darkSpyro

The thought that Activision would not support all characters in future releases has been floating around for awhile now. Not sure if that would ever happen, but I find it interesting to think of which characters I'd miss and which ones I wouldn't. Out of curiosity, which 8 from each element would I keep and which could I let go of. My list is below. It's not a based on what I think would happen or what's popular, just my own wishes.

For this exercise, the bolded names are keepers, while regular text characters are out. I'm excluding villains and the light and dark elements. Fill free to cut and paste if you want to make your own list.

Fire

Blast Zone
Eruptor
Fire Kraken
Flameslinger
Fryno
Hot Dog
Hot Head
Ignitor
Ka-Boom
Small Fry
Smolderdash
Sunburn
Torch
Trail Blazer
Weeruptor
Wildfire


Water

Chill
Echo
Flip Wreck
Freeze Blade
Gill Grunt
Gill Runt
Lob Star
Punk Shock
Rip Tide
Slam Bam
Snap Shot
Thumpback
Thumpling
Wash Buckler
Wham Shell
Zap


Earth

Bash
Bop
Crusher
Dino-Rang
Doom Stone
Fist Bump
Flashwing
Head Rush
Prism Break
Rocky Roll
Rubble Rouser
Scorp
Slobber Tooth
Terrabite
Terrafin
Wallop


Life

Barkley
Bumble-blast
Bushwhack
Camo
Food Fight
Grilla Drilla
High Five
Shroomboom
Stealth Elf
Stink Bomb
Stump Smash
Tuff Luck
Tree Rex
Whisper Elf
Zoo Lou
Zook


Air

Blades
Boom Jet
Breeze
Fling Kong
Free Ranger
Gusto
Jet-Vac
Ligthing Rod
Pet-Vac
Pop Thorn
Scratch
Sonic Boom
Swarm
Thunderbolt
Warnado
Whirlwind


Tech

Boomer
Bouncer
Chopper
Countdown
Drill Sergeant
Drobit
Drobot
Gearshift
Jawbreaker
Magna Charge
Sprocket
Spy Rise
Tread Head
Trigger Happy
Trigger Snappy
Wind Up


Magic

Blastermind
Cobra Cadabra
Deja Vu
Double Trouble
Dune Bug
Enigma
Hoot Loop
Mini Jini
Ninjini
Pop-Fizz
Spry
Spyro
Star Strike
Trap Shadow
Voodood
Wrecking Ball


Undead

Bat Spin
Chop Chop
Cynder
Eye-Brawl
Eye Small
Fright Rider
Funny Bone
Ghost Roaster
Grim Creeper
Hex
Hijinx
Krypt King
Night Shift
Rattle Shake
Roller Brawl
Short Cut

You only bolded seven in tech

Useless thread...if they are going to drop forwards compatibility for figures, they will drop it for them all and they'll just start anew. And mark my words...when forwards compatibility stops, the franchise will crash and burn to a very abrupt halt. Activision can complain all they want about it getting more and more difficult to keep increasing the roster with each game, but they brought it upon themselves by releasing so many toys year after year. I have no pity for them having to test every character in every new game release...they already did a piss poor job of it with the glitchy Trap Team. Play with Treadhead in the first Kaos Doom Challenge and see how he reacts upon approaching one of the cannons during the tutorials...very glitchy! Activision needs to stop playing games and drop compatibility for the Nintendo Wii...the old technology is holding them back...with a complete jump to the next generation consoles, the expanded memory, capacity, and technical specs should allow for games with a roster of 5000 or more Skylanders if they really wanted. And graphically, we'd all get a more amazing next gen gaming experience.

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Useless thread...if they are going to drop forwards compatibility for figures, they will drop it for them all and they'll just start anew. And mark my words...when forwards compatibility stops, the franchise will crash and burn to a very abrupt halt. Activision can complain all they want about it getting more and more difficult to keep increasing the roster with each game, but they brought it upon themselves by releasing so many toys year after year. I have no pity for them having to test every character in every new game release...they already did a piss poor job of it with the glitchy Trap Team. Play with Treadhead in the first Kaos Doom Challenge and see how he reacts upon approaching one of the cannons during the tutorials...very glitchy! Activision needs to stop playing games and drop compatibility for the Nintendo Wii...the old technology is holding them back...with a complete jump to the next generation consoles, the expanded memory, capacity, and technical specs should allow for games with a roster of 5000 or more Skylanders if they really wanted. And graphically, we'd all get a more amazing next gen gaming experience.

Actually this thread is pretty interesting infact I'd safely say that nearly any thread that speaks of game play, release info, game info or some nice information to why you like something I say go for it. The crap I am tired of seeing are random topics that are irrelevent or dumb topics of already available info and those DARN contests that muddle up any of the good threads. Mind you this is MY opinion but I'd rather read something like this then the former.

What Activision should do is support the five most popular core Skylanders of each element, return all Giants, one swapper of each element and one Trap Master of each element. (excluding villains and Light/Dark)

If Actvision drops fcompatibility of figures, I think they'l drop for all old figures. That being said, old characters could still be available in the form of new figures. Like, a new version of Spyro, Gill Grunt or Trrigger happy, playabe in the new game.

No not feeling it.

No way would they drop Eruptor, Gill Grunt, Snap Shot Wash Buckler, Terrafin, Food Fight, or Tree Rex. They are flagship characters.

As I stated originally, this is not what I thought they should or would do. It was purely for entertainment purposes...and it looks like I only amused myself.