Optimus Prime Peterbilt replica hits eBay
By Conrad Quilty-Harper 
posted Oct 20th 2007 5:25PM
posted Oct 20th 2007 5:25PM
[Thanks, Jonny B.]
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Pff, let me know when there's an untransformed Bumble Bee for sale on eBay.
I second that!
I believe they'll have them soon at your local Chevy dealer. I'm sure of this because I saw it on a very high budget, 2 1/2 hour commercial about a year ago. They look very cool.
...and the commercial was pretty cool too.
Gotta wait for the 2009 Chevy Camaro...
does one hand not talk to the other...auto blog had this a few days ago!
I don't read autoblog, so this was news to me. Not everyone has time to read the entire Internet every day, Brad.
John - You would expect that the writers at one Weblogs site would keep up with what the other Weblogs sites were doing.
Posting the same stories makes the writers look like they either don't check or they do check and they decided to rip off each others ideas.
@Peter,
This is news, it isn't a novel or research paper. Reporting on an eBay sale is hardly an original idea, so even if they are "ripping it off" it really doesn't matter. The different blog sites attract different audiences, but sometimes both audiences are interested in the same thing.
@ John, I'm with you. So what if auto blog reported on this who reads auto blog I would rather just read engadget and get it all... and I am...
Imagine the work you have to do to fill a site like engadget with a new item every 3 minutes like is done now during the week, and then you are suppose to also read all other sites? I like to see you try that.
I'd get it if I didn't look like a redneck.
what if you were a legitimate owner/operator and just loved transformers? all of north america runs on transport trucks. all these other fancy electronics on engadget have to get to best buy somehow. I don't think it is intended for someone to drive around in a semi truck to commute a 9-5 job.
Prime is a RED Flat nose truck that looks like something Nicolas Cage would drive
Your right though, he was a cabover At least they do seem to have the right make. The old peterbuilt grills look like the that found on the original Optimus Prime.
I think you mean "was, in the original cartoon." If the fact that he hasn't been such in over fifteen years bothers you that much, please leave the planet.
I always wanted one...
Pah! like those sheets i had when i was ten? TEN? I still sleep under those babies every night!
They should attached a trailer behind that has a mini-apartment in it, like those (quite expensive) mobile homes that some F1 drivers use for their families when on the go.
Of course I understand there was no trailer in the first movie... On the other hand... it's a Transformers truck, screw practical uses :)
@ Adrian, no kidding! What, did I wake up in some bizarro world? This thing looks nothing like Optimus Prime.
Would the /real/ Optimus Prime please rise?
http://www.spencer1984.com/image/eb02a.jpg
-jp
God, it's so fucking ugly...
They slightly screwed up the flames to be fair, although it may the photo itself distorting the colors.
The shape is matching, but the color is solid red, while on the Transformers movie it's yellow-red gradient:
http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y132/ralphot/transformers/primealtlb8.jpg
After watching the bonus DVD i got with my Movie they say red is very hard to film. That may be the reason it does not looks like that color in the movie.
I wonder if the sleeper cab has a vintage set of old Transformer sheets covering the mattress?
Nevermind, delete my comment. It does.
BTW, real world transformer truck:
http://clubs.hemmings.com/clubsites/maynardaac/i/Truck%20(1).jpg
Isn't that Oxtumus Prime?
wouldn't this be the transformed version, rather than the untransformed? It's not like this is Prime's natural state.
Those switches are absolutely insane. Insane amazing, but insane nonetheless.
Daddy I want that one!!!!!!!!!
There is no way that's a Optimus Prime truck! It doesn't have flames!!!
Where are those unforgivable lips on Prime? :(
Canadians can't do anything right.
That was uncalled for. please keep comments like this to yourself. yea the truck isn't done perfectly but there is no need to associate that with a nationality.
You guys never watched the new movie... that looks exactally like prime in the new movie.
Trick My Truck better watch out, that steering wheel is awesome!
This isn't a keyboard... *rereads title* ohhhhh, ok.
This truck has the Hi-Rise bunk, the movie version has the flat-top.