Proving that one man’s junk is another man’s treasure, a father and son duo from China take old scrap metal from vehicles and transforms it into: Transformers.
The Japanese were the ones that first created the film and TV show genre about giant heroes and menaces in their tokusatsu & kaiju productions. These are best typified by television shows like Ultraman & the Power-Rangers (tokusatsu) and films about Godzilla & Rodan (kaiju).
Michael Bay has kept the world’s interest in the genre with his big money-making films series Transformers based on the successful toy-line that first brought these shape-shifting robots to life.
Artists like Yu & Yu demonstrate how life can imitate art as they literally transform junked cars into life-size, gigantic robot statues. The family’s innovative work is so highly regarded that one of their statues netted $160,000 from a wealthy buyer.
