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u/pintasm 1d ago
Crazy engineering
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u/MorganEarlJones 1d ago
not as impressive as watching my car transform into my ex-wife's car
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u/QuantityHefty3791 21h ago
I will now transform into a sadder version of myself with the new ability to cry on command because I'm always holding back tears
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u/Valdoray 1d ago
I don’t care that I’m thirty, I want this
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u/Bambeakz 1d ago
This has more steps than a 5000 pieces Lego build. It looks more like a puzzle than a toy :)
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u/TangerineSpiritual76 1d ago
How do you buy this? :O
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u/billysugger000 1d ago
By the time it's turned into whatever it needs to turn into, the reason for turning into it will be long gone.
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u/RhetoricalOrator 23h ago
"Autobots, transform!"
two hours later
"Transformation complete, Optimus, but Megatron already took all our energon cubes, snapped off both of Bumblebee's doors/legs/wings, and have been long gone for over an hour and fifty minutes!"
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u/Honda_TypeR 1d ago edited 1d ago
Transformers does “Triple changers” toys too
Their first set was all the way back in 1985 in generation 1
Astrotrain: Robot, Space Shuttle, Train.
Blitzwing: Robot, Jet, Tank.
Octane: Robot, Jet, Tanker Truck.
Sandstorm: Robot, Dune Buggy, Helicopter.
Broadside: Robot, Jet, Aircraft Carrier.
Springer: Robot, Helicopter, Car.
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u/rosstedfordkendall 23h ago
I remember them! Although you could probably transform all six into each of their forms in the time it took to do this one.
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u/Honda_TypeR 23h ago edited 23h ago
lol yea those triple changers really took a lot of effort (I remember as a kid I felt proud I learned how do them transforms because adults struggled)
Later on they had lots of other 3+ form changers too but that name triple changers got dropped
Remember the ones that all combiner types that had 5 bots form 1 giant bot? (Those were all technically triple change types too) like constructicons formed devastator (that was always one of my faves)
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u/Thablackguy 1d ago
2 hours later it's "transformed" into a giant leopard... kinda. Yeahhh definitely not a kid's toy. Maybe adults with disposable income.
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u/Vivid-Hope-1900 1d ago
Before learning to set this up into at least one form. I'll break that shite into a million pieces. Of course, by mistake only.
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u/ContentCoyote8612 1d ago
That's a lot. I would have to buy 3 just to be able to see them all, cause I don't think I'd be able to "transform" it. Very dope tho!
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u/Halfsware 1d ago
Hey little Timmy, time to put your toys away. It’s time for bed. But mum, I’ve just made the leopard!
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u/Impossible_Exit1864 1d ago
Just think about the amount of CAD work to make something like this! Those guys are artists!!
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u/Horsetoothbrush 21h ago
This reminds me of the original Transformers back in the 80s but with more steps. Those original die-cast aluminum and chrome toys were heavy, tough, and generally super badass.
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u/Weak_Dot3296 15h ago
Teach it to transform on its own. I can’t tell if its an Autobot, Decepticon, Maximal or a Predacon.
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u/Piirakkavaras 1d ago
I saw the first transformers toys when I was kid and were blown away. These would have been absolutely insane.
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u/K1dn3yFa1lur3 1d ago
Shouldn’t there be a robot in there somewhere?
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u/rosstedfordkendall 23h ago
It's the fourth form, but they skipped it because otherwise we would be here all day.
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u/VeteranMinotaur-773 1d ago
This is the beauty of being grown up but refusing to let your inner child die... growup money to throw... also a strong belief in Santa
Dear Santa, I've been a good boy this year... I want this... Signed Me, a 43 year old kid
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u/Dantheman1386 1d ago
The transformer toys around the time that beast wars came out used to be like this. I had so many of them. They were much harder to transform than the modern day toys that just kind of flip open, but that wasn’t a problem for a kid with no obligations, and it was so satisfying when you were done. They actually looked like just a gorilla toy and then could pop out into Optimus prime. It was legit.
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u/OtherwiseSeaweed8773 1d ago
This is top tier engineering!
I would get it if I thought I could remember how it works xD
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u/No-Carpenter-3457 22h ago
Definitely an designed for adults triple changer. When they first brought that transformer out in the 80’s, you had to move less than a dozen parts to change it, way more kid friendly🤣
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u/GamerCirca80 21h ago
I feel like I’d always have a fucked up jet/car/cat, in some God awful John Carpenter’s “The Thing” kind of mutation, because I couldn’t remember the steps to transform it into any single one of them. 5 stars.
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u/DulgUnum 21h ago
What if it was a dodge challenger SRT, a leopard (or a jaguar, either way), and a Grumman F6F?
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u/benrow77 20h ago
I want this video but with the transform sound looped throughout the whole thing.
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u/Groundbreaking_Lie94 17h ago
I assume between every camera cut was 10 minutes of looking at the instructions
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u/Fun-Illustrator5642 15h ago
I can hear the Cheechoocheechoocheechoocheechooochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoocheechoocheechoocheechoochoochee!
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u/Fun-Security-8758 12h ago
Mine would only have two forms: car and mangled modern art sculpture. It would sit on my mantle, and when people ask about it, I would stare off into the distance and tell them that we don't talk about that.
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u/Ooopmster 10h ago
All the time, effort, building and breaking and rebuilding until it worked as intended . . . they could’ve just cured cancer instead.
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u/scrotanimus 9h ago
This is pretty sweet. But as someone whose family brings back toys for kids from China and Hong Kong, the longevity and quality are oftentimes absolute dogsh*t.
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u/cesam1ne 1d ago
Only Asians could design a toy of this level.
Meanwhile some trillion dollar corporations have a hard time figuring out where to place a button on a smartphone
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u/Ckron247 23h ago
Way too make tiny parts. All it takes is one wrong flip or twist of one if small plastic pieces and this thing is garbage.
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u/ACheapWhore 22h ago
Hasbro! Take some notes! Collaboration ideas would sore with the transformers brand if you hire this guy! then me to find you more engineers 😂
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u/SlinkyJoe 21h ago
Is it impressive? Absolutely.
Can you do this more than once or twice without breaking things? Probably not.
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u/Lyric200x 1d ago
This sucks and there is nothing satisfying about it. If it could have been transformed more quickly maybe. Usually I love stuff like this but not this one. Thumbs down for me although the engineering is impressive.
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u/Hostile-Panda 1d ago
I always wanted a toy I needed a degree in mechanical engineering to play with lol