4-Ton Transformer Stands Tall in Hollywood

An 8,200-pound, life-size version of Bumblebee, the speech-impaired autobot, arrived at the corner of Santa Monica Boulevard and North La Brea Avenue in Hollywood on Tuesday to promote the release of Michael Bay's Transformers on DVD and HD DVD.

Bumblebee will be chilling, waiting for fans to come pose in front of him and take cell phone pictures, at the West Hollywood Gateway shopping center till Sunday. That's when a forklift and 10-ton crane will pick up the 18-foot-tall Transformer and take him away to some sad prop-storage room where he will sit and rust, hidden away from the world forever, dreaming of the time he was a movie prop and crying tears of lubricant thinking about how useless his life has become.