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[LethalWhip]

So I was doing a search on the Gormiti magazine, I stumbled across a new press release stating the magazine should be out in the UK. Can any UK member confirm this?

[Strontium Dog]

So I was doing a search on the Gormiti magazine, I stumbled across a new press release stating the magazine should be out in the UK. Can any UK member confirm this?

This is the first I´ve heard of it, though I have been in Spain for the last 10 days.

I guess this is the press release:

http://www.licensema...e/detail/605009

Nice that Gormiti is enough of a success in the UK to justify a magazine, but nothing to suggest we will be getting the unique covermounted figures that the Italian mag has had (or indeed, any figures at all) so it looks like it´s still paying the scalpers through the nose on eBay for the forseeable future.

[evil-orko]

yep i saw one about a week ago

[LethalWhip]

Would any of you gents be kind enough to pick up an extra copy for an avid US collector?

[evil-orko]

i will see if i can find any. they were out a while ago and they are a big thing here with kids so they might have brought them all

[LethalWhip]

i will see if i can find any. they were out a while ago and they are a big thing here with kids so they might have brought them all

Thanks in advance.

[Strontium Dog]

I popped into the newsagent around the corner and was lucky enough to find a copy (sorry, just the one) there, which was nice.

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Issue 1 (priced £3.99) comes with a puzzle book and foil bagged series 2 figure. The mag itself is very clearly aimed at younger kids, but it's decent value I guess.

A little disappointing that we're not getting the exclusive figures that the Italians got, tempered somewhat (for me, at least) by the magazine-exclusive talking Grandalbero, light-up Devilfenix and Atomic series Lavion that just arrived for me in the post from Italy

[Strontium Dog]

I've been somewhat remiss in not posting pics of the last few magazines, as we're up to issue 4 now.

Issue 2 came with a pretty neat Atomic writing set. Issue 3 came with a rubbish plastic disc launcher thing and a packet of the new Gormiti stickers... I think even GP realised how crap the freebies were as they dropped the coverprice from £3.99 to £2.99 for this issue only.

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Issue 4 is the current one, and this has by far the best covermount yet. It's a 240 page comic book containing the comic strips from the first 18 issues of the Italian Gormiti magazine, translated into English! This covers the saga right from the very beginning through to Final Evolution series, and it's a must-buy if you're at all interested in the backstory.

You may recall SpyMagician posting summaries of some of these previously; well now we can read for ourselves how the tribes got their Atomic powers, how Helios betrayed the Earth, Sea and Forest tribes, how the Light and Dark tribes came into being etc.

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The actual magazine itself contains The Never-Ending Battle parts 1 and 2, which originally appeared in in Italy issues #21 and #22, while UK issue 3 contained A New Beginning parts 1 and 2 from issues #19 and #20, so they're getting us up to speed with the story pretty fast.

Still no sign of any exclusive magazine repaints, sadly

Incidentally, it seems the Italian figures from Series 3/Mythos now have official English names. Some are direct translations - L'Antico Thorg is The Ancient Thorg, Spiritonero is Black Spirit, and so on. Many retain their original names, like Comet, Prismagon, Obscurio and Nobilmantis. Some have entirely new names though; Ombrassassina (literally "Shadowkiller") becomes Shadoom, for example, and Buconero - "Black Hole" - is called Pitchblack.

And curiously, they also chose to illustrate the front of the comic itself with the Series 3 lords. I just wonder whether this, coupled with that guy in Japan who was selling English language Series 3 blisters, means that we actually will see a UK release for Series 3

[BM14murph]

I saw series 4 in my newsagents the other day nd i'm gonna pop in nd hopefully(if it's still there) buy it

Anybody think it's worth hunting down the other 3 issues of just start from this one??

strotium dog any advice?? :L

[Strontium Dog]

Well, the magazines themselves are kind of juvenile. I don't think the first 3 are an essential purchase by any means, issue 4 is definitely the best so far because of the comic book.

[Strontium Dog]

Issue 7 has just come out and to my surprise we got: an Italian repaint!

Dragon the Lethal in Elemental Fusion colouring, to be precise, albeit without its battle card.

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This particular figure originally came with Italian Gormiti magazine 29, which was released some time last year, so maybe they just had a load of spare figures left over or something. Either way, a nice figure to have.

[evil-orko]

not sure any one has posted yet but i have noticed that the gormiti are now in the gumball machines near where i live

[Strontium Dog]

Here's something interesting. I was in another newsagent today and I noticed their copies of Gormiti magazine had a different Italian repaint!

This time it was Elemental Fusion Bullrock from Magazine #21, the same one as in this picture, although again without his Italian language battle card.

This has got me wondering just how many different Gormiti are available covermounted with this month's magazine

[oishiho]

This is the first I´ve heard of it, though I have been in Spain for the last 10 days.

I guess this is the press release:

http://www.licensema...e/detail/605009

Nice that Gormiti is enough of a success in the UK to justify a magazine, but nothing to suggest we will be getting the unique covermounted figures that the Italian mag has had (or indeed, any figures at all) so it looks like it´s still paying the scalpers through the nose on eBay for the forseeable future.

Is there english version?? I hope it reaches philippines