Hasbro announced some of the Star Wars Transformers at the 2010 Toy Fair recently and frankly I think these miss the mark. Yoda doesn’t really look like Yoda at all- he looks like an armored Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle with a Yoda head. At least when he transforms into the attack shuttle, it looks pretty accurate. Here’s Anakin Skywalker below and his transformed self as a Y-Wing Fighter:

Something just isn’t right with that guy- he looks weird. The commenters over at tfw2005 seem to think that the Yoda is so bad, he’s good. I don’t know, sometimes bad is just bad. Anakin and a few others come out this month but we’ll have to wait until August to see Yoda in person.

Most Transformers change from a robot into some sort of cool vehicle like a sports car, a big rig truck, or even an airplane. Other knockoffs go for cool animals and things like that. So it’s unusual to see one as crappy (pun definitely intended!) as this Toto toilet bowl. He does have a kinda cool name though “GMax”. I guess the Toto Transformer falls under the category of “support vehicle” and by that I mean when Bumblebee, Jazz or Optimus Prime need to use the bathroom, GMax comes to the rescue. At least he’s a low-flow flush toilet and not wasteful like those evil Decepticon toilets.

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The Constructicons were some of the coolest Transformers ever. Originally made up of six (not five as some recent WEAK Transformers toys have been made with) construction vehicles- Scavenger, Rampage, Hightower, Longhaul, Scrapper, and Mixmaster, that all combined to form one massive robot- DEVASTATOR. Now available in the toy form the Transformers Revenge of the Fallen Constructicon Devastator is the largest Transformers toy so far. The Constructicons all fit together to form one bad-ass killing machine. Cool! Costs $119 and is coming out sometime this month, pre-order now.

In case you didn’t know, there’s a new Transformers movie out I think. Here’s an Optimus Prime head that’s also a set of speakers. The robot hero “transforms” by folding his ears or helmet side flaps or whatever those things are out to reveal the speakers. The 3.8 lb speaker head is powered by USB. It looks pretty cool when the helmet’s all closed up but when you actually want to use the speakers it looks pretty stupid.

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Holy 80’s Friday flashback Batman! It’s a transforming Voltron. Yes in “real life” Voltron didn’t actually transform (he was made up of a bunch of robotic lions that merged to form a giant mega-robot) so technically this thing makes no sense unless it’s actually a Decepticon masquerading as Voltron to try to fool the Autobots. That’s my theory. Anywho, this Voltron transforms into a camera. A camera that is so old and outdated that it takes 110 film- those ones that were little cartridges. No, it’s not an SLR camera despite the SLR look of the lens. 110 film is only available in very few places these days (so I’ve heard). Neat retro gadget.

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The new Transformers movie isn’t even out yet and already I’m getting sick of the tie-ins. HOWEVER, this one is pretty freakin’ cool. It transforms from robot into a little tiny laptop computer that sits on top of a working 4 port USB hub. When in the robot form it can store (and play?) a cassette tape store in it’s chest:

Talk about old school. Cassette tape? I think it’s a micro-cassette to be exact. Like those old answering machines used to use. This one won’t be released until September.

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You can’t really expect much out of your mouse- you want it to move you cursor around on the screen, maybe be comfortable, maybe have extra programmable buttons, and maybe be a little bit crazy and have the form factor of some novelty item. But you surely wouldn’t expect your mouse to physically transform into something else. But that’s exactly what this Trypticon Transforming Laser Mouse does- it transforms from a working laser mouse to a Trypticon, which is some sort of robotic dinosaur? What the heck is that thing? Interestingly they chose not to make it wireless which would make it sort of difficult to play with the dino-robot beyond the 3 foot radius of your desk. On the other hand, you could unplug it and swing it around in the air like a helicoptersaurusbot.

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People of all ages are transfixed by the Transformers. Something that changes into something totally different- I don’t care what age you, that’s pretty freakin’ cool. And this Ravage: Transformers USB Flash Drive is pretty freakin’ cool too. It goes from a car to a cat type robot all the while holding 2GB of your data. It’s fairly pricey and not available until September, but you can’t put a price on cool. Well actually you can- $42.99.

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