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If you’ve visited the toy section at your local Wal-Mart lately, you know that thanks to the craptacular Michael Bay movies, Transformers are all the rage. Hasbro still makes the same cars, boats, and planes that turn into robots. But the one thing that’s missing from this lineup is a game controller that turns into a “robo-space bug.”
The wait appears to be over. [Via Technabob]
An extremely talented craftsman named James Ian Killinger turned this mild-mannered Sega Saturn flightstick into a killer beetle. So if Saturn controllers are Insecticons, would that mean that old Atari joysticks are Dinobots?
You can check out more pictures of Killinger’s creations in his portfolio at Coroflot.