darkSpyro

What's so hard to pop a character in and off a portal?

Quote: NewSpyro

What's so hard to pop a character in and off a portal?

Nothing, this is just even more convenient - especially if you have a lot of Skylanders. You can fit 8 characters on the expansion at once, so that can fill the quote for one character of each element which is convenient if you're following the idea of switching to a Skylander of the element of the area you're in.

It's ironic if this sells, because it means that anyone who buys it doesn't WANT "portal interactivity," but would be happier with a streamlined approach to be able to switch Skylanders at the touch of a button.

And honestly, with the ITEMS, I'd prefer it if you didn't need to use the Portal - half of the items and things like the "location attacks" I'll never bother to use; they're too tedious to activate. Just put them on the portal once at the start of each new play session to add them to a temporary inventory list. You'd be able to use them more conveniently, and they wouldn't lose sales by making it any easier to "artifact share".


(Now if they made an elaborate "Core of Light" that could display and activate all 99 Giants figures without ever needing to move them from their proper placement spots, I might invest in THAT. Even though it'd probably have an interface that'd look like a Battleship game to use. "D-4! You sank my Thumpback!")

I wonder if anything will glitch up when you put the GITD Portal on there, since it's known for a VERY slow data transfer time, and loss of money, upgrades, and hats.

Heres the deal. I have researched this and come up with this. There is a patent problem with this product. Its only in Canada and they do not ship outside of Canada

Quote: mxzx800ho

Heres the deal. I have researched this and come up with this. There is a patent problem with this product. Its only in Canada and they do not ship outside of Canada

Can you provide a link?

Quote: mxzx800ho

Heres the deal. I have researched this and come up with this. There is a patent problem with this product. Its only in Canada and they do not ship outside of Canada

Can it be ordered online in Canada? Where?

DO WANT.

No, so far it's been non-existent online.

If someone in Canada wants one of these they need to contact me and I will explain. Send me a private message. You have to be from Canada.

Got the Portal Expansion for X-Mas, and just came to say that it works, and it's amazing! Very useful!

I called my local gamestop to see if they had one, and they said they did. the guy described it to me and it sounds like this thing here. But he said it was 39.99. I got a gamestop gift card for xmas so I will try and go down this week and buy it.

Zillion you in the US?

Yes. but sadly my friend checked and it was one of those circle shaped collesium holders not this

Ah. Thanks for the clarification.

No way I'll ever get this. If there was no use for the Portal of Power, there's no more interactivity with the toys unless all 8 Skylanders die and you need to set up new ones. Same with magic items. Nice concept, but it'll just bore me to death.

Quote: fireofexile

No way I'll ever get this. If there was no use for the Portal of Power, there's no more interactivity with the toys unless all 8 Skylanders die and you need to set up new ones. Same with magic items. Nice concept, but it'll just bore me to death.

The interactivity with the toys isn't taking them on and off the portal, it's being able to store what that character is on the figure and take it somewhere with you - that aspect hasn't changed at all by the portal expansion.

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Quote: fireofexile

No way I'll ever get this. If there was no use for the Portal of Power, there's no more interactivity with the toys unless all 8 Skylanders die and you need to set up new ones. Same with magic items. Nice concept, but it'll just bore me to death.

The interactivity with the toys isn't taking them on and off the portal, it's being able to store what that character is on the figure and take it somewhere with you - that aspect hasn't changed at all by the portal expansion.

It's a cool idea, but to me it feels like using the portal expansion would be like breaking the law for some reason >.<

I'll pay extra to have someone send it to me in the US!!! PM!

That thing is soooooo cool!

Seems really strange that this thing has been out for over 3 months and you cannot find it online to purchase anywhere. You would think someone in Canada would buy it and put it on on Ebay Canada, but nope. You would think that someone living in USA near the Canada border would pick some of these up and bring them back to USA and put them on Ebay here, but nope. This really has me puzzled???????

What would you pay for one in USA? I might be able to help.

$0.00 c:

Sigh... this looks awesome and useful. Could someone find out if it will be sold worldwide at all?

Not to bump a really old thread, but any idea what ever happened to this product?

Heres you go

Didn't know about this bad boy. In MY configuration, this would be useful. Shame there's patent problems with this.

Quote: UncleBob

Not to bump a really old thread, but any idea what ever happened to this product?

I still see the product whenever I go to EB Games. Really useful for me, since I have all the released Skylanders to date (not including chase variants).

I wonder why it never made its way out of Canada.

Quote: NewSpyro

What's so hard to pop a character in and off a portal?

I agree. It takes, like, three seconds to switch characters.

Quote: MugoUrth

Quote: NewSpyro

What's so hard to pop a character in and off a portal?

I agree. It takes, like, three seconds to switch characters.

Well, I don't really feel like sitting on the floor beside my case, I'd prefer to sit on my theatre seats in the back of the room so I can get a good view of the TV. Especially when you have over 100 Skylanders, it is useful.

I use the wii u pad it would be nice to pick one of each element and just switch them with a remote or something.

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Quote: NewSpyro

What's so hard to pop a character in and off a portal?

I agree. It takes, like, three seconds to switch characters.

Well, I don't really feel like sitting on the floor beside my case, I'd prefer to sit on my theatre seats in the back of the room so I can get a good view of the TV. Especially when you have over 100 Skylanders, it is useful.

EXACTLY. I usually have some upgrading / chore in mind, and putting them all there means I don't have to get up (again, in my config it's not convenient for my set up as I need another 3ft on my portal of power so it's always a move to the TV moment to switch out.

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Quote: MugoUrth

I agree. It takes, like, three seconds to switch characters.

Well, I don't really feel like sitting on the floor beside my case, I'd prefer to sit on my theatre seats in the back of the room so I can get a good view of the TV. Especially when you have over 100 Skylanders, it is useful.

EXACTLY. I usually have some upgrading / chore in mind, and putting them all there means I don't have to get up (again, in my config it's not convenient for my set up as I need another 3ft on my portal of power so it's always a move to the TV moment to switch out.

Well, I have a TV Table I sit next to the recliner I use to play vids, so I have easy access to my figures when I play Skylanders.

I was under the impression that this product has become obsolete, as it will not work with the new swap force portal.

Quote: wgeorge111

I was under the impression that this product has become obsolete, as it will not work with the new swap force portal.

Well, for those of us not moving forward with Swap Force, this works well with the first two games.

I was watching youtube and seen a video on this, wrote the guy and he sent me 2 new in the box....love it. Just wanted to know are these discontinued because of copyright suff? anyone know? are they rare? (I have open one...should I leave the other one sealed and save it, or sell it?)

Who did you write? I'd love to pay someone to pick me up one.

Quote: largemarge133

I was watching youtube and seen a video on this, wrote the guy and he sent me 2 new in the box....love it. Just wanted to know are these discontinued because of copyright suff? anyone know? are they rare? (I have open one...should I leave the other one sealed and save it, or sell it?)

Save it for what, exactly? I'd recommend either getting some use out of it, or selling it if you don't plan on using it. The only thing you'll get out of just hanging onto something like that is layers of dust.

Just go to youtube and type in, skylanders biogenik ...just click on first video his name is comrade misner
for some reason it wouldnt let me copy url onto post?

Zer0 im kinda a horder..lol I tend to buy 2 of everything skylanders...helps with trades in the future (swap force) I did this with series 1 and traded alot of giants for boomer and DLC 8-D

Thanks, LM - sent him a message.

Quote: largemarge133

I was watching youtube and seen a video on this, wrote the guy and he sent me 2 new in the box....love it. Just wanted to know are these discontinued because of copyright suff? anyone know? are they rare? (I have open one...should I leave the other one sealed and save it, or sell it?)

They aren't discontinued, but you can only get it at EB Games in Canada.

If he gets you one ....get your box knife out he packed em like they were going to war! best packing on any item I have recived im the mail...hands down.

i needs two of these. So would love to just pick 8 landers and go play and hit a button just to swap them out.

Quote: largemarge133

I was watching youtube and seen a video on this, wrote the guy and he sent me 2 new in the box....love it. Just wanted to know are these discontinued because of copyright suff? anyone know? are they rare? (I have open one...should I leave the other one sealed and save it, or sell it?)

How much did he charge?
Does he ship to USA?

Thanks for info Tempest....dinoah 2005, I played $100 for two shipped to Washington state

In that case I'd rather just go to the store and get one, LOL! I feel like I saw them for either $40 or $50...

Maybe i'll drive to canada. it's like 7hrs away and the customs...k maybe not worth it thou I havent been to the falls since I was a kid and would love to go there again

Random question thou for those that go back and forth, how long does the boarder crossing actually take. My wife has friends in flint, michigan and wouldnt mind going to the falls in Canada and then driving back to the us (to detroit)

Haven't been in years, but growing up we crossed the border quite regularly... How long always depended on what crossing and when. We had crossings where there were car lineups so long we nearly couldn't see the actual customs window, and we had times when there was absolutely nobody. We usually found the smaller roads to be emptier as everybody always wanted to use the highways. And Friday and Sunday evenings were always popular, for people going for the weekend (like we often did). It's about an hour drive from where I live - in Montreal - to the border. Also there's this customs thing where if you've been across for 48 hours that you can bring back a certain amount of stuff - and one bottle of alcohol per person - back without having to pay duty on it. I often felt somehow amused that for the alcohol they would bring back 4 bottles, counting underage me and my underage brother (obviously the alcohol was for them, but they'd use our 1 bottle allowance). I think if you've been under 48 hours that you're supposed to pay duty on ANYTHING you've bought.

Just a warning, several years ago they tightened regulations that Canadians can't just cross anymore, we need our passports now. OR to take our passport to the driving bureau ahead of time to pay to upgrade our driver's license to also count as a passport at the border. To me this makes it sound likely that to go the other way, that Americans probably also have to have more than their driver's licenses in order to cross.