below, the Lam-man and the Chenster from Gizmodo have the first hands-on with the Optimus Prime toy from the new live-action Transformers movie. I think I just had a robogasm over this here long-nose semi. We've got a taste of the gallery below, but head over to our gadget-obsessed friends to check out the hands-on. – Ray Wert More »

Exclusive Transformers Update! Michael Bay Is Leaking Robot CGI All Over The Interwebs

We received a couple more pics this AM from one of our own embedded "Deep Throat" tipsters in the land of Michael Bay. And this here tipster got us some gems — how about that Bumblebee blaster above, eh? We've got four of the larger-than-life CGI and prettily-painted pics of the Camaro-y Bumblebee, the diesel-y Optimus Prime and of course, the — err — metallic crap-y Megatron in the gallery below. [Hat tip to faithful reader and Studebaker owner Mike!] – Ray Wert More »

Transformers Live-Action Movie Update: Jazz Is Driving Excitement And Ratchet's Hummer Gets A Robot Mode

Well, it's been a while since we last updated folks on what the interwebs have been abuzz with — Transformers movie leakage. We're more than happy to give you folks an update courtesy of the nice young fan-boys over at TFW2005 — who've come up with some great sketches of two Autobots — Jazz and Ratchet. We've sneak-peeked Jazz above, and showed off how even if Pontiac's not driving excitement so much anymore, he's still showing off that Pontiac arrowhead logo, front-and-center. Pontiac had better hope Mr. Jazz makes it through the movie alive, or else there's going to be much talk (at least here there will be) of how it'll be serving as an analogy for the brand. Also, we've got Hummer-licious Ratchet below the jump and a screen-cap of a scene from the new film picked up from the folks at AintItCoolNews. Hit the jump for the fun. Remember, if you want to keep up to date — there's always our Transformers tag and to keep up visually, there's always the Transformers gallery. – Ray Wert More »

Transformers Live Action Movie Exclusive! Optimus Prime And Starscream Are So Cybertron, They Don't Even Know It

Before landing on Earth to delight us with their lovely auto- and machina-riffic disguises, and while still on the planet of Cybertron, the Transformers have some other type of alternate form. That's because, you know, Cybertron may have a lot of things, but we're guessing they probably don't have any Steve Saleen Mustang's or Camaro's. Instead, they'll have what one tipster is calling a "protoform" — the form they have before they get to Earth. It'll be techie — it'll be metallic — and it'll be interesting looking. Unfortunately, in order to make them for little Earth fan-boys, there's a decent amount of lead time involved, and now we've got the first look at the prototype "protoform" toys and packaging of two big names in the big bot universe — Optimus Prime and Starscream. Full gallery via the link below (beware, there be potential spoilers). – Ray Wert More »

Transformers Movie Exclusive! First Five Pages Of Transformers Script!

We've seen the entire thing and just to prove it to you — here's the first five pages of what sources tell us is the actual script of the new live-action Transformers movie, named "Prime Directive" in the pre-production. This script is from February, and although we spent a very late night last week running through it — we don't want to ruin anything for you — but be warned, there be spoilers ahead. We also wanted to remind you many Bothans died to bring you these four pages plus the one above, but one who didn't was Matt Hickey, who we now tip our hats to. More »

Transformers Movie Update! Mommy, Bumblebee And Optimus Prime Are Scary Looking!

So seriously — we'd have never been Transformers fans if this we'd learned about 'Robots in Disguise" from pictures and toys of what you see above and below the jump. Above we've got what's purported to be a full body shot of Autobot bad-ass n' brave leader, Optimus Prime (courtesy of our friends at TFormers.com). And below the jump we've got a full-on facial of what used to be the lovable and huggable Bumblebee — a 'bot who now looks like he'd scare the shit out of us as young'uns (courtesy of our friends at the movie blog). But maybe it's just us. What do y'all think? [Hat tip to tr!] More »

Exclusive Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime And Starscream Robot Modes Are Teh Suck — And The Pictures Prove It!

Our Transformers main man, Hue Hughes, gave us the lowdown on some pictures found over on one of the biggest Transformers fan-sites, TFW2005.com. The pictures are none other than robot-modes of Autobot main man himself and sporting the long-nosed semi look, Optimus Prime. And if that isn't enough to get your fan-boy love juices flowing, they've also got first-looks at Decepticon bad-boys Starscream, Blackout and Scorponok. Take a look through the photo gallery below and then click the jump for our two cents. More »

Exclusive Live-Action Transformers Update: Megatron Must Be Stopped, And Prime's The Robot To Do It

So there you have it — Megatron in all of his what appears to be frozen glory. We've also got another shot of the Camaro-rockin' Bumblebee fully transformed, as well as another picture of Prime as a long-nosed Semi and finally what looks to be "Team Autobot" — the Black GMC TopKick (Ironhide), the modified H2 (Ratchet) and the Camaro concept (Bumblebee) all surrounding a ready-to-roll-out long-nosed Semi (Optimus Prime). Looks like a fanboy circle-jerk to us! But wait-wait, there's more — click the jump to find out the names of all the Autobots and Decepticons appearing in the movie from an online chat with the producers held this AM. [Hat tip as always to our boy Hue Hughes!] More »

EXCLUSIVE Transformers Update! Optimus Prime CG Partial Reveal!

So our boy Hue Hughes totally has the inside line on all things Transformers — and he's snagged us some shots purported to be CG tests of the main man himself, Optimus Prime. In addition, there's also a pic of our Camaro buddy Bumblebee, and his brawny brother Brawl. Click through the jump to check out the pics in all their gallery glory. More »