This guy's certainly in the running for Father of the Year. A shipyard welder in China, Wang Liansheng, spent a year constructing a Bumblebee replica from the Transformers franchise for his son.
He told People's Daily he used scrap car parts collected from a junk yard, and started the process last August. He had taken his son to see one of the Transformers movies and bought him a toy Transformer. His son asked for a bigger robot, which got him started on the idea of making the lifesize one, Wang said.
A year later, his Bumblebee stands at 5 metres tall and 3 metres wide, and he estimates it weighs 3 tons. Wang lives in a village in Jiangsu, China.
Wang isn't the only person who's DIY-ed a huge Bumblebee out of scrap parts. It turns out the yellow Transformer may have a bit of a following in China -- an artist made a 6.5-metre-tall one out of three junked cars in 2012, and a welder in central China made one in 2011 also out of scrap car and motorcycle parts.
