Jun 20 2009Pew Pew!: Guy Builds Bumblebee In Yard
As most of you probably know, the original Bumblebee was a Volkswagen Beetle. And as very few of you probably know, I still have the original toy around here somewhere because I'm gangster.
Tom Rhodes likes Transformers. So, naturally, he built an 18-foot-tall, 1,200-pound Bumblebee robot out of an old Volkswagen Beetle.
As you can see, Bumblebee protects Tom's windmill from the Decepticons. Because, fun fact: Decepticons HATE clean energy. Transform and recycle!
Man builds gigantic Bumblebee Transformer in his front yard [dvice]
Thanks to FDSY, who once tried switching the bodies on two of his old Transformer toys but it didn't work BECAUSE THEY'RE NOT G.I. JOE'S.
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Reader Comments
1. Bobby - June 20, 2009 2:01 PM
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10. Anon - June 20, 2009 2:07 PM
Sorry.
Looks like I broke the chain
11. Bobby - June 20, 2009 2:08 PM
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12. Bobby - June 20, 2009 2:09 PM
@10 - I HATE YOU!!!!!!!!
13. $.02 and a pocket full of FAH-Q - June 20, 2009 2:12 PM
1 - 12 - You suck.
Great weekend post!
~Thumperchica @ work and counting down to clock out.
14. lol - June 20, 2009 2:28 PM
seriuosly no one can think of anything better to say than the number of their post ಠ_ಠ
now the guy just needs to work on the transforming mechanism
15. wait... - June 20, 2009 2:35 PM
where's megan fox??
16. Tony - June 20, 2009 2:36 PM
It's spelled "Volkswagen".
17. Pat - June 20, 2009 2:43 PM
Does the windmill produce energon cubes?
18. Pew³ - June 20, 2009 2:52 PM
Workinng on Saturday sucks! I'm outta here in 10.
OG Bumblebee rules. His cod piece looks to be a good 200 lbs or so.
Pew Pew Pew!!!!
19. ERR Kill Kill - June 20, 2009 3:12 PM
The guy plans on a Vehicle mode Prime . . . Feh kinda lame. I wonder if the guy plans on putting lights into Bee like the Gundam Statue? should be easy. Anywhoo I say Hells Yeah! I deffinately want one (Kinda always dreamed of having a Prowl statue in my front lawn that would spray the mail man with water, oh to dream)
20. Daisy - June 20, 2009 3:23 PM
FAKE!!!!
This is a complete photoshop job. You can tell its a fake because the shadow's are all wrong.
This is exactly like that scene in the movie Never Back Down where Max met up with some weird guys who were looking for a key that played musical notes and opened the door between 2 worlds. It turns out that any keyboard could do the job, and these weird losers weren't nearly as magical as Yanni.
21. 3.14chan - June 20, 2009 3:35 PM
And how it will transform back in a car?
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22. DH - June 20, 2009 3:44 PM
that was fckin weak daisy.
reduse, reuse, and ROLL OUT.
23. Watch-303 - June 20, 2009 4:47 PM
cool
24. FDSY - June 20, 2009 6:12 PM
I think that this akin to fresh fish
25. sobored - June 20, 2009 9:24 PM
AUTOBOTS, ROLL OUT.
26. fffp - June 20, 2009 9:25 PM
That white Pick-UP is his date, come one, leave him alone
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27. nadalo日本にいます。SHADOWS ALL WRONG - June 20, 2009 9:59 PM
Geez sis close those legs.....its letting it all hang out......
28. Gerk - June 21, 2009 2:22 AM
I sent this link like three months ago. ]=
WHERE'S MY CREDIT/!?!/1L3JH4TL3KT
Nah seriously though, this guy's a real-life friend and it's pretty awesome. You can see it from the highway driving by every day. Sort of in the boonies, so...
29. Octopus Pie - June 21, 2009 3:19 AM
Now if he can just train it to infiltrate the set of Transformers 3 & step on Shia LeDouche, the world will be a much happier place.
30. GLADIATOR - June 21, 2009 3:30 AM
Whooo yaaa. They should have never redesigned bumbled bee to a sports car. The Volkswagen Beetle is a fitting design for the small autobot.
This guy did wonderful job!
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31. led panel - June 21, 2009 8:05 AM
looks great ..and powerful .
32. Galtacticus - June 21, 2009 2:54 PM
It's not only impressive but it looks funny too! Good job!
33. Frank - June 21, 2009 4:07 PM
So is Bumblebee trying to drop some bad Mexican cubes he had for dinner last night? What's with the squat?
34. Jaded Icon - June 22, 2009 6:53 AM
Never underestimate a man's dream to one day build a lifelike replica of a giant robot from a 1980's cartoon. Voltron, your next big guy!
35. Gordon "Fücking" Shumway - June 22, 2009 7:39 AM
GW loves robots!
36. mike - June 22, 2009 9:21 AM
and why wasn't this what was featured in the movies??? they should've just kept the movie the same as the show, and made the story happen in the 80's. THAT would've been awesome.
on a separate note, looks like the builder cheaped out on the gun. bumblebee is holding some pipes that resemble a nerf pump action gun.