Life imitating Hasbro

A crack team of Americans and token cute foreigners are currently (well, according to the Republicans, anyway) fighting a ruthless terrorist organisation determined to rule the world.

There's a singer out there called Jem.

And yet, despite this, the local cars steadfastly refuse to transform into heroic robots with quirky personalities. Aside from the one in the Citroen advert, but honestly, would the Autobots ever really be that uncool?