It’s safe to say that most Americans are familiar with artist Shepard Fairey’s iconic Barack Obama “Hope” poster:
Over at Obamicon.Me, you can create your own riffs on the famous piece by uploading photos and entering your own caption.
Here are two of my favorites:
Legacy Brewing Co. has an Imperial IPA called – get this – Hoptimus Prime!
No, really.
Here’s a pic from the Legacy Brewing Co. webpage:
It’s tough to make out, but the green figure on the label (Hoptimus Prime, presumably, striking a heroic pose) is muscular, roughly humanoid, and appropriately, made entirely out of hops.
As one might expect, the beer has quite a bit of hoppy flavor to it and, as Autobot Commander Optimus Prime would say, is “made of sterner stuff.”
I recently picked up The Transformers 25th Anniversary Matrix Of Leadership Collector’s Set released by Shout! Factory.
Here’s a pic I took of the boxed set (click on the images for the full-sized versions):
Looks just like the Autobot Matrix Of Leadership!
And here’s what it looks like when you open it up, Hot Rod-style:
Here are some pics of the new Transformers: Revenge Of The Fallen Soundwave toy courtesy of Empire magazine:
I’m guessing Soundwave’s alt mode is Cybertronian, like Megatron in the first film.
Soundwave used to look like this back in the original 80s cartoon:
At least the new Soundwave’s head is vaguely reminiscent of the original G1 design…
Here’s the poster:
And here’s part of the same image, brightened up a bit using Photoshop (courtesy of the guys at tformers.com):
Interesting.
My guess is the face belongs to the character “The Fallen,” and his face just happens to look a lot like the Decepticon symbol:
Very Egyptian, pharoah-like, wouldn’t you say?
Michael Bay and company shot scenes at the pyramids in Egypt. I hope this doesn’t turn out to be one of those “The-Transformers-played-a-role-in-the-development-of-ancient-human-civilizations” things, like Alien Vs. Predator.
Coffinman by Shinmon Aoki