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I spent more than 60,000 yuan ($9,730) on 'Optimus Prime', and it will be completed by September. Most of its parts are recycled from the scrap yard. It will find its best use helping quake victims."

Yue Erbing, a 37-year-old villager in Lankao county, Henan province, said about his plan to sell a model he made of Optimus Prime, a character in the Transformers movie series, to help people in Ludian who are suffering after a recent magnitude-6.5 earthquake in Yunnan province. The farmer's models are popular, with "Bumblebee" and "Ironhide" having buyers already.