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[nik62es]

a bunch of representative Gormiti figures..from the Happy Hippo (a definite Kinder egg inspiration), to what may well be the prettiest Jessica ever made, an Atomic Horror Profundo (learn spanish with Nik, part I), the little fellow who started the off - Gheos, a miniature version of Luminor and this funny guy from the Mythos series..





The gold and the normal version of Kolossus







The various changes Jessica went through before she became just that - Jessica (ever since the comic series)





colour variations from the first series to an Atomic




yes mummy, you really can disembowl Luminor...




..and use pieces of others from the Titanium series to create your very own Gormiti... (this is possibly my favourite series as far as playabillity for an adult goes..yes I know the plastic is not the best of qualities, yes I know it`s easy to break things off..but hey - at long last they have made a Gormiti that does the same as any old Playmobil figure..move arms and legs..AND look a lot more evil then any of the Halloween Playmobil eggs..)








All whole-y versions together : two official ones, one not-too-official one. We have an Fusion Elemental and a Eclipse Supreme , which have the microchip on opposite feet and to top it all the Altar de la vida for the second will not work with figures from the first talking series..(you can however use most figures of the second on the altar of the first talkers, it may be a bit akward to fit them on, but at least they talk..). The other figure comes from Hong Kong. A lot of discussion went on in the Gormiti community until it was finally agreed (sort of), that these are genuine pieces, albeit without the chip, as they were probably made in an extra "night shift", yet the final assembly, i.e.: the fitting of the chip, wasn`t done in the same factory. Also note that all my Gormiti are duly marked with the initials of their respective owners (son & daughter)..all my stuff is here to be played with... I even let my kids handle the Doepke crane and fire engine...




Four Luminors together (yes, I do have another one, but it`s in my sons I-take-these-to-the-beach-bag..)



Feel free to post your own pics under this same thread..they can be just like mine, i.e.: without pretending to do anything else but show some of your collection here...

Edited by nik62es, 29 June 2011 - 03:50 AM.

[LethalWhip]

I have begun the sad chore of packing up my Gormiti collection for storage. I boxed my entire collection of 24 variations of the Flair/Upper Deck US test market carded pieces. My six Playmates test market pieces. I packed up that handful of UK boxed sets SD was nice enough to procure for me. I still have to box up my series 1 and 2 two packs for long term storage. Then I have random extras to pack away. I was just at Toys R Us earlier today looking at the $1.98 two-packs that are an additional 25% off, so like $1.49 and I wanted to buy them up SO bad. My brother despises my collection, telling me constantly that I could have bought LEGO with all that money. Nevertheless, I had one heck of a time collecting these buggers, and made alot of friends here on LRG. I got the sense of fulfillment I was looking for in reliving my Battle Beasts days vicariously through Gormiti. Thanks to everyone for the great ride. I will be around the boards every so often to see what's up. Thanks guys, see you around.

[nik62es]

I have begun the sad chore of packing up my Gormiti collection for storage. I boxed my entire collection of 24 variations of the Flair/Upper Deck US test market carded pieces. My six Playmates test market pieces. I packed up that handful of UK boxed sets SD was nice enough to procure for me. I still have to box up my series 1 and 2 two packs for long term storage. Then I have random extras to pack away. I was just at Toys R Us earlier today looking at the $1.98 two-packs that are an additional 25% off, so like $1.49 and I wanted to buy them up SO bad. My brother despises my collection, telling me constantly that I could have bought LEGO with all that money. Nevertheless, I had one heck of a time collecting these buggers, and made alot of friends here on LRG. I got the sense of fulfillment I was looking for in reliving my Battle Beasts days vicariously through Gormiti. Thanks to everyone for the great ride. I will be around the boards every so often to see what's up. Thanks guys, see you around.

..first and only time in Philadelphia..at the airport..I asked this guy behind the counter "so what are these cheese chips" - reply : "chips with cheese"...not sure I want to go through that again, but anyway - What is a Toys r us two pack (accent on two pack..evern here in Spain we have Toys r us) ? Over here Gormiti are usually for sale in individual foil bags or 5 packs..
why are you putting them away for storage ?
Personally I hope my son will stay with them for a few more years..as I cannot see myself bringing up the same enthusiasm for Lego (he has two large storage boxes full of Duplo..)... I am sooo old that Lego used to mean blocks, not tiny figures and Ninjago, etc... the whole Lego figure aspect is at least twice removed from the idea of bringing out the creative side of kids..

Edited by nik62es, 01 July 2011 - 01:35 PM.

[Ericnilla]

yeah 2-packs are just 2 carded figures. we dont have single foil packs over here in the US.





**also hope to see you around Lethal.

Edited by Ericnilla, 01 July 2011 - 02:25 PM.

[nik62es]

yeah 2-packs are just 2 carded figures. we dont have single foil packs over here in the US.





**also hope to see you around Lethal.

..ah, now THAT is interesting...wonder why they never exported those little bags to the US..surely not a case of postage... is there a federal law about having to show what`s inside a bag ? But then again, you did have FOA in foil..I remember seeing an advert for a few of them.. the 2 Gormiti variety is not known over here..plus commercially speaking it makes a lot more sense to see 4 at a time...you NEVER get the Lord with ne of these packs and they are never all of the same group..meaning you forever try to get the collection complete..needing to buy the foils..or becoming a good eBay customer... The foils are probably the best strategy there is..after all..you wouldn`t know if the inside holds a double (or even a triple)..that is unless you are like me and don`t mind spending your time manhandling the little bags. The only two Titanium I have are Luminor and Oscurio..20 minutes for both of them, thanks to that special touch..and a portion of luck. I managed quite well to pick up the Lords in the normal series, but Titanium was extra hard...

[Ericnilla]

no, the test market here had the foil packs before it was officially released and there are plenty of toys sold that way. they just decided not to make any blind bagged. idk why~? and these arent imported really, they're made specifically for the US market.

and we are way behind in the series'... we have only had 2 series here and they are old sculpts compared to what is in europe.

Edited by Ericnilla, 01 July 2011 - 03:42 PM.

[nik62es]

no, the test market here had the foil packs before it was officially released and there are plenty of toys sold that way. they just decided not to make any blind bagged. idk why~? but these arent exported really, made specifically for the US market.

and we are way behind in the series'... we have only had 2 series here and they are old sculpts compared to what is in europe.

..I was going to edit my last post about that after I looked closely at your pic...this is definitly not our spanish series 2... I guess there is a need to get this all sorted with a nice big new thread about how each series was called and their timelin.. I will start on this ..in my next life..but I am willing to contribute, without any "why haven`t you done anything yet" pressure if someone else starts it... and only after a LRG forum member from Italy does his bit as well (YES Alberto, this is a hint indeed, how could you tell..)

[Ericnilla]

i think there is a thread around here that catalog's the timeline over there and here. i have to find it.

[LethalWhip]

The blind packed idea would have been kinda cool, but given that we are now on the 4th series of blind packed LEGO figures, I personally have just about had it with the blind packs. Although they can be fun, they do get irritating.

Didn't the first two US series cover 4 different series. I mean you had the 40 regular painted characters and 30 repaints, b/c niether the lords or the one Lava tribe ever got repainted. I'm pretty sure the UK series 1 only had 42 characters, the forty we had plus the 2 guys that got excluded from the box set, Multiform and Mastadonic? Then our series 2 included the regular guys and the Atomic set, which I thought were the combination of UK series 2, and series 3. Then for US series 3 we only got a teaser, the two small fold out playsets that Target stores had each with 1 gold painted figure that was supposed to be from US series 3. Playmates even put a photo of series 3 on the box but never delivered.

Then we were left out in the cold. Playmates became too concerned with the overstock they produced to bother even making a US series 3. Had they just continued progressing forward they probably could have sold some of the overstock along the way instead of abandoning us completely. But such is life, I am still tempted to believe that some series 3 figures did get made but were never released.

As for why I packed them away. I am, as Strontium Dog was so nice to point out, the only person on the planet who collects Gormiti in the package. Since I moved into a new apartment in the Fall of 2010, I have not displayed anything on the wall (since I want my security deposit back) so no pinholes. I really just don't have the space to display my collection. So a decision has finally been made to pack the Gormiti up and store it away for now.

With the figures costing so little now, I do believe that many a kid will get at least one pack. So the seed will be planted to investigate what Gormiti were sometime in the far future. So eventually my collection will come back out one day, when people have a renewed interest in them. But I do not foresee such a day happening for a long time.

[nik62es]

The blind packed idea would have been kinda cool, but given that we are now on the 4th series of blind packed LEGO figures, I personally have just about had it with the blind packs. Although they can be fun, they do get irritating.

Didn't the first two US series cover 4 different series. I mean you had the 40 regular painted characters and 30 repaints, b/c niether the lords or the one Lava tribe ever got repainted. I'm pretty sure the UK series 1 only had 42 characters, the forty we had plus the 2 guys that got excluded from the box set, Multiform and Mastadonic? Then our series 2 included the regular guys and the Atomic set, which I thought were the combination of UK series 2, and series 3. Then for US series 3 we only got a teaser, the two small fold out playsets that Target stores had each with 1 gold painted figure that was supposed to be from US series 3. Playmates even put a photo of series 3 on the box but never delivered.

Then we were left out in the cold. Playmates became too concerned with the overstock they produced to bother even making a US series 3. Had they just continued progressing forward they probably could have sold some of the overstock along the way instead of abandoning us completely. But such is life, I am still tempted to believe that some series 3 figures did get made but were never released.

As for why I packed them away. I am, as Strontium Dog was so nice to point out, the only person on the planet who collects Gormiti in the package. Since I moved into a new apartment in the Fall of 2010, I have not displayed anything on the wall (since I want my security deposit back) so no pinholes. I really just don't have the space to display my collection. So a decision has finally been made to pack the Gormiti up and store it away for now.

With the figures costing so little now, I do believe that many a kid will get at least one pack. So the seed will be planted to investigate what Gormiti were sometime in the far future. So eventually my collection will come back out one day, when people have a renewed interest in them. But I do not foresee such a day happening for a long time.

this is sad..specially as Strontium Dog is wrong on that one..I know more people who have already got unopened packages of Gormiti with a few to their future colectabillity..although personally I believe that it is NEVER worse keeping anything for 20 odd years in the hope of greatly incresing the resale value..as you may be a lot better off buying the stuff in 20 years time and selling it on again..Almost nothing..and I am going back right to the last century, cannot be gotten hold off. Yes, there are items, like http://en.wikipedia....en_Writing_Ball a Hansen Writing Ball or http://en.wikipedia..../Enigma_machine an Enigma (to talk about a collectors subject I know a little more of) who have greatly outdone any forecast as to appreciation, but either examples were not comercially sold items right from the start. I had a spell at japanese bat-ops from the 50`s/60`s some years ago and still have about 80 - 120 (all boxed up, never counted them to start off with..), they were all bought in the US..and yes, they represent a bit of fun playing, a bit more actually owning them (Erich Fromm Haben und Sein (to have and to be) is a MUST READ for any collector)..but the cold merciless moneygrabbing part of knowing full well that they are going up in value the next 20 years more then they have the last 50...well that is like Mastercard - priceless... I would vote for a mixed approach to anything collectable that you buy brand-new : buy 2..store one to maintain the idea of hidden future riches (mathematical equasion : the more future = the more riches..) and use the other one to play. Assuming that, like me, you are now in an age group where everything is allowed and you have no feeling of ridicule when playing with little rubber figures (I do have a collection of Steiff animals..and one blue teddy with music is sitting on my beside cabinet..right next to my shotgun - we live in a slightly remote part of the woods... I am not gun-mad, I promise..), perhaps opening one or two of those Gormiti packs will brighten up your days...admittedly having young kids helps tremendously (if this is a problem, I can`t help you out on that one, but I am sure there are plenty of oppsoite sexed people in your place of residents who are willing and able candidates..or try adoption..). Gormiti are the culmination of the last 30 years as far as little monster type figures go. Enjoy them

[LethalWhip]

Oh I assure you I enjoyed my figures. I made sure my friend's son here and my little cousin in Hungary got some Gormiti to play with as well. I got to see the ecitement as my friend's son learned adding numbers together while playing the game.

I also enjoyed some loose figures and hand painted one as a custom.

The extra's I have are just a matter of being obsessive about a hobby. Of course it would be nice for whatever I own to go up in value over time. But such is not always the case. As I have spread my interest over multiple items over time, sure some things gain value, and some lose. But I am a buy, sell, and trade kind of guy. At different times my interests shift as does the majority of collectors. Sometimes it works out to my advantage to sell some of my collection off to buy myself something newer. This is definitely true for different LEGO sets I have bought in the last ten years. Since some older sets are worth more now, I have sold them off to buy newer ones.

I certainly wouldn't "bank" on the idea that everything I collect is eventually going to be worth more. That's just silly. I buy what I like, and when I am really into something I'll buy some duplicates. If I could go back now and either never get into toys, or have only bought the things I truly deeply liked instead of trying to collect entire series, I suppose I would have spent the extra money then on other things. I am kind of happy to have a solid collection of things now then have wasted the money on other things, like alcohol and drugs, earlier in my life. It feels good to go to my storage unit and rummage through boxes of stuff and think, I don't have to pay anyone else for these things, I own them.

I think it may be too late for me to change my habits, but perhaps not. Now that I finally have gotten motivated in the last few years and have earned two associate degrees, I plan to now major in marketing or industrial design and go on to design toys. I think everything I have enjoyed and collected up to this point are the building blocks to designing future toys.

Plus it feels better to me to buy up something on sale or clearence now than buy older toys at a premium.

I love where I came from, and I love where I am going. And I love everyday that I don't have to part with something from my collection.

[nik62es]

Oh I assure you I enjoyed my figures. I made sure my friend's son here and my little cousin in Hungary got some Gormiti to play with as well. I got to see the ecitement as my friend's son learned adding numbers together while playing the game.

I also enjoyed some loose figures and hand painted one as a custom.

The extra's I have are just a matter of being obsessive about a hobby. Of course it would be nice for whatever I own to go up in value over time. But such is not always the case. As I have spread my interest over multiple items over time, sure some things gain value, and some lose. But I am a buy, sell, and trade kind of guy. At different times my interests shift as does the majority of collectors. Sometimes it works out to my advantage to sell some of my collection off to buy myself something newer. This is definitely true for different LEGO sets I have bought in the last ten years. Since some older sets are worth more now, I have sold them off to buy newer ones.

I certainly wouldn't "bank" on the idea that everything I collect is eventually going to be worth more. That's just silly. I buy what I like, and when I am really into something I'll buy some duplicates. If I could go back now and either never get into toys, or have only bought the things I truly deeply liked instead of trying to collect entire series, I suppose I would have spent the extra money then on other things. I am kind of happy to have a solid collection of things now then have wasted the money on other things, like alcohol and drugs, earlier in my life. It feels good to go to my storage unit and rummage through boxes of stuff and think, I don't have to pay anyone else for these things, I own them.

I think it may be too late for me to change my habits, but perhaps not. Now that I finally have gotten motivated in the last few years and have earned two associate degrees, I plan to now major in marketing or industrial design and go on to design toys. I think everything I have enjoyed and collected up to this point are the building blocks to designing future toys.

Plus it feels better to me to buy up something on sale or clearence now than buy older toys at a premium.

I love where I came from, and I love where I am going. And I love everyday that I don't have to part with something from my collection.

..I can`t speak for others, hell..at times I can`t even speak for myself, but I think those last words sum up ever-so-nicely what most collectors feel like, deep down.
I guess everyone gets the urge to design toys at one stage, specially as adults still interested in toys have a different outlook then kids who limit themselves to play with whatever is on offer (prior to previous loudly screamed demands) for christmas, birthday, etc.. or adults who are profesionally into toys alas with a strong commercial attitude, as in : never mind the quality, never mind the play value, never mind anything as long as it sells, quickly and by the millions (haaang on, THAT sounds like Gormiti, right..hehe). I cannot see me ever at the point of paying hundreds of dollars for a couple of gramms of plastic/rubber, but I can understand all about the joy of hunting and finding items. When I lived in Germany and the UK (two little insignificant countries here in Europe..you can probably fit both of them into most states of the US..), I thoroughly enjoyed the fleamarkets..and when I was in L.A. ( a little insignificant town in the US, you can probably fit it into, uhm - Monaco ..and it would burst at its seams..) I absolutly loved the garage sales..these are the places where you find some true bargains, not just in a monetary sense but simply as in "look what I got this weekend". Yes, the pleasure of being a semi-civilized Neanderthal...gathering, hunting, home with the bounty (just don`t actually cook the stuff). I would emphazise, just like Lethal Whip does, that even as a collector there ought to be a play element and I do feel genuinly sorry for those who use their toys in order to justify spending more money each year on display cabinets. If you cannot take them out every now and then and either gently play with them yourself or have them not-so-gently played with by your kids...you are missing an important part of collecting toys. The accent is on toys - I understand that typewriters for example are not as easy to enjoy in a practical sense (I know however of camera collectors who do use their priced posessions to take photos with..even plate ones), so if you are into that particular segment of collecting - enjoy it to the fullest.
To Lethal Whip - it is people like you who make this forum so enjoyable for us lesser toy-collection-infected members. Thanks for your post