ToyCyte: Toy Culture Collected

You wouldn’t think that basketball super-humungo Yao Ming could ever fit into a basketball, nor would the humorless ultrahuman ever subject himself to such tomfoolery. Nevertheless, not much unlike that confounded spherical Darth Vader-to-Death Star Transformer that owns my soul, Yao Ming can now transform into a basketball.

As spied over on the ‘Hoop China‘ bulletin board (via WebACG, which I can’t make sense of, via something else), this Yao Ming transformer may or may not be authorized or associated with Reebok, may or may not be a custom of some kind, and the translated comments beneath it may or may not be hilariously mistranslated by Google.

“Optimus Prime? Go cry to you!”
“Landlord really strong.”

Either way, the weird culture icon is getting his own robot mode, and it makes me wonder what iconic object I’d turn into, should I have to choose a robot mode. I hope it’s a steak.