The difference, they say, between men and boys is the size of their toys. How true, and especially so with the 2010 Camaro Transformers Special Edition. It’s a full size replica of the Hasbro toy replicas of the Transformer characters from the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen http://www.transformersmovie.com/, which was inspired by the original Transformer toys. Which, unless you’ve been shopping the in the dolly aisle for the past quarter century (really), are toy vehicles that unfold into robots.
Only in Revenge of the Fallen, one of the good guys is a yellow-with-black-stripes Chevrolet Camaro, a major piece of product placement by General Motors. Not to bore you with the plot of the movie (largely because we haven’t seen it ourselves), however moviegoers told Chevrolet that they wanted a replica of Bumblebee, the unfolding yellow Camaro.
So Chevrolet said, why not?
“Now, they can buy [that replica] with the new Camaro Transformers Special edition,” said Karen Rafferty, Chevrolet product marketing director, continuing unpardonably with “Streets all over North America will be buzzing in no time,”
We know, Ms. Rafferty, it’s part of your job, but really…
Anyway, the Camaro Transformers Special Edition can be ordered in a bright primary yellow, in either V-6-powered LT or V-8-equipped SS versions with the RS appearance package also available.
For a mere $995, the Chevrolet Transformers Special Edition comes with the following:
- Autobot shield logo on the driver and passenger side panels
- Autobot shield logo on the wheels’ center caps
- Autobot shield logo embroidered on the interior center console
- Transformers logo on the driver and passenger doors’ sill plates
- Transformers logo embedded into the hood rally stripes
- High-gloss black center rally stripe package
And just to make sure you know, the Chevrolet made by General Motors does not unfold into a robot like the one from Hasbro toys does. Even the big toys can’t do everything.
Illustration: 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformer Special Edition copyright General Motors.
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The character Bumblebee from the movie Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen inspired the 2010 Chevrolet Camaro Transformer Special Edition. All photos courtesy/copyright General Motors.
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