(Images: For all the mixed reviews of this summer’s installment of the Transformers trilogy – Dark of the Moon – it seems the science fiction epic spawned a cottage industry in Beijing, as full scale Optimus Primes appeared around the city. In the film Prime and his robotic comrades are the epitome of cutting edge – machines capable of turning themselves into, well, other machines. But in real life the imposing robot has the look of a recycled art installation, intricately constructed from chunks of salvaged scrap.
(Images: In fact, one 40-foot tall, six ton Optimus Prime appeared in China’s new Green Dream Park, near the famous Bird Nest stadium. It’s an interesting environmental take on the decades-old Sci Fi fantasy, as the giant robot was rehashed from five truckloads of abandoned car and vehicle parts.
(Image: It’s unclear how many different Primes have been built, but some images show more than one recycled robot adding to the Beijing skyline. While these examples – though impressive – are little more than recycled art, you can get an idea of how real Transformers might work here.
