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Bulgarian artist Nikola Nikolov hates throwing old stuff away. When he worked as a dishwasher, he'd turn broken plates into art. And when it was time to retire his first car, a Lada, he decided to give it new life as a robot warrior.

Nikolov transforms junk into artworks at Studio Re-Creation in the Netherlands. He has turned old wooden furniture into giant rabbits and dogs, and turned broken plates into colorful mural art.

But his most impressive work is The Transformer, a 6-foot, 200-pound robot warrior fashioned from an old Lada Samara Diva.

It took about 100 hours … Read more