{"id":729,"date":"2011-01-14T12:11:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T17:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=729"},"modified":"2011-01-14T14:41:11","modified_gmt":"2011-01-14T19:41:11","slug":"popular-science-traces-transformers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/popular-science-traces-transformers\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Popular Science\" traces Transformers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There's an article in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/science\/article\/2010-12\/january-2011-robots-bite-back\" target=popsci>the January issue<\/a> of <i>Popular Science<\/i> titled \"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.popsci.com\/technology\/article\/2010-12\/terminator-scenario\" target=popsci>The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?<\/a>\" Which, sure, is an interesting topic, and entirely appropriate for the magazine. But look at the cover:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popscirav1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popscirav1a.jpg\" width=\"190\" height=\"255\" title=\"''Popular Science'' January 2011: Robots Bite Back\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>That, uh... that looks awfully familiar, doesn't it?<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/popscirav2.jpg\" title=\"Hi, remember me?\" width=\"330\" height=\"155\" title=\"Ravage\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>That's Ravage! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/yo\/tfm2_rav.php\">Movie Ravage<\/a>! I can't find it, but even that pose seems to be lifted directly from some promo shot. If you follow the link to the article, there's another shot from a different angle, and it <b>still<\/b> looks like movie Ravage. Was the artist specifically told to trace pictures of Ravage, or was it their choice? And was this an intentional homage, or a swipe that we weren't meant to notice?<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"IDW leads the way to Hasbro's shared universe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/06\/idw-leads-the-way-to-hasbros-shared-universe\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">IDW leads the way to Hasbro's shared universe<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Predator vs. Transformers\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2010\/09\/predator-vs-transformers\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Predator vs. Transformers<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers: Filch addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/03\/transformers-filch-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers: Filch addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"BotCon box set part 6 - Motormaster review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/06\/botcon-box-set-part-6-motormaster-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">BotCon box set part 6 - Motormaster review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Chevy using Hasbro and NECA toys in a national TV commercial\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/11\/chevy-using-hasbro-and-neca-toys-in-a-national-tv-commercial\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Chevy using Hasbro and NECA toys in a national TV commercial<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There's an article in the January issue of Popular Science titled \"The Terminator Scenario: Are We Giving Our Military Machines Too Much Power?\" Which, sure, is an interesting topic, and entirely appropriate for the magazine. But look at the cover: &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2011\/01\/popular-science-traces-transformers\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[14],"class_list":["post-729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/729\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}