Sane Inside Insanity: ROUGH LIST OF POSSIBLE OPTIMI

venerdì, febbraio 22, 2008

ROUGH LIST OF POSSIBLE OPTIMI

Aggiornerò questo post man mano che approfondisco l'argomento. Ci sono recensioni su YouTube, le sto ancora guardando. Ho usato Amazon solo come riferimento, non intendo comprare ancora nulla. Sono ancora parecchio confusa e aspetto con ansia Cartoomics alla fine di Marzo, dove spero di vedere qualcuno di questi tipi da vicino e comprare il mio Optimus ideale. (Magari per allora mi sarà anche passata la cotta, con un po' di fortuna.)

Movie Leader OP. Ancora la mia scelta principale, ma troppo costoso. Ho cercato di comprarlo usato, ma nessuno dei venditori spediva in Italia. Grrr... se si trasformasse e basta e non avesse luci e suoni, costerebbe meno! (Alto 25 cm)

Robot Replicas OP. Molto accessibile. Bello, meno massiccio, ma è perché non si trasforma. Non posso avere tutte e due le cose. Triste. (Alto 13,75 cm)

Leader Through The Ages Action Figure 2-Pack. Tentatissima, 2 più o meno al prezzo del solo Movie Leader, e si trasformano entrambi. Però non mi piace la versione Movie: cos'ha, la griglia del radiatore in testa? (Alti 15 cm)

Plush Softimus Prime. Non si può farne a meno. ROFL!!!

Movie Voyager OP. Boh. Non è brutto, è abbastanza accessibile, ma non ha abbastanza fiamme, e ho visto una versione con il radiatore in testa. A meno che quello non sia Robo-Vision OP. Le cose sono così complicate anche perché a volte temo che i giocattoli vengano presentati con il nome sbagliato.

Premium Battle Damage OP. Le ferite di guerra non mi dispiacciono, al contrario, MUAHAHAHAHA, ma dalle immagini non capisco bene com'è fatto. Temo che anche lui abbia il radiatore in testa.

E la ricerca continua...

I'll update this as I discover more. There's reviews on YouTube but I'm still watching them. I used Amazon just as a reference, I don't mean to buy anything yet. I'm still very confused and I'm looking forward to Cartoomics at the end of March, where I hope to see some of these guys up close and buy my ultimate Optimus. (Hopefully I might even be over my crush by then.)

Movie Leader OP.
Still my first choice, but too costly. Tried to get it used, but none of the sellers shipped to Italy. Grrr... if he didn't have lights and sounds and just transformed he'd be cheaper! (10" tall)

Robot Replicas OP. Very affordable. Good-looking, less bulky, but it's because he does not transform. Can't have both. Sad. (5,5" tall)

Leader Through The Ages Action Figure 2-Pack. Very very tempting, 2 for about the price of the single Movie Leader, and they both transform. I don't like Movie Version, though: does he wear his radiator grille on his head? (6" tall)

Plush Softimus Prime. A must-have. ROFL!!!

Movie Voyager OP. Dunno. Not bad, fairly affordable, but not enough flames, and I saw a version with the grille on his head. Unless that's Robo-Vision OP. Things are so complicated also because sometimes I fear the toys are mis-labelled.

Premium Battle Damage OP. Wouldn't mind the battle damage, quite the contrary, MUAHAHAHAHA, but I can't tell from the pics how exactly he looks. I fear he, too, has his radiator on his head.

And the search goes on...

QUOTES

Heart shall be bolder,
harder be purpose,
more proud the spirit
as our power lessens!
Mind shall not falter
nor mood waver,
though doom shall come
and dark conquer.
(The Battle of Maeldon, translated by Tolkien)

He who has a treasure, or a demon in his heart, cannot hide it. (King Theodoric the Great)

I' mi son un che, quando
Amor mi spira, noto, e a quel modo
ch'e' ditta dentro vo significando.
(Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio)

The lambs will stop for now. But, Clarice, you judge yourself with all the mercy of the dungeon scales at Threave; you'll have to earn it again and again, the blessed silence. Because it's the plight that drives you, seeing the plight, and the plight will not end, ever. (Hannibal Lecter)

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai 'Ngaje Ngai', the House of God. Close to the western summit there is the dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude. (Ernest Hemingway)

Would I embarrass you? Yes, it is possible. You see, I... I am crazy. I take the newer medications, but I still see things that are not here. I just choose not to acknowledge them. Like a diet of the mind, I choose not to indulge certain appetites. Like my appetite for patterns. Perhaps my appetite to imagine and to dream. (A Beautiful Mind)

Night gathers, and now my watch begins.
It shall not end until my death.
I shall take no wife, hold no lands,
father no children.
I shall wear no crowns and win no glory.
I shall live and die at my post.
I am the sword in the darkness.
I am the watcher on the walls.
I am the fire that burns against the cold,
the light that brings the dawn,
the horn that wakes the sleepers,
the shield that guards the realms of men.
I pledge my life and honor to the Night Watch
for this night and all the nights to come.
(GRRM)

Never criticize a person until you walk a mile in their shoes (Atticus Finch)

A warrior for peace is no less a warrior (General Korrd, unwittingly reminding of Yitzhak Rabin)

What was there to be gained by fighting the most evil wizard who has ever existed? Only innocent lives, Peter. (Sirius Black)

Whatever makes a soldier sad will make a killer smile (Leonard Cohen)

I'm rightly tired of the pain I hear and feel, boss. I'm tired of bein on the road, lonely as a robin in the rain. Not never havin no buddy to go on with or tell me where we's comin from or goin to or why. I'm tired of people bein ugly to each other. It feels like pieces of glass in my head. I'm tired of all the times I've wanted to help and couldn't. I'm tired of bein in the dark. Mostly it's the pain. There's too much. If I could end it, I would. But I can't. (John Coffey)

Oh, life! 'tis in an hour like this, with soul beat down and held to knowledge, - as wild, untutored things are forced to feel - Oh, life! 'tis now that I do feel the latent horror in thee! but 'tis not me! that horror's out of me! and with the soft feeling of the human in me, yet will I try to fight ye, ye grim, phantom futures! (Starbuck)

I have dreamt in my life dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they've gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the colour of my mind. (Charlotte Bronte)

If I know a song of Africa, of the giraffe and the African new moon lying on her back, of the plows in the fields and the sweaty faces of the coffee pickers, does Africa know a song of me? Will the air over the plain quiver with a color that I have had on, or the children invent a game in which my name is, or the full moon throw a shadow over the gravel of the drive that was like me, or will the eagles of the Ngong Hills look out for me? (Karen Blixen)

Do not you recognize me, Dumas? I am the rearguard of the Grande Armee. I have stood at Kovno, and thrown the last muskets in the Niemen. I am Marshal Ney. Give me a bowl of soup. (Attributed to Michel Ney).