Optimus Prime

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Transformers Role-Playing 3D Masks Are Awesomely Dorky

11:34AM February 13, 2011 | Sam Biddle

Part of our problem with 3D anything is that the glasses make you look kind of silly. Even in the dark. Which is why I almost love these Transformer 3D glasses—if you’re gonna look dorky, own it. More »

Computing

Subtlety, Thy Name Is Not LG’s Ad Department

6:33AM February 11, 2011 | Jason Chen

Someone at LG decided it would be a great idea to tie in a video of their LG Optimus Pad tablet with Optimus Prime. Not only that, they have fake Optimus Prime fight fake Megatron, who’s not-so-subtly the robot manifestation of Apple’s iPad. None of this makes any sense, which is why it is kind of incredible that it was actually animated. More »

If Megatron Iced Everything He Touched

12:00AM December 1, 2010 | Kat Hannaford

Poor Optimus Prime. He was just cleaning up the streets, saving the planet… and then got iced by a Swissman for the Dutch Roermond Ice Festival. Autobots, hairdryers at the ready! [Atti via NerdCore via Neatorama]

Tokyo Is Serious About Manners In These Vintage Subway Posters

12:20PM August 11, 2010 | Christina Bonnington

In Tokyo, subway etiquette is no joke – you can ask Superman, Optimus Prime or Astro Boy. Just look at what could happen if you spit out your Kryptonite bubble gum onto the station platform. Tsk tsk. More »

12m Optimus Prime Transforms Beijing Skyline

12:20PM July 16, 2010 | Brian Barrett

Visitors to China’s Green Dream Park – not far from the 2008 Olympics’ “Bird’s Nest” stadium – are currently being greeted by a 12m tall, six-ton Optimus Prime made from five truckloads of car and truck spare parts. Take that, Gundam. More »

Optimus Prime, Balloon Animal

1:40AM April 21, 2010 | Mark Wilson

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Anyone can build Optimus Prime out of an old semi and a touch of All Spark. But it takes a true craftsman, a visionary, an auteur (and OK, maybe a clown) to build him out of balloons. More »

Wanna Join My Transformers Street Gang?

10:00AM February 17, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

This hat is how we roll. And we beat down any fools wearing this Optimus Punkass cap: More »

Optimus Prime Speakers Feature Pretty Half-Assed Transforming

1:00PM July 2, 2009 | Dan Nosowitz

Come on, this isn’t much of a transformation. This powered USB gadget is in the shape of Optimus Prime’s severed head, and the ears (or whatever) swing out to reveal the speakers within. More »

Entertainment

You Too Can Wear The Head Of Optimus Prime (in Augmented Reality, Of Course)

11:00AM June 17, 2009 | Adrian Covert

If you forgot to live out all your Optimus Prime role-playing fantasies when the first Transformers movie came out, fear not. Thanks to the awesome Satan powers of augmented reality, you can wear the face of Optimus Prime anywhere. More »