Toy picspam

[vilakins]

And because I now have a camera again, here are some promised pictures of Athena the Owl, Darth Tater and Spud Trooper, my B7 pipecleaner crew being menaced by Daleks, and also yesterday's acquisitions.



Darth Tater and Spud Trooper
That's a vicious and cruel weapon the trooper has!


Athena the Owl with friend Grigina
I bought Athena last year along with Harry Potter:THBP. She has the most beautiful markings. Grigina, 'little grey one', is a cute and posable kitten I couldn't resist.


Daleks menace my B7 pipecleaner crew
Don't worry, they defeated the Daleks with creative panic, an all-too-open mind, severely bent plungers, a stiletto boot in the studs, an idealistic speech about freedom from oppression, and biting sarcasm respectively.
snowgrouse, please note Vila astride the Liberator as described a while back. :-)


Panacea with Dogmatix, Obelix, and Asterix


Julius Caesar, a legionary, and a shouty centurion


Roman soldiers -- either a civil war, or a bad case of insubordination.

Yeah, I'm never growing up. Why do you ask?

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Growing up is over-rated!

I used to love Asterix books. Must see if I can find some.

[trixieleitz]

Bah, that was me. New browser.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, I wondered who that was.

I have all the Asterix books created by both Goscinny and Uderzo (the later ones just don't have the humour and invention, even though the art is as good) in English, and some in German. I used to have a Latin one but I lent it to someone and lost it.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

I have Le Devin. I'm not sure my command of French is even up to reading it now...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think they're funnier in English. English lends itself to the best Roman and Gallic names with all our adjectives ending in 'ous and -ic.

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

People who refuse to grow up live longer, so I stopped growing up at about 12. I go for cuddly toys myself. I love the original Asterix, they can be enjoyed on so many levels. They are treated as children's books in my library system but I think you have to have an adults understanding of the world to truly appreciate them.

[hafren.livejournal.com]

I think they work on two levels - kids see one thing and adults another. Or just more than the kids. I used to find the same with Frank Muir's What-A-Mess books - there was a frontstory about the dog in the text, but a huge backstory in the intricate pictures.

Ah, the days when I used to read aloud to the kids...

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Ah, the days when I used to read aloud to the kids...

Ah yes I remember that well, it was a pity sometimes that the kids were there, they used to interrupt my enjoyment.%)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I agree about the levels. The kids love the slapstick and the story, the adults the wonderful names (which work best in English) and the sly digs at modern society and customs.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

That sounds a bit like Fungus The Bogeyman. When I was little, there was all the stuff about Fungus's mid-life crisis going way over my head. When I read it again in my twenties, I realised just how much it went over my head!

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Yes in many ways the Asterix books and Fungus are of a type but I would say Asterix is Like Fungus on crack with a good bit of history thrown in that you don't notice if you haven't actually studied the period. That's the occupation of Gaul by the Romans in case you don't know the books at all.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Fungus? I don't know that.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

One of Raymond Briggs' books. If you like the idea of an entity that has "things that go bump in the night" as his occupation, you may like it. (This is me waffling somewhat when it comes to recommendations...)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the guy who wrote that brilliant nuclear war comic, When the Wind Blows? I'll have to look for it.

[jomacmouse.livejournal.com]

Yes, him. He's brilliant, though I found When the Wind Blows hard to revisit. (But that's me wimping out on things that made me feel teary - I've not nerved myself to re-read Doris Lessing's The Making of the Representative for Planet 8 ever again, for that matter...)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've read all of that Lessing series, but I skipped a few bits. I'm a wimp too. I actually own When the Wind Blows and have read it several times, which is a testament to its brilliance considering nuclear war being my one greatest fear.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

People who refuse to grow up live longer, so I stopped growing up at about 12. I slid straight from my first childhood into my second, and am now (counting on fingers) probably up to my fourth...

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

Well I did have a period in my 30s when I pretended to be grown up and got a mortgage and all that nonsense so I suppose I'm in my second childhood now, but I was only pretending.

[lizamanynames.livejournal.com]

Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Asterix and Obelix! Idefix! (Uhm, that's Dogmatix to anglophones.) Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!!

Man, what an awesome festival. Nice pics!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He's Idefix in German too (fixed idea). :-)

Thanks! I'm still learning all the new functions and features on this camera. It's heaps better than the obsolete model it replaced.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I've got quite a few of the Asterix figures too! (plus a Dogmatix keybob that gets me funny looks from people) Love my Julius and my Getafix best... I do love the books, especially the middle period, where both writer and artist were at their peak.

And the pipecleaner people are lovely. I've got Blake, Silver Alpha Avon and (of course) my darling Jarriere, sitting on my hard drive with Marvin the Martian and watching me type...

And I want Darth Tater.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Jarriere! And Marvin the Martian is really an alien Roman. :-)

They didn't have a Getafix, or the chief. Bah.

I had to import Darth Tater and Spud Trooper.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I do have the cheif, but his enormous belly and not-quote enormous enough feet means he - errr - spends most of his time flat on his back...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Looking up, expecting the sky to fall!

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

Heheeeeeeeeeee! Ooh, they're all lovely:).

And the dog's Idefix in Finnish as well. Thank goodness we have hilarious translations too, I heard some of the English ones were dreadfully unfunny.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Nah, they're brilliant! Centurion Vexatius Sinusitus, the two London-based legionaries Appianglorius and Sendervictorius, the guy with chariot breakdown service, Nervus Illnus...

The German ones aren't much good; they have to fall back on things like Kurzchluss and Apfelmuss for Romans, but they can play with -ich words (like peinlich) for the Gauls and Germans.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

I heard there were good English ones and bad English ones, don't know which ones were first. It's been ages since I read any Asterix websites though, so not sure which ones were supposed to be rubbish.

Damn, all my Asterixes are at my parents' place. Want to read them now...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

The ones used in the English-dubbed films were utter crap. The book translations are wonderful, so perhaps it's the films you're thinking of.

It's time I read mine again too.

[snowgrouse.livejournal.com]

No, not thinking about the films, the dubbing on those was so awful, ugh... I just looked at Wikipedia and it says the American translations were different, so those may have been the ones the other website was talking about.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Ah, could be. I only have the British translations.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm surprised your pipecleaner Blake hasn't recruited everyone else to fight the Federation. :^)

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

He'll be able to martial Romans, Gauls, Daleks, giant cats, huge Babylon 5 people, monster potatoes...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I don't know anyone who can resist potatoes.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

They'll roll over the Federation and mash all opposition!

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

They'll whip them and cream them!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Um, that was meant to be 'marshal'. :-P

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

It sounded more original the other way. :^)

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

Hi, Darth Tater! Good to see you again!

And cool pics, vilakins, both these and the Roman ones.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Thanks! Yay for having a camera again!

[the-summoning-d.livejournal.com]

Eeee - I didn't know you were into Asterix! I love it - I've got almost all of the books in English, and quite a few in the original French translations.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have all of them in English, several in German, and had a Latin one till I lent it to someone who never gave it back. :-(

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Love the toys!
I might be an adult but I haven't grown up either!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I've got more than those too; they were just new ones at the time.

I'm never growing up.