A Cleveland family really wants to win a KIA Soul, and has built a Halloween decor for their lawn that really stands out and appeals to us. Do a 12 foot Bumblebee and 17 foot Optimus Prime statues fancy any other fans out there? In their own words:
This year for our Halloween display, we built two Transformers for our front yard. One is Optimus Prime, 17ft tall and the other is Bumblebee, 12ft tall. We live in Cleveland, ohio and there are always a ton of people coming over taking pictures and asking about how they were made. They are made from wood and foam and it took 6 months to build Optimus and 2 months to build Bumblebee. This is a display you won’t want to miss!Click above to join our board discussion.
lollypop
that is awesome!…!…!
Echnalaid
Ugh… that song is so overused.
Nice robots though.
jgoss
that display so cool that's a hardcore fan!
LadyK
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I've gotta respect someone THAT dedicated to holiday decorating, even if it isn't particularly Halloween related. I'd have done a Jack Skellington or something m'self, if I wasn't too lazy to make stuff like that.
wljk
I have actually stopped and saw these a week or so ago. The guy does this as a hobby and wasn't just hoping to win the prize, but also get some attention and possibly find a position in a job that would do some similar work. From what he said when I stopped and talked to him, he had working lights(eyes and headlights), and was going to use sound bytes from the two movies so they would seem to talk to each other. I haven't been able to go up at night and see them then, but these are truly amazing, even though they are not full scale. By the way, he had the Bumblebee up last year, and decided to add Optimus for this year. He actually set them up in his back yard a few months ago to test the balanceing and to make sure they did not fall over, the day I saw them was pretty windy, and he seemd to do his homework because they are very stable.
ChrisLHanssen
Holy shit. Thats impressive. That is fan dedication. How long did they make them?
neoprimus01
Very nice. He should have installed lights on them, it would've added even more detail-especially to Prime
Paxtin
Oh darn. Guess he should scrap them and try again.
Seriously though, these are some pretty cool home made models.
I look forward to seeing how his Barricade and Megatron for 2010 turn out.
Optimus Scourge
Pretty cool, must have taken a lot of work.
SwindlesShop
this is news?
Quickdraw
When Halloween is over they should sell them on Ebay. Probably make some good money.
Kaymac
Amazing work on the sculptures. Not much Halloweeny about them, that is why they didn't win the contest, but amazing work and dedication was put into them, I can see!
But did they have to use that crappy, overused song for the video! >.<
crasis
These are really incredible…but I can easily see why they didn't win. There's nothing "Halloweeny" about their display.
Haloid1177
The Optimus is freakin' amazing. The Bumblebee isn't that bad either.
topnotch97
hmmm…. maybe i should put up a megan fox halloween display.
bombatron
that is awesome! does this guy have a 'how to' site? id be interested in building myself an optimus.
Sye909
They're… quaint i guess-
But these people clearly doesn't understand how this whole Halloween thing is supposed to work.
rapid_fire
that's not CNN
SPLIT LIP
That Optimus kicks ass.
optimusfan
Very nicely done. It looks like they selected a winner earlier this month and I don't think this display won, though I can't find the info for sure here.
However, this does beg the question — does a Kia really qualify as a "prize"? And can you win one using a display featuring one of GM's premiere vehicles?
Worse yet, it was a lease for a Kia…
Still, these guys are the winners in my book.