Hello! I'm so glad to have found a surviving little part of my childhood here in this nice little forum. I discovered Chaotic back when it was big, goodness it must have been late 2008 or 2009? I was on the old Chaotic Game site, but I never actually played a single game of Chaotic. I loved to collect all the cards and study the gameplay mechanics though, even if I never could find any of the M'arrillian Invasion and beyond boosters in stores in my country (I'm from the UK, I just remember it was laughably easy to find Silent Sands packs back in the day, even newsagents stocked them but I remember I could only find the later expansions online).
In fact I fell in love with the gameplay mechanics of Chaotic so much, I used it as a basis for a personal TCG project that I started 6 years ago, 3,300 cards and 26 "sets" later I'm still working on it today and adding to it all the time. I suppose they're a bit like a fan made set of Chaotic cards but with my own characters and altered terminology instead, but it wouldn't be hard to turn them into fully Chaotic cards. I just do them for fun of course!
The other day I suddenly had an urge to get back into collecting official TCG cards, and while researching MTG, I stumbled across an eBay listing for Chaotic promo tins, basically 28 tins for £28 shipped, so I bought them on a whim. That was quickly followed by an additional 100 booster packs for £42. And I'm extremely excited to receive my first Chaotic cards since I sold my old collection all those years ago! (oh how I regret that, I had a Heptadd in my old collection too)
Now I'm eyeing up US stores such as Stop2Shop that still have the boosters and starter decks (I may have just emptied a lot of the UK stock out ), they are an insanely good price (I really want some of those SOTLC starter decks, they are so expensive in my country as they never reached the UK?) but their international shipping plus customs charges make it but a distant dream. Maybe if there's some other people in the UK and Europe who want to combine Stop2Shop orders and split the shipping and customs cost, I'd definitely be up for that!
In fact I fell in love with the gameplay mechanics of Chaotic so much, I used it as a basis for a personal TCG project that I started 6 years ago, 3,300 cards and 26 "sets" later I'm still working on it today and adding to it all the time. I suppose they're a bit like a fan made set of Chaotic cards but with my own characters and altered terminology instead, but it wouldn't be hard to turn them into fully Chaotic cards. I just do them for fun of course!
The other day I suddenly had an urge to get back into collecting official TCG cards, and while researching MTG, I stumbled across an eBay listing for Chaotic promo tins, basically 28 tins for £28 shipped, so I bought them on a whim. That was quickly followed by an additional 100 booster packs for £42. And I'm extremely excited to receive my first Chaotic cards since I sold my old collection all those years ago! (oh how I regret that, I had a Heptadd in my old collection too)
Now I'm eyeing up US stores such as Stop2Shop that still have the boosters and starter decks (I may have just emptied a lot of the UK stock out ), they are an insanely good price (I really want some of those SOTLC starter decks, they are so expensive in my country as they never reached the UK?) but their international shipping plus customs charges make it but a distant dream. Maybe if there's some other people in the UK and Europe who want to combine Stop2Shop orders and split the shipping and customs cost, I'd definitely be up for that!