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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.

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12:20 PM on Mon May 19 2008
By Travis Hudson
2,943 views, 16 comments

Latest by Nick_Bentley: Wish I had a corn field because that would be an awesome scarecrow. Hmm could always launch bottle rockets out of it on 4th of July, bet that would make a good Youtube video. more »

transformers

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.
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6:15 PM on Wed Apr 2 2008
By Travis Hudson
8,035 views, 28 comments

found on ebay

Former Qatar Prime Minister's BMW M1

The M1 is a great car. And it was even more impressive when it was new. But what to do if you want the looks of the Procar racing version, but the comfort and luxury of the street version? Do what a former Prime Minister of Qatar would do: Buy a standard car and have it done up with the body kit of a Procar. Check out those tri-color stripes! The only thing cooler than this is the M1 that was painted up by Andy Warhol. Act quickly! This thing is a bargain at just $178,750 Buy-It-Now. Well, at least compared to yesterday's $1.85M black on black on black Bugatti.

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3:00 PM on Fri Feb 22 2008
By Mark Arnold
6,934 views, 45 comments

Latest by skulldriveshaft: @weaponsgradecarp: And where else in Florida would these cars be? I think most of the really interesting autos end up in Florida for some reason. more »

consumer news

Sub-Prime BMW Crisis?

Can't afford a brand-new BMW M6 Convertible? Neither can most people, as the car costs over $100,000. But a California woman thought that she could afford to lease one. She had a good credit history. She even plunked down her $30,000 life savings for a down payment. Trouble is that she's on a fixed income: a $2500 monthly disability check. And thats a problem when the monthly lease payment is $1300. Don't forget you still have to pay for insurance and other running costs. (And most people don't like living in their cars.) More »

9:15 AM on Tue Feb 12 2008
By Mark Arnold
9,493 views, 90 comments

Latest by Trick: Dealerships rip people off. Plain and simple. Not expecting a dealership to rip you off, even if they don't is stupid. I blame the woman and only the woman here. The fact that she had to get credit card cash more »

top gear

Jeremy Clarkson For British Prime Minister?

We're big fans of Top gear as most readers already know, but we're not sure if we'd put host Jeremy Clarkson in the driver's seat out of our country. A petition on the web site of the current PM Gordon Brown is calling for Brown to step down and make Clarkson the new chief. The petition is gaining steam, with more than 30,000 signatures, outshining a petition to, for instance, build more skating rinks in local areas, which we all know could be a make-or-break issue for the current administration. More »

3:00 PM on Fri Jan 4 2008
By Matt Hardigree
2,363 views, 52 comments

Latest by kenshinxl: Link to petition: [petitions.pm.gov.uk] more »

transformers

Homemade Optimus Prime Costume Also Deserves Props



It may not quite be the Citroen transformer, but these kids still deserve props for creating a Optimus Prime costume worthy of recognition. It appears to be around 10 feet tall, which is inching closer to a scale model of the real (and by real, I mean not-real) Optimus Prime [Blasphemy! — Ed.] Click the video above for a very anti-climactic video of Optimus Prime getting dressed and ready for work in the morning (and by work we mean killing Decepticon assholes). And y'all thought it would be the new boss-man doing the Transformers posts around these parts, eh?

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4:15 PM on Tue Dec 11 2007
By Travis Hudson
182,966 views, 34 comments

Latest by n/a: that "kid" is actually a 30 year old guy.. he has another 3 videos uploaded on his youtube account (username: azrael723) more »

now ready for prime-time

Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione Stateside Debut

We're out here on the rolling Rochester Hills at the site of this weekend's Meadowbrook Concours d'Elegance for the US press reveal of the Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione. But just as important as showing the 159,300 euro (Alfa folks claim the US price will be over $200K when it hits here late in 2008), 450 HP V8-powered supercar, for the Alfa Romeo folks this is the first event for a US-bound Alfa Romeo since the halcyon days of yesterday — and by yesterday we mean 1995. We'll stop talking and let you soak in the crimson-colored beauty of these shots.

11:20 AM on Tue Jul 31 2007
By Ray Wert
34,583 views, 46 comments

Latest by n/a: What a car! Furthermore, now the Alfa Romeo 8C Spider version is being officially presented at the Geneva Car Expo, but only 500 will be available! :O more »

freedom isn't free

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 »

1:45 PM on Mon Jul 9 2007
By Wes Siler
2,282 views, 7 comments

transformers

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 »

2:30 PM on Tue Jul 3 2007
By Ray Wert
2,780 views, 14 comments

Latest by thnikkamax: Bah weep grana weep nini bong, bee-otches! more »

jump on the gm bandwagon today!

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 »

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12:01 AM on Thu Jun 28 2007
By Ray Wert
6,916 views, 29 comments

Latest by n/a: Finally saw it yesterday. Anybody that hasn't yet: do so when you're able. That was a great movie and it will definately lose something on a TV screen (much like Starwars IV-VI). more »

i want my transformers toys!

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 »

8:15 PM on Tue Jun 12 2007
By Ray Wert
879 views, 11 comments

Latest by Ray Wert Jr: @Ray Wert: Wouldn't I be Ray Wert IV? Or am I Jr. till you die? Or how does that work? I never understood that. more »

our country, our autobot

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

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Transformers Movie Update: Fifty Hot Screen Shots Of Movie Action!

Despite the whole "Optimus Prime with lips" thing, we've got to say we're still pretty excited about the upcoming live-action movie. Of course, maybe that's only because we were able to snag these fifty some-odd PR shots from Paramount Pictures. Enjoy the ensuing robogasm. [Please note, we cannot be in any way held liable for those of you having a robogasm and any other -gasm simultaneously due to the hot robot action spliced in with the hot Megan Fox action. Just sayin'...] – Ray Wert More »

2:32 PM on Mon May 7 2007
By Ray Wert
6,383 views, 26 comments

Latest by dculberson: @Ray Wert: *cough*kindom2000*cough* more »

michael bay has warped my fragile little mind

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 »

5:58 PM on Sat May 5 2007
By Ray Wert
14,954 views, 26 comments

Latest by macdawson: I've watched it, re-watched it and re-re-watched it.And you know what? Optimus is cooler than ever, Megatron is just pure evil and the rest of the autobots and decepticons , even those with short screen time are just SPECTACULAR.Yeah, they more »

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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 »

4:00 PM on Mon Apr 30 2007
By Ray Wert
3,531 views, 3 comments

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Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime Will NOT Have Lips -- So Sayeth Michael Bay!

The Bay speaks, and here's what he has to say about our little video we obtained of Autobot king trucker Optimus Prime speaking with the lips:
"The unreleased ad (Prime speaks) that was posted on youtube was a test that European were making with the ads. The clip where OP was "speaking," lets just say that it wasn't OP or Cullen speaking. It was something the European studios added on their own. In fact, it was a test shot."
Glad he finally cleared that up. Oh yeah, we've also got some new screen shots from the movie to show you — enjoy. We know we will, because tonight will be the first night in a long while we can finally sleep soundly knowing Bay hasn't fubar-ed at least this one tiny part of our most cherished memories of childhood. – Ray Wert More »

2:01 AM on Thu Apr 26 2007
By Ray Wert
16,091 views, 17 comments

Latest by Bumblebee: Dude, I finally just figured out whose eye that is on the international poster. I'm probably the last guy on earth to realize its an eye behind a 3D Autobot symbol face. more »

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Transformers Movie Update: Optimus Prime Has Lips?!

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Transformers Toys For Tots: Bumblebee And Optimus Prime Show Their Stuff At ToyFair

The Transformers loving kids over at our favorite hangout for all things robots in disguise is live from New York City's Javits Center, home this week to the annual ToyFair show. This year it would seem it should be renamed something like "BotFair" or "TransFair" or something similar as the big news appears to be something we've been covering over here for quite a bit now, the upcoming Transformers live-action movie. The kiddies at TFW2005 have put together some galleries of what's cooking over on 11th Avenue. And in addition to what appears to be some amazing shots of the Camaro concept-transforming Autobot known as Bumblebee and his big boss truck, Optimus Prime, we've also now got Hasbro's official pictures of the toys — all ready in a gallery below to sate your fan-boy cravings. And if you've even got to ask why we're so excited, just take a stroll down the memory lane of our past posts here. – Ray Wert More »

1:43 PM on Tue Feb 13 2007
By Ray Wert
8,200 views, 6 comments

Latest by kingdom2000: ToyFair has lots of good TF goodies. I am looking forward to Ultimate Bumblebee and Optimus Prime. The must have though is the Death Star that transforms into Darth Vader. This site has links to all more »

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