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How exciting. This has to be the starter pack character. Looks a lot like Fire Kraken but they still look like a great character.

This is honestly the first Fire element character that I am 100% completely happy with.

I'll wait for colors first but I'm almost sure it'll be a step up too. Smolderdash and Torch were attempts, but there's just something so bland about having a big focus on the fire effects on the figures. Unless Clawbellows' body is made of fire and isn't red,black or yellow in some way he could easy break that rule for something varied.

What if this is the official color and they leave it bland so it fits every element?

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What if this is the official color and they leave it bland so it fits every element?

I'd be legally obliged* to put the this picture as my avatar for a week after that information and laugh as I go buy some TT figures with the money I'd be saving for this.


*-not really

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What if this is the official color and they leave it bland so it fits every element?

Do you not see the Fire base? Its a Fire element, why would it need to represent every element?

I think that the base might be able to open, and there will be "Overdrive" discs that can be put in the base to give the "Overdrive" Skylander additional abilities.

Sorry if my grammar is bad or I've forgotten something, I'm posting from a 3DS.

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What if this is the official color and they leave it bland so it fits every element?

Do you not see the Fire base? Its a Fire element, why would it need to represent every element?

Some me people think that the bases may slide of the engine looking thing and be swappable with other bases and possibly vehicles.

You know, species wise it could be a quetzalcoatl, which comes from ancient Aztecs. Could be wrong but it looks kinda similar.

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What if this is the official color and they leave it bland so it fits every element?

Do you not see the Fire base? Its a Fire element, why would it need to represent every element?

Some me people think that the bases may slide of the engine looking thing and be swappable with other bases and possibly vehicles.

Still wouldn't make a completely black color scheme make sense.

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You know, species wise it could be a quetzalcoatl, which comes from ancient Aztecs. Could be wrong but it looks kinda similar.

Quetzalcoatl is still a feathered snake, and armless in beast form. If anything it'd be inspiration for a Life or Air skylander, Clawbellows has more of a lizard-y look.

I prefer to call him "The Missing Link" until sky 5 reveals this guy, but if i had to name him, I'd call him Burnout.

Something interesting to note is that in the photo were three of this new skylander are side by side it seems they were either testing diffrent poses for the character or they were just three very diffrent quality figure prints(either explanation is possible)

Different quality seems more likely since the pose is the same, but they are in different heights. Maybe the plastic got stuck at different positions as the furthest one seems to have been pressed down a lot.

This was apparently found in a toy shop in Mexico.
Hopefully this is a racing/automobile expansion.

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I prefer to call him "The Missing Link" until sky 5 reveals this guy, but if i had to name him, I'd call him Burnout.

Burnout is a good one!

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This was apparently found in a toy shop in Mexico.
Hopefully this is a racing/automobile expansion.

NO!!!

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This was apparently found in a toy shop in Mexico.
Hopefully this is a racing/automobile expansion.

Samba De Skylanders confirmed, with amiigo support

Burnout is kinda like Fryno and Hot Head's powers since it's still related to automobile themes, we've yet to see what the engine actually does; but who knows.

I hope this gets announced soon!

The Missing Link must be found!

For one, i love automobiles, and i would love to see this as a racing expansion. Perhaps the regular adventures, but with racing minigames, similar to SSF with Swap gates? That is an automobile engine no doubt, it also has mechanical wings that are exposing fire. If it was from the tech element, we would be thrown off topic of the racing theory. We can only assume a racing game as of now.

Nevertheless;

Us on day one.

hype levels rising...

Not much to say, as i think everyone has pointed out, it looks pretty cool character wise. Im gonna go with the others who have mentioned it looks like the figure part is detachable from the base; it differs from regular figures which have peg hole looking things that the top of the " base" that the figure normally sits on and plugs into the colored series base. This one looks like it kind of pops into place, and can slide out with a button.

I don't remember when everyone was clamoring/joking for a kart racer, but i don't see how it could be out of the realm of speculation right now: pull the figure off the element "base" and plug it onto a vehicle "base".

The other alternate of course like people have mentioned, is swapping elements. The base appears to resemble a square box sort of thing, with the front open for a figure to slide into. That could easily be done with all the line's figures, and have them easily be swappable element wise.

Here is my theory on the color
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Skylanders-5-533049768

Guys, have you noticed that he has no base? Green, Orange, Blue, Red, then nothing? Are there gonna be no bases in this game? 0.o

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Guys, have you noticed that he has no base? Green, Orange, Blue, Red, then nothing? Are there gonna be no bases in this game? 0.o

Its transparent.

Very interesting....the base looks very different from the norm...this might be a hint to the new game's style.

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Guys, have you noticed that he has no base? Green, Orange, Blue, Red, then nothing? Are there gonna be no bases in this game? 0.o

Its transparent.

No, there's just the motor thing and then the flameys engulfing it.

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Guys, have you noticed that he has no base? Green, Orange, Blue, Red, then nothing? Are there gonna be no bases in this game? 0.o

Its transparent.

No, there's just the motor thing and then the flameys engulfing it.

One of the pictures shows the base. Its part of the element stuff now, probably for the gimmick. There is still a base.

I think Snapdragon (that's what I'm calling him until his official name is revealed BTW) might be in the Sky 5 starter/portal owner's pack, or at least in the first wave, as is the case with Skylanders who are leaked before their game is announced.

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I think Snapdragon (that's what I'm calling him until his official name is revealed BTW) might be in the Sky 5 starter/portal owner's pack, or at least in the first wave, as is the case with Skylanders who are leaked before their game is announced.

Not true with VV. Remember Swap Force? Freeze Blade and Stink Bomb were some of the last to come out.

Wow. Looks great. I'm once again reminded why Swap Force was my favorite game. With this leak, maybe they will announce it soon. I really dont want to wait until June 3rd, unless there is a specific reason for that date.

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I think Snapdragon (that's what I'm calling him until his official name is revealed BTW) might be in the Sky 5 starter/portal owner's pack, or at least in the first wave, as is the case with Skylanders who are leaked before their game is announced.

Not true with VV. Remember Swap Force? Freeze Blade and Stink Bomb were some of the last to come out.

Yeah, but we knew about them when they announced the game, not before it.

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I think Snapdragon (that's what I'm calling him until his official name is revealed BTW) might be in the Sky 5 starter/portal owner's pack, or at least in the first wave, as is the case with Skylanders who are leaked before their game is announced.

Not true with VV. Remember Swap Force? Freeze Blade and Stink Bomb were some of the last to come out.

Yeah, but we knew about them when they announced the game, not before it.

Was there anything we knew before it?

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This was apparently found in a toy shop in Mexico.

Wait!!!! Was it in packaging??
Ask the person who posted th imgs.
Why u may ask: So we can see the sky5 logo!!

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This was apparently found in a toy shop in Mexico.

Wait!!!! Was it in packaging??
Ask the person who posted th imgs.
Why u may ask: So we can see the sky5 logo!!

Highly doubt it, because it is a prototype. If you really feel the need to, oh wait, toy shop? Um, well I mean, you can ask the guy yourself on reddit. Hmmm...

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For one, i love automobiles, and i would love to see this as a racing expansion. Perhaps the regular adventures, but with racing minigames, similar to SSF with Swap gates? That is an automobile engine no doubt, it also has mechanical wings that are exposing fire. If it was from the tech element, we would be thrown off topic of the racing theory. We can only assume a racing game as of now.

Nevertheless;

Us on day one.

I wouldn't assume a racing game just because they may include some "vehicle" type things. Skylanders try to make more unique gimics and you can implement vehicles type things in story play in a few different ways. They'll probably do something more interesting then just racing.

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Here is my theory on the color
http://www.deviantart.com/art/Skylanders-5-533049768

Those colors are perfect!
They really suits him/her, great job!

I'm kind hoping for a fire-made red elemental but that looks even better.

On the other news it seems like the plastic they used for him/her is the same that was used for the SWAP Force's Skylanders.
Not a smooth and "reflecting" one like TfB's character but a more opaque one.

However this is a prototype so it may change with the final version.

It was apparently found by accident in a toy snop in Mexico because they were sent the wrong toys. If Activision still haven't found out about Flyer Kraken (which they probably have because Acti have reps on this forum, but there's still a chance) being sent to the shop in Mexico, they might accidentally send more prototypes, thinking there're still sending it to the right place. Even if they did know about Flyer Kraken, they might not know about the toy shop, or might of already sent the next prototypes. I don't know much about how shipping works, though.

I think there is no "gimmick" visible.
I don't think removable anything from those pictures.

I DO like the redesign of the base, that will make the new figures clearly different to the old ones. I LOVE that.

Maybe dual element? Fire/Tech?

I think many of you are reading far too much into this. It's cool. It's amazing. It looks great, but I don't think we can draw any conclusion as to gimmick from it.

I love he has like 5 names now. Flyer Kraken, Clawbellows, Missing Link, Burnout and Snapdragon. I pity the person that'll drop in at page two and think we're talking about several different prototypes.
Also, in a similar subject not but not exactly the topic, did Dark just completely give up on writing news articles for the main site? Wave 5 started like two weeks ago, and with this you'd think there'd be a 'Possible First Sky5 Skylander revealed' article right away like in the previous years.

Do they normally chip uncolored prototypes? I'd personally would be working on those chips and using a program to see what's on them. We'd learn the name of the character, probably the name of the next series, the level cap, all sorts of stuff.

As it's in Mexico, it could be for the Spanish (Mexican) programming team working on the project. Voice or text programmers. Mail theft is very high in Mexico so I wager it's stolen stuff that turned up rather than a missent piece of mail.

Okay, I'm gonna throw a theory in here:

What if these huge wings have a use? Perhaps for air battle? Perhaps it's a skylander that can fight both on land and in the air? And perhaps only specific skylanders can fight in the air?

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I think there is no "gimmick" visible.
I don't think removable anything from those pictures.

I DO like the redesign of the base, that will make the new figures clearly different to the old ones. I LOVE that.

Maybe dual element? Fire/Tech?

I think many of you are reading far too much into this. It's cool. It's amazing. It looks great, but I don't think we can draw any conclusion as to gimmick from it.

I agree with no removable parts, and leaning more towards abilities for special areas in the game.

if it IS chipped, and somebody could pop it on a portal and do a raw dump with my app to send I would appreciate it !!!
I could update my app in advance to support the new figures

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if it IS chipped, and somebody could pop it on a portal and do a raw dump with my app to send I would appreciate it !!!
I could update my app in advance to support the new figures

Considering that..

A. It's almost definitely some form of a prototype,

B. It has no paper under the base,

C. The figure isn't supposed to be released for several months,


They almost definitely aren't working.

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if it IS chipped, and somebody could pop it on a portal and do a raw dump with my app to send I would appreciate it !!!
I could update my app in advance to support the new figures

Considering that..

A. It's almost definitely some form of a prototype,

B. It has no paper under the base,

C. The figure isn't supposed to be released for several months,


They almost definitely aren't working.

Well it does clearly have a chip in it. Is it possible that they make these things in China then ship them to the U.S. for painting? I always assumed that they were painted then assembled but maybe not? At the very least there is a chip of some sort in it.

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Not true with VV. Remember Swap Force? Freeze Blade and Stink Bomb were some of the last to come out.

Yeah, but we knew about them when they announced the game, not before it.

Was there anything we knew before it?

...Honestly, I don't remember.

Kinda hard to tell what Clawbellows is doing in Mexico to begin with, a dubbing team wouldn't really need an unfinished figure, would they?
And I'm pretty sure that the figures leave China painted in the final release at least, with that person that stole Blades figures long before the game was out having them fully painted. And I'm sure that asking Acti about this mysterious figure will only get those pictures removed.

Y' know...A vehicle gimmick wouldn't be so bad...but that DEFINITELY DOESN'T explain the fact the space-time rift thingy Kaos is doing...according to the comic book...preview...thingy. I really don't know, I need more info.