Liu Xianhui talks with his workers who are making a model of a transforming alien robot - based on the Transformers entertainment franchise - in Shengjin town, Zhangqiu, a city in China’s Shandong province, March 27. The franchise developed by two toy companies - Hasbro of the US and Japan's Takara Tomy - began in 1984 as the Transformers toy line, involving factions of the alien robots who struggle for dominance, and it has expanded to include comic books, video games and movies. [Photo/Xinhua]