Quote: spyro assasinyes Activision will go broke without that game
I would just like to quote this first.
This is very wrong. Skylanders is just one game. Activision is behind so many games that even if Skylanders DID do poorly, they'd have basically every other part of their franchise to fall back on. (Remember, Activision is behind the Call of Duty games, and Most of the Guitar Hero series to name a few)
What's interesting to me is how many things they have that are extra (as in, the expansion packs) which means they're sort of testing the waters for DLC. I think a future game could build upon this, improve gameplay as well as introduce new features and better connectivity not only for online gameplay, but also the Universe online. Plus, there's a bunch of things they can fix like having a unified money system between characters and more upgrades not to mention introducing new characters and whatnot.
Given that Skylanders has combined parts of TLoS series, I'd say it's not out of the ordinary to expect something like familiar faces from previous games, either as NPCs or characters. I was pondering last night some of my favorites:
Hunter could work well, possibly as a Earth Element character; Sheila as a Earth Element character too; Sargent Bird as a Air Skylander, Bentley as a Water Skylander, and Agent 9 as a Tech Skylander. If not, all could work well as NPCs.
Personally, I had enough of Ripto back in the day. Instead of reusing old enemies we've already faced, I'd like them to make brand new ones. Obviously, the Troll species seems to be pretty bad in the Skylander Universe, who's to say there's not a "Boss Troll" or something that runs them all. (Although, if they did want to reuse old bosses, Gnastly Gnorc would work perfectly in there)