Transformers sneakers would have gone over well with me as a kid, but even then I would have been honked off by transforming sneakers you couldn’t actually wear. That was always the hidden promise of Transformers, after all: a hidden toy that could be snuck into class, its subsumed robotic awesomeness lurking in disguise.
These 4D Transformable Sneakers are therefore depressingly half-assed: they got the transforming right, but cram your feet into them and the only transformation to be done will involve a healthy trotter turned into shredded sinew and exposed musculature.
Surely real Transformer shoes aren’t beyond the reach of toy and sneaker designers. Make them platforms. I’m short! I’ll wear platforms! T
4D Transformable Shoes [Gadget 4 All via Tech Digest]
The Wish-I-Was-At-Comic-Con nerd in me feels compelled to tell you that these are knock-offs of official (Japanese) Transformers produced roughly a year ago.
Pictures of Optimus and Megatron as Nikes here:
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10698&mode=retail
The cruel shoes…
Its an amazing idea, but ultimately I don’t know if I want to play with any toys that smell like my sweaty feet.
I love the idea… but I can’t wear them…
*cry*
If you believe the second sentence of that, I invite you to consider whether a teacher would be more likely to ban a robot from her classroom or a toy Walther p38 pistol. ‘course, these days, you wouldn’t get into the building with it.
The cool of it was just that you had one toy that you could turn into another, not any kind of subterfuge.