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Amazon now has several links up (not for pre-order yet) for Swap Force items:

Triple Pack #1 http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...id=I38RLM0C82AO

Triple Pack #2 http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I2EEEZA938L6E4

Rattle Shake http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I1WTFVKP6KVUFX

Magna Charge http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I2Z0A2VH87U7IY

Free Ranger http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...d=IF22B1PULURDS

Hoot Loop http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I1U9N5N5J125I4

LC Grim Creeper http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I3UKEOP6GQ3913

LC Star Strike http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...force+lightcore

LC Smolderdash http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...force+lightcore

LC Flashwing http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...force+lightcore

LC Warnado http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...force+lightcore

Roller Brawl http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I3881AFXPPFFSD

Slobber Tooth http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I2E3CVBYSSS8IY

Countdown http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I2D8NPLO5QVJUD

Mega Ram Spyro http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...d=IFUW3ISVF3ZUC

Zoo Lou http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I147V3EAMC57SY

Super Gulp Pop Fizz http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I2M5WYSU468UAJ

Lava Barf Eruptor http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I257HEZCTLFF99

Blizzard Chill http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...=I2WPVBDX4Z8IV3

I think that is the real wave 1

I agree. Interesting on the large number of lightcores at launch. No real differences between LCs and core S1 guys...will probably go with lightcores for them to keep the buying on the cheaper side.

Its wierd that Hoot Loops Catchphrase is wrong on english but right on french.

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Its wierd that Hoot Loops Catchphrase is wrong on english but right on french.

What do you mean?

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Its wierd that Hoot Loops Catchphrase is wrong on english but right on french.

What do you mean?

In French, the catchphrase has something to do with stealing feathers (although my French is a little rusty lol)
It's not close to what it is in English...so I dunno what they were trying to go for with that.

Fake because it doesnt list Zoo Lou or enchanted hoot loop

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Fake because it doesnt list Zoo Lou or enchanted hoot loop

Not fake....just incomplete <.< and Enchanted Hoot-Loop is a gamestop exclusive isn't it? It wouldn't be on amazon

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Fake because it doesnt list Zoo Lou or enchanted hoot loop

Not fake....just incomplete <.< and Enchanted Hoot-Loop is a gamestop exclusive isn't it? It wouldn't be on amazon

Granite crusher is on amazon and he is a target exclusive
argument invalid (And yes EHL is exclusive to gamestop)

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Fake because it doesnt list Zoo Lou or enchanted hoot loop

Not fake....just incomplete <.< and Enchanted Hoot-Loop is a gamestop exclusive isn't it? It wouldn't be on amazon

Granite crusher is on amazon and he is a target exclusive
argument invalid (And yes EHL is exclusive to gamestop)

Granite Crusher on Amazon is Irrelevant. He is sold through Amazon by a third party. The ones listed are through Amazon itself

Yes... they're all fake... you caught me. Sorry for bothering you Windumup

I am surprised there are no double packs. Since Target is getting Nitro Magna Charge double packs. I thought there would be regular Magna Charge double packs as well.

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Granite Crusher on Amazon is Irrelevant. He is sold through Amazon by a third party. The ones listed are through Amazon itself

This is true, due to Amazon allowing others to sell via their storefront any number of "exclusives" that do not belong to Amazon will invariably pop up. What matters is the "Ships and sold by Amazon", which since this is exclusive, will likely not show up until he is able to be pre-ordered/ordered from Gamestop. Once that happens, I'm sure you will see him pop up as well as a third party vendor item.

And no, the list is not a final list, but it is a good indicator of Wave 1.

I have to say the extensive amount of store exclusive variants, holiday themed variants and sheer volume of figures is really helping me resist even being tempted to try and "collect 'em all". I had a talk with my son just today that we weren't going to be trying to get every one again. I'll get variants if the opportunity arises, but I'm definitely not doing the full scale hunt this time. I'll focus on getting the ones that might have short windows of opportunity, then leave the common ones to pick up when figures start going on big sales in the Spring. I'm actually happy about it, because it will mean I can go shopping with my kids and they will actually have ones we don't have yet instead of hitting up TRU alone at opening on school days every time a new shipment comes in. They can pick out what they like instead of just having them all, I think it will be more fun for them. We might miss some, but right now we have over a hundred figures to play with when we open the game.

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I am surprised there are no double packs. Since Target is getting Nitro Magna Charge double packs. I thought there would be regular Magna Charge double packs as well.

The Nitro two pack is similar to the Target Lightcore 3 pack last year. A special packaging for Target, albeit with an exclusive variant this time.

I don't think Double Packs will be a thing this time. Honestly, since they are charging 29.99 it is actually more expensive than buying two $14.99 figures (by 1 cent). I thought it would have been a good idea with Giants and Swappers, if they charged $24.99 (maybe even $26.99), and comparing to Three Packs, it would be a similar $5 discount for $30 of figures. I guess they figure that Swappers and Giants are the star attractions of the games, therefore they don't need to provide package discounts. Anyone that has the game will already have two Swappers, so the logic that you need two to highlight their capability is a wash - everyone will have at least two already.

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(And yes EHL is exclusive to gamestop)

No, he isn't.

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I think UncleBob means that the "Enchanted" Hoot Loop isn't necessarily exclusive to GameStop in the USA ... and there's no reason (that I'm aware of) to doubt him on that.
The exclusivity to GameStop that put "Enchanted" Hoot Loop on the map was for the Scandinavian markets (I think).

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Its wierd that Hoot Loops Catchphrase is wrong on english but right on french.

What do you mean?

In French, the catchphrase has something to do with stealing feathers (although my French is a little rusty lol)
It's not close to what it is in English...so I dunno what they were trying to go for with that.

Yeah i don't get it either... ...the french is "Faisons Voler Quelques Plumes!" it translates to "Some do Flying Feathers!" when the english is "Whip Up A Storm!"
...very odd ...some do flying feathers? oooh-kay...lol

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Granite crusher is on amazon and he is a target exclusive
argument invalid (And yes EHL is exclusive to gamestop)

I've listed items on Amazon through the company I used to work for. They have tight controls on what gets listed on their site. A third party may sell items on Amazon such as a Granite Crusher, but these product pages do not get approval until the sellers have them on-hand and ready to sell. This is why Amazon usually has bad prices on exclusive figures. It's actually just someone else who's gotten a listing for that item approved, and is selling it secondhand. This is also why, once Amazon runs out of stock on a figure, the price begins to rise past MSRP: because after Amazon sells out all that's left is secondhand sellers who raise the price.

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I have to say the extensive amount of store exclusive variants, holiday themed variants and sheer volume of figures is really helping me resist even being tempted to try and "collect 'em all". I had a talk with my son just today that we weren't going to be trying to get every one again. I'll get variants if the opportunity arises, but I'm definitely not doing the full scale hunt this time. I'll focus on getting the ones that might have short windows of opportunity, then leave the common ones to pick up when figures start going on big sales in the Spring. I'm actually happy about it, because it will mean I can go shopping with my kids and they will actually have ones we don't have yet instead of hitting up TRU alone at opening on school days every time a new shipment comes in. They can pick out what they like instead of just having them all, I think it will be more fun for them. We might miss some, but right now we have over a hundred figures to play with when we open the game.

Yeah I'm seriously considering canceling my Dark Edition and just getting the standard in-store with a $10 coupon for this very reason. I bought a lot of figures for SSA and Giants which I realize I'm not going to get much use out of ever. It really stinks to frantically buy like 3 versions of a character only to finally play it and realize you dislike the character.

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What do you mean?

In French, the catchphrase has something to do with stealing feathers (although my French is a little rusty lol)
It's not close to what it is in English...so I dunno what they were trying to go for with that.

Yeah i don't get it either... ...the french is "Faisons Voler Quelques Plumes!" it translates to "Some do Flying Feathers!" when the english is "Whip Up A Storm!"
...very odd ...some do flying feathers? oooh-kay...lol

I would guess a true English translation would be "Let Some Feathers Fly!". Google Translate says "Let's Fly Some Feathers!". And here I thought "voler" was "steal", Due to personal experience, as I live in THE french area of Canada, I can affirm the rest:
Faisons = Make
Quelques = Some
Plumes = Feathers

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I think UncleBob means that the "Enchanted" Hoot Loop isn't necessarily exclusive to GaymeStop in the USA ... and there's no reason (that I'm aware of) to doubt him on that.
The exclusivity to GaymeStop that put "Enchanted" Hoot Loop on the map was for the Scandinavian markets (I think).

gamestop*


sorry, just had to nitpick that

MY EB GAMES SAYS STINK BOMB AND NIGHT SHIFT ARE IN WAVE ONE

^ I'm fine with that. I just want Ruble Rouser and Stink Bomb to be in Wave 1. That way I can access all areas.

The 4 Double Packs that were found already are 24,99€ in Germany so it should be 24,99$ in the US. We habe the same prices in € you have in $ (Triple Packs 24,99€, Single 9,99€, Lightcore 11,99€, Lightcore Triple Pack was 29,99€ I think).

The packs are no longer listed in the amazon search and there is no picture of them. Grilla Drilla & Fire Kraken are Dig and Jump, so if someone has a console starter pack he needs the other movement types for the swap zones. I think it's a good deal if you want these figures and not the others (Rubble Rouser and Rattle Shake for this example, and we don't know when Rubble Rouser will be released).

I don't like the Nitro Charge Packs though. If you want to buy a 3DS Version you will have 2 of Rattle Shake or Free Ranger. And then there is a Legendary Free Ranger, too... I'd prefer a Bundle with another non-starter pack Swapper.


http://myskylanders.wordpress....rge-bei-amazon/

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Yeah I'm seriously considering canceling my Dark Edition and just getting the standard in-store with a $10 coupon for this very reason. I bought a lot of figures for SSA and Giants which I realize I'm not going to get much use out of ever. It really stinks to frantically buy like 3 versions of a character only to finally play it and realize you dislike the character.

I'm sticking with the Dark Starter for one reason, and one reason only: It is a Christmas gift for my son. He will really dig having a "special" collector version of it. Otherwise, we would do with the regular one.

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I have to say the extensive amount of store exclusive variants, holiday themed variants and sheer volume of figures is really helping me resist even being tempted to try and "collect 'em all". I had a talk with my son just today that we weren't going to be trying to get every one again. I'll get variants if the opportunity arises, but I'm definitely not doing the full scale hunt this time. I'll focus on getting the ones that might have short windows of opportunity, then leave the common ones to pick up when figures start going on big sales in the Spring. I'm actually happy about it, because it will mean I can go shopping with my kids and they will actually have ones we don't have yet instead of hitting up TRU alone at opening on school days every time a new shipment comes in. They can pick out what they like instead of just having them all, I think it will be more fun for them. We might miss some, but right now we have over a hundred figures to play with when we open the game.

You've crystallized my thoughts EXACTLY.

Okay so I expect this to be the full wave 1(no varients included).I believe this to be true because last year for Giants smythes (an Irish/British store) had the complete wave 1 for giants in their catalouge and by they have all the skylanders that are listed on amazon for wave 1 are also in the catalouge so yeah.

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I have to say the extensive amount of store exclusive variants, holiday themed variants and sheer volume of figures is really helping me resist even being tempted to try and "collect 'em all". I had a talk with my son just today that we weren't going to be trying to get every one again. I'll get variants if the opportunity arises, but I'm definitely not doing the full scale hunt this time. I'll focus on getting the ones that might have short windows of opportunity, then leave the common ones to pick up when figures start going on big sales in the Spring. I'm actually happy about it, because it will mean I can go shopping with my kids and they will actually have ones we don't have yet instead of hitting up TRU alone at opening on school days every time a new shipment comes in. They can pick out what they like instead of just having them all, I think it will be more fun for them. We might miss some, but right now we have over a hundred figures to play with when we open the game.

You've crystallized my thoughts EXACTLY.

You guys aren't getting them all!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?! Seriously I totally hear this. I don;t get overly excited over variants but I did get Polar W.W. but that's only because I didn't get the Series 2. I did miss Jade Flash Wing and that angers me since she was the only variant I really wanted...oh well there's always ebay. There are so many cool Skylanders this time around and it's going to make it though to hold back (I'm looking at you Dunebug, Skorp, Trap Shadow, Grilla Drilla, oh crap too many to name). This game has quite possibly the most appealing line up to date...yes I'm saying better than SSA. Speaking back to variants though I have ZERO interest in variants that don't appear different in game...total waste in my opinion. I hope Mr. Bala was serious about possibly making older variants appear different in game...if they even can.

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MY EB GAMES SAYS STINK BOMB AND NIGHT SHIFT ARE IN WAVE ONE

You know it actually has them and freeze blade in EB GAMES' COMPUTER !!!!!!!!!

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I hope Mr. Bala was serious about possibly making older variants appear different in game...if they even can.

I think he was amusing Skylander Dad but in reality I think we can expect that the variants would all work just like the regular characters. In fact, there's evidence to suggest we're even going to lose the "special" notation on these treasure hunt variants in Swap Force (refer to Bronze Hot Dog being shown at E3 inside the game).

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I hope Mr. Bala was serious about possibly making older variants appear different in game...if they even can.

I think he was amusing Skylander Dad but in reality I think we can expect that the variants would all work just like the regular characters. In fact, there's evidence to suggest we're even going to lose the "special" notation on these treasure hunt variants in Swap Force (refer to Bronze Hot Dog being shown at E3 inside the game).

Yeah I have my doubts as well. So I'm sticking to actual in game variants. Gnarly Tree Rex and Polar W.W. are pretty cool so I have no regrets picking them up. Here's one that will blow your mind...what if they made a "Black Knight" Fright Rider with black plate armor and barding for his Doom Chicken...That would be all kinds of BADA$$ ($$ intended to show how crazy this would be to buy retail and not have to turn to ebay lol).

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You guys aren't getting them all!!!!!!!?!?!?!?!?! Seriously I totally hear this. I don;t get overly excited over variants but I did get Polar W.W. but that's only because I didn't get the Series 2. I did miss Jade Flash Wing and that angers me since she was the only variant I really wanted...oh well there's always ebay. There are so many cool Skylanders this time around and it's going to make it though to hold back (I'm looking at you Dunebug, Skorp, Trap Shadow, Grilla Drilla, oh crap too many to name). This game has quite possibly the most appealing line up to date...yes I'm saying better than SSA. Speaking back to variants though I have ZERO interest in variants that don't appear different in game...total waste in my opinion. I hope Mr. Bala was serious about possibly making older variants appear different in game...if they even can.

No, I am very excited about Swap Force, very much looking forward to it. And as far as variants go, I will almost always choose the variant over the regular one (Nitro, Enchanted, Legendary, etc.) I have the Dark version pre-ordered. My son loves the variants, notably the Legendaries.

What is different is that I won't get the normal ones if I have the variant/lightcore or vice versa. And most reposes are also a no-go (though I am stuck with Spyro and Stealth Elf in the Starter). I have enough of those already. I may pick up a few I think are cool (Prism Break is my favorite, so likely him in particular). For the most part it will be just the Swappers and Newlanders and no duplicates where it can be avoided.

Where I am stuck is in these cases:

- I want Nitro Magna Charge, but he only comes packaged with one or the other 3DS pack in and I do like the 3DS versions of the game.
- The 3DS also has a new version of Eruptor, which I already have three of. I'm holding off on this version until Black Friday and hope to get it on a good sale to make up for that.
- The Triple Packs are usually a good deal, especially if TRU has a sale like last year on release. But, they chose to go with a 1 new and 2 repose, so I don't see these happening. None of the announced triples have two reposes I would care about either - it would need to be two that I really liked.

Also, through this year I have acquired a few extras that I hope to be able to find a trade (not on the forum, of course) to keep costs down. All of them were acquired for various reasons including birthday gifts that ended up not being used since my son didn't end up attending a party or in one case for a trade that never happened. I'm hoping someone I know or in line at the store might need them and be willing to trade them straight up for an equal value Swap Force figure. I'm fairly sure another parent there would trade a single for a Polar or Jade, a Swapper for a Gnarly or Ninjini or a Tower of Time Pack for my extra set of Giantkicks. Saves me some money and might help them get something they missed - I'd much rather help out another parent than play the EBay game, even if it means I forego a few extra dollars I could get (and I hate scalping anyways).

The main thing is to try and reduce my outlay for the game. Next summer I can always pick up more on the great sales, and it will allow me and my sons to shop for them together without him always seeing a rack of things he already has. It'll be cool for him to be able pick out a figure and be part of the process instead of just me picking them up while he is in school. If I miss some, then I miss them. It's not like we are lacking for playable characters now.

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Fake because it doesnt list Zoo Lou or enchanted hoot loop

Not fake....just incomplete <.< and Enchanted Hoot-Loop is a gamestop exclusive isn't it? It wouldn't be on amazon

Granite crusher is on amazon and he is a target exclusive
argument invalid (And yes EHL is exclusive to gamestop)

Your whole life is invalid

what??? fake???

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Not fake....just incomplete <.< and Enchanted Hoot-Loop is a gamestop exclusive isn't it? It wouldn't be on amazon

Granite crusher is on amazon and he is a target exclusive
argument invalid (And yes EHL is exclusive to gamestop)

Your whole life is invalid

For the first time, I think I'm going to guestbook someone's post. It's mean, but I can't stop laughing.

But yes, people can post things on Amazon, kind of like an ebay type thing from what I understand.

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