darkSpyro

i'll be honest. this is a good move. it ensures that their are figures on the shelf for kids getting the game for christmas.

but man.

i wish they would've released at least one new skylander that is exclusive to giants. preferably a giant. or even shot that hot dog set out a week before new years. i won't be buying any of these because i already have them. so hopefully plenty of kids will be able to get a figure they want after christmas. don't care about reposes.

but whatevs.

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i'll be honest. this is a good move. it ensures that their are figures on the shelf for kids getting the game for christmas.

but man.

i wish they would've released at least one new skylander that is exclusive to giants. preferably a giant. or even shot that hot dog set out a week before new years. i won't be buying any of these because i already have them. so hopefully plenty of kids will be able to get a figure they want after christmas. don't care about reposes.

but whatevs.

They probably still are, just shipping them closer to release date to prevent, well, this. (Nothing against you Diggeh, congrats.) Oh, and you owe me some wings.

Yes, I bought them. Walked out of the store with them. And they're gorgeous! Much better than the LightCore versions.



Got them at a TRU in California. Every Skylanders was also on sale for $6.99.

Heard your nonsensical post the first time. Still don't understand the reasoning of hot head on the shelf meaning thumps in wave 3. I saw l-trig on a shelf so that means eye brawl wave 4?

*snip*.

the door is there

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The only problem with the to do list posted above is -

1: Universe is definitely for kids. I've played with it a lot, but customizing an island doesn't last forever, and the mini-games only last so long before you've played and beaten them all. Same for Battlegrounds. While the game is good, it is short. Cloud Patrol is okay in small doses, and Lost Islands is the Farmville of Skylanders. I didn't like Farmville. 3DS games are shorter than the console games.

2: Reaching level 50 with one Skylander is one thing, but doing it for 127 figures, that is borderline repetitive, and it would probably make me disown Skylanders.

3: The other games don't translate to the problems the console game has every year now, for the past 2 years/games, now that you
think about it. A lot of people are already complaining on Facebook (or at least 1 other) about the same thing I am. They're releasing characters for a game people have already beaten. The only ones who haven't, are the ones getting it for Christmas. Even still, by the time wave 3 releases, people getting it for Christmas will have beaten it too. It begs to ask, why release characters for a game 99% of your customers have beaten, when there is a very real chance they may not be interested in the characters, now that the game has hit the "been there, done that" status? Not everyone into Skylanders wants every character, but they would probably buy every character, if every character were right in front of their face from the onset (impulse buying).

4: Has nothing to do with my problem with the longevity of the home console game.

5: Same as above.

6: Same as above.

7: Heroics are starting to take too long to do for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN SKYLANDERS. While the addition of them is cool, it is repetitive to try and get all 9 quests done for ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY SEVEN SKYLANDERS. It's why every one of my characters doesn't have every Heroic done from the first and second game. Imagine doing 32 + 45 Heroics for 127 Skylanders. 77 x 127 is 9,779 times you would be doing the same thing. As for Nightmare Mode. HAHAHAHAHAHA! That mode was cake, and I knew it would be. If I have to, I will show everyone that I could go through ANY level of Giants on Nightmare, with a level 1 Skylander with all moves. Want me to try it with a level 1 with its base moves, fine? I bet I could do that, too. Nightmare mode should have been available from the onset, instead of an unlockable, and it should have been Demon's/Dark Souls hard. TFB still refuses to leave something truly challenging for us adults. Leave the kids to easy, medium, or if they grow a wild hair, hard. Leave Nightmare Mode to adults and actually warn parents that their kids shouldn't try it.

One more thing about Heroics. I felt really cheated, to the point I wanted to say screw Heroics altogether (I still haven't done but maybe 6 Heroics on Giants because of this), when I checked my Ghost Roaster on Giants to see his stats were nerfed from the first game. That REALLY MADE ME MAD. Why did I waste my time doing the Heroics on the first game, if TFB was going to just make that work disappear on Giants, only for me to have to do the Heroics on Giants, in order to bring him back to what he was after doing the 32 Heroics of Spyro's Adventure? This was one aspect I was really looking forward to, breaking the boundaries set by the first game. I was at 91 SPEED after doing all 32 Heroics in SA, but when I popped him onto Giants, his SPEED had been brought down to 67. Now that I have done whatever SPEED Heroics are available, he is around 91 again. That's a big tease and it makes me fume to realize I could have spent that time doing something else, instead of wasting it by doing it, only for TFB to trash it. So, yeah. Why do Heroics in Giants, when TFB might just trash your work again, because they don't want to allow Skylanders to break their caps, except for on HP? What fun is that?

I love Skylanders. Everyone knows how much I - apparently - do. I know not one other person who bought 8 copies of the first game, 11 copies of the second game, 4 Wii's, 3 iOS Starters, the Xbox 360 bundle, and soon another iOS Starter just for a Series 1 molded, Series 2 Double Trouble, on an orange base. However, unless I am working for Activision to market this game (which I wouldn't list any flaws, because it would be my job to market duh), I can't deny the series still has one fatal flaw. That is -

- Not enough longevity to keep people playing and seeing new things for the amount of time they hold off releasing new characters
- Heroics need to NOT BE A WASTE OF TIME. If I have a fully maxed out Ghost Roaster, after busting my butt to get him there, he shouldn't be nerfed in the second game, making it so you have to re-earn what you already worked for.
- They need to make a mode strictly for adults, that's balls to the wall hard. So hard, it will make it so you couldn't hope to beat it within a couple of days.
- They need to make enough Adventure Packs, that it will keep people coming back. After having beaten the first game within 3 days, I knew I still had two optional chapters to do. Even if only 1 hour long on the first playthrough, it was still something new. It made it feel as if I didn't waste my money on figures, for a game I had beaten months before the release of said characters. If you're going to space out your figure releases over the span of 4 months, make 4 Adventure Packs - 1 for each month you're dragging it out. If you're going to release figures over the span of 7 months, bi-monthly, make 7 Adventure Packs, 1 for each month, so everyone has something to do while waiting for new figures bi-monthly. Having 1 hour to a game per month is better than twiddling your thumbs waiting for characters, for a game that had been beaten months before.

TL; DR. If you don't like how Acti are handling releases-
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the door is there

You're all overreacting. I'm not saying Skylanders doesn't have problems but maybe you all need to take a break and get off and play some other games. Don't just blast through your figures... That's how you make the game boring. I haven't even finished leveling mine, so I enjoy when I play. I don't use them 24/7. Gamers these days just need to try to savor games. Realize them as an experience. Not just finish and put them down.
Another thing you may not realize is unbalancing the release time like this makes it HELL for non-American consumers. LOOK AT THE STOCK WE HAVE. BARELY ANY. I have hardly heard of anyone here saying "tons of W2 at Target" and that's because of how Acti handled it. And believe it or not, no, I'm not freaking trying to just bash Americans, I'm saying this really does cause stock problems- because it does. And it only makes it harder for those not willing to import that aren't in an area where it's popular. (Luckily, I am, and yet ONE EB GAMES IS THE ONLY STORE I'VE SEEN WAVE TWO STOCK IN.)

You guys, i have a TRU employee who told me that there is Skylanders 3 in the abyss of their stockroom! They said they saw it!

Oh what the hell, I'll add to the fun...

I was told that one of my reliable people at TRU had personally seen, in their stock room, Thumpback AND Ninjini. I'm headed over there this evening to see if I can get confirmation AND a photograph. Until that moment, I'll be as skeptical as the rest of you. Considering my kids want both of those for the holidays, I'm hoping beyond hope that it's true...and I can find the money to afford them.

Actually, I was being serious...I'm about to leave now for TRU and if I get any confirmation or pictures, I'll share them later this evening.

Actually, I was being serious...I'm about to leave now for TRU and if I get any confirmation or pictures, I'll share them later this evening.

Well I guess that miracle isn't going to work for me. Oh well There's always next year.

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Well I guess that miracle isn't going to work for me. Oh well There's always next year.

noes!


if this ebay seller is right, then we will see eye brawl on the 23rd

I talked with my friend at TRU. Here are the details as I was given them:

- Wave 3 Giants boxes had arrived but they only got 5.
- ALL 3 remaining Giants are being released
- Street date is confirmed via email from local Activision rep as 12/23
- He seems to think the Hot Dog battle pack is going to be part of Wave 3

Take this as you will. I tried to get a photo and he even went to the back to do so but the boxes had been moved and they were extremely busy tonight. He has promised that he will try to email me a picture of this wave's figures as soon as he locates them. This was the same guy that got me a Crystal Stealth Elf a couple of weeks ago, so I have no reason to doubt him, HOWEVER, I'll believe it when I see it. Personally, I think it would be a huge cash-grab for Activision to make them all available before the end of the fiscal year as I'm sure there are plenty of children receiving the game for the holidays.

Sorry folks. I tried.

On a side note I found interesting, TRU has changed shelf tags to say "SKYLANDERS RETIRED 3PK" for the S1 triple packs (which they had plenty of the Camo/Warnado packs).

I can't wait for bouncer to come out.