Archive for the ‘Transformers’ Category

Going to BotCon

In: Transformers

6 Mar 2009

Well, it’s official as I’ve fallen down the rabbit hole into my obession with Transformers. Jessica and I are set to go to BotCon 2009 in Pasadena, CA. It’s one thing to bake a cake, it’s one thing to take tons of photos of toys, it’s an entirely different matter when you start attending conventions. […]

Looking back through some of my starred Google Reader feeds, I came across a link to a interesting service called Wordle. It will take a list of text from a source (say a blog or rss feed) and then create a piece of typographic art that lists the most common words. You can then edit […]

A bunch of people have asked Jessica and I how we went about making that semi-famous Optimus Prime Cake of ours. This post should contain information on how to go about making one for yourself. Optimus Prime toy measurements (Excel spreadsheet) Reference pictures of Optimus Prime toy Step by step instructions Photo collection of the making […]

In order to build our Optimus Prime cake, I needed to go into our attic and get down my classic Transformers toys. We needed to see and measure the classic Generation 1 Optimus Prime toy as reference, and in order to get to him, I needed to get them all down. So for the past […]

Just got back from an 8pm showing of the new Michael Bay directed Transformers. In a word, it was awesome. It was worth the wait. Now I just got to determine when I’ll go see it again.

Last week I sent a link to Jessica about a Transformers cake that was coming to Wal-Mart. It was your standard grocery store sheet cake with a toy topper that was a real transforming Optimus Prime from the upcoming movie. That link set the gears spinning to do our own Transformers cake. But instead we […]

My first try at a Transformers cake came back in December of 1984, almost 23 years ago. Using a simple sheet cake made straight from the box; all I needed was some white frosting, a little food coloring, and some colored gels to let my creativity fly. All in all, I think it turned out […]


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My name is Andrew Green, and I like Transformers, cats and video games.

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