having fun – history is priceless
This time 3 more albums with nice gum papers counted and revised.
Album #5:
super cars
ATAKA Turbo #41 is very hard to find item.
ataka turbo #41 super prize balloon
Total: 591 items
If you accidentally have too many doubles of something, not just gum papers, there is always possibility to sort them out by condition, and you can end up with having less. And if your doubles were not used for a long period of time, this can be very healthy.
Gum papers are valuable not just by how many you have of them, but one of the most important thing is their condition. Talking about turbo gum, turbo classic 1-70 are very hard to find in good condition, also the same with turbo super 401-470. Because when you are wrapping them out, in most cases you leave bad marks on them. Paper itself is in good condition, but overall condition can be better.
turbo super 420 badly wrappers out
But when you are sorting out doubles, for example otomoto or bombibom, you can end up with many gum papers not in good condition. If you would try it out, you can be surprised. I was ready for it, but otomoto collection ended not very nicely.
Lazer center is called like that, because text under picture of the paper is in center, and it’s more hard to get and more serious to collect than ordinary lazer gum papers. And I finally have finished it. It’s about month passed to complete last 17 missing of this series. It’s just pure luck.
Bellow it’s my collection of lazer center gum papers. Condition is also quite good, I have replaced 4 of my worst papers into new better looking ones during last 3 exchanges.
Lazer center 1-8
After completing turbo sport Russian series, already few people asked me the same thing:
what you gonna do when all be collected?
My answer was:
turbo 1-50, turbo power, turbo covers.. long way till that. after finishing bi-bib, lazer center, kobra blue, mertsan 4 series and TAXI 1-170, i will think about.
Here I will post my extended answer to this.
I think you all might know what all those titles stands for, and what series it represents. But just in case you don’t, or maybe 4 different mertsan series seems confusing to you, I will explain. And this wish list somehow represents what I like to collect after turbo.
Turbo 1-50
Legendary turbo series, old and rare and painfully hard to get. I have completed first half of this series, and now have 26 different. Still 24 to go. It is possible to collect this series, but it need some very good luck to do that. I know it happens sometimes, and I hope it will repeat few times more. Current missing list can be found here http://need.turbogum.com/#the-turbo
Turbo power
It’s stickers, well know by it’s name turbo power. Originally made by Kent company in mid 90′s. Who do collect turbo papers, those want to collect power stickers as well. Hard to get item, not so rare, just not very common. I do happen to have some of them for exchange if anybody interested. There are two types of them, original Power numbers 1-259, and Turbo Power, numbered 148-259, those pictures are the same as Power stickers. Missing list here http://need.turbogum.com/power-stickers Still have many to finish, as any as I could find. There are still few missing stickers waiting for me, so missing list can change in near future.
Turbo covers
I think i’m the only (correct me if I’m wrong) so much interested in turbo covers, that I have made dedicated website for them, that also acts like my missing list: http://covers.turbogum.com I have found many of my missing covers, time by time, and there are still many covers left to find. As always, when you are closer to the end, there are much more difficult to get what you need. If anybody have something from my missing, give me know.
Bi-Bib
Nice and cool cars from the 70′s. One of my favorite (you might guess) gum series. I have some story told about my bi-bib gum papers here, and I’m now missing about 10 items to this series http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#bi-bib
Lazer with center text
This lazer series, featuring various war machines, happen to be somehow rare, and not so ofter you can find them. They are just cool, nothing special. I’m collecting them just for fun, and to finish them. How they look like I did show here and my current missing list of this series can be found here http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#lazer-center-text Missing count: 17.
Kobra blue text
Same thing as with Lazer. We have Kobra, and we have bonus blue Kobra. Black simple Kobra is collection of 100 items. Blue bonus Kobra is collection of 50 items. Missing list here http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#kobra-blue Missing count: have almost half series.
Mertsan 4 series
Mertsan 20.000 Daca 1-50, Mertsan 20.000 IMpreuna 1-50, Mertsan 250.000 1-50. Mertsan 250.000 1-66. Anybody have some questions? Missing list somewhere around here: http://need.turbogum.com/auto-moto#mertsan-20-000-daca
TAXI 1-170
This series is one of those rare and super cool. Also expensive and hard to find. I should get some of them soon in few weeks, and I will write more info about them. Missing list here, and still many many to collect.
So here’s what I will be collecting for ages, and I do not think that ALL will be collected someday. Collecting is more fun in progress rather than completed result. So happy collecting.
Yes, finally, last items arrived. After so many years, it’s completed. It took for me nearly 5 years to finish it.
And here’s some history. Just about 5 years ago I did some exchange. With turbo 2003. In those days we thought just one 2003 series exists. Me and guys from South thought (knew) about currently known Turkish edition, friends from the East had their Russian edition. International exchanges was just beginning, and I did one. And received different items than I expected. After that exchange we checked what we have, and it appeared we had two different series. Some time 4 years ago everybody agreed that Russian edition is more rare, less common and more valuable than Turkish one. In 2-3 or more times.
So, here is it. Russian turbo sport completed. Turkish turbo sport and super completed. 3 items to go for Russian turbo super edition. 6 new more items in my turbo collection.
I’m now open for propositions in exchange in Russian turbo sport and super I have for exchange into something else, not just another turbo. Because to find something for me gets harder and harder. Sorry. For example I like bibib, lazer with center text, taxi, blue kobra, if you know what I mean.
turbo 2003 rus
power stickers
bonus series
