Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye

Tuesday, November 25th, 2008 6:46PM CST

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For most National Basketball Association players, getting your own shoe or action figure is a dream come true, but it seems that one very popular NBA player is upping the ante.

Chinese born basketball player Yao Ming has, apparently, gotten his own Transformer! Taking the form of a basketball, this Transformer changes into a super hero type figure that resembles the NBA hoop star.

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Talk about a weird twist on Pretenders and Headmasters. Check out more pics at the original post here.

Credit(s): Hoop China

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Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840165)
Posted by Anonymous on November 25th, 2008 @ 6:59pm CST

I just threw up in my mouth....spit it out on some wheat bread and ate it again. Now to stay on topic...HOLY HELL thats ghey

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840173)
Posted by Tigertrack on November 25th, 2008 @ 7:06pm CST

Replace the head, add some paint and you have a cool niche market Tformer. It would go well with my shoeformers and Music Label Soundwave.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840183)
Posted by crazyfists on November 25th, 2008 @ 7:27pm CST

scary and awesome at the same time

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840187)
Posted by emeraldbeacon on November 25th, 2008 @ 7:45pm CST

YaoMing-imus Convoy?

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840189)
Posted by Mirage22 on November 25th, 2008 @ 7:50pm CST

I like it! But that's a crap load of kibble!

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840197)
Posted by Dreadwinglord on November 25th, 2008 @ 8:01pm CST

Wow, just no.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840201)
Posted by mattyc1007 on November 25th, 2008 @ 8:05pm CST

Good for him :APPLAUSE:

, now just repaint and retool it and also place micheal jordans head on it and ill be fin with it, or "i'll be able to touc the sky" i know ill stop with the puns hehe :mrgreen:

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840204)
Posted by Archanubis on November 25th, 2008 @ 8:13pm CST

Odd, very odd indeed.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840206)
Posted by cmagnus19 on November 25th, 2008 @ 8:14pm CST

Oh Primus

It's another BayFormer

This is just sad

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840209)
Posted by lazerbrain on November 25th, 2008 @ 8:30pm CST

Being a Die hard Rockets and Yao Ming fan, I might considering picking this up if its not too expensive.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840212)
Posted by Talous on November 25th, 2008 @ 8:46pm CST

That is so wrong.. but I'd buy one.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840219)
Posted by Wolfguard on November 25th, 2008 @ 9:06pm CST

That's just friggen weird, yo...

cmagnus19 wrote:It's another BayFormer

I really don't see any resemblance to the movie TFs at all.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840240)
Posted by Bumblebeast on November 25th, 2008 @ 10:12pm CST

Does it bounce ? Like tanks ?

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840253)
Posted by muswp1 on November 25th, 2008 @ 10:32pm CST

That thing has to be a bi*** to balance with all that back kibble. Still, a very interesting transforming toy. I'd hesitate to call it a Transformer though.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840281)
Posted by VideoY3K on November 25th, 2008 @ 11:48pm CST

muswp1 wrote:That thing has to be a bi*** to balance with all that back kibble. Still, a very interesting transforming toy. I'd hesitate to call it a Transformer though.

I agree. It makes me think of the Super Globetrotters cartoon from the 70's.

Oh, what the heck. Call me a sellout, I'm buy him.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840291)
Posted by Solrac333 on November 26th, 2008 @ 12:05am CST

WOW! Even the original is a Chinese knock off. #-o

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840293)
Posted by proximus on November 26th, 2008 @ 12:08am CST

That thing looks like a can of smashed assholes. Even Dr.Moreau couldn't have come up with something like that.

gross

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840315)
Posted by Decatron on November 26th, 2008 @ 12:54am CST

This was just so random.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840369)
Posted by Bonger on November 26th, 2008 @ 4:46am CST

omega666 wrote:WOW! Even the original is a Chinese knock off.

LMAO, too funny dude.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840388)
Posted by SJ21 on November 26th, 2008 @ 6:41am CST

That thing creeps me out. By the way, the Dr. Mareaux reference was hilarious.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840436)
Posted by King Slick on November 26th, 2008 @ 9:14am CST

Know all we need is a Derrek Jeter baseball, a Payton Manning Football, a Wayne Gretzky hockey puck, and probably a David Beckem (sp) soccer ball and we would have...Sportsformers! Sports stars in disquise!

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840469)
Posted by Jazz Reborn on November 26th, 2008 @ 10:03am CST

Whoah! WTF!?

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840518)
Posted by El Duque on November 26th, 2008 @ 11:32am CST

The other day when I was in TRU in noticed some robot football player figures that had "transforming" heads. In full robot mode they are wearing helmets that somehow can be swapped for NFL players faces.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840524)
Posted by gotthejedigroove on November 26th, 2008 @ 11:43am CST

Wow. Talk about LAME. This is honestly pathetic. So do I get my own transformer version of myself since Im cooler than a basketball player. I hope the factory producing these melts down along with all the molds. This is retarded.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840547)
Posted by ski_bones on November 26th, 2008 @ 12:05pm CST

King Slick wrote:Know all we need is a Derrek Jeter baseball, a Payton Manning Football, a Wayne Gretzky hockey puck, and probably a David Beckem (sp) soccer ball and we would have...Sportsformers! Sports stars in disquise!

dude I would buy all of the ones you added here and yao.. I think they would be cooler then those nike transformers that came out..

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840604)
Posted by atatcommander on November 26th, 2008 @ 1:47pm CST

Very Interseting, different. but it is very interesting.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840631)
Posted by Omegasoundwave on November 26th, 2008 @ 2:20pm CST

wow thats just .. bad no way on earth am i getting that. :-(

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840674)
Posted by Wheelimus Prime on November 26th, 2008 @ 3:14pm CST

ahhhhhhh

*runs in corner and hides*

wtf is up with this

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840798)
Posted by Hip-Hoptimus Rime on November 26th, 2008 @ 8:16pm CST

Hmm, I don't get some of you guys- this thing is utterly unique, and you're piling hate on it. I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just puzzled- I for one am into the strange TFs, and I'd buy this in a minute if the price were right. Which I imagine for us in the US it will not be.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (840834)
Posted by El Duque on November 26th, 2008 @ 10:20pm CST

Hip-Hoptimus Rime wrote:Hmm, I don't get some of you guys- this thing is utterly unique, and you're piling hate on it. I'm not trying to start a fight, I'm just puzzled- I for one am into the strange TFs, and I'd buy this in a minute if the price were right. Which I imagine for us in the US it will not be.

I don't get all the hate either. This isn't a Transformers licensed product and I don't see how it really infringes on anything. I wouldn't go out of my way to buy this, but if I saw it in a store somewhere I might pick it up just for the novelty of it all.

Re: Yao Ming is More Than Meets The Eye (841392)
Posted by robofreak on November 27th, 2008 @ 10:08pm CST

This is what I love about TF fans. They start screaming the minute someone utters repaint and are whining over a mold that's new. I'll something is horribly wrong when the entire fandom starts agreeing on anything TF.

Also, do we have any idea on whether or not this is an actual TF product?