Took a quick look in the forums and didn't see anything about this.
Apparently there is a real life (almost) Optimus prime in China

Chinese Transformer Is All About Junk Auto Parts From Head To Toe - Auto Motto

 

Ooh, don't think I've seen that one, yet. Nice find!

 

dude i am totally feeling the transformer love on this one man

it really brings a tear to my eye how much love went into building that lifesize optimus prime statue

 

It makes you cry? Really?

 

you would be surprised how much of a positive impact a fictional character can have on a guys life at a young age

to see a character like optimus prime be honored like that by the fanbase wow

thats just amazing

 

Standing in front of that, I'd probably cry like the Double Rainbow guy.

 

One thing is for sure Michael Bay shouldn't be anywhere near it. 

 

Cry me a river!
Looks awesome.

 

It should have a loud speaker in Primes voice saying, "Freedom is the right of all sentient beings".
Still, totally, completely awesomeness here.

I'd love to see James May Toy Stories do something similar. Perhaps build one out of Legos?

 

Wow. A full size chinese KO. Where is the rage over that infringement of HASTAK IP?

Just kidding. Really.

Stuff like this is cool.

 

Holy crap in a hat.

EDIT: The inexplicable G1 head on an otherwise wholey movie-inspired body kinda weirds it, though.

 

'In a hat'? Why not 'on a platter'?

 

Very cool replica! We've been seeing a lot of these recently haven't we? Anyways, this one is porbably one of the cooler designs. Not too accurate, but the combination of aesthetics is cool.

 

I'm trying not to make a cheap joke at China's expense. Really excellent work there.

 

Now lets see it transform and roll out.... =-D
Dam cool!

 

Yeah, I get that. It's like outsider art. There's something very naive, yet respectful about this copyright infringement. It really honours Transformers.

Funny I don't think either Dreamworks or Hasbro have yet made an Optimus on this scale.

The TF movies seem to have gone down really well over there, remember all those guys that did their cars up as Bumblebee. Maybe for TF3, they can start out at this statue.

 

C'mon that's bad!!!

 

Because those are expensive, dude.

 

Finlay get to use this  
That is just plain awesome man.