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Title: transformer dinner table.
Post by: rlemmon on December 13, 2006, 04:02:16 am
This is truly awesome. I wish I could build something like that. :(



http://www.gizmodo.com/gadgets/home-entertainment/fletcher-capstan-table-dinner-party-transformer-220695.php
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: J_K_M_A_N on December 13, 2006, 08:44:26 am
I have to say, that is one cool table. I would probably play with it for the first month just opening it and closing it.

J_K_M_A_N
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 13, 2006, 09:21:05 am

I think I am crying a little.   :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: somunny on December 13, 2006, 09:31:59 am
Great workmanship but there's a lot of pinch points on that sucker.  Watch your fingers, kiddies!
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Post by: jbox on December 13, 2006, 09:40:47 am
Anybody have the avi-fu to add the appropriate sounds (http://members.tripod.com/~shocwave/oldmain.htm#sounds)?  ???
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 13, 2006, 09:42:39 am

Add an AC motor with a couple of switches, a remote sensor, and boom, you have a remote controlled transforming table. 
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: mmmPeanutButter on December 13, 2006, 11:38:44 am
Here's another clip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50dogWilS_k&mode=related&search=). 

It shows a little of the mechanism.


so amazing.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: boykster on December 13, 2006, 01:13:45 pm
Can you imagine the looks on your guests faces if you pull that DURING a dinner party?

Very cool table...I'm sure it costs a pretty penny as the two "featured" were on multi-million dollar yachts....

 :notworthy: :notworthy: :notworthy:
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Post by: patrickl on December 13, 2006, 02:19:36 pm
On the thread on gizmodo they claim it costs $95K. That's impressive too.

They should do it in a square form though. Maybe like that Ligne Rosset coffee table (http://www.stylepark.com/plain/ligneroset_ru/sid05.2044.00207.html)
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 13, 2006, 02:31:05 pm

For $95,000 Reese Witherspoon better be sitting on it naked when they set it up.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: SithMaster on December 13, 2006, 03:56:23 pm
What the frelll?  i was expecting a transformer pardoy of the last supper or an actual (ie Optimus Prime) theme table.

on a brighter note i think its something i would want though if it was motorized id be playing with it all week.

some funny comments from then link
"also had I been King Arthur I would've liked this table, one of those knights pisses me off, I lob off his head, and shrink down our round table a bit."
"WARNING - Table has been known to consume small children, pets and appendages."
"Now, to join the tablebots in battle against the evil chairocons. Transfurniture, furnishings in disguise!"

lol
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: SirPeale on December 13, 2006, 07:47:33 pm
Anybody have the avi-fu to add the appropriate sounds (http://members.tripod.com/~shocwave/oldmain.htm#sounds)?  ???

Ai...blue links on black-ish background.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: AtomSmasher on December 14, 2006, 10:54:05 am
What the frelll?  i was expecting a transformer pardoy of the last supper or an actual (ie Optimus Prime) theme table.
Something like this?
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Post by: SithMaster on December 14, 2006, 02:17:29 pm
ahhh yes yes yes though i was thinking it would be all transformers but this is still good.

like optimus in the middle and hot rod with his back to him becuase hes the reason he died.  then have cup, ultra magnius, and grimlock sitting and stuff.

did you make that?  looks good.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 14, 2006, 02:19:20 pm

I think SithMaster picked the wrong week to quit sniffing whiteout.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: AtomSmasher on December 14, 2006, 03:38:06 pm
did you make that?  looks good.
No, I just randomly came across it today.  Someone posted it in a transformers movie thread in another forum I read.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: FrizzleFried on December 14, 2006, 08:20:26 pm
...I wonder where I could install a 25" monitor and a few CPs...
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: boykster on December 14, 2006, 11:50:53 pm
...I wonder where I could install a 25" monitor and a few CPs...


Why don't you go ask over at the Mameworld forums....

 :laugh2:
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: AlanS17 on December 14, 2006, 11:59:16 pm
Transformers. More than meets the eye. Transformers. Furniture is disguise!
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 15, 2006, 10:20:05 am

When I was 8 I told my grandfather I wanted a Transformer for Christmas.  He looked at me like I had ten heads but said "erm, okay".  Christmas morning I opened up his gift and inside was a double wind electrical transformer.  He was so proud. 

Seriously.   :laugh2:
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Post by: patrickl on December 15, 2006, 11:04:10 am
I guess people have always had trouble understanding you  ...
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Post by: SithMaster on December 15, 2006, 12:47:49 pm
The same thing happens on search engines when you search tranformers.  chad maybe it was a transformer but it transforms into a transformer.  kinda like when they buried optimus into the transformer who was a coffin.

wait why is it that i have to sniff whiteout to be normal?  your statement confuses me a little.

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I think SithMaster picked the wrong week to quit sniffing whiteout.

yeah.....so which transformer did you want?  if i could have anyone it would be the walter megatron italian version.  i was at toysrus and they had a new megatron which was a gun but it was like a nerf gun and the scope from gunform was the cannon in robot form.

but yeah tables are awesome.  the only thing is that if its in the smaller form there might be stuff around it that when its made larger might hinder it somewhat.  like chairs or something.  and it means it cant be next to a wall.

wait it looks like the iris from stargate.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 15, 2006, 12:51:22 pm

IIRC, that Christmas was the Christmas to get Starscream.  Or maybe Megatron.  It was definitely a first gen Transformer that year.

It got better, though, as a couple months later I found an Optimus Prime at the park that was only missing one leg.   ;D
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: SithMaster on December 15, 2006, 12:54:10 pm
sweet.  its great when kids leave toys behind.  i used to find gi joes at a lake i would go swimming in.  that and 5 dollars in the water.

by any chance was the trailer and voice pack with it?
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 15, 2006, 12:56:54 pm

It had the trailer and the little buggy (forget his name).

IIRC the first Optimus Prime didn't have any electronics.  I still have that one but the trailer is long gone.  May still have the buggy.  I eventually got him a replacement leg.
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Post by: SithMaster on December 15, 2006, 12:59:52 pm
i thought he had a black box with a chrome autobot logo that had like 4 buttons on top.  it would connect to the trailer when in vehicle mode.

i remember geting my optimus and megatron at bradlees.  i felt a little disappointed becuase optimus was gen 1 and megatron was the gen2 tank.  i was happy with them but it was like why isnt he a cannon?
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 15, 2006, 01:02:07 pm

I remember a shield, now that I think about it, but it didn't have anything that attached to it.  I could be wrong as mine wasn't new.

I had Megatron and Starscream for a while.  No idea what happened to Starscream, I traded Megatron for Shockwave.  I still have Shockwave though my brother broke his arm off in like 1987.   :laugh2:
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: jbox on December 16, 2006, 09:37:14 am
The little buggy was called Roller. There was no voice system in the original Optimus Prime pack that I can remember.  :dunno
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: SithMaster on December 16, 2006, 01:52:01 pm
maybe mine was a remake or something.  maybe ill find the box it came in someday.

wait you traded megatron for soundwave?  which megatron?  ive been trying to find a soundwave for cheap on ebay for the longest time.  i want to put an mp3 player into him so it actually can play tunes.  and it will look better than the cassestte one they made for him.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: ChadTower on December 16, 2006, 02:16:13 pm

I said Shockwave.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: SithMaster on December 16, 2006, 02:36:48 pm
Your right you did.  I mustve seen what i wanted to see.  alright then shockwaves good.
Title: Re: transformer dinner table.
Post by: SirPeale on December 17, 2006, 07:15:38 am
Masterpiece edition Megatron:

http://tformers.com/article.php?sid=6787

Masterpiece edition Optimus Prime:

Link (http://www.tfsource.com/Reissues/MP-01%20Masterpiece%20Prime/MP-01-Masterpiece-Prime.htm)

Masterpiece edition Starscream:

Starscream Link (http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10557&mode=retail&picture=aux2)