[wrap=left:2fxjebb1][thumb small=http://www.shmax.com/img/transformers/small/5000/5221.jpg large=http://www.shmax.com/img/transformers/large/5000/5221.jpg group=potd:2fxjebb1]You can use the crane to kill the bug, just like in real life[/thumb:2fxjebb1][/wrap:2fxjebb1]This, dear readers, is the 4,270th and final entry in the Great September Photo Contest, and the 179th photo Engledogg submitted yesterday in a feverish race for photo-supremacy. How does someone shoot, edit, and submit 179 photos in one day? Apparently a lot of "Pepsi" was involved, which I'll take to mean some kind of German photo-steroids. Now, let's have a look at that photo. It depicts a packaged
Hoist, from the Armada line. Hoist is a crane, but let's focus for a moment on his robotic bug partner,
Refute. Not a lot of people know this, but Refute was actually designed by
Tom Hanks in 1988! Don't believe me? I have the notes from that historic meeting here, as transcribed from the documentary film,
Bug:
Josh: "I don't get it."
Mr. M: "What don't you get, Josh?"
Josh: "Well, there's a million robots that turn into something. And this is a building that turns into a robot. So what's so fun about playing with a building? That's not any fun!"
Paul: "This is a skyscraper."
Josh: "Well, couldn't it be like a robot that turns into something like a bug or something?"
Paul: "A bug?"
Josh: "Yeah! Like a big prehistoric insect with maybe like giant claws that could pick up a car and crush it like that!"
Man: "So the robot turns into a bug."
Mr. M: "Well done, Josh. Well done."
