This is all happening in ~50 BC, so… pretty impressive, eh?
(see how many anachronisms and Easter Eggs you can spot)
Of course it’s from the classic album Asterix and the Big Fight (1966). Now for me, one of the rather throat-clutching things to see in this tome was poor old Getafix the druid (i.e. Panoramix) being squashed by menhirs several times, idiotically and carelessly thrown by Obelix. The result was that Getafix turned in to a (mostly) harmless lunatic for most of the story, which was probably even more weird and disturbing to see. Guess it’s good he had that classic comic-book elasticity and invulnerability, then.
It seems there was a 1989 animated film version, but that one was more of a pastiche, and not much of a true adaption. However:
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In 2025, Netflix released a 3D animated miniseries, Asterix and Obelix: The Big Fight. This adaptation, which expanded the book’s original story and altered several plot elements, started streaming on April 30, 2025. --WP
Anybody catch that one? If so, what did you think?
There’s a movie trailer and promotional page here, and image samples at google.
(this one’s for you, @pugjesus@lemmy.world, altho I’m not sure I tagged you correctly, and not sure it will work across different software types, i.e. Lemmy & PieFed)
There actually is a W.H. Smith in Paris — or rather, there used to be, since it left the group during the pandemic and was renamed “Smith&Son” — so I wondered for a moment if the pun was the same in the original, but in French the sign says “Pilotix” (obviously named after the magazine Pilote where Asterix was published).
In the original, the sign on the roller coaster is called “montagnes slaves” (Slavic Mountains). That’s because roller coasters are called « montagnes russes » (Russian mountains). The name seems to come from this 18th century precursor to roller coasters that was built near Saint Petersburg. I had to google “Switchbax”, that one’s quite old too!
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