Transformers USB flash drive is ready to ravage your files, bring carnage to your desktop

Sure, you already have piles of flash drives scattered around your apocalyptic nightmare of an apartment, but this one's more special than those, right? Because it's a Transformer-- Ravage, AKA Tripredacus Agent. Ravage has outlived the age of cassette and is onto smaller, better things, and he can store up to 2GB of your most valuable data. He's going to run $42.99 when he's available in September, and can be pre-ordered now.

Update: It looks like the pre-order is already sold out! Wonder if the fact that we ordered 1,000 of them has anything to do with it?

[Via Coolest Gadgets]

[Verythrax @ May 19th 2009 4:48PM]

I would kill for one, but it's way overpriced.

[TareX @ May 19th 2009 5:09PM]

Oh yes. My first reaction was MUST HAVE.... but the I saw the pricing.

[justlior @ May 19th 2009 5:10PM]

So you'd kill for this, but won't pay $42.99.. interesting.

[joerendous @ May 19th 2009 6:11PM]

i lol'd.

[cjwild @ May 19th 2009 8:32PM]

you bastards, you better be selling me one e)))

[yopladas @ May 19th 2009 4:48PM]

It'd be cooler if it's penis was the plug-y thingy

[jack @ May 19th 2009 7:09PM]

why-
..nevermind its not worth it

[Kamil @ May 19th 2009 4:49PM]

Epic Win

....but $42 for a 2Gb drive?

[OneLove @ May 19th 2009 5:14PM]

$10.00 + transformers awesomeness != $42.99

[Look_Around_You @ May 19th 2009 5:38PM]

Me hugging my G1 cassette Ravage.

It may not store files but it is way more awesome.

[Bob @ May 19th 2009 6:08PM]

Hey, you gotta pay those ridiculous licensing fees somehow!

[rawrawrawr @ May 20th 2009 2:29AM]

"$10.00 + transformers awesomeness != $42.99"
More like $10.00 + transformers awesomeness! = $42.99

[Rick @ May 19th 2009 4:49PM]

I'd pay that for an 8GB+ drive like that...either way it's pretty rad!!

[rob.m26 @ May 19th 2009 4:50PM]

I would do that

[J D @ May 19th 2009 4:50PM]

Want

[dan! @ May 19th 2009 4:50PM]

My heart tells me to get around 50-100 of them but my wallet says otherwise.

[Ryudeshi @ May 19th 2009 4:51PM]

omg i want!!

but ... too expensive =[

[mere @ May 19th 2009 4:51PM]

it's sold out anyway

here are the rest of them

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/menu.aspx?menu=1997&category=5607

[Donnie @ May 19th 2009 4:52PM]

The looks like Thundercats....... Hooooooo.

[Donnie @ May 19th 2009 4:55PM]

^ should read
The head looks like...

I should have listened to my teachers advice and proof-read my sh*t

[Dee @ May 19th 2009 4:55PM]

Nah! Voltron FTW!

[jmzrbnsn @ May 19th 2009 9:36PM]

I hear the Germans make toilets for proof-reading your sh*t

[Obi-Habby @ May 21st 2009 12:17AM]

you know the Germans make good stuff.

[TRS @ May 19th 2009 4:52PM]

where does Engadget get their budget from, that they can just preorder 1,000 of these stupidly overpriced 2 gig usb drives...? $43,000 bucks gone!

[letstakeawalk @ May 19th 2009 4:55PM]

erm, hyperbole?

[TRS @ May 19th 2009 4:56PM]

erm, sarcasm?

[Kamil @ May 19th 2009 5:28PM]

erm, engadget?

[TRS @ May 19th 2009 5:45PM]

erm, tarp?

[tom.boates @ May 19th 2009 5:46PM]

erm, AOL?

[RauBurger @ May 19th 2009 5:51PM]

erm, batman

[MegaBite @ May 19th 2009 5:54PM]

erm, _?

[Lachupacabra @ May 19th 2009 6:06PM]

erm, recession much?

[Templarian @ May 19th 2009 6:44PM]

erm, long recession...

[ultimatepwnage @ May 19th 2009 6:58PM]

erm, apple? engadget isnt the interwebs biggest apple fanboy for free, you know.

[B3astofthe3ast @ May 19th 2009 8:59PM]

C-C-Combo breaker!!

[peepeepants @ May 20th 2009 4:25AM]

SUPREME VICTORY

[letstakeawalk @ May 21st 2009 2:27AM]

sniff. There's a tear in my cereal for each one of you.

[Josh @ May 19th 2009 4:59PM]

WANT! WANT! Engadget gimme one. :)

[Level 5 @ May 19th 2009 5:00PM]

Holy crap this needs to be the next Recession Antidote, if Engadget can get one anyway. I wonder if this uses an original Ravage toy or is a new manufacture of some type?

[mugupo @ May 19th 2009 5:01PM]

Take out the transformer logo and this will cost under 20 bucks.

[Donnie @ May 19th 2009 5:02PM]

Agree to disagree

btw, Voltron was also awesome..... totally forgot about that great show

[darkmax @ May 19th 2009 5:02PM]

Damn! Finally someone saw the light

[Troels C @ May 19th 2009 5:04PM]

Amen!

[Ayle @ May 19th 2009 5:03PM]

More than meets the eyes.

[htd @ May 19th 2009 5:12PM]

$42.99, what a rip off, they should make it a microSD card reader...

[OptimusPrimeRib @ May 19th 2009 5:18PM]

Would get but my son would steal it, break it, lose it, then put the blame on me and have the nerve to ask for Rumble and Laser Beak.

[kevin416 @ May 19th 2009 5:16PM]

Can you make these a free giveaway

[Aerodynamics @ May 19th 2009 5:18PM]

Must. get. one. I have a tattoo of Ravage on my arm for crying out loud!

[Anticrawl @ May 19th 2009 5:41PM]

Sad

[eddy @ May 19th 2009 5:17PM]

Saw an unpainted prototype of this a while back at TFW2005 and was like, "Meh."

But painted? Oh good god. If it was cheaper or higher capacity for that price? It would be mine. But I can't be spending $42.99 on a 2GB flash drive, even if it does look like Ravage.

Never mind the thousands upon thousands of dollars I've spent on Transformers over the past two and a half decades...