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On the first post.

So far I really like Wash Buckler and Magna Charge. Aside from them, I'm not too fond of the other new characters from a character design standpoint. If there's really going to be 32 new characters, I'm going to have to restrict what I buy. There's no way I'm buying 32 new characters when there wasn't enough content in Giants to make me want to buy the 16 new ones for that game. Glad that Wash Buckler will be in the starter pack though because he's a must buy for me.

Wash buckler is in both the console, and 3DS starter pack right?

^ starter pack SPECULATION is Wash Buckler, Magna Charge (or Blast Zone), and s3 Stealth Elf. All good except for stealth elf IMO. As for both packs, they are unconfirmed for any of them.

Yeah really, they should'nt have made S3 Stealth elf. Resurrect Camo, and Shroomboom for god's sake!

Id wait tirelessly for S2 Camo.....

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OH NO... INB4 SWAPPABLE SIDEKICKS.

Really, i think the side kicks should do something other than follow you around. Like perhaps help attack enemies or something.

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acually they dont and it wasent a gun it was a remote to switch worlds and they don't like kaos or his mother.

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She gives you the turret gun on your ship, I believe that is when she says it.

what he said. If you talk with the girl enough times she'll say that. So that makes me wonder if it will have something to do with the next game. and Remember she's from the Wilikin World place not the Kaos' home.

Lol the interviewee is a load of BS. "We don't want to make things confusing by adding elements, let me just add 8 classifications and loads of variants to make things simpler ."

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acually they dont and it wasent a gun it was a remote to switch worlds and they don't like kaos or his mother.

No. They like Kaos. He was their master. He used the remotes ti change to the other world whenever his mother came into his room so she woudnt kick the wilkin out.

It kind of would though. The 8 we have now are balanced. Each has a strength and a weakness. If they were to add in more elements, they'd have to shuffle the element rock-paper-scissors around which wouldn't make sense, and would also require poor/stingy parents to buy theirs kids a new character of each element.

I don't much care for the last point though, but I'd prefer to have as few figures as possible each game, adding new elements they'd have to catch up to the original 8.

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Lol the interviewee is a load of BS. "We don't want to make things confusing by adding elements, let me just add 8 classifications and loads of variants to make things simpler ."

kids don't care about variants. anything beyond the basic core characters is strictly aimed at the adult collectors

Point taken, but about the "rock paper scissors" thing, i thought it was 2 sided? magic/tech, rock/air, water/fire, undead/life? or is there something i missed?

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Lol the interviewee is a load of BS. "We don't want to make things confusing by adding elements, let me just add 8 classifications and loads of variants to make things simpler ."

kids don't care about variants. anything beyond the basic core characters is strictly aimed at the adult collectors

Speak for your own! My kids want the variants and I was very much the same at their age.

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acually they dont and it wasent a gun it was a remote to switch worlds and they don't like kaos or his mother.

No. They like Kaos. He was their master. He used the remotes ti change to the other world whenever his mother came into his room so she woudnt kick the wilkin out.

Was that really what it was? I thought they just went into their "sleepy" state because they like to play tricks on people.

^The SG Q&A in the strategy guide explained a bit about that. When he was young, Kaos built a device (later found in the Wilikin Village) that would return the Wilikins to their inanimate toy state whenever mother visited his room to keep them and his Portal Master powers a secret. Kaos's Mother often blamed Portal Masters for the troubles in Skylands.

Eruptor's eruption looked a LOT bigger in that gameplay video.

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Point taken, but about the "rock paper scissors" thing, i thought it was 2 sided? magic/tech, rock/air, water/fire, undead/life? or is there something i missed?

It makes a full circle. Magic<tech<earth<air<fire<water<life<undead<magic
Say they added the elements Light, Dark, Ice and Lightning. Where would the fit? It would throw everything out.

The release date has been confirmed by IGN, September 30, 2013.

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The release date has been confirmed by IGN, September 30, 2013.

Nice! That's almost a whole month before giants came out in 2012!

It's not confirmed, it's a placeholder for the end of Q3, which is when the they have guessed it is coming.

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The release date has been confirmed by IGN, September 30, 2013.

Only a placeholder date.

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The release date has been confirmed by IGN, September 30, 2013.

Uhh... Where? IGN's page shows Q3 2013. I doubt it'll be that soon, more like Q4 2013, so I wouldn't really trust it as a reliable source.

The date is only viewable on the mobile formatted version of the page:

http://m.ign.com/games/skylanders-swap-force/ps3-159809

The 30th? Bu-bu.....but, that's a MONDAY.

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The date is only viewable on the mobile formatted version of the page:

http://m.ign.com/games/skylanders-swap-force/ps3-159809

K, thanks. The 30th of September is the end of Q3, so it is most likely just a placeholder. Kind of like how everything in Wave 3 had a release date of 31st of December until January.

Plus, the 30th is a Monday which doesn't fit with their running (bizarre) theme of releasing their games on a Sunday in NA, the previous Friday in EU and the previous Thursday in AU.

Toys with street dates often are released on Sundays because that's the day the new ads come out. Since Skylanders is so toy heavy, the Sunday release day makes sense.

It better be on a Sunday! It would make no sense to have it come out in NA on a weekday! The usual weekday releases are on Fridays! Although, Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate comes on a Tuesday. Sorry for off-topicness.

I hope it isn't a Monday, I'll be in high school!

this may sound weird but I'm kinda hoping it is because if I have enough money to get it around the release date then my mom may let me get it and a few figs before Christmas

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I hope it isn't a Monday, I'll be in high school!

Lol, so will I. I'm kind of hoping for a Sunday release again with the following Monday being a holiday. Or the game coming out on Friday.

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Point taken, but about the "rock paper scissors" thing, i thought it was 2 sided? magic/tech, rock/air, water/fire, undead/life? or is there something i missed?

It makes a full circle. Magic<tech<earth<air<fire<water<life<undead<magic
Say they added the elements Light, Dark, Ice and Lightning. Where would the fit? It would throw everything out.

Naw man, thats lazy talk. you could always just add onto it, (base<weakness) <magic<light<dark<tech<lightning<earth<air<fire<water<life<undead<magic. or make it the shape of a star thing like so:

btw, people should realize ice is a form of water

^ Nah, that thing is wrong, everyone knows that the all-mighty Spock dominates everything and can't be destroyed >.>

@OpalOsprey Until he is poisoned by a lizard, or disproven by paper.

...I'll get back on topic eventually.

the problem with adding new elements is that 8 is a good number. it's a power of 2, so they can't just add two, four or even 6, but would need another 8 to keep things in balance.

look at the 8 they have. 4 are the traditional natural elements. The other 4 are pairs of traditional opposites.

adding four new natural elements would most likely involve the "intersection" points of the 4 elements:
the intersection of earth and water is mud
the intersection of water and air is mist (or ice, but ice is already established as part of water)
the intersection of air and fire is smoke
the intersection of fire and earth is magma/lava (unfortunately also already established as part of fire in the Skylanders world)

the other 4 would have to be traditional opposites or counterparts, such as time & space, order and chaos, light and dark, sound & vision, or some combination of heart, mind, body and soul.

Ultimately though, I suspect we will not see new elements in the game. the 8 they have are a good number and can pretty much cover any character type they can create.

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this may sound weird but I'm kinda hoping it is because if I have enough money to get it around the release date then my mom may let me get it and a few figs before Christmas

Me too. If it has to be Sunday then they could do the day before.

Anybody else wonder if this will be on Playstation 4? That would be epic!

No 'fense, but PS4 doesn't look that great. Besides, if I bought one, it'd be in the chinese street markets, and those (with all their awesome additional abilities) can't use wi-fi, which is the only major looking upgrade for PS4 aside touchpad on the controller, but already on wii u.

Here, the Toys R us interview

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did anyone see this

EPIC!!!

Its my B-day today

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Anybody else wonder if this will be on Playstation 4? That would be epic!

I doubt Swap Force will be on PS4, but I can imagine that the next Skylanders will.

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Point taken, but about the "rock paper scissors" thing, i thought it was 2 sided? magic/tech, rock/air, water/fire, undead/life? or is there something i missed?

It makes a full circle. Magic<tech<earth<air<fire<water<life<undead<magic
Say they added the elements Light, Dark, Ice and Lightning. Where would the fit? It would throw everything out.

There need not be any new elements. People need to stahp. 8 is enough and, unlike Pokemon, there's no point in ~revealing new elements~. Ice is already part of the Water line, what would they do? Repose Slam Bam to Ice type? Electric/Lightning is an addition to any element: water (zap), undead (cynder), air (l rod). Would they be reposed as well?

The light & dark are the only ones that should be explained.

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Point taken, but about the "rock paper scissors" thing, i thought it was 2 sided? magic/tech, rock/air, water/fire, undead/life? or is there something i missed?

It makes a full circle. Magic<tech<earth<air<fire<water<life<undead<magic
Say they added the elements Light, Dark, Ice and Lightning. Where would the fit? It would throw everything out.

There need not be any new elements. People need to stahp. 8 is enough and, unlike Pokemon, there's no point in ~revealing new elements~. Ice is already part of the Water line, what would they do? Repose Slam Bam to Ice type? Electric/Lightning is an addition to any element: water (zap), undead (cynder), air (l rod). Would they be reposed as well?

The light & dark are the only ones that should be explained.

You forgot Chill for Ice

No, Chill is a Water Skylander, but uses Ice powers like Slam Bam.

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No, Chill is a Water Skylander, but uses Ice powers like Slam Bam.

I know, i was saying that they forgot to list Chill as another character that would jave to be reposed as an Ice skylander is they made that as an element.

^Ahh yes, I don't have Chill so I wasn't sure if she ice based in name only or not.

Light and dark elements might get added, except Undead is sort of Dark.
I think it more likely some sort of bonus thing, not a whole new element, just a bonus status thing, like dark spyro, or each element has a brand new light and/or a brand new dark skylander.

All you peeps dissing the "new elements" idea, did any of you even read my previous post? i mean, some of you pretty much restated the questions i answered.

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Here, the Toys R us interview

(sorry for dp)
i find it funny how the guy likes minor scalping. and does anyone know of this "loyalty" email system? it would be awesome to get first grabs at new characters.

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(sorry for dp)
i find it funny how the guy likes minor scalping. and does anyone know of this "loyalty" email system? it would be awesome to get first grabs at new characters.

^ I believe that he just means the emails that they send out to their Rewards 'R' Us members. I receive early emails from them sometimes about new Skylanders Waves at Toys'R'Us informing when the stores are opening. Also, you can text message (I forgot what you type) to Toys'R'Us to receive limited-time discount deals and information via text messages (like the emails, it's not only Skylanders based, but mostly about other store offers).

I have subscribed to FGTV so I will be posting whatever he does in Skylanders

Another skylanders swap force interview http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hzL4Ef5r6pE