As longtime camera makers like Nikon and Canon struggle to adapt to a chop-chop changing market filled with contest like smartphones , there ’s at least one fashion to encourage the sales of dedicated cameras : partner with Takara Tomyand make them transform intofan - favoriteTransformers like Optimus Prime .
Transformers toys are arguably one of the original popping culture mashups , pair the appeal of towering robots with everything from alien sport cars , to fighter aircraft jets , to even dinosaurs . Over the long time , we ’ve also see consumer technical school and robots - in - camouflage mate up to create everything from afunctional Optimus Prime speech sound charger , toSoundwave transforming into a tablet .
Nerds and eccentric person are a lucrative fair game , and asoriginally spotted by the TFormers blog , first as leak out images and then in an official reveal by Takara Tomy , the Transformers have teamed up with Canon for a couple of collectible that could be as hard to regain over here as they are to withstand .
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Here , an impressively detailed but sadly non - functional Canon EOS R5 Mirrorless tv camera that could easily pass as the real affair ( were it not a slenderly smaller scaled down replica ) or else convert into a extremely - articulated Optimus Prime physique who even utilize the camera ’s lens crownwork as a shield and come in with his own matching - scale center .
And for those who opt to take root for the villain ( the Decepticons could all aviate , so why would n’t you choose squad Megatron ? ) an substitute version of this collectible will also be usable , with the Canon EOS R5 instead transforming into the Decepticon Reflector , who was , as many longtime fan may remember , the first Transformer with an actual photographic camera as their alt mode .
Pre - order are available now in Japan until September 28 , with each bot going for just shy of $ 150 . However , they wo n’t be officially available until February 25 , next year , which is when many of us will have a luck to attempt to find out them extremely mark up on eBay or through an online storage happy to transport them overseas for a premium .
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Update 8/10/22 at 12:23 PM ET : This article to begin with referred to the Canon EOS R5 as a DSLR when it is in fact Mirrorless . This has been corrected .
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