Tuesday Transformer Tribute!

 

Bumblebee Boy

Hello peeps! I'm back in my room to chill out with a few very cool stop motion animation videos made by the awesome and still unknown French Canadian director - Patrick Boivin! You can check out his other videos on Youtube, but in the meantime, some of my favourites are his Transformer toy animations. These go out to Azharie as well who runs a Transformers blogsite and has just become my 3rd follower. High five dude!

Jazz with a General Problem

If this isn't the best use of action figures ever, i don't know what is. Robot Chicken has nothing on the amazingly life-like animation quality of Monsieur Boivin's short clips! I also love the sound effects and music selection, all coming together to create an amazing piece of work... I can't imagine how long it must have taken to animate this.

Evolution of Dance with Optimus Prime

The last video parodies a video of a comedy performance called the 'evolution of dance', presumably Optimus was blackmailed by Megatron into humiliating himself with a reenactment of that skit. 

Enjoy!

Gundam Base Taiwan

Here are some photos i took from a visit to Taipei's Gundam Base which is a museum for all things Gundam. There lies the entire line of the famous plastic models on display at the store, most probably reaching the thousands. 

I'm not particularly a Gundam geek, though i love the design and detail that goes into each robot - the extent of my knowledge of this is limited at best.. so I'll just let the pictures do the talking. 

 Oh, and while i'm at it, i would recommend that you visit Taiwan sometime! I'm glad i did, the natural sights and attractions are spectacular.

 

That's me

Robots.. kill them now while they're small and dumb!

Iron Man's Suit - best way to use robots without them turning on us?
One day we will have robotic suits that lets us fly, breathe in the vacuum of space, and do a plethora of cool superpowered activities. Of course, by this point, job openings should include Lunar mining operations supervisor, and deep space client servicing executives. Both these positions will require an Iron Man-like suit. Mark... my... words...

Are these suits safer than independent robots which could turn Terminator and kill us? We would be the controllers, so you'd think we'd be safe. But what if they could operate autonomously, as per what DARPA has in mind with their exo-suit?.. Then.. um.. no we would still be smushed, right?

Well, we can't say we know what robots in the future might think, or even how they might think. However we do know how humans think, and humans controlling these machines may ultimately be the far scarier thought.

The Gundam Robot Wars of 2010

Japan leads the robotic arms race with the most advanced humanoid robots so far, surpassing China and the US. Yeah.. this is what i'm talking about: 

 

Too late losers.. we made 'em big and gave them laser swords! Haha..*squish*

It's not a matter of "are they really any use in battle?" or "wouldn't a nuke or orbiting space laser trump your puny giant robot?" It's all about the look on the other guy's faces when they see your massive, primary coloured death machine stomp through their city. They would just go "whoa.. that's.. so.. COOL!!" while getting their butts kicked, and why would anyone even want to blow it up? People would just want to add it to their collection, right? What? No?