History of Chaotic Trading Card Game
| Designer(s) | originally Dracco Company Ltd. |
|---|---|
| Publisher(s) | Apex Marketing, Inc. |
| Players | 2 |
| Random chance | Medium |
| Skill(s) required |
Card playing Arithmetic Basic Reading Ability |
Before its current form the Chaotic Trading Card Game had several names and versions. Starting in Denmark, Dracco Heads was a children's collectors product featuring plastic figurines of strange creatures. In 2000 a trading card game called Grolls & Gorks was published featuring characters and creatures from Dracco Heads. The next year the game was redesigned by Bryan C. Gannon and renamed Chaotic: Now or Never! This version of the card game had many characters and cards on which the current version of the Chaotic game and the television series are based.
Dracco Heads was a kids' collectors' product sold by Dracco Company Ltd. Dracco Heads featured little plastic figures shaped like heads of strange creatures. A few of these Dracco Heads were given both names and purposes for game play. Dracco Heads were very similar to Crazy Bones.
Over time, Dracco Company Ltd. started making new sets for the Dracco Heads Collection, such as Jumbo Dracco Heads, Baby Dracco Heads, and the Dracco Heads 2nd Edition. The Jumbo Dracco Heads were identical to the originals except for being three times as large, while the Baby Dracco Heads were smaller and cuter versions of the originals.
The third Dracco Heads expansion set was called Dracco Heads 2. This set featured 41 entirely new Dracco Heads divided into two factions, the Gorkovi and the Grollovi; in the current Chaotic mythology, these groups would correspond to the Underworlders and the Overworlders. The expansion also introduced the Dracco Stone, which corresponds to the Cothica.
Beyond the lack of Danians and Mipedians, the most significant difference between the current Chaotic mythology and the Dracco Heads 2 mythology is their origin stories. In Dracco Heads 2, the Grollovi's spaceship had crash landed on a planet inhabited by the Gorkovi, and in the process, the ship's cargo, the Dracco Stone, was lost. The Gorkovi, upon finding out about the stone, wanted to find it so that they could use it to rule the universe; the Grollovi, on the other hand, simply needed it to give their spaceship enough power to return to their home planet.
In 2000 a TCG known as Grolls & Gorks was born. In this trading card game (TCG) the creatures on the cards were mostly from the Dracco Heads 2nd edition, though Location cards were a new addition. Grolls & Gorks was not only a TCG but it was also a Coin Game. It featured plastic coins that had the faces of the Grolls & Gorks creatures on them.
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