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Haven't posted in a while and didn't feel like searching threads or pages (sorry), anything new with Polar Whirlwind? Any USA info yet? Last I saw he was available to order on Amazon.it site? Is that still the case or has anything else changed? Thanks!!

No new update.

Personal speculation: we'll see Polar Whirlwind in the USA in June or July.

No new update about Polar, as for me im still waiting for my Polar that i ordered from Amazon.it, hopefully this week.

NOPE! Still nothing.

UncleBob hinted May.

I can hint, too, but it doesn't mean I'm right. I've had info that's been wrong and right. You know what they say: "Even the sun shines on a dog's *** somedays." I hint that May goes by, and nothing. However, Uncle will come and say his source was off, and it's really another date.

I would say within two weeks after scarlet's release here which starts for most tomorrow if you haven't had her already from gamestop. The latest will be sometime in june to get her. I have a feeling they're purposely trying to keep wave 5 slow and in bits with scarlet starting it and the others everyone wants that month will be the big one to get the rest.

But explain why we haven't even seen wave 4 Lightcores or Triple Packs yet, despite the fact they've been overseas for about 2 weeks?

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But explain why we haven't even seen wave 4 Lightcores or Triple Packs yet, despite the fact they've been overseas for about 2 weeks?

I believe Legendary LC Chill is the only Wave 4 LC. Pop Fizz, Chill, and Hex should be Wave 5, yet oddly Hex is the only one of those 3 to still be MIA anywhere.

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But explain why we haven't even seen wave 4 Lightcores or Triple Packs yet, despite the fact they've been overseas for about 2 weeks?

I believe Legendary LC Chill is the only Wave 4 LC. Pop Fizz, Chill, and Hex should be Wave 5, yet oddly Hex is the only one of those 3 to still be MIA anywhere.

Which is most likely correct, and from how things have been for stores I've seen mostly wave 1 and 2 figures that haven't sold well and tons of cynders, etc. The problem is the fact they have so many of those figures that don't sell, tons of LC shroombooms and jetvacs and no one wants to buy them. Overseas probably didn't have as big stock of them so actually can get them quicker and deal with less exclusivity than the US. Also factor in how they are milking the drag out again like last year with the figures it's sort of frustrating.

Well, there was one dude who used to go around saying that figures released faster with Giants, than they did with the first game. That clearly wasn't right. Wham Shell arrived in the states in the middle of April, and here we are, in the middle of May and still no signs of LC Chill and Pop (wave 4 LC), Fright/Wrecking/Flame (wave 4 triple), Polar Whirlwind, LC Hex and Series 2 Drobot (wave 5).

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I can hint, too, but it doesn't mean I'm right. I've had info that's been wrong and right. You know what they say: "Even the sun shines on a dog's *** somedays." I hint that May goes by, and nothing. However, Uncle will come and say his source was off, and it's really another date.

That doesn't sound like something I'd do at all.

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I can hint, too, but it doesn't mean I'm right. I've had info that's been wrong and right. You know what they say: "Even the sun shines on a dog's *** somedays." I hint that May goes by, and nothing. However, Uncle will come and say his source was off, and it's really another date.

That doesn't sound like something I'd do at all.

You said that.

I don't think there is any variant that has not been released in the US...excluding volored or GITD varaints. I'm not worried about it....I am confident we'll see Polar eventually in the US.

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I don't think there is any variant that has not been released in the US...excluding volored or GITD varaints. I'm not worried about it....I am confident we'll see Polar eventually in the US.

Agreed.
Unfortunately for the impatient completionist types, it seems Activision plans to drag-out the popularity of Skylanders Giants for as long as possible. Can't really blame them, I guess. Still sucks. Regardless, expect to see Polar Whirlwind in US stores in June or July, and you can be sure that these forums will be one of the very first places to catch wind of actual sightings when they do happen this summer.

The final two S2 Drobot/LC Hex are *supposed to* come out at the end of the month.*

I hope that this is correct because I have been wanting Drobot for ages.

*in Australia.

^ nice i want LC Hex so bad

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The final two S2 Drobot/LC Hex are *supposed to* come out at the end of the month.*

I hope that this is correct because I have been wanting Drobot for ages.

*in Australia.

I hope so. Then they might be out with the sidekick promotion still going. I'm running out of things to buy to get the sidekicks!!

Wait...is the Sidekicks promotion for Giants going now? o_o

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Wait...is the Sidekicks promotion for Giants going now? o_o

Oh no, no no. It's the original 4 at GameStop if one spends $20 or more on Skylander ****.

The only variants NOT out in the US are the Glitter Triples, only found in UK.

Oh! Phew, thank goodness. XD Thanks Seiki. :)

I hope that we see the next set of Sidekicks soon. I want to get them out of the way.

Unfortunately, I think that they will drag them out 'till August in a feeble attempt to take attention from Disney. Yes, they're ssooooooooo exciting doing nothing all day that they can combat the entirety of Infinity, Activision...

With any luck we'll all be saying "Skylanders...what's that" and their sales will drop 50%...when Infinity arrives. Looking forward to the bloodbath of savings.

I see the number of people that "Gotta Collect 'Em All" going down significantly when Infinity hits. There is a limit to the number of plastic things most people will tolerate, Guitar Hero reached that point as well. It will definitely take a bite, a lot of parents don't know enough about it to realize how different of a game it is. They will see two games to buy figures and base it on that.

I think Swap Force will do fine. We all have a really nice collection that will work in the game from Day 1. Why not at least buy the a new game for all of your figures, they could release with zero new figures and it would still sell well. But, at this point a great many people are reaching around a hundred figures. Adding another 50+ is a big step. Swappers will sell very well. New figures will as well. Reposes, variants and lightcores I don't see generating much interest for the third go round.

Honestly, I don't think Infinity or any of the Skylanders competitors will make much of a dent. What I've seen looks pretty sub par and uninteresting by comparison to what Skylanders has done, but that's just me.

As for collecting, I have a strict list (that doesn't include most variants outside of the special ones that make a difference in-game). I don't have the games proper (nothing to play them on) I just legit like the toys by themselves. :) The folks who need to collect every single one somewhat baffle me, to be honest.

I will get Infinity when it streets, but only because my daughters will enjoy it.

My son will probably find fun in the Toy Box Mode, since he digs things like Minecraft, and I will play through the playsets, but Infinity will never hold a candle to Skylanders.

I'm not the type that nosebleeds over the prospect of playing as Marvel whoever, or Star Wars whoever, in worlds I could play in games like Marvel Ultimate Alliance or any of the other 10 bajillion Marvel games, or any Star Wars game.

I still don't like the idea that the figures are tied to their own worlds. Total buzzkill.

I will ever only buy 1 of each object for Infinity. Who gives a flip about orange based whatevers.

Skylanders will always 1up Infinity for allowing permanent upgrades to characters, characters being allowed to play in each world and each others Heroics. You will never see innovation in placing a Darth Vader figure on the Infinity Base, yet you will see innovation when Lightcore Skylanders are placed on the Portal of Power, and they flashbomb the screen while lighting up, or Swaplanders are able to be mixed and matched.

Disney simply plays it too safe with their figures. They will never allow something like Darth Sparrow to exist, and for that, Infinity sucks by default.

It's only neat in my eyes, because this 7th gen of gaming has been utter trash with numerous gritty, M-Rated sequels. It's a neat novelty, but poorly executed, especially for people who have lives and don't want to waste their time building levels for others to enjoy and they don't even get paid for it.

But, again, Infinity won't offer anything unique that will make people think, "Why do I want to own Infinity outside of nerding out over a Jack Sparrow toy that comes to life, but can only be played in a POTC playset, when I can just buy LEGO POTC, which covers all three movies, or the At World's End video game?"

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I agree.


I just want to get the giant kicks and the final 7 out of the way, then I wait.


As for the characters I have/will have alt forms of and don't feel like i need to get (S2, S2, S2, LC, LC, S2) I might get those and just leave them in the box.

In all honesty, I honesty feel like buying a S2 Whirlwind this weekend. Then I can get polar, do **** with her, then get to the Reg.

Im think we will see polar in june. i feel lc chill and lc pop fizz will appear between the 19th of may and the 19th of june.

It's not even because of Infinity that I'm abandoning the series. It's ultimately too expensive and the game is just not that long enough. Not to mention the paint jobs have been getting sloppier and it just isn't worth the stress to hunt them down and call stores like a madman. As soon as Polar and LC Pop Fizz are out, I'm done with Skylands.

All i need is scarlet ninjini, polar whirlwind, lc pop fizz and lc hex, after that im also done with skylanders and move on to the next interest

^ Haha @ Hexin_Wishes and Hexblazer!

If you were truly "done" with Skylanders, then you wouldn't bother with collecting Polar Whirlwind and LightCore Pop Fizz, and you wouldn't bother with participating in these forums.

It might make you feel more "at ease" to think/say "I'll be done when ....", but really, ya'll are hooked, don't kid yourselves!

Well i started collecting them so why not complete the collections.

^ Exactly! Like I said, you're hooked. Nothing wrong with that. I am, too, for certain.
Just don't be ashamed of it, and don't limit yourself by saying "I'm done after ..." when it's clear that you still have lots of interest in Skylanders.

^ ya your right skylanders is addictive like the game i play on fb called yoville

"you will see innovation when Lightcore Skylanders are placed on the Portal of Power, and they flashbomb the screen while lighting up"

Obviously someone forgot about that just being a copy of the previous game's Location Piece attacks. Also, please explain how that innovates the gameplay, which is the supporting pillar of all games.

Either way... Innovation is not nessicarily equal to a good game and safeness is not nessicarily equal to a bad game. I would take a third version of Pokémon over Skylanders any day if I were force to choose. (In fact, with B2W2 I almost was, and kept telling my parents that I wanted Pokémon.)

78, you keep saying you're sick of COD... Who cares. There are people out there who genuinely enjoy it. Just like you buy Skylanders every year, and the toys to life market is inevitably going to lead to terrible games. As long as someone enjoys the investments that they make and aren't hurting anyone then I, personally, don't give dirt- the problem is not CoD in itself, it is parents who let their kids play CoD. And even that doesn't have to be an issue in itself, because I'm 14 and I'd like to try a CoD game, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to shout slurs over the Internet, so I just don't play it since I'm not allowed to. Before anyone can resolve problems within the game industry, life itself needs a patch. It always will. It's broken, and it's too big to fix. Either way, playing the blame game is pointless because it's not like we can go back in time and fix it- it only creates discord. Wether you like it or not things are this way for now.

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"you will see innovation when Lightcore Skylanders are placed on the Portal of Power, and they flashbomb the screen while lighting up"

Obviously someone forgot about that just being a copy of the previous game's Location Piece attacks. Also, please explain how that innovates the gameplay, which is the supporting pillar of all games.

Either way... Innovation is not nessicarily equal to a good game and safeness is not nessicarily equal to a bad game. I would take a third version of Pokémon over Skylanders any day if I were force to choose. (In fact, with B2W2 I almost was, and kept telling my parents that I wanted Pokémon.)

78, you keep saying you're sick of COD... Who cares. There are people out there who genuinely enjoy it. Just like you buy Skylanders every year, and the toys to life market is inevitably going to lead to terrible games. As long as someone enjoys the investments that they make and aren't hurting anyone then I, personally, don't give dirt- the problem is not CoD in itself, it is parents who let their kids play CoD. And even that doesn't have to be an issue in itself, because I'm 14 and I'd like to try a CoD game, but that doesn't mean that I'm going to shout slurs over the Internet, so I just don't play it since I'm not allowed to. Before anyone can resolve problems within the game industry, life itself needs a patch. It always will. It's broken, and it's too big to fix. Either way, playing the blame game is pointless because it's not like we can go back in time and fix it- it only creates discord. Wether you like it or not things are this way for now.

But us customers choose the market. Us gamers used to always look to the east for the good games, now that's changed. Not because they make bad games, but most gamers out there chose the west over east, due to gritty, M-Rated, shooters, racers, and sports games, while also flocking to digital download content, whether it be games or game content.

It's bringing down the industry. It's a sad day in gaming, when the best PS3 exclusives Sony has to offer in 2009 and 2011 are both in the same genre and are sequels (Killzone 2 and Resistance 2 in 2009 and Killzone 3 and Resistance 3 in 2011). Those are FPS games to add to the other FPS games that might have come out those years.

I mean this year alone there's Bioshock, Call of Duty Ghosts, maybe Killzone 4, Metro: Ladt Light, and I'm sure there are others. Why must there be so many FPS in any given year? Because gamers these days are losing their taste for good games, and they think gaming skill stems from point a reticle and pressing the fire button.

I can list here, the best games of the 7th gen with ease. If it weren't for certain games, this gen would have gone down in my eyes as the most pathetic generation of gaming in all of gaming history. The industry is saturating itself with the same genres, just like it did with games back in 1983, I wouldn't be surprised if the industry is ripe for another video game crash, like the crash of 1983. We all know Nintendo came and put a stop to that, by only allowing a certain amount of games to come out on their system each year, and they exercised QA on each game, to make sure total garbage wasn't only releasing. Some slipped through, but there were more good games than bad games.

Now adays, if you have an FPS, you're free to release on systems. If you want to lock most of your content on disc, and charge 10 bucks for an unlock key, you're free to do so, because the industry saw people are willing to buy it.

Us customers have spoken. FPS, Racers, Sports games, endless sequels, and games tied down by a nasty DRM rule supreme. Photorealistic shines over gameplay, browns and grays shine over color, and online thrives over gaming gatherings.

Japan keeps bashing itself, saying they don't know how to make good games, but they do. The problem is the American Gaming Industry and their customers, in my opinion. If someone's holding a gun or can jack cars, developer of said game is ripe to get 60 bucks from 95% of the gamers out there. Then they say, "well, we can do this every year. We can barely renew our games, but get 60 bucks from the same customer every year."

With Skylanders, the characters are what make the game seem new. I haven't played with anyone like Magna Charge yet. I will when Swap Force comes out. However, when Call of Duty Ghosts comes out this year, people will take up the same weapons they've shot before, and take down some terrorist. When someone buys Madden - glorified roster update - 14 this year, and they decide to play as Tim Tebow, the same person they played as last year, they will be running down the same stretch of 100 yards as they have been since Madden went HD in 2005.

I think American Developers are going to ruin the industry and cause bad things to happen. Mark my words. They keep trying to go digital download only, and they keep failing at it. PSP GO failed, and MS suffered massive backlash at the idea the Xbox 720 (Infinity?) would be tied down by DRM, but they keep trying, because that's all us humans do. We destroy anything that isn't broke. We take advantage of everything and everyone. They keep releasing sequel after sequel, and while some are warranted, most are only retools with slight differences from the game the year(s) prior.

If anyone would ever like to know what games made the 7th gen not suck, I would gladly list them. I'd be interested in seeing how many agree that the games I have in mind, are games worth owning.

i know of a shop that have them, its like 10 polars. was visiting the shop a month a go and did go today again... none was sold, all 10 polars was still there. its a grocery shop, i dunno why they have skylanders there. people go buy food not skylanders at that place... i feel sad for you usa guys/gals but i have no plan to evilbay'em, im not that kind of guy. anyway i will go to visit the shop now and then, to have a look at the polars they are very nice. so the grocery shop have become my shrine of the sacred polars now

^ we also have a grocery store that sales skylanders called "superstore", they have electronic section there and thats were they have the skylanders stuff.

no electronics.. just food and the skylanders+game have a stand at the comic section, its very strange.. maybe only one-off thing. i dunno...

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^ Haha @ Hexin_Wishes and Hexblazer!

If you were truly "done" with Skylanders, then you wouldn't bother with collecting Polar Whirlwind and LightCore Pop Fizz, and you wouldn't bother with participating in these forums.

It might make you feel more "at ease" to think/say "I'll be done when ....", but really, ya'll are hooked, don't kid yourselves!

You poor ignorant child.

I actually WANT Polar and LC Pop Fizz and have since the figures were reported. Read it again: They're the LAST TWO I want. Now that we've got that settled, I am barely here anymore anyways. I only pop in to see if threads have started to report these figures out on US soil so I can just get them.

And no, If I was really hooked I'd have bought every figure released and quite frankly I don't care for every figure released only the ones i have liked but I have voiced my annoyance over the length and quality of the game (i.e. I think it's short & weak). The kids can keep playing it and I'd get them one here & there as a gift but as a Skylanders collector I'm done.

"poor ignorant child", eh?

A bit defensive, are we?

Your little rant pretty much validated everything I said above, so I don't really think there's any point in belaboring this with you.

Thanks for the laughs, though.

here we go again...

Ok, I know this thread got a little off topic, but has there been any more news on Polar? Now that Scarlet's come stateside, I'm expecting her to be also. Now we just need to know when and where...

^ no news from north pole sorry

^ GameMaster78:

I hate FPS games. I just don't like em, get em, or enjoy them. I admire games like Portal 2 that push innovation. I like the fact that Skylanders pushes different types of gameplay in it--in essence a third person shooter though with some unique elements interwoven.

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^ GameMaster78:

I hate FPS games. I just don't like em, get em, or enjoy them. I admire games like Portal 2 that push innovation. I like the fact that Skylanders pushes different types of gameplay in it--in essence a third person shooter though with some unique elements interwoven.

Portal is cool. It reminds me more of a puzzle game, rather than an FPS. I know games like Elder Scrolls can be played in first person, but games with a first person POV are saturating the market, and the gaming industry needs to come up with new ideas before we're smack dab in 1983 again, dealing with another crash.

I do own Halo. That's where I gte my first person fix - and to say I own a game in the FPS genre - whether it be for single or multiplayer. However, I am the type that likes to see innovative ideas, or games with some sort of imagination behind it. Sadly, ever since people bought COD every year, developers are quick to make FPS, just to cash in on the COD hooplah, which is making the industry lack any sort of idea for new types of games.

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"poor ignorant child", eh?

A bit defensive, are we?

Your little rant pretty much validated everything I said above, so I don't really think there's any point in belaboring this with you.

Thanks for the laughs, though.

I lament the same things Hexin_Wishes does as well. I'm not out either but I'm guessing I'll be curbing my collecting at least by 50% unless Activision totally blows it out of the park on Swap Force--for my financial sanity.

The only draw for Infinity for me is the collecting aspect---but the adventure pack doesn't look interesting and I don't like Toybox mode. I'm sure the kids would like it---but they can get those kind of kicks from Mindcraft.

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^ GameMaster78:

I hate FPS games. I just don't like em, get em, or enjoy them. I admire games like Portal 2 that push innovation. I like the fact that Skylanders pushes different types of gameplay in it--in essence a third person shooter though with some unique elements interwoven.

Portal is cool. It reminds me more of a puzzle game, rather than an FPS. I know games like Elder Scrolls can be played in first person, but games with a first person POV are saturating the market, and the gaming industry needs to come up with new ideas before we're smack dab in 1983 again, dealing with another crash.

I do own Halo. That's where I gte my first person fix - and to say I own a game in the FPS genre - whether it be for single or multiplayer. However, I am the type that likes to see innovative ideas, or games with some sort of imagination behind it. Sadly, ever since people bought COD every year, developers are quick to make FPS, just to cash in on the COD hooplah, which is making the industry lack any sort of idea for new types of games.

Yeah Portal isn't a FPS (didn't I say I hate them) and I love puzzle type adventures. I'm missing the old style Sierra type of adventures like King's Quest.

I am saddened on the dumbing down of gaming in general--and agree we need a renaissance of sorts.

Only way it's going to happen, is when the gaming industry stops trying to capitalize on certain genres, by releasing games in the genre that seems most popular.

The gaming industry will only go from bad to worse, if everything goes download only. That opens the floodgates to millions of companies making cheap games from every genre, thus saturating the market with millions of games from the same genre, which will surely crash the industry like what happened back in 1983.

It's almost as if us humans always build up something good, only to destroy it ourselves. It's like we can't keep anything fixed. The gaming industry got this far, only for it to be flooded and soon, gone, first physically, then digitally, as the market is opened up like it was in the late 70's, early 80's, for anyone to pump out any and everything considered to be a game.

I HATE CALL OF DUTY AND HALO!! *ahem* Sorry, I really just do not like those games, as they are saturating the market and they are just not fun to play.