darkSpyro

I went to Gamestop and asked the guy if they had any Light & Dark Adventure Packs. He said that they're being discontinued. Wtf does that mean they're stopping production?! I'm panicking about this. I don't have them yet. Did I just misinterpret it or are the stocks of them being stopped for good?


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Quote: Swap Force Fan

Hey guys, if you don't already have the light and dark expansion packs, I would get them now from amazon.com, because I have heard news from Wal-Mart, Target, and Gamestop that they have been discontinued. Order fast!

Nope it's just another idiot who doesn't know what he is talking about. Just go to TRU, they will almost certainly have them there.

This better not be the case

I know I need them to complete the game

It's just another employee trying to spread rumors. Why would they discontinue two packs that are almost essential to beat the game with?

It could be possible they're discontinuing the packs and gonig to release singles of the trap masters and traps.

I DOUBT IT.

But might be the case.


ALOT of people thought the marth + other amiibos were being discontinued but during the nintendo direct they announced they'll be put in other waves closer to their franchises other releases so this could be the case too...

Orrrrr he's tired of getting asked and wants you to stop calling.

Quote: Matteomax

It's just another employee trying to spread rumors. Why would they discontinue two packs that are almost essential to beat the game with?

Acti makes some stupid decisions and they're unpredictable, so you never know what's up their sleeve.

Quote: ExcitonKnight

Quote: Matteomax

It's just another employee trying to spread rumors. Why would they discontinue two packs that are almost essential to beat the game with?

Acti makes some stupid decisions and they're unpredictable, so you never know what's up their sleeve.

True, but if they decided to discontinue this then I suspect the series is cancelled. Why discontinue something that's at least something like 5-10% of the game and is selling well. This is another clueless Gamestop employee mishap.

Probably is, he kinda seemed like he didn't know much about the skylanders.

People at the game stores have no idea about Skylanders productions.

Same with major retail stores like Target, Walmart or even TRU.
I've helped at the TRU & GameStop in Fullerton with customers wondering about Infinity & Skylanders, and I know more than the employees that work there. And I don't even work at either of these places.
As for the packs, I saw 3 of each at a WalMart on the multi-level shelves, under some older Skylanders items on clearance, not on the racks with the other figures & packs

Quote: Matteomax

It's just another employee trying to spread rumors. Why would they discontinue two packs that are almost essential to beat the game with?

Especially since it just came out a month ago.

I was at Best Buy yesterday and they had one light pack on the shelf.

My TRU is out, but I think you just got a stupid employee when he said that.

a lie at my gamestop they said that it will be restocked in the next week

Don't give up just yet. I'm sure that either TRU, Walmart or GameStop will restock the Light and Dark expansion packs soon.

It's dumb threads like this which make scalpers go about after these more aggressively. I take what employees say to me with a grain of salt. Most people on this fan forum who regularly keep up to date with threads are more knowledgeable than store employees. We have toy store owners posting here giving us the heads up when things like the 8 pack of traps are discontinued for ordering...they're a more reliable resource.

Maybe in a bizarro world or alternate backwards universe, you'll hear at a Activision meeting "we just introduced 2 new elements in packs at a jacked up price of $30 and they're flying off the shelves...stores can't even keep them in stock...so let's discontinue them!" Makes no sense.

I hope there will be some left when i go to Flordia in 2 days!

I wouldn't worry about them being discontinued . They are probably one of the best selling skylanders toys and there's no way they would pass up that easy profit. main reason some people are struggling to find them is because they are INCREDIBLY popular. I've literally seen giant shelves of them disappear in a few days .

These are NOT discontinued, and they will not be discontinued for a long time.


In fact, I just came back from my local Target. They had 5 Light Packs and one Dark Pack.

Retailers are finishing up warehouse inventory and starting to send product out again. Should have seen the line of semis waiting to drop loads finally at my local stores

At the local EB Games (Australian version of Gamestop) they often order limited stock of some items with no intention of getting more in. Once they are sold they are sold and you need to look elsewhere. Not sure if this is true for all EB Games stores but it is for my local one.

Often items that you can't buy in store are still available to order from their website for a period of time, but it's possible that EB Games stores would run out of some stock and never restock it. And it's possible that this will happen here with the light and dark packs. But there's a big difference between not stocking it and discontinued.

They are not discountined we can still order them @ Wal-Mart for stock so no they are not

Both on sale for $29.99 at Amazon.com right now!

Quote: mastermc54

Both on sale for $29.99 at Amazon.com right now!

Thanks for the heads up. I grabbed one more for a friend so I can stop looking. Hope others can now as well.

I called Target today and they too said both packs are discontinued. However, they do still have them in stock at regular price.

DPCI 207-00-3011

I have found them all day at targets and walmarts so I don't think they are discontinued. Maybe just be a Target thing because they never carry stock long on the shelf its marked down and then gone. They are out there people.

Hey guys, if you don't already have the light and dark expansion packs, I would get them now from amazon.com, because I have heard news from Wal-Mart, Target, and Gamestop that they have been discontinued. Order fast!

There is still a great demand for these, so Activision will be upsetting fans with this nonsense if this is true. I can imagine them releasing individual packs with Light and Dark Trapmasters and also single light and dark traps, but people will bail on the franchise if they don't make the actual midnight museum and sunscraper spire pieces available to fans in order to unlock both expansion levels. Can somebody who owns or manages a toy/gaming store confirm or deny these rumors? Seeing as both are in stock at Amazon and have been in stock for a majority of the day, they must have gotten hundreds if not thousands of these in recently.

I have both, but I hope everyone gets one. I still don't get why, though.

Too strange to be true.

Amazon has Dark Packs (and also Light ones... But they cost almost 60€...), so, I'm still not convinced.

So it looks like I should go and buy a couple of extra given that they 'might' become rare. Although personally I would prefer to see them not to be discontinued.

Found both 1 Light Pack and 1 Dark Pack tonight at walmart. Lucky for me I already have both. Hope they don't discontinue something as awesome as these.

............Why the HECK did they discontinue them?

I can't imagine that this is true. I know I ordered some light and dark packs from Activision a couple of days ago and they didn't say anything about discontinuing them then. Worst case scenerio, I could see them "discontinue" the current version of the expansion pack and release a different version that is cheaper with the expansion piece, Spotlight/Blackout, and a different light/dark trap. They have been changing up the trap multi-packs every wave and discontinuing the former wave's SKU each time they change, so if they are changing anything that is probably it.

There HAS to be some way for them to sell the Sunscraper Spire and Midnight Museum packs, and I can't see them doing that as individual pieces.

Well the Spire and Museum are side quests/dlc. They may not rerelease them at all and just release singles of the trap and figures.

Why is everyone so worried about what retail employees said? We all know the majority of them don't have know jack what their talking about most of the time

Oy vey.

Don't believe employees about this. They're lying about this because they're either trying to sell through these things quickly, or are confusing them with Amiibo figures.

Thats so strange, it JUST came out in NZ

They arent discontinued... I just saw 3 of each at 1 of my local targets, and a dark pack at the other, there are a few nasty scalpers around here which means that these HAD to be new stock

People, it may not be true, but just know this - what you see in stores now may have came weeks ago.

Quote: Swap Force Fan

People, it may not be true, but just know this - what you see in stores now may have came weeks ago.

Also, it's what the Target Employees PDA said so it's not their knowledge at all, it's the Target company. (Not sure if the PDA has store specific info however)
Their PDA said the same thing it did with Granite Crusher and Jade Flashwing and they never came back so maybe it's a glitch, maybe not, but it wasn't an employees word at all, it was their PDA device.

Quote: skylanderkids

Quote: Swap Force Fan

People, it may not be true, but just know this - what you see in stores now may have came weeks ago.

Also, it's what the Target Employees PDA said so it's not their knowledge at all, it's the Target company. (Not sure if the PDA has store specific info however)
Their PDA said the same thing it did with Granite Crusher and Jade Flashwing and they never came back so maybe it's a glitch, maybe not, but it wasn't an employees word at all, it was their PDA device.

Yeah, I never really checked Wal-Mart, but I assume they're discontinued there too because they don't show up on the website anymore.

I was told by Toys r Us, Walmart and 2 different Targets that they are discontinued. Target had actually pulled them off the shelf and put them in the back room which is how I FINALLY got my hands on them. My guess is that this particular pack is discontinued so they can bring out individually packaged pieces. I just can't believe they are doing it so soon!!! Or maybe production is is far behind that they are temporarily discontinuing them.

Every gamestop i have been to has said the packs have been discontinued.

good thing i found both packs at target, still a dark pack sitting on the peg as of now.

Quote: Swap Force Fan

People, it may not be true, but just know this - what you see in stores now may have came weeks ago.

Yeah, exactly. Just because stores still have them doesn't mean they are still being manufactured.

Although like most, I'd say it's pretty weird if they stopped making them already.

i talked to 10 gamestops and they all said it have been discontinued. i was just lucky to get the only two they had left in one of the shops, the rest didnt have them. so if you want the dark and light adventure packs i suggest getting them from amazon or whatever you prefer to buy from fast, before they go empty. the scalpers are gonna ebay these at idiot prices, when they find out the dark and light adventure packs have been discontinued.

If this really is the case... this is quite literally the stupidest thing activision's marketing board has done