darkSpyro

My collection is TINY in comparison! Oh my! I haven't been making any real effort to collect the variants yet though and a lot of my figures were second-hand (unboxed) anyway so I could play with them. I only have a part-time job so I can't afford to spend tons of money but I do what I can. I currently have all of series 1 originals including adventure packs + unboxed Legendary Spyro + a boxed single Dark Spyro and a boxed single Flashwing (because I don't yet have Giants...but SOON).

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My collection is TINY in comparison! Oh my! I haven't been making any real effort to collect the variants yet though and a lot of my figures were second-hand (unboxed) anyway so I could play with them. I only have a part-time job so I can't afford to spend tons of money but I do what I can. I currently have all of series 1 originals including adventure packs + unboxed Legendary Spyro + a boxed single Dark Spyro and a boxed single Flashwing (because I don't yet have Giants...but SOON).

*drools at unboxed dark spyro.....*

Some of My Collection

I've never considered variants, legendaries, or sidekicks as part of the main set, so I don't bother with them. Here are the characters I keep on my desk. Not pictured, but I do have them are the entire series 1 set including Dark Spyro, the adventure pack/battle pack/magic items, all the giants except Ninjini (can't find her and I've given up on looking for her) and all lightcores except Hex, Pop-Fizz, and Chill. (Lightcore Drobot is in there since nobody has his series 2 yet)

http://imageshack.us/a/img43/8520/p1060156z.jpg

I think I won't be buying everything for the next game. I'll probably buy all 16 newlanders, the swap force characters in the Water and Tech elements, the Adventure packs, and maybe reposes of Giants Newlanders and reposes of the 8 unreposed if there are any. At this point I don't intend to buy many Swap Force characters since I'll probably never need them after Swap Force, much like how I'm sure Swap Force won't have significantly important areas exclusive to Giants.

I need to take a pic of my collection, I think it's pretty impressive

HOW DO YOU AFFORD ALL OF THEM THERE 7.99 IN THE US DON"T KNOW WHAT COUNTRY YOUR FROM BUT YOU MUST HAVE ALOT OF$ TO AFFORD THAT oh and game master 98 where did you get that mis colored

Yeah, there are quite a few fakes out there, but there are a few ways to tell them apart.

1. Chase variants are preloaded with 2100 Gold at Level 5 from the start. When reset, they go back to 0 Gold at Level 1, but as long as the variant hasn't been used, this is a surefire way to tell. The only way this can be faked is using something like Skylanders Editor, which is thankfully something that didn't catch on for mass counterfeiting. As far as I've seen, Toy Fair and other event-exclusives like Chrome Spyro are not preloaded, however.

2. As far as I've seen, variants have different bases(except for Employee Prism Break, whose is clear either way, and who you can tell is a real one from the box). What I mean is, the green/orange stuff, look through it on the very edges- and see the way the mould is. You can tell that a Metallic Cynder is authentic because it has shiny edges that you can see through the plastic. Could be faked, but you'd need to remove the entire base and paint the bottom of the figure just right, which most people probably wouldn't bother with.

3. Most Giants variants have "Special" as a subheader when you load them into the game. The only exceptions are the Series-2-in-Series-1-pose from Battlegrounds, and from what I heard, Employee Break(I haven't tried him in Giants yet so I can't confirm). Some Giants variants also have an authentication dot on their sticker, next to the webcode(usually relatively easy to get ones like store exclusives).

4. Then of course the ones with "Special Edition" marks on the box- Cynder, Hex, Spyro, Chop Chop, Prism Break

And DluA, I wouldn't worry about everyone adopting my "Lapis" term, I think Toy Fair became the norm ages ago. Haha. (Though for the record, it still bothers me when people say "Clear" when the official name given by Acti was "Ice" variants...)

Edit: Now that today's *officially* my proper birthday, I got my over-the-door display(it's awesome, makes it so much quicker to grab everyone by Element instead of fumbling around and needs so little space). Here's my new setup-

(The Magic Items are in the bottom pouch.)

This is the arena wheel for my ingame variants. It's in my the living room, but I need to move it because our cat keeps knocking it over.