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By Cyriaque Lamar Feb 7, 2012 12:30 PM 15,745

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This Optimus Prime snowman is the size of an apartment building

Since early January, a crew at Hokkaido, Japan's Asahikawa Winter Festival has been carving out this 53-foot-tall bust of Optimus Prime peering over a wall. Given all that effort, it will be somewhat depressing to witness him inevitably transform into a grey puddle.

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