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Animated flames on moving Optimus Prime T-shirts? Check out these sweet TRANSFORMERS shirts!!!
Ahoy, squirts! Quint here.
Moriarty forwarded me this press release about Transformers shirts and I was like, "What the hell is this? Why would I want to post an advertisement for movie tie-in apparel?" Then I saw the gifs attached.
Okay, so I'm a geek. Moving shirts get my geek juices flowing. Sue me.
Although, I do have embarrassing memories of being forced to wear a Rudolph shirt at Christmas every year that had a light-up nose, connected to a very uncomfortably placed battery pack somewhere around the chest area of the shirt...
But these are pretty neat, and for you talkbackers there's even an animated flames shirt, just for you. Here's the release and the pics will follow!
This summer, the battle between the Autobots and Decepticons comes to Earth and you can show which side you’re on with Transformers the Movie light-up t-shirts from Thumbs Up!
Set to hit the shops a few weeks before the film’s launch in July, these new t-shirts feature logos from the Transformers film, including the iconic Autobot and Decepticon insignias, as well as characters like heroic Autobot leader, Optimus Prime, and the evil Megatron, head of the Decepticons.
Transformers t-shirts have been popular ever since the cartoon debuted back in the 1980s, but now a light-up panel brings these new t-shirts to illuminated life!
A small, lightweight battery pack powers five different flashing sequences to make sure that these t-shirts are sure to attract attention! Big summer movie t-shirts are always popular, but there’s never been a range like this before!
Since we hit the 21st century, we’re still all wondering where our jetpacks are, but these t-shirts are a true innovation from Thumbs Up which bring wearable interactive electronic style together with iconic logos and characters. They’re not just awesome, they’re a sign that the future is here!
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damn
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and cool first
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I want one, or two
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I feel rather dirty...like a used whore. I've sold myself to the bottomfeeders of AICN. On topic, the shirts look aight
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One of the ones with the decepticon logo would rad. Rad i tell ya.
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How about some Transformers underwear to impress my girlfriend. I have something that will transform just for her.
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Who cares? Whoopee...
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The Bumble Bee one is the only interesting one.
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The fact that its Transformers,and fairly simple in the design=lame.But animated tshirts=Awesome
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How do you wash it?
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ENOUGH SAID YOU EFFIN LAME-BOTS.
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Cool technology, LAME execution.The flames light up! what will they think of next??? :P
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Neat idea, but until these things can be woven microfibers I'll pass.
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Crap.
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Transformers Tee Shirts In Name Only!
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I love that there are actually flames on the text Optimus Prime - oh sweet irony!
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Until then I'm unimpressed. Actually even then I'm unimpressed.
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Ugh.
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That's all the color change I need.
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Dur.
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and where is blackout, the helicopter decepticon, merchandise. hes my favorite i think
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These are gayer than the 'murph.
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http://www.dailymotion.com/featured/video/x1upou_justice-dance
Killer video from the french duo Justice with awesome animated shirts by graphic designer SO_ME -
MBFL.
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... thank you for helping me laugh out loud by your subject lines alone! Things were getting WAY too serious on the TF:TM post. You loveable bunch of talkback queers, ya!
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in opposite land
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I was openly mocked on the streets of London for my fashion and derided as a suicide bomber as the numbers counted down from 99 to 0, these look a little cooler, I love lights in clothes, cool.
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I'd rather have a bag of chips, now that I think of it.
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I was expected, no one reply with that part of the fun, I have arthritis in my fingers, not really but that discussion is as dull as the flames shite.
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I was expected, no one reply with that's part of the fun, I have arthritis in my fingers, not really but that discussion is as dull as the flames shite.
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It's not hard.
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I'm a dumb stoner.
It, it was expected, obviously. -
I'm not even sure I can muster a "TINO" after seeing what they've done up there. This makes OJ's "how I did it" book look like "good taste".
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I now find I should ask?
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TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO! TINO!
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= Flames on Optimus' name. And that's the Michael Bay Way!
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Now all someone has to do is add NIPPLES ON BATMAN to the back of the shirt. Otherwise, why pay money for the privilege of being a walking billboard if you can't subvert the corporate propaganda machine? But jeez, that Megatron design... vomit.
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Its better than titty mud flaps, though those may be in there too?
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I get loads and flashing lights attracts em like moths.
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notice how they had to put megatron's name under his pic but not the one of prime, which goes to show how unrecognizable and undistinguishable all the robots are.
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oh and i can't spell it seems
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but now...I dont know
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T-transformers
I-in
N-name
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wow....how much are those gonna go for...casue i aint droppin no 40 bucks on a t-shirt..wicked cool though
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Its good to know 8)
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Creepy as hell.
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without breaking them?
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The electricity generated by these kind of things can generate a small increase of temperature that penetrates, sometimes 2 cms deep, into your body. The elevated temperature can alter cellular metabolic activity and can cause an increase in errors during dna transcription. Errors that can induce cancer, usually cutaneous. Nah, just kidding. But i wouldn't buy the obligatory animated underwear if you get what i mean.
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The electronics and battery pack usually slip off for washing, meaning you can slap them on better clothes.
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Yuck. i mean bay messed up so bad that they have screwed up the merchandise for this. I mean seriously.. I bumblebee t shirt? and a razor vagina face megatron. I mean this looks like cheap boot leg stuff. The logo thing is ok. the rest ill copncieved like this movie seeems to be. Yuck. Shit (slinking away dissapointedly....)
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Bay insisted on that shirt just to piss us off.
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There for children though, remember being little and wearing light up clothes?, no me neither but I would have when 8.
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oh god i hope people wear those
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I can't wait to see how this technology is exploited by cheap knockoff shirts. I want to light up like the Vegas strip when I walk into a room.
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And they've run out of bumblebees
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I once beat a stack of toothpicks at a wrist-wrestling challenge!
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these shirts are very lame, even for a transformers fan
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May 15, 2007 8:46:47 PM CDT
When you pour water on these, do you get shocked & die?
by jackpumpkinhead
Or do you transform into something?
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shirts
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Goodness gracious great balls of fire.
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And stick those shirts up your ass.
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ok .. ok .. Now we all know that all this talkback is geeky enough, and for us all to comment on movies and superheroes of our past is one thing that can be called "Geeky" on Wikipedia... BUT!... Anyone caught wearing a shirt that fuking lights on and off.. FUCCCKKKKKKK!!! This is beyond the Geek Gods of all time.. I can see a 3 to 5 year old wearing this and going "WOWeee!" but anyone past 5 should be contained and sent off to some distant Island.. My god.. What will they come up with next to promote this movie.. A walky talky wrist band watch to talk to your buddies?... As usual.. FUCK MICHEAL BAY AND HIS BIONICALS MOVIE!
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just lame
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I was at the Hong Kong Trade Fair, and was given two made by the company that makes these (Lame-o "Ruby Tuesday logo on it), and it started acting up when I turned it on after a couple of times showing them to people. Had a battery box that held I think 2 AA batteries, and a switch to change how it sequenced when it lit, but letters were going out right away. I just threw them away.
I'd rather see them use that new lensticular material they have, that you can put up to 30 frames on in full color. Now those were cool, no batteries, and nothing to short out. -
Gimme a break. Can you guys make it more obvious that you are totally shilling for this?
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Megatron looks like an oyster.
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Really bad. if these had better (g1) designs they would still be bad. Id probably buy on though. Just to be funny. Wear it once, throw it away. ut I still would have spent my money on it.
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...the Airwolf logo. At least he does on that shirt.
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Mommy please make the old fat geek in the blinking shirt go away!
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title
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I'm not all that impressed. Then again, thinkgeek.com has been putting out similar style shirts for a while now. I'd rather have one of these.
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Punch my Head.
Now, a shirt that transforms into a pair of pants would be a gimmick I can get behind. -
no, gayer
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and a Soul Patch? WTF
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Seriously...these are all New Wave 1980's neon colored lame. As in, these would have looked great on stage being worn by Men Without Hats while they sang 'Pop Goes the World'.
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But it's faaaaar too late for the 90's rave culture when this might have actually been cool.
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The only one I like is the original logo. Megatron's face looks like a@$$.
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May 16, 2007 12:16:28 AM CDT
Ok so please tell us haters,what t-shirt idea do u have
by allpowerfulwizardofoz
I am so sick of the complainers. These t-shirts are cool. A first if you will for any movie or shirt for that matter. Yet here we are with a bunch of knuckleheads complaining about the shirts saying how lame they are. Fuck that! Some of these shirts are great and will sell by the truck load.
So tell me those who are complaining what original shirt idea do you have? What would you do different that would be original and catch the eye to make people go "HOLY SHIT"?
Kudos to the marketing dept for these shirts. What a "bright" idea. Fuck off to those who will complain about anything related to this movie because of Bay. It's going to be the best popcorn flick of the summer next POTC3. -
Just wait till they make a Tron one!You can lie to me but not yourselves!TRON!
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like everyday on this feature I ADed a couple years back. Finally the lead asked me how many of them I had. Yep, I'm a dork.
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I like it! I like it! BUt yeah can you turn them off? Or do they remain on even when you're in the theatre and the lights go down? Because that would be annoying... kinda like when someone in the front row flips open their celly... takes you out of it...
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Transformers supporters at night!
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Me likely. I want one with Bruce Boxlightner on it that glows in the dark!
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you guess it was? An oil leak? A Rorshach test? A poo stain? Please don't lie through your teeth and attempt to persuade anyone that Megatron design is good.
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great shirts can't wait till movie drops how about u?
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has nothing to do with the movie or the property, just the name, but hey should have made a "Megatron Rocks" shirt design with a stamped metal logo mitt umlauts over the vowels, heavy metal music style. Fans of '80s cartoons and '80s music would get it. (Actually I'd be amazed if no one already did that in the last twenty years, but if they have I am not aware of it.) the Optimus Prime flames design is freekken-high-larious, though. It's like they did a shirt just for the critics. Though why they thought they'd buy or wear them is anyone's guess.
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God damnit! I have tried not being excited about this movie! I have tried hating Michael Bay! I can't do it anymore. Bring this fucking movie on!!!!!!!!!
PS I haven't watched Transformers since the 80s
PS (a) If this movie is good, the Trek Prequel is a shoe-in!
Damnit Jim, I'm a Talkbacker not a giant-robot geek! -
a small puppy with big ears. How. Fu*king. Scary
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I'll buy a proper Transformers t-shirt, not a Bay abomination.
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Because you really want a neon sign on your chest that states that:
A) You are a thirty-year-old man who play with toys.
B) You can use your shirt as a nightlight for masturbation.
C) You can transform Optimus Prime, but you are clueless about unhooking a bra.
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A) Hey Nerds, my breasts are both light-up and 3D!
B) Wait! Stop looking at me like Sharks after seal meat!
C) This was the wrong shirt to wear when walking alone
D) I can't find the off switch and am running out of places to hide
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de las grandes
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if im gonna have any face it will be from the fuckin cartoon.Let me tell you something Bay you silly twat. Raimi has replaced the comic image of peter parker with tobey maguires face. Batman movies have done the same with Christiam Bale. X-Men Movies? Hugh Jackman etc...You're Transformers movie , NO MATTER HOW MUCH MERCHANDISE YOU CREATE will never replace the real Optimus Prime face, nor the real Megatron Face. People will always remember the originals. And that's why we say.....MBFL.
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You did not say what outlet these are?
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. . . looks like it belongs on the side of a bong.
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Because the current travelling across your chest can interfere with pacemakers. So if you have one of those, i wouldn't use these shirts. Also, Kurt Russel wasn't smiling about these t-shirts las time i checked, so i think the issue is settled.
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Man, I can't help but snicker everytime I write that line.
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What if it starts to rain, and your TINO-shirt gets wet and you get electrocuted? How fucking awesomne would that be? Or how about you get breat cancer from the electromagnetic field? Can women safely wear these?
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Just to reply to ricarleite, they're easy to wash - the battery pack unclips and the light-up bit is sealed, so you can handwash them.
There's more info on them at:
http://tinyurl.com/yol9bq
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Wear your vagina-face Megatron electraglow T-shirt. 'Course, doing so will also ensure that you avoid getting laid, or even spoken to by girls.
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You just know a whole gaggle of the fanboys who decried the use of flames on Optimus will be lining up to get that light up flamin' Optimus T-shirt.
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...they sold full-body pajamas with microcircuitry that made you look like someone from TRON, I'd get that for the hell of it and wear it to movies, concerts, sporting events and funerals.
Do the Transformer shirts come with copies of a book like "How to Talk to Girls?" Or do they just skip that and give you a plastic vagina instead? -
Finally, after thousands of years, so many wars, so much death from diseases we didn't understand, finally, after so much hard work and research, after putting aside our differences as human beings and putting down our weapons, we can reach a mutual understanding and take all the best that medicine and science have to offer, and combine that technology with our heightened level of human sympathy, to elevate our singular condition on the earth together, finally, glowing Transformer teeshirts.
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Get all the emo kids who buy a shirt to gather in some remote rural field some summer night, and they could lie on their backs together and beam messages into space, so that Prime and company know where to land. Hell, maybe some of them could work at an airport and be runway landing lights.
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Would be the term for someone who would waste their money on that crap. What next? A Cylon shirt with a moving red eye?
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"Barricade," "Ratchet" and "Bumblebee," but what they're all really saying is...
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Did I miss him in the talkback? Has he given up his quest to acheive... something... by posting Damn you Michael Bay all the time? If so, I have to say I'm saddened, because I really thought he was building toward something...I will also be saddened if I see anyone over the age of twelve wearing one of these colossal nerd beacons. It will be a heavy sadness, and I may need to find a quiet place where I can weep secretly.
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Are these the kinds of shirts only available in XXXL?
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Hey finky! When you say zazzle, do you use megatrons jazz hands?
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more shiny flashy things to piss me off in a movie theater
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well, the shirts are cool, but it only shows the true heart of this movie: merchandising. thats it, this is exactly what this movie is all about. oh well. we've waited 20 years for cool shirts.
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OMG??!!!!! how kool r these???! MICHAL BAY is INOVATOR!!! i bet WILLIS will evn ware one whil sleepin with HOT HOLLYWOOD models and actrisses!!!! BAY JUS MAKES ME PISS MY PANTS!!!!!!
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It's amazing how many are making fun of the shirts, but are the same people lining up to buy the shirts and then walking down to the mall arcade to hang our in front wearing the t-shirts thinking they look sooooo bad ass
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And why Optimus look sad? Stupid toy movie!!!!!! ...But i'm gonna see it anyway...
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a exclusive special edition limited godzilla size T-SHIRT, you know... Just kidding.....!!!! :D
I expect something similar with Kevlar-Man, sorry, I mean Iron-Man next year. I bet they will do it.!!! You know the big circle in his chest ... whatever. -
The Barricade one is pretty cool for the police motto alone. Reminds me of Triumph at the Star Wars Ep. 1 premiere. He asked a guy in a Vader suit which one of these buttons calls your mother to come pick you up?
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This clothing line is too blocky and unrealistic.
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I think we're all too nerdy as it is. I don't know anyone who would want to wear a blinking robot shirt.
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BSB, thanks for the afternoon laugh. These really are atrocious.
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Put me down for a TFD shirt.
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That's right, Michael Bay fans. Nothing says "I know how to give pleasure to a beautiful woman in bed" like a blinking robot tee shirt. Order yours now, put it on, and soon you won't be able to get rid of the smell of fish in your house.
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That's right, fellas! You won't be able to keep the ladies' hands off you at the club! "What's that, you ask? Why, it's Ratchet, hot buns. Would you like to see MY Ratchet?"
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for ze virgin 35 year old male.
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oh man...you know they did the flames just to piss all of us off!!! hahaha...they even went as far as to make them animated HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
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But maybe it's just me and I'm obsessed with Gremlins. ????
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TINO TINO TINO!
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has actually been made here before.
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Woo hoo!!!!
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but they still think the flames are cool. Still.
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Megatron's face is kinda similar to that of a camel.
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under his face, so ppl would recognise him!!! hahahaha
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if you walked around town in a full body Iron Man costume, compete with nipples.
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They should have one of Bay that starts with a big pile of coke glowing in front of his nose, and then have it dissapear.
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GARTHIMUS for president.
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I'd have to auction off my nards on e-bay so I could afford to pay a prostitute to just look at me.
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and I will take seven of these shirts.
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I sell these shirts online through my site. http://www.spaxshop.com It's pretty much the lowest price online... $24.99 Total. I don't have this exact design, but the ones I sell are pretty nice.
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