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When I built stuff in art class, it was usually just a weird vase or a lumpy mug. When it came time for Bi Heng, a student at the Central Academy of Fine Arts in China, to decide on his graduation project, he dreamed a little bigger. He built the above robot (the robot is on the left) as a tribute to the ancient general Guan Yu (the ancient general is on the right).

The statue is constructed from the parts of a quarter-century old Jiefang vehicle. This particular Jiefang was a military service truck that had been used by the People’s Liberation Army before becoming a robot no longer in disguise. His weapon, though, is not from the car, and is modeled after the dynastic weapon that Guan Yu is depicted as wielding.

The statue weighs four tons and measures just under 31 feet tall. It cost around $43,000 to make, so apparently artists actually have money over in China. The general it’s modeled after measured in at a normal height, but was far more adept at kung-fu, and was an instrumental player in the civil war that ended the Eastern Han Dynasty.

As you surely already know, Megan Fox won’t be spending her summer with any robots in disguise. Since her official dismissal/resignation/whatever you want to call it, the world (mainly the male world) has been watching Michael Bay to see who could possible replace such a Fox.

Well, it looks like we have our answer: the actress (?) will be Rosie Huntington-Whiteley. You know, Rosie, from that thing with the stuff. OK, fine, you got me. Her only IMDB credits are four instances of The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show and one episode of Britain’s Next Top Model, on which she was not a contestant.

But what is Bay really trying to say with this choice? Is it a big middle finger to the apparently easily replaceable Megan Fox? Is it an even bigger finger extended toward the whole idea of star power? Or is it just Bay bragging about how he can make a star out of anyone, but only for so long as they stay under his wing (see Jennifer’s Body, Fox’s non-Bay effort)?

We are in awe of this creation by Fanboy Forumer The Deej: Everyone’s favorite seven-foot-tall, bite-happy, Russian wrestlin’ Street Fighter, Zangief, reënvisioned as a Transformer. Alas, no transformation pics of the ‘bot, as far as we can tell, but we’re guessing from the arm wheels and the red feet and the grill below his head that he’d be a big, tough, somehow identifiably Russian truck. In any event, The Deej won a forum art contest with this one, and it’s definitely (wait for it) more than meets the eye.

Yesterday’s revelation that Megan Fox will not be starring in Transformers 3 stunned and divided a nation. While Fox is not generally regarded to be a particularly gifted actress, she is a pretty gal, and was seen by many as the main reason anyone would want to sit through a Transformers movie (typical messageboard comment: “Yeah… They just cut their boxoffice in half..”) Time will tell what actually happens with Transformer 3.

Fox’s PR team issued a statement yesterday that said that “It was her decision not to return. She wishes the franchise the best,” which Deadline’s Nikki Finke dismissed as “absolutely untrue.” More likely, she was axed for, among other reasons, comparing Transformers director Michael Bay to Hitler.

How did things break down between Bay and Fox? We investigate:

It’s official. Columbia Pictures has secured actor Will Smith, director Barry Sonnenfeld, and is in “advanced negotiations” with Tommy Lee Jones: Men in Black 3 is scheduled for a summer 2012 release. In a possible major plot-related give away, Columbia has also announced that they are in talks with Josh Brolin (of No Country for Old Men and Milk) to play a young Agent Kay.

ScreenRant suggests that this means that the movie will heavily feature the training of a new Kay. We have another idea.

It’s official: Matthew Vaughn, director of Kick-Ass and Stardust, is at the helm of X-Men: First Class, the reboot of the X-Men movie franchise. This new prequel film (a long the same world-exploring lines as Wolverine: Origins) will “chart the epic beginning of the X-Men saga,” which probably means Professor X and Magneto as young rebellious allegory-for-civil-rights-leaders.

This dashes our dreams of watching a movie where the X-Men sit at the front of an airplane for two and a half hours, enjoying complementary drinks.

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Hot on the heals of a near complete accidental reveal of the iPhone 4G, 9 To 5 Mac noticed that for a little while this morning there were two strange iPod Touches with strange built-in cameras and a strange operating system on eBay.

Strangely, the auction was swiftly pulled.

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In a 28-hour-long act of love, daring, art, and obsession, YouTuber Happy Cabbie has made a seven-foot-tall balloon sculpture of Optimus Prime, complete with semi-moveable joints and even hands that can hold weapons.