Standing eight feet high and weighing a hefty five tons, this is the real-life version of the tank Megatron turns into in the Transformers film franchise. It was created by Wing Wah, a Chinese metalwork factory headed by designers Jiang Chen and Yang Junlin.

Junlin believes in turning waste into treasure. He uses scrap parts and recycled material and crafts it into industrial art. The giant replica Megatron tank is made entirely of vehicle and machine scrap iron and is a perfect replica from its tire tread to the top of its turret.

“In the world of Transformers, the villainous Megatron is an extremely talented leader and authority figure,” says Junlin. “But his tank only exists in the movie theaters, not in the real world. So it was my wish to be the first person to make a real one.”

Junlin also thinks the tank can help spark the imagination of Chinese kids who have been stupefied by their rigorous and rote curriculum. “You know, education nowadays is stifled and students lack creativity,” he says. “So I want to arouse people’s environmental protection awareness and their sense of creativity. To make this tank, I led a team of people who had no prior training.”

Unfortunately, Megatron has no engine, so don’t expect to see it bursting through walls any time soon. “But this creation is not a toy, it is a concept,” says Junlin. “One day, when we have the technology, we will make it move. But our studio cannot do that at the moment. Da Vinci designed the first tank-like concept hundreds of years before the first working tank was made. We cannot make it move and there’s no motor and no one can get in–but this is no ordinary tank. It’s Megatron: a leader, a super-robot, a combination of an airplane and tank. We have to take this into account.”

The tank is for sale, though delivery, we imagine, will be a bitch. Junlin says he will donate it for next to nothing anywhere where “it can be put into use to achieve optimum benefits for society.”

We can think of so many uses.

Check out his other creations below.

For a full gallery of images, including other Transformers rebuilds, plus contact details for Wing Wah Studios (in Chinese), visit this website.