Ever wonder how it is that the alien robots from Transformers ended up looking like cars and trucks from our own planet? As any dedicated fan could tell you, it’s because they adopted the forms of the vehicles they saw when they arrived. Or so the story goes.
But what if they hadn’t landed in America? What if the shape-shifting creatures from another planet had landed, in say, Russia? Well they’d probably have ended up looking something like this.
This Russian version of Optimus Prime was created by a a father and son who were inspired by the movies, but based their creation on a Lada instead of a Freightliner truck or a Chevy Camaro. It even features (hopefully simulated) firing guns and flashing lights.
Check it out in the video below, filmed at a demonstration event in Oryol in southwestern Russia near the border with Belarus and Ukraine. Who knows, maybe if there’d been a few of these around when the Bolsheviks took over, the country (and much of the rest of the world) wouldn’t have fallen under the yoke of Communism for the better (or worse) part of a century.