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source: mastodon
date: 2023-09-24 17:21:37.57 +00
title: "Mastodon post from September 24, 2023, 111121275130843671"
post_uri: https://mastodon.social/users/gravely/statuses/111121275130843671
post_id: 111121275130843671
tags:
  - mastodon
---
my kid (5y old this week!) has been obsessed with building stuff out of cardboard after drawing front back top and sides and cutting them out and wanted me to make a transformer yesterday

so i searched for patterns and fell down a papercraft hole, do not recommend

fiddly as shit i had to do all of the assembly myself

he loves them though!

also, cyberdrone's deviantart is wild: [https://www.deviantart.com/cyberdrone](https://www.deviantart.com/cyberdrone)


![arcee, optimus prime, and soundwave transformers in robot mode, papercraft, colored by a 5y old, assembled poorly by mei made the first one correctly with slots and tabs, after that, fucking nope, used elmer's glue](./111121274842769017.jpeg)

![the optimus prime papercraft design we used, by "CyberDrone"](./111121274414746057.jpeg)