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...watch them on TV anymore, but vintage superheroes from the '80s, like Voltron, He-Man and the Transformers, are hot items in toy stores once again. They have been popular for years on eBay, where nostalgic adults buy boxed He-Man figures for $60 or a complete Optimus Prime, the truck leader of the Transformers' Autobot heroes, for upwards of $150--eight times its original value. Sooner or later the toymakers had to notice and start making the items again. Trendmaster's mini-replica of the robot Voltron ($29.99) has completely sold out since its release in 1999, and each...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Action Figures From The '80s | 7/30/2001 | See Source »

...imagined himself to be the heir of Titian. Rejected by the French avantgarde, he struck back with disputatious critiques of modernist degeneracy; for the next 60 years of his life, he remained an obdurate though not very skillful academic painter. He even took to signing his work Pictor Optimus (the best painter). The sheer scale of his failure-if that is the word for it-is almost as fascinating as the brilliance of his early talent. Naturally, a great deal of both has been hidden by the polemical dust, and last week New York's Museum of Modern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Enigmas of De Chirico | 4/12/1982 | See Source »

...everything you need at huge savings including our LAB-12 record changer (with base and cartridge) and a pair of our famous compact Optimus-I speakers. Regular $419.95. Sale...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Christmas Gifts For Each and Everyone | 12/12/1968 | See Source »

Maxim us or Optimus? In pages as crowded but unhurried as a Bruegel canvas, Historian Durant shows the life and customs, major sins and minor pastimes of his period, stopping along the way to sketch in a thousand odd facts and arresting faces. The volume ranges over the whole of Europe (with major side trips to Persia, Russia and the New World), from 1300 to 1564 A.D. There is a bit of everything in the book-politics, war, art, architecture, philosophy, commerce, science-all by way of scene-setting for the great central struggle. Durant devotes a third...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Age of Flame | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

Peter: If you are three times Maximus . . . you can't get in here unless you are Optimus also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Age of Flame | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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