Xiaomi have a range that is expanding to cover almost every base, and now they even have their own robot in disguise!
Transformers is a big deal in China, and we don’t mean the new Michael Bay Explodathons, but the original 80’s cartoon show. 80’s China was a very different place that it is today, and most of the TV shows were China or Hong Kong made until Transformers hit the small screen. The 1980’s cartoon show was one of the first U.S cartoons to be translated in to Chinese and it took the country by storm.
Fast forward 30 years and those boys and girls who watched Bumble Bee (when he could speak) and Optimus Prime, are now family men and women with a little expendable income to splash out on all those transformer toys they didn’t own when they were little.
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In typical Xiaomi style, the Beijing mobile internet company has seen this as an unlikely niche area to expand their range of products, so have introduced the Xiaomi Mi Pad transformer!
This isn’t your typical Chinese knock-off though, but a real Hasbro licensed transformer, a Decepticon no less, that can shape shift from a battling robot to Xiaomi’s 9.7-inch tablet. This is just a 169 Yuan toy so the tablet is just for show, but the special edition character is sure to be a hot seller in China.
What do you make of this latest Xiaomi product? Do you expect the company to also launch an Autobot model, and do you think the next Transformers Movie would see a cameo from the Mi Bot?
Haha… Who’s ‘Optimum Prime’???
I only know of a Optimus Prime…
LOL
Must be the Chinese version 🙂
I think I saw them selling him at the Toys N Us stores in China.
Would be fun playing with it while munching marshmallows.
Oh shit! I want that!!
dope
No words to describe Xiaomi……better than apple in innovation…
Ahahah that’s awesome! I want it!
That surely brings the definition of “dual boot tablet” to a new level: windows 10?! Android?! Bi*ch please, my tablet can boot as a tablet or as a badass robot ready to conquer the world! ?
Wow love the concept:
Tablet – ROBOT Mode attack or
Tablet – Tablet Mode perform.
loove this
I’ll give Xiaomi bonus points for this only because they did the running around and got the Transformers license.
Did they? That’s a news!
I guess Ericsson is the only one that don’t get paid by Xiaomi.
if it’s being produced by Hasbro, it is under license. Hasbro owns the exclusive license for Transformers toys.
A 9.7 inch tablet? Why not a transformers version of their 4k tv. 😛
Portable tv, transformer can walk with you and transform back to tv whenevr you need. 😉
This will look great on my desk next to my actual Mi Pad 2.
LOL!
OK I’ll buy it!!!
Awesome. Seems most of us here are of similar vintage and enjoyed the Transformers back in the day. This would make an awesome desktop display. Sign me up!
So where are the specs then?:)))