Ultimate Transformer Watch

Recently

Oh my gosh Oh my gosh! The excruciating excitement I felt when I saw this picture and thought for a second I could buy one again!!!

The exact same watch my dad got me as a kid – I’ve tried to describe it to friends countless times and somehow felt like I never did it justice because no-one seemed that impressed. Well be impressed! I had a red one, Kenna the blue.

… my heart’s still pounding…

To celebrate the epic new Transformers Movie that is being released later this week and with a little help from mutual studio Transformers fans take a look at this mega 80â€™s transforming watch. The robot detaches and if almost by magic transforms into a free standing robot. You can buy newer versions of this watch now but not a patch on the retro version.

This entry was posted by bird on Thursday, August 16th, 2007 at 10:51 pm and is filed under Design, Gadgets, Geek out, blogalog, childhood mammories, desireth. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can skip to the end and leave a response. Pinging is currently not allowed.

Comments

Bronnie says:

August 17, 2007 at 7:54 am

I remember this watch! It was cool then I was impressed although 11 year old Koeksisters never indicate that they really are impressed – miss you loads Bronnie

Ms. Wakame says:

August 17, 2007 at 11:04 am

Bronnie I just found out people are selling them on eBay as collecters pieces! I can’t imagine having one of these and not wearing and enjoying it. Okay… so there are only a few left in mint condition on the face of this earth but it seems a far greater sin to own one and not take it out of the box. It wants to come out and play!

Do you remember the watch Ken had that had that awesome racing car game on it? I was obsessed with getting a perfect score. Now that’s a super rare gadget!

nathan says:

August 17, 2007 at 2:31 pm

I had one of those, I thought it was lame, but mostly because, um, well, real Transformers turned into cool shit like dinosaurs and motorcycles… think about this poor guy, he comes over to visit for Thanksgiving and everyone’s turning into giant guns and airplanes and they’re like, what do you have Mectowatch?

“Um…I’ve got the time….” utterly.embarrassing.

Ms. Wakame says:

August 17, 2007 at 2:37 pm

You obviously didn’t have the same watch! A rip-off perhaps. This watch not only tells the time, it comes off the strap and turns into a robot. A robot with a computer for brains that knows the time. A robot that makes a very cool sound.

They came out when you were too young to tell the time anyway. No wonder you were embarrassed.

ken says:

August 18, 2007 at 5:19 pm

yeah man… i remember that…
I also remember the watch dad got me from another japan trip… it had a game on it… and was basically a 1980′s gameboy watch… which unfortunately got lost in the sand at bakoven beach… under that big rock i used to jump off… in the sand.

remember that?

Speaking of which…remember that family of painted rocks you had that got lost in the sand in camps bay… we spent hours looking for them and eventually had to leave… how devastating!

Ms. Wakame says:

August 19, 2007 at 1:48 pm

YES! Klippie van der Spuy!!! I felt guilty about leaving him there for years. He was so cute…

Ken scroll up a bit – I left a comment for you with the link to the watch ::@)