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Creative => Story-Telling => Topic started by: Timotheos on May 04, 2008, 22:47:30
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Caesar's invasion fleet approaches the coast of Kent.
(http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2191/2465966552_5717048266_o.jpg)
The crew is afraid to leave the ship because the British chariotry is guarding the cliffs.
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3296/2465138601_db05e78389_o.jpg)
So the eagle bearer leaps off the ship and starts running toward the Britons, daring his comrades to protect their Eagle.*
(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3246/2465138139_c882ee8cec_o.jpg)
* The anecdote was described by Caesar in the "Gallic War".
Seriously, though, I was impressed by how sea worthy the ship is. It careens slightly, but even with an undulating tide remains shipshape. I took it a few feet out, gave it a push with the current, and watched it sail for shore, then ride the tide back and forth until it beached.
Or maybe the disturbingly large quantity of dead, floating fish in Creve Coeur lake terrified the crew enough to keep their mass centered... seriously though it was disgusting.
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I like the big feet, in the coast of Britannia ... Makes me have visions of Romans arriving in a land full of giants! It would have been funny to have seen this happening! :)
Gus
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I like the big feet, in the coast of Britannia ... Makes me have visions of Romans arriving in a land full of giants! It would have been funny to have seen this happening! :)
Gus
If you'll note in the first photo, the foot of a ghost was captured, shimmering in the lower left corner. That must mean the lake is haunted--if all the YouTube movies of yurei (vengeful ghosts) haunting the Japanese railroad network are to be believed.
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Very cool, Tim!
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Timmy, I am so happy to see that at least one of us still has the marvelous imagination that we probably all had when we were children. It was that special ability to fantasize that allowed us to "play" with our toys. I am envious!
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(Now Che Clickara speaks):
It is clear those poor Roman clickies are tired of being manipulated by human beings, and come to invade "Granma-like" the land of the humans, to perform a revolution.
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Excellent photos, Tim, and a great experiment. The galley looks really impressive afloat and you can well imagine how the Britons would have viewed a whole fleet of them. Now if only you had half-a-dozen to photograph!
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Heh, that's what photoshop is for!
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Great work, Timotheos,
All Playmobil ships belong at sea! :yup:
Best regards,
Jimbo
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(Now Che Clickara speaks):
It is clear those poor Roman clickies are tired of being manipulated by human beings, and come to invade "Granma-like" the land of the humans, to perform a revolution.
Cough, cough, have you read a real biography of Che Guevara, Pyrrhus?
In keeping with Che:
Presumably the Romans will execute any Briton who doesn't embrace the revolution with sufficient zeal!
-Tim
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Hi, Timotheos
I didn't read too much on the biography of Che Guevara (the avatar simply looked nice to me, I'm not precisely a communist).
Having a far-leftist social worker sister which has Che as an idol has supplied me with more knowledge than I ever attempted to gather.
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Che later served as Castro's executioner, though Wikipedia assures me Che only shot "war criminals".
-Tim
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Well, don't want to get much political on this forum (except for the former little joke on leftist readings of situations), but I think when someone kills other person/s, they will always try to justify by saying "it was necessary" or, worst, "his crimes deserved it". And their enemies will try to suggest how senseless the killings were.
Not trying to defend commies, but every fact we read is ussually not devoid from justifications or omissions for propaganda sakes, any side it comes from.
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Che is good looking, and from my memory of college, half the girls were in love with him.
We have a gaggle of home grown "freedom fighters", the "Weathermen", who bombed a few places and killed a few people, but accounts assure me how absolutely charming one of the ringleaders, Bernadine Doehrn, is--enough to net her speaking positions at universities to this day.
On the other hand, another homegrown "revolutionary", Timothy McVeigh, is an unsociable, uncharismatic sociopath. And, fortunately, nobody in their right mind likes him.
So, as Che and Doehrn have shown us, if you intend to kill people, be charming about it and the kids will go ga-ga over your rhetoric.
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Hey, Timotheos, you seem to insist on the theme of the executions... Perhaps you are trying to suggest me to abandon this avatar because of he being an killer.
But, then we can say that many of the avatars on this forum were not-so saint. For example, pirates also executed innocent merchant civilians, as cowboys did (many times from behind, unlike the movies), US western soldiers and Spanish conquistadores decimated Native American tribes, American Natives, on their own, sometimes executed innocent civilian farmers, Confederate soldiers fought basically for slavery (and no doubt executed rebel slaves), Medieval knights taxed heavily on peasants, and repressed and executed them when they did revolted, Crusaders commited several crimes in the Middle East, and Romans killed many people in Gaul. We should use civilians as avatars in such a case...
I can understand you do not like Che Guevara. All democrats (as myself) should not like the idea of dictatorships and repressions, and he embraced it. I am myself against death sentence, no matter the crime. If I praise something from Che, it is not the executions he performed (on nobody, not even those some people may think deserved it). But I think most fighting leaders do not have its hands entirely clean.
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I can understand you do not like Che Guevara. All democrats (as myself) should not like the idea of dictatorships and repressions, and he embraced it. I am myself against death sentence, no matter the crime. If I praise something from Che, it is not the executions he performed (on nobody, not even those some people may think deserved it). But I think most fighting leaders do not have its hands entirely clean.
I actually don't dislike Che as a historical figure.
I just dislike him as a pop-culture icon who middle-class and wealthy college students romanticize. I wonder how willing these kids would be to trade their Mom-and-Pop scholarship and their luxuries for an AK-47 and a trek through the jungle?
Adoring the icon of Che Guevara allows a pampered college kid to feel like a social reformer, when in reality Che probably would have put a bullet through her parents' heads if the parents didn't agree to finance his revolution.
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Well, in reality you can adore guys whom you think are doing things well, even if you think you cannot. Childs adore Superman, oldies adore Mike Tyson. So it can apply for any urban leftist still adoring Che, even if they consider "too risky" to fight. Anyway, whom each individual adores or not to me is only to be left to them.
With respect to the killings, I think we can get much political in this. We can not separate the killings from the justifications behind. Just as none of us, I suppose you included, would condemn the killing of a person if, for example some important cause forced one to do so, even if only self- protection, or stopping a man who would kill many if left on his own. And in talk about justifications means to get somewhat political, and there is a possibility for us to be admonished by getting political in a forum whose main interest is other.
So, accepting the importance of the justification, I think we cannot judge any political figure of times of struggle or war by accusing them of just "killing". No leader would survive condemnation, no cause would be fair. But, at the other side, not struggling (and refusing to fight) does, in some situations, not impede the killing of peoples.
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So, accepting the importance of the justification, I think we cannot judge any political figure of times of struggle or war by accusing them of just "killing". No leader would survive condemnation, no cause would be fair. But, at the other side, not struggling (and refusing to fight) does, in some situations, not impede the killing of peoples.
I agree. Are there any klicky avatars shaped like Robert Mugabe? Like Che, Castro, and Pol Pot, he had a lot of bold ideas and started out doing well as a revolutionary, even if somewhere along the way things got a little lost in translation.
So:
Call my avatar "Robert Klickabe"
Far from invading "Granma style", my Romans are invading Britain because they're tired of former British subjects dominating the farm system and they want to impose smart one party rule over Klick-babwe.
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I'm just clowing with you, Pyrrhus.
But seriously, darn it, Robert Mugabe, why couldn't you have been more good-looking? Hot American college girls would be goose-stepping around campus declaring themselves to be "Mugabe Babies" if only you'd grown a shaggy beard, swaggered across Red Square, and worn one of those sexy Castro berets.
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well, that joke throw the seemingly coming political discussion back to the stage of your first response. :hmm:
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Great set of pics, Tim! Thanks for posting. :D
The ship does appear to balance well in the water. I've never been game enough to test any of mine this way - I would always worry (unnecessarily, perhaps) about it capsizing and losing some men overboard. The most 'daring' thing I ever did was take the Playmobil Nessie for a swim on the shores of Loch Ness. :-[
Creve Coeur's lake looks like a beautiful spot, though I'm very glad you didn't capture any of the dead fish on your photos. Would have spoilt the mood completely! ;)
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Great set of pics, Tim! Thanks for posting. :D
The ship does appear to balance well in the water. I've never been game enough to test any of mine this way - I would always worry (unnecessarily, perhaps) about it capsizing and losing some men overboard. The most 'daring' thing I ever did was take the Playmobil Nessie for a swim on the shores of Loch Ness. :-[
Creve Coeur's lake looks like a beautiful spot, though I'm very glad you didn't capture any of the dead fish on your photos. Would have spoilt the mood completely! ;)
I was worried about capsizing initially and I kept really close to the shallows. But, the boat kept upright well. I had the klickies wedged onto their little pegs on the deck. Center of balance is crucial--in a bathtub, I capsized the boat pretty easily just by moving one figure to the other side.
Creve Coeur Lake is beautiful, considering our lack of alternatives. The county extended a bike trail out their a couple of years ago, so the lake is newly discovered territory for me. I believe it is manmade reservoir, but am not certain.