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Thank you! Much appreciated

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Thank you! Much appreciated

Lol, no problem

Super straw grasping news here,so much I won't bother posting it on the 6kylanders thread, but Jeff Murchie,the designer for villains and enemies in Trap Team,is working on the game this time as well! He obviously didn't share anything,just that he's working on the newest project and didn't have time for his personal stuff.

He's the quirky to Dave Phillips' elegant in character design(with I-Wei balancing the two aspects), if you guys haven't seen his blog.

Also,wow I just noticed the skull motifs on Bandit Train. Darn, we could've had a sequel to Aerial Attack if they followed through with the artwork in chapter select,with the ghost ships and all.

That's still great news to me!

Glad to hear Jeff is back since I loved all of Trap Team's villains: they had so much personality and they simply looked fantastic.
Not to mention there was a good balance between fantasy and "fantascientific" enemies.

Can't wait to see what he's up to, this time; maybe they let him join the Skylanders' design team as well, who knows?

Wow,for the cut corners in Racing,just noticed a little detail it has that console doesn't. Golden Queen just sits straight in console, and, of course, how does that work because the Glitter Glider has the huge I don't know boat terms in front of it,45° of her vision is gone. In 3DS/Wii, she's constantly leaning to one side to see. Really nice detail,though it's still a wonder why she just didn't get herself raised seating.

Buzz Wing is out early in Australia, instead of 28th we've started seeing it on shelves at Target and Big W should be getting them soon too. EB Games will release them on the 28th as they do not release early normally.

Good news indeed. I guess it will be released in my country in mid may, but at least I'm gonna get a closer look at the flapping wings action.

Soooo guys how hard is it to complete Nightmare Mode Cloud Kingdom with a single Skylander, non-elite?

Because Stratosfear managed to kill at least 2 of my skylanders midair with the eletric spheres. Can't dodge because that scripted sequence only allows very slight steering. Traptanium Kaos is pretty fair in comparison to straight-up cheap hits.

I know what you mean, I beat him with a single skylander on nightmare mode but I had little to no health at the end. I did it with knight light, since he has a incredible high health and can stand the hit of some electric spheres, but I had to avoid the rest of the attacks. There was a pattern on to dodge the boss moves but I can't remember now

Meh, I still think Gadfly Glades is the hardest level on Nightmare.

Nightmare Mode was very easy for me with Gearshift and her extremely high DPS and long range to avoid getting hit. For any of the driving parts you need a lot of trap crystals and spam the heck out of them to quickly dispatch the baddies or else you'd be loosing your health rather quickly to the numerous minions. I have about 14 and that was barely enough to make it though Gadfly Glades.

The only time I had trouble with deaths was at the very end because I often smack into something twice and die. My personal best was 3 deaths there, but every other stage I can manage to make it though without a death as long as it's Gearshift and a bunch of crystals.

Oh, well, I only have the Giants Wii portal, so I'm out of luck with traps. Still doesn't excuse unavoidable hits, at least on medium they home in a few seconds before hitting the ground, not making an arc when you move out of the way like they're sentient.

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Soooo guys how hard is it to complete Nightmare Mode Cloud Kingdom with a single Skylander, non-elite?

Because Stratosfear managed to kill at least 2 of my skylanders midair with the eletric spheres. Can't dodge because that scripted sequence only allows very slight steering. Traptanium Kaos is pretty fair in comparison to straight-up cheap hits.

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I know what you mean, I beat him with a single skylander on nightmare mode but I had little to no health at the end. I did it with knight light, since he has a incredible high health and can stand the hit of some electric spheres, but I had to avoid the rest of the attacks. There was a pattern on to dodge the boss moves but I can't remember now

Is this vehicle part? I found that actually quite easy I was using Dark Spitfire.
The 2nd last level was some what difficult for me for some reason. My game didn't seem to respond properly to the jumping and was making it seem like I was jumping into invisible walls causing me to fall. Not sure if anyone else had that problem or not but I hope I don't have to play that level again unless it's on easy.

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WE TRENDING NOW, BOYS

I'm getting excited over nothing, I know. But someone that discovers the series by SC and the comics is probably getting the best first impression.

today i put all my skylanders vehicles in a box and locked them in my garage

good day

Still can't tell if Zap is joking or not with the "Skylanders is dead" thing. It's really funny, though.

He's joking, unlike another user who is constantly negative about the series.

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He's joking, unlike another user who is constantly negative about the series.

That's what I thought. Yeah, I joined at such the wrong time, but oh well!

Yeah, and I'm thankful it's jokes and, at least during this extended leave, there's no real toxic arguing over that.

So, do we know anything about Sky6 yet?

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So, do we know anything about Sky6 yet?

Nope! We know nothing about the game

Well rats.

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So, do we know anything about Sky6 yet?

Nope! We know nothing about the game

We know that it's the sixth Skylanders game.

So there's that.

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So, do we know anything about Sky6 yet?

Nope! We know nothing about the game

We know that it's the sixth Skylanders game.

So there's that.

It is also meant to follow directly on from SC

Wa also know it will have some sort of online function (confirmed by TfB looking for some new developers to work specifically on that), the artist who came up for a lot of designs for Trap Team is back and that it's supposed to come out this Fall.

I don't think we know anything more.

Since nearly nobody reads the book thread anymore - this showed up in the french Amazon website. From comparisons and description, it's a continuation of the Mask of Power series, now with Superchargers characters!

i've come to the conclusion that if sky6 isn't annoucned before e3, we're all ****ed.

We're not even through May yet, they still have through the first week of June to announce it.

It sucks as I will be away for military training once skylanders 6 is announced.

So we have no leads at all? Le sigh.

Wow FINALLY something useful from the Skylanders social media today. The mother's day picture has Kaos and the STILL UNNAMED MOM, but the main thing is he actually looks younger than usual - he's lacking a good chunk of his wrinkles. This seems like proof VV definately noticed Kaos is not a minor in recent times,since stuff from Giants and TT implies he's very much an adult.

This reminds how much I loved Kaos mother as a villain.

I think Kaos's Mother is named some pun on the word chaos or some synonym. Ataxia is the first thing that comes to mind that sounds remotely feminine

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I think Kaos's Mother is named some pun on the word chaos or some synonym. Ataxia is the first thing that comes to mind that sounds remotely feminine

The fan name is Kalamity because of her achievement. Thr issue is, VV never bothered to name their own major villain, it's beyond laziness and it's why I say she's a girl Kaos - she isn't even herself, just his mom before any actual character.

Videos of thirllipede and buzz wing unboxing are finally popping up at youtube.

From the descriptions I read here I wasn't sure if Buzz Wing was able to either flap wings or pop them out when you pushed the button. The fact is, it does both. I'm quite into toys with these kind of wings action, so I love they decided to implement it. To whoever took this decision: thank you

As for thrillipede he looks great imo. The jacket doesn't have a glossy look which makes a good contrast with it's shiny skin.

I will have to check them in first hand though when they get released here in two weeks, but the first impression is very good.

Edit 1: A bit off topic maybe, but for anyone interested it seems a massive overporduction of toys was one of the main reasons for DI's end (they also talk about the figures they were about to release in the following months):

http://www.ign.com/articles/20...12-inch-figures

A line of 12 inch figures sold for 45$ each...?
And I was complaining about SuperChargers' price.

(Just joking, I understand they would have been mostly for hardcore collectors)

I think what happened to DI should put an end to certain complaints regarding Skylander's figures quantity: they can always produce more figures if there aren't enough to satisfy customers' request but they'll hardly recover from production costs if they won't be able to sell them.

I would indeed prefer a different strategy but maybe Activision isn't making so much dumb choices after all.
Time will tell I guess.

Back on topic, great to hear about both functions for Buzz Wing!
Can't wait to try it myself.

I posted this already at the Skylanders Academy thread,but this is relevant to Skylanders general since it's a legacy voice actor.

Greg Ellis/Jonny Rees, Jet-Vac's VA, has been reported missing. If anyone lives in LA and can help,signal boost from me.

Ohhh, some Skylanders Academy news, let's see what they have for--

Seriously though, I hope everything's ok with him!

Jeez, I hope they find him! Would hate for the show to be crippled by having one of the lead VA's go missing. I heard that he was having mental issues prior to the disappearance. Such a sad situation

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Jeez, I hope they find him! Would hate for the show to be crippled by having one of the lead VA's go missing. I heard that he was having mental issues prior to the disappearance. Such a sad situation

He's bipolar, and from the wording of a few posts was refusing treatment. As people said in some pages, it's really not healthy for him or anyone to try and act "normal" and ignore the issue - once a crisis comes like this, it doesn't matter if you were acting alright without meds, it all comes crashing down and he isn't in control. But that's a discussion for Idle Chatter or S&N, we don't really know what's happening 100%.
Hoping he's alright as well,thankfully this was reported quickly.

edit: He has been found.

Back on SC, good god I said a lot about Trap Team's bad difficulty spike but VV ain't no better. Spellslamzer fight goes from one of the best to a snorefest because he has high health but no adjustments, making him take a ton of hits but his AI acts strangely when his scripts(which are made to act after a certain amount of damage, not a percentage of HP) break so there's nothing new. Might be the masochist talking in me but I prefered the NASTY surprises from the Doom Raiders on Nightmare because you're not just replaying for double the time.

A few seconds of Old Spell Punk Library. It's funny that I think one of the devs does Flynn's placeholder voice. I can't remember who it is exactly,but we heard him in interviews.
But that old version of the level tho, back in 2014 too...

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A few seconds of Old Spell Punk Library. It's funny that I think one of the devs does Flynn's placeholder voice. I can't remember who it is exactly,but we heard him in interviews.
But that old version of the level tho, back in 2014 too...

That looks so beautiful. Why didn't they do that in the end? It looked so wonderful.

And being made so early, there's no reason for them to just cut the entire level and have a honestly lazy hub with the books. They could've just had different towers in the library holding a different book,and have Pain Glasses and Cauldrones(they just look so much like a spell punk thing) as real world enemies. So much potential wasted e_e

Oh man, why was this cut?

The final level really isn't that good. The books are, but the hub is smaller than the actual main game hub, and it's incredibly generic looking and forgettable. You can't even see the hat-shaped towers outside of cutscenes because they're too far away.

I'm only missing the sailor hat and for some reason it doesn't appear in the store or when I open presents. Do I need to complete Nightmare mode to get this hat?

Thanks Dark, it's probably Tessa with the Tent quest that I've already had to do three times. Any idea how you get the Darkness Skystone? I've done two different Bandit Train quests and no Mabu appeared for me to play against.