Don’t you conscionable hatred it erstwhile you prime up your trusty Canon EOS R5, lone to observe it’s really a sneaky Transformer? Well atrocious news, due to the fact that this nightmarish aboriginal spotted by TFormers is really becoming a world adjacent twelvemonth acknowledgment to a collaboration betwixt Takara Tomy (the Japanese institution down the Transformers toys) and Canon (the Japanese institution behind… good you get the idea).

The collaboration has resulted successful a brace of Transformers figurines that are capable to fold distant into amazingly realistic looking Canon mirrorless cameras. I accidental “surprisingly realistic” due to the fact that astatine archetypal glimpse I someway mistook these for functioning cameras. But successful lawsuit it wasn’t evident from their ¥ 19,800 (around $147) pricing, they’re non-functional replicas that are lone 80-percent of the size of the existent thing. (The thought that this could beryllium a functioning camera isn’t truthful chaotic considering Takara Tomy has antecedently produced working MP3-player Transformer toys).

Probably my favourite item is the lens cap, which successful some cases alteration into shields for the Transformers to wield. But a adjacent 2nd is the miniature cameras some figurines look to beryllium holding successful immoderate of the promotional images, which is simply a delightfully silly addition. One figurine is based connected Optimus Prime, portion the different is Decepticon Refraktor.

Both Transformers are scheduled to merchandise successful Japan adjacent twelvemonth connected February 25th, and TFW2005 reports that preorders are unfastened from present until September 28th. It’s unclear if they’ll spot a planetary release.