Hasbro unveils Real Gear Transformers based on real life gadgets

Those of you not able to bust out your cardboard box Optimus Prime costume and make a scene at your local theaters next month when the new Transformers movie hits can at least comfort yourselves with the most amazing onslaught of merchandise tie-ins and cross-promotions we've yet seen out of Hollywood -- Hasbro's Real Gear line of bots are an Engadget editor's geeky wet dream mashup of gadgets and Transformers. See: Speed Dial 800 (pictured), which seems to have copped his look from a Star Trek, or Power Up VT6, which from what we can tell is the unholy marriage of Sega Game Gear and first-gen Game Boy Advance. Pics of all the new Real Gear Transformers (with our guesses as to which devices they likeliest correspond to) in the gallery.

[Via Crave]

Gallery: Hasbro unveils Real Gear Transformers based on real life gadgets

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[Sean @ Jun 2nd 2007 12:55AM]

Oh for the love of pete! This is a Micheal Bay film! Am I the only one who remembers how many TERRIBLE movies this guy has made? Buying tie-in products will only make him stronger.

[Dobson @ Jun 2nd 2007 1:11AM]

Man engadget, please for the love of user interface change your gallery layout.

You're gallery pics leave a tangled web for my back button.

Please do your readers a favor and change your system, its annoying.

[Ryan Block @ Jun 2nd 2007 2:23PM]

How would you propose we change it?

[Jay Hash @ Jun 2nd 2007 1:23AM]

Anyone else want to report things that have already been published in Toyfare magazine and been public knowledge for about a month or so? Everyone else know that Ghandi was asassinated or that the sky is blue...?

[M @ Jun 2nd 2007 10:18PM]

I didn't know because I don't read toyfare. Of course back in teh day, but that is another story. So what if it was already reported elsewhere, not everybody knows everything. Besides, what do you want them to do, post nothing? Sometimes it is great and sometimes... eh, whatever.

As far as teh gadgets, if they do not work, then I would rather get a real Transformer toy...

[Dave @ Jun 2nd 2007 12:02PM]

ya know what??? Shut up! Im so fucking sick of you whiny ass little bitches saying "Old news.. yadda yadda". I mean... seriously.. not everyone who reads Engadget is a lifeless pussy who sits in his moms basement 22 hours a day (I'll give you 2 hours for fast food and comic book collecting) and reads fucking "toyfare" magazine. Just because you are a loser and spend 90% of your life reading about toys DOES NOT mean everyone else here does. For fucks sake... go out, party a little, meet girls (and I know he's going to respond with "I have a girl.. blah blah blah")

[Tigerhawk @ Jun 2nd 2007 1:33AM]

A month?

This info have been out for quarter of a year or more.

Well, at least Engadget had the courtsey to not mark this news as "This just in" or "First info HERE" or something similar. ;)

[A.J. @ Jun 2nd 2007 2:21AM]

The cell phone one actually looks a LOT like a Samsung T719 for T-Mobile... it's just lacking the suretype keyboard... :)

[Irwin @ Jun 2nd 2007 2:40AM]

lol wtf

thats the first thing i said when i saw htis

[McGinley @ Jun 2nd 2007 8:23AM]

You didnt actually say that though.

[Reginald @ Jun 2nd 2007 2:45AM]

Wasn't there already a camera character made of a couple of smaller robots?

[winston @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:18AM]

Hey, remember the movie "Big" with Tom Hanks? Near the middle of the movie, Hanks lands a job as a design consultant at a toy company and he sits in on a meeting to discuss a new "transformers" style toy the company was unveiling- a robot that transforms into a skyscraper. Hanks picks up the toy and says something to effect of: "what kind of kid would a robot with missiles and guns and cool colors that transforms into a...building? What kind of fun is that?" That's exactly what these remind me of.

[Crayola @ Jun 2nd 2007 5:55AM]

What no iPod? Are they afraid of incurring the wrath of demigod Steve, possessor of the mythical iPhone with dual touch, commander of Macman, ruler of Cupertino.

[tkn0spdr @ Jun 2nd 2007 7:52AM]

I miss the original transformers. I always wanted Optimus Prime, Starscream, and Soundwave.

[John Doe @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:55PM]

One word.....ebay.

[PeteC @ Jun 2nd 2007 8:10AM]

I cannot believe people that whine on about it being old news. 1) It's not worth wasting your time posting about it, it's just not useful. 2) I hadn't heard of these yet so the article was useful to me. 3) These look terrible, gone is all the nice metal of the old transformers and instead we're left with plasticy versions of crap things like cell phones. Awful! Reminds me of when mc donalds did their transforming versions of fries, burgers and milk shakes years ago but at least those were solid. I'm off to my attic to see if the years of storage in there have been kind to optimus prime and soundwave and play with some decent transformers.

[bizzay @ Jun 2nd 2007 8:40AM]

Unfortunate placement of the zero key.

[bombastinator @ Jun 2nd 2007 8:51AM]

Are there any screen type phones small enough to make up the phone back for that thing? If so the buttons wouldn't be very hard to make and a camera phone camera should fit handily inside that head.

You could make one that actually works.

[John Doe @ Jun 2nd 2007 3:56PM]

Web 2.0 interface. Hover over the pict to get a full sized version.

[Norris Mooley @ Jun 3rd 2007 2:15AM]

Something that could be done is instead of linking to a new page with the requested pic, all pics open up in a main frame or something while the entire gallery is at you're fingertips right below this main viewing area. It'll save you guys from making a single page per picture, and it will save us readers from getting lost in the back abyss.

I'm not entirely sure if this is possible as I know as much about web design as I do about Decepticon's family history of prosopagnosia, but just a suggestion.

[Ryhan @ Jun 2nd 2007 5:26PM]

Hey John, you might want to try Firefox with Coolris; it does the perfectly!!! ButI agree with you that Engadget should let users see a slightly larger image without having to see the whole, detailed pic...

Anyways, engadget should also move the list of all of Weblog blogs to the very bottom of the screen.

[Ryhan @ Jun 2nd 2007 5:26PM]

Hey John, you might want to try Firefox with Coolris; it does the perfectly!!! ButI agree with you that Engadget should let users see a slightly larger image without having to see the whole, detailed pic...

Anyways, engadget should also move the list of all of Weblog blogs to the very bottom of the screen.

[zoara @ Jun 4th 2007 5:22AM]

Gallery image popups on hover? Dear God, no.

It's perfectly fine as it is, Engadget.

[Lethardicus @ Jun 2nd 2007 9:12PM]

whats the phone transformer called? Cellotron? hahahahahaha ahhhh i couldnt resist

[adelossa @ Jun 4th 2007 7:24PM]

wait, so those don't actually work as their real life product?