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#1 bigburty

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Posted 27 June 2013 - 10:15 PM

Topic split from here: http://www.littlerub...showtopic=50370  :ph34r:

 

 

Bang for buck, with the sheer quantities available on the secondary market, I reckon they offer the best value of any line around :yes:


Agreed. It's still beyond me why they never really hit the big time collecting-wise. As Stront said, you'll be hard pressed to find cooler looking figures for such a bargain basement price. I'll be at a car boot in the morning and I'm pretty sure I'll find some of these :thumbsup: Unrelated, but I'll also be using the car boot to try and pick up some Gogos for my wife to use at work. Another set of figures you can get plenty of for a low price.


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Posted 28 June 2013 - 03:03 AM

Agreed. It's still beyond me why they never really hit the big time collecting-wise.

 

Not sure that's quite true; Gormiti has sold more than 200 million units worldwide and is currently on its 15th series. Admittedly not quite as successful in the UK as it has been elsewhere in Europe.


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Posted 28 June 2013 - 07:50 AM

Not sure that's quite true; Gormiti has sold more than 200 million units worldwide and is currently on its 15th series. Admittedly not quite as successful in the UK as it has been elsewhere in Europe.


I see your point. I suppose I base my judgements on things like the number of Gormiti collectors here at LRG compared to other toy lines, along with the low prices the figures sell for on the second hand market. Why do you think they have achieved greater success in the rest of Europe compared to the UK?
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Posted 28 June 2013 - 10:55 AM

Why do you think they have achieved greater success in the rest of Europe compared to the UK?


 
 
Because Gormiti are weird and so are Europeans :lol:
 
But seriously...
 
I think the continentals are more open to new toylines. The UK is part of Europe, of course, but I think our market tends to be similar to the US market in that it is dominated by big licences.
 
For instance, I was in Toys R Us today and it's Star Wars this and Superman that and Lego everything. It's more difficult for a new property like Gormiti to get a foothold in that market.
 
They still get the movie tie-ins on the continent, but they don't dominate to the same extent. Presumably the language barrier is partly to do with that - Hollywood films are English language, so they translate more successfully to English speakers like us.
 
The result is that the UK misses out on a lot of cool stuff from continental Europe, predominantly Italy. We never got stuff like Gormiti Neorganic, Dinofroz World, Monster Connectors or Virus Attack when they were originally released, although they all showed up on clearance eventually, which was pretty awesome.
 
It does make the current global success of Trash Pack all the more remarkable, albeit this is Moose's umpteenth attempt at creating a blockbuster franchise. Of course, Trash Pack is distributed by Giochi Preziosi, creators of Gormiti, in Europe, so perhaps both firms have learnt from their earlier mistakes.

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Posted 28 June 2013 - 11:02 AM

The sheer number of loose Gormiti on the market at the moment is a huge indicator of how successful it's been, the kids bought into it big time. Of course that same generation of kids got a bit older and grew into other things, and first the US and then the UK were judged not to be profitable markets so the distribution of the line has shrunk. Fast forward 15 or 20 years though and those same kids that have outgrown the line now will be the ones paying top dollar for the figures in the future when they're far less plentiful than they are today. I'm kind of looking forward to cleaning up on big Trash Pack lots in a few years time when the 'buzz' of that line has passed and the kids don't care about their squishy garbage creatures any more.


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Posted 28 June 2013 - 02:28 PM

It's funny to think that in 10-15 years all of these kids might be hunting down Gormiti figures in the same way we do MIMP and MUSCLE. I can definitely see how the 'big boys' make it difficult for small lines to make a go of it on the shelf. Half of the movie tie-ins now a days are a pile of crap, so it's such a pity they take precedence over other, more interesting lines.

As it stands, is it likely that any of the figures will be considered rare etc in the distant future? I mean, like some series 1 MIMP are harder to come by than others?
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Posted 28 June 2013 - 02:35 PM

Figures that were only pack ins with larger items will be less common than others, news stand/magazine figures from the continent, later series that have had increasingly limited releases, the first few Italian only series before the international release. From the perspective of the English speaking toy community those will to greater or lesser degrees be the harder ones to find down the line.


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