Toys n’ the Addict.
“I recognize Transformers today as nothing more than a poorly-animated extended commercial designed to sell cheap toys to impressionable kids, but when I was 10-years-old, I found a deeper meaning in their implausible adventures, and as an icon from those innocent and magical times, my Optimus Prime toy has even deeper meaning for me today than he did in 1987. He has earned his place on my sacred, silly shelf, just like Batman and Buffy and the Iron Giant, ‘cause while they’re all just licensed characters owned by uncaring corporations, I’ve claimed them as my own, and they are each an important part of who I am.”

Red DragonSpawn at dusk.
A striking image of a fan-custom.

Paper robots.
And oh, Ash, too.

Gullwing’s Fort Bragg fan-modes.

Machine robo rescue. [via]
Now they just need to figure out how to create a hyper gattai mode.

The dance of affect and reason. [via]
“Why do good people ignore mass murder and genocide?” Answer: “The higher the number of people involved in a crisis … the less likely we are to ‘feel’ for each additional death.”