Transformers Going Down in Flames
June 26, 2009 I recently got an e-mail from Chunks the Pioneer, who told me she is a HUGE Transformers fan, and naturally went to the first 11:59 PM showing of Transformers 2. She also said,
Well, Chunks - may I call you Chunks? - first and foremost, I find it interesting that seeing Transformers 2 made you want to see (other?) things that are poorly made.
Hah! I kid, I kid. (Or do I?)
That said, I'm happy to share my extended collection of Transformers Wrecks with you. 'Course, you'd think there would be several Transformers cake kits out by now, but no, there's still just the one:
As you can see they spared no expense with it, though. Why, that piece of cardboard is actually printed in color.
The best thing about this design, however, is that no Wreckerator on earth can replicate it. It's true. "Pointy" is simply beyond this groups' skill set:
Optimus Prime battles the red fingers of doom.
Optimus Prime battles the great ketchup spill of '09.Oh, wait, I take it back: this Wreckerator did manage "pointy":
But with fronds like those, who needs anemones? Eh? Eh? And lastly, my favorite:
Mmm. Speckly.Interestingly enough, this Wreckerator's '72 Pinto has those exact same flames airbrushed on the front bumper. Which is pretty darn ironic, if you think about it.
Hey Meagan D., Misty M., Alicia A., & Barbara N., what do you call an Autobot in denial?
Answer: A boat!
(Get it? Denial? De- Nile? The river? Yeah, us ex-JC skippers rule, thankyouverramuch.)
- Related Wreckage: Optimus Wrecks
UPDATE: My apologies to Chunks the Pioneer, who I mistakenly assumed was a guy, since she is, in fact, a girl. And thanks for having such a great sense of humor about it, Chunks. ;)
Reader Comments (84)
The last one shows kids why they shouldn't ride in cars that can transform into giant robots. That's not airbrushing, that's blood.
Oh No! I just order this cake for tomorrow. Ha. We'll see how it turns out.
just ordered this cake for tomorrow oddly enough.
we'll see how it goes! haha
@ deckardcanine
If you were sitting on top of one of those cakes, you'd be driving towards the flames, too.
I ordered this cake yesterday for my sons 6th birthday oddly enough. picking it up tomorrow. we'll see how it turns out!
Lovely writing on #2 & #3. But the fairy godmother wands? (In syrupy sweet tones) "Oh, Optimus, someday you'll be a real [insert favorite mech-contruct here]!"
LMAO I had to read the comments to realize that the red stuff was flames! I had no idea what it was supposed to be. Thank you everyone for cluing me in!
LMAO...I had to explain the De-Nile joke to the other half...SNORT
Too funny.
The cakes are just sad. Any chance there is a decent Bumblebee cake out there?
How come the cake with anemones makes me think Transformers: Primes Gay Pride cake......
Did that last truck hit a deer? Ummm Ummm...road kill, it's what's for dinner!
No WONDER you're such a Disney fan. Jungle Cruise is awesome. Next trip I plan on going on it at night when the skippers start to ad-lib more. :)
And I love the Nemo reference. Anam-amanam-Amanaomimes!
Verification Word: Bayed...isn't that what a donkey does?
rendered speechless..
OMG..I'm dying. I am a cake decorator in a Safeway bakery and have messed this exact cake up countless times. It is SO HARD to make those flames on top of the blue icing, and to get them to actually look like flames is nearly impossible. The first time I made it, the customer actually went to my manager and complained and we had to give her another cake for free. You should see the CupcakeCake version of it- its 10x worse.
Hahahaha! Did anyone notice that one of the cakes had a sticker saying "Yellow cake" on it? Someone is unimaginative AND colour blind! :P
I scored tickets to a Monday showing. I'm a dork I know. But these are pretty darn bad , I don't even want to imagine the "cupcake version". And I actually saw a really nice Bumblebee cake here http://www.flickr.com/photos/sweetmaker/2661110911/
I love that this design is exactly the same as the HotWheels design, they just stuck a different toy on it: something a little more hip.
These look strangely like the hotwheels cakes!
Sorry, Anonymous, they were definitely wrecks, excluding the first maybe. At least the flames on that one were correct.
BTW, Transformers 2 was awesome! Better than the first which was also awesome.
I think we need to find some "Sunday Sweets" Transformer cakes; there has got to be some out there!
Oh, wow. That second one has totally ruined my appetite.
It looks more like some disgusting lava/blood spurt chasing the poor truck so that it can devour it and melt it down into a pool of metal goo. It's already started with the candle.
The speckly one made me laugh, though. Seriously? I don't even see anything vaguely resembling fire there.
the second last one....well...according to my preschooler, he's driving into carrots!
This is my favorite pun you've done so far...and that's saying something : But with fronds like those, who needs anemones?
I'm still laughing!
It's a great pun, truly great, but please give credit where credit is due. In this case, it is due to Roy Blount, Jr., from his marvelous book "Alphabet Juice" (p. 195).
When were you a JC skipper? Do you know Michael Fargnoli?
I just about died at the Finding Nemo reference!
So I have to admit I got a little excited to see that you were going to have Transformers cakes on your site. I had sent a picture of my son's Transformers cake right after his birthday in April. At first I was disappointed that my cake wasn't included. But after looking at the cakes you featured, I realized that the cake my son got was not nearly as bad as those. So I guess I have to hand it to our local grocery store bakery for not churning out Wrecktastic cakes...at least not yet!
don't worry, the new transformer cakes for revenge of the fallen are on the way. I'm sure they'll be more complicated, and hence, even worse wrecks.
I've done this kit many times at work and these examples make me cringe like no other...
They're not even trying to make it look like the picture! >__<
*face palm*
Yellow cake? Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't that processed Uranium?
We ordered one of those for my nephew's birthday a year or two ago. My sister had explicitly forbidden me to make a cake, which I found frankly insulting, as I had a really cool design in mind of head-to-head Autobot and Decepticon logos. But no. She insisted.
Yeah, it was wrecked.
snapps for owl city! that is where you got the fronds thing, right??
Haha ILU Owl City. <3
"But with fronds like those, who needs anemones?"
-blink- I'm pretty sure Fireflies wasn't out six months ago, but I applaud you for the reference anyway. xD There's just one word of difference between your comment and the lyrics. -starts humming the song-
"With fronds like these, who needs anemones?"
I love your blog, by the way. I've spent the past five or so days reading through all the posts, starting from the beginning. My brother's asked me a million times what I'm laughing at.
* I correct my last comment. I meant 'The Bird and the Worm', not Fireflies. I had the wrong song stuck in my head. ^^;
"But with fronds like those, who needs anemones" is also a line from the Owl City song "The bird and the worm"