Glam Rock Transformers, anyone?

 

The Transformers have been everything from vehicles and beasts to baseball caps, shoes, and even Disney characters Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Buzz Lightyear.

 

Now Hasbro will be adding 80's glam metal band to that list, as this coming San Diego Comic Con (SDCC), Autobots and Decepticons will be rocking hard as the “Knights of Unicron”.

 

But this set of four will be more than just wildly colorful repaints of the previously-released “War for Cybertron” toys. They will also come complete with huge, crazy hair, gaudy frills, and most awesome of all: transforming musical instruments.

 

Get ready for bleeding ears, as axe shredder Megatron looks about ready to rip into a Laserbeak guitar solo. Pounding on the funky Ratbat keytar will be “Smooth” Jazz, while Optimus Prime and Soundwave will be sharing vocalist duties (oddly absent is Starscream, whose shrill voice would have been perfect for all those high-pitched shrieks so typical of glam metal). Together they form the universe’s most outrageously outfitted band, “Knights of Unicron”.

 

 

 

 

Rockin’ the 30th anniversary of Transformers

 

This Special Edition collector’s set was created in honor of the Transformers brand’s 30th anniversary.

 

The four figures will come packaged in a “roadie case”. This will contain a variety of concert-inspired goodies, such as a concert ticket, an all-access VIP pass, stickers, posters, and even a booklet that will tell the story of the “Knights of Unicron”, from humble beginnings to chart-topping hits, in-group rivalries, band breakup, and inevitable reunion.

 

There is even “album art”, one of which depicts Optimus Prime in a pose that should be strikingly familiar to any fan of Iron Maiden and their perennial zombie mascot, Eddie.

 

 

 

The set, however, will be sold for a whopping $184.99, a price tag that could definitely become the instrument of your destruction. So better start getting comfortable with the idea of selling those kidneys if you’re aching to headbang to “Dare” and “The Touch” with fellow metalheads Optimus Prime and Megatron.

 

Hasbro and Takara Tomy have been churning out weird, special edition Transformers figures for years, such as the aforementioned baseball caps and shoes. One other offering that will be available in Japan this September is a $42 Optimus Prime figure that converts into a pen, which will be followed in October by a black Optimus Prime and white Ultra Magnus repaint. — TJD, GMA News