Giant 'Transformers' on Earth 3

Transformers-a popular fiction and film really puts impact to some people's life. This post includes two giant transformer's statue on earth.These statues are open air statue, not for promoting the film or fiction. Most of the lifesize statues of Transformers exhibited for promoting film in various cineplex and malls for time being. Those are not included in this post. Here is the latest edition from~

Voronivka, Odessa Oblast, Ukraine 

Pix Credit: Greendairy

This one is not a full fledged Transformer. Like others it is also built of scraps but not the junkies out of cars and motorbikes at large. To build this metal guard, the builder use an expired cargo handler ,with a combination of three frontal part of cars.

Vadim Tolbatov from Panoramio

Bushmaster from Panoramio

This giant is using for the welcoming the visitor, standing like the guard of the gateway at the entrance road of a cargo(coal, ore, grain, fertilizers etc) handling complex. there is a logo of the operator that complex TIS(TransInvestService Ltd) on the chest of this giant. This huge outcome from the TIS junkyard(which is actually just beside the place it stands) is also contain an LED electric moving massage sign set on its "eyes".

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Giant 'Transformers' on Earth 2

Transformers-a popular fiction and film really puts impact to some people's life. This post includes two giant transformer's statue on earth.These statues are open air statue, not for promoting the film or fiction. Most of the lifesize statues of Transformers exhibited for promoting film in various cineplex and malls for time being. Those are not included in this post.

In the my previous post, I brought two giant transformer replicas. Like those two this one is also build of recycles scrap items. Here is the latest one from~

Green Dream Park

Chadaokou, Beijing, China

This one is a 38 feet tall (11.5 meters) giant Optimus Prime replica, standing tall at the North East Square of the famous Bird's Nest in Beijing. Created as part of the ‘Green Dream Park’, to promote China’s commitment to environmentalism and a ‘green lifestyle’. almost 6 tons of metals is recycled in building this giant.

Workers at the park said it took 20 old vans and trucks, countless tires, motor bikes and other auto parts to build the statue. It takes 5 trucks to transport the scraps and over two hours to give it a base to stand on its two legs. Watch the following clip with a good description and the objective behind making this robot out of junks:



Looks like, we are going to see many more robot like this around the world in near future, make out of recycled metals. A new tread is started, and this one is just an icon the trend. 
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See: Giant Transformer on Earth 1

More reading : Metro UK | CNTV | ABC News

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Giant 'Transformers' on Earth

Transformers-a popular fiction and film really puts impact to some people's life. This post includes two giant transformer's statue on earth. These are :

1. CAFA, Beijing, China
2. Lemoore, California, USA

These statues are open air statue, not for promoting the film or fiction. Most of the lifesize statues of Transformers exhibited for promoting film in various cineplex and malls for time being. Those are not included in this post.

CAFA, Beijing, China

This one is a project work of some students of CAFA, as a part of their graduation program. Good news is that they recycle a Chinese military truck and 'transform'ed it into a nine meters tall(almost 32 feet) statue, which is weighted over four tons.
The students did not make it for free, because It costs just $4,470 to build this one out of that scrapped out truck.The design of the character is created based on the famous general from a Shu Army whose name is Guan Yu from Eastern Han Dynasty.

Lemoore, California, USA

This is the story  about a person who is very fascinated by the Autobots from Transformers. Who builds his own Transformer statue in front of yard. the Statue of this autobot is a first generation Bumble bee at his parents firm yard. This statue is an icon of love of a father for his son.

Tom Rhoads, who restors classic cars, has build this statue, inspired from his son, Drew's birth(left pix). It takes a year to build this giant transformer for Rhoads and his friends, in their spare time.

It was a hard job to make it stand on the ground. Thick steel rods are used to stand on its feet, and to balance the wind force.

The statue stands at 18 feet tall and built from a used Volkswagen. A crane had to hoist the 1200 lb robot onto its feet after the welding was completed. Its legs are made of steel and angle iron to keep it secure. Bumblebee is visible from a mile away across the flat farm fields.As it is a private property, it is not open for 24/7, but polite people can see it, but have to follow some rules(the right pix). The maker and creator of "Transformer" should give award to Tom for the lenghty and hard working job.

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Pix and Info sources:
1.China : Green Launches | Generation Mech

2.USA : Road Side America | Daily Stab

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