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[KiwiRob]

Widerø damaged my Rimowa cabin a couple of weeks back, it can't be fixed so I got a payout from them. It's still usable, they bashed in a corner, what they paid was purchase price less depreciation, so no new Rimowa, after a search I found Carl Friedrik, my new carry on turned up yesterday, its a very impressive and well constructed carry on. Perceived quality is well above the Rimowa Salsa luggage I've been using. New Rimowa's are a lot more expensive now they are part of LVMH, from reading reviews the quality has taken a tumble.

The cabin is very nice, I think I might add a piece of CF checked luggage as well.

 

[Centurion]

Widerø damaged my Rimowa cabin a couple of weeks back, it can't be fixed so I got a payout from them. It's still usable, they bashed in a corner, what they paid was purchase price less depreciation, so no new Rimowa, after a search I found Carl Friedrik, my new carry on turned up yesterday, its a very impressive and well constructed carry on. Perceived quality is well above the Rimowa Salsa luggage I've been using. New Rimowa's are a lot more expensive now they are part of LVMH, from reading reviews the quality has taken a tumble.

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The cabin is very nice, I think I might add a piece of CF checked luggage as well.

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How smoothly do the wheels roll? Do they have ball bearings?
Do the zips, fasterns and handles feel premium?

 

[Giannis]

I was about to ask the same. Are they worth their price tag?

 

[KiwiRob]

The wheels are Hinomoto, these are the gold standard for luggage wheels, the have ball bearings, rolls over carpet and parket flooring as well as my Rimowa ones do. There are no zips, the body is made from polycarbonate, it has an aluminium frame with clamps. Its a hybrid like the Rimowa Hybrid Cabin. I looked at buying another Rimowa, but the prices have gone up a lot since the LVMH takeover. Percieved quality is high, it's easily as good if not better than the 4 different sized Rimowa Salsa suitcases I own.

It's dead sexy looking luggage IMO.

Rimowa Hybrid Cabin €885

Carl Friedrik Carry on €595

 

[fortuner]

Purchased a use 2020 GLC 300d

 

[Monster]

Just picked this up on the weekend, time to replace my current Oppo Find X5 pro, which I had for 2.5 years without issue.

 

[KiwiRob]

I don't think you can get Oppo mobiles in Europe. They made awesome blu-ray players.

 

[Monster]

It has been a while since the last time I received a Christmas gift that caught me completely by surprise.

BBR 1/18 Pagani Utopia Full Carbon. This is my first resin model and I am very very impressed by the realism of all the fine design details, and the texture and finish of the carbon fibre body.

 

[Giannis]

It has been a while since the last time I received a Christmas gift that caught me completely by surprise.

I don't know about you, old friend, but now that I've grown older I've come to appreciate a good set of socks for Christmas.

 

[Matski]

I have a 'thing' for Southern Comfort... and it has a thing for me... I bought this bottle, released from a batch bottled in the 1970s, as my birthday is soon, and I was also made in the Seventies. One shot a year on my birthday, means this bottle will likely out live me.

 

[SCOTT27]

It’s the IAA of the automobile miniature this week in Nuremberg,Germany.
Many new models previewed. Unfortunately some from last year are still awaiting release.

MINICHAMPS are now the home of BMW.
And due In 1/87, 1/43 and 1/18 are the following.
BMW i5 M60 Touring
BMW i7 M70 G70
BMW Isetta
BMW M5 G90 + M5 Touring G99
BMW Z1
BMW Z3
BMW Z8
BMW M3 LCI
BMW M3 Touring LCI
BMW M4 Coupe LCI
BMW M4 Cabrio LCI
BMW M4 CS

Solido also plan both the 1/43 and 1/18 M5 and M5 Touring.

TSM show their finished 1:18 BMW M3 Touring introduced last year but due sometime this year.
About to be obsolete. As MINICHAMPS will offer the LCI.

 

[SCOTT27]

BMW Lifestyle release a plethora of new 1/18 Miniatures.

The i7 60eDrive. In Two-Tone paintwork.

The M2.

The i5 M60.

Also 1/18 BMW M3 Touring respondent in Brooklyn Grey. This looks like the TSM model as shown above.

 

[Monster]

This is another unexpected purchase. The Autoart 1/18 Mercedes AMG GTR was one of the older release , back then it wasn't in high demand due to cheaper offerings from Norev , and full diecast version from Almost Real.

 

[GTA45E]

This is a good movie that should be added to your Italian hitman collection.

 

[martinbo]

This is a good movie that should be added to your Italian hitman collection

Except that he’s French.

 

[GTA45E]

^
Correct, Jean Reno is French.
However, in the film the character Leon is Italian American.

 

[martinbo]

^
Correct, Jean Reno is French.
However, in the film the character Leon is Italian American.

No way! I always thought that Léon was a Frenchman in the movie. Learn something new every day. What kind of Italian name is Léon?!?

 

[Matski]

I disagree with AI there, it's been a while since I've watched the film, but I'm struggling to think of anything that 'explicitly depicts' him as Italian-American - if anything, even when touching on his back story, I think they deliberately kept it ambiguous as part of the characters mystique... I'd argue he's not played as French or Italian, though is clearly a migrant from somewhere.

I could be wrong, like I say, it's been a few years.

 

[hoffmeister_fan]

I disagree with AI there, it's been a while since I've watched the film, but I'm struggling to think of anything that 'explicitly depicts' him as Italian-American - if anything, even when touching on his back story, I think they deliberately kept it ambiguous as part of the characters mystique... I'd argue he's not played as French or Italian, though is clearly a migrant from somewhere.

I could be wrong, like I say, it's been a few years.

That's what I vaguely remember too. He worked for an Italian-American mob, but he wasn't characterized as Italian but he worked for the "Italians." I think the mob did him a massive favor, i.e. looked after his family and brought him to the US as their assassin to pay off his debt.

 

[Matski]

I think the mob did him a massive favor, i.e. looked after his family and brought him to the US as their assassin to pay off his debt.

I don't recall a debt, his back story was that of a man* who fled his country after revenge killing his murdered girlfriend's father.

* this is how it ended up, but originally he was supposed to have been about Mathilda's age. This would have somewhat explained why his reaction as a grown adult, to the sexual/romantic advances of a 13 year old girl were not quite inline with what the audience expected - for him it was a bridge back to what he lost when he was a boy... Reno doesn't play the part as someone who's emotional development stopped at 19... he pitches it as someone younger, less developed. I'd suggest the reason why he couldn't read was because he went on the run at about age 13, not 19 as it would have been in the film.