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Toy link Legendary Chill - 125 gems
Toy link Blizzard Chill - Water Shrine
Hall of Legends now cost 250 gems
Swap Force houses 50% off
Gem Pack 2 - 350 gems and Blizzard Chill
Gem pack 4 - 2000 gems and a free Airship

There's also supposed to be a 'Traptanium Infusion' coming. Maybe that means 2 a day instead of 0-1?

I don't expect a true overflow of Traptanium, because now with Mags you can pretty much roll your own perfect combination of trapped villains given enough Traptanium.

There's also a new timed quest. Use the magic sanctuary 10 times and collect 450 pieces of candy from community buildings. Usual expiration for a weekly timed quest with a gem reward.

Interesting that they added Blizzard Chill. Are they now going to go back and do reposes? Seems odd since they have yet to put in Dark or Legendary Skylanders from Trap Team. I wonder if others happen to be coded, yet, but not ready to purchase.

Speaking of Legendaries, it does say the gem cost for Hall of Legends is for a limited time. Let's hope so, and that they go back to wish stones. I know, at one time, they changed the price to gems, then did a 50% off sale. But an update changed it back to wishstones with the 50% still intact. We all figured the revert back to wishstones was a mistake and thats when updates went on hiatus for months. Hopefully, they didn't just realize their mistake after a year and change it.

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There's also supposed to be a 'Traptanium Infusion' coming. Maybe that means 2 a day instead of 0-1?

I had two Traptanium waiting when I loaded up and another one appeared within a half hour. That's a lot of Traptanium even for me!

hmmm haven't gotten the update yet.. Are you guys located in the future?
still Tuesday for me
as for the hall of legends I need to pickup 3-4 more. but not gonna use gems for that.
NVM it just showed up for me.

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hmmm haven't gotten the update yet.. Are you guys located in the future?

If you live in USA I am 6 hours ahead of you .

It shows that the gems for the hall of fame is for a limited time only.

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hmmm haven't gotten the update yet.. Are you guys located in the future?
still Tuesday for me
as for the hall of legends I need to pickup 3-4 more. but not gonna use gems for that.
NVM it just showed up for me.

Yeah. It took me force closing the app 2 or 3 times before it finally updated.

I guess they're hoping we used all our wishstones, and are hard pressed for halls. We maxed out our 14 awhile ago...we only need more halls if they code in the new legendaries from trap team

I don't have any halls. Not a priority until I've maxed my returns from the well, which means another alter ego weekend to get the last two.

I maxed out halls too . It was one of my favorite things to buy . I do find it interesting what gem value it is given . They rate it slighty higher then a Scout / Cadet house . I kinda find that value insulting . Its as good as a Swop house or Trap house in my opinion .

...Specifically a S2 Chill? That's the weirdest toy link I've ever seen and they asked for Punch Pop Fizz(read: you better live in the US) last week. Hopefully VV isn't getting too power-hungry with this year's console game and thinking their named Series+ are worth being skylanders of their own more than Giants ones.
I DO really like that shield design in the model,too bad her real figure is bent in a really uncofortable-looking position and the shield isn't as nice looking in it.

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their named Series+ are worth being skylanders of their own more than Giants ones.

Hey why not ? I would love a Heavy Duty Sprocket driving around in her lil golden tank patrolling Lost Islands .

Some VV reposes are unique enough as stand alones .

So are the Giants ones, though they weren't as appearance-changing. And to be honest, while some of the SF reposes look pretty nice, no one needs Phantom Cynder to return after TT did away with her glossy makeover or a Prism Break recolor for the sake of it.

I think Blizzard Chill was something they came up with due to the big cold weather spell we have been having. It kind of fits. It does open the door to future characters to add, and actually gives some value to all of those reposes we have in figure form. I doubt they will go down the list (especially since they have unused variants like Legendaries untouched so far), but they are there if they have a gap in content - new characters means more interaction as people level them up.

Notice though, that her graphic is different from the previous one (not sure about her animation). Also, Love Potion Pop Fizz is in beast mode, where regular Pop Fizz is in regular form.

Her animation is actually half of Chill's real one. Chill jumps and does a trick with her javelin,Blizzard Chill just jumps like a ton of other characters.

I'd like to see Pumpkin Eye-Brawl coded in.

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I'd like to see Pumpkin Eye-Brawl coded in.

Yes!!! To my mind, the best variant ever - should absolutely be coded in. And really, they have Eye-Brawl and they have Pumpkins, it should be easier to do than most.

Is that a real figure? or just a very good idea?

I suppose I could go look...

and to answer my own question

Pumpkin Eye Brawl doesn't have a unique code, it's just an Eye-Brawl code and a different figure in the pack so that'll never happen unless it's an alter ego.

I just got the update today, 3 days to use the magic sanctuary 10 times. Lovely.

Different figure but same code? Really? I wonder what ever made them do that. If I buy a cool-looking variant of a figure, that is who I expect to see on the screen, and I would be very angry if that didn't happen. I know many figures have different poses from different toy waves, and they don't have unique codes, but I wouldn't expect them to.

Are there other examples of true variants that don't have unique codes?

All ingame variants have their own unique code, including all reposes of characters. Lost Islands just doesn't support multiple codes of the same character unless it has a different in game model.

However, all cosmetic variants from Giants and onward, including Pumpkin Eye Brawl, DO have their own individual codes. The games recognise them as 'Special' variants. However, if a skylander has two cosmetic variants, their codes will overlap, meaning that there is only one 'Special' Eye Brawl despite him having two cosmetic variants (pumpkin and metallic purple)

Lost islands wouldn't support the cosmetic variant codes because they have no exclusive cosmetic model. It would require them to make a new skin or model entirely, rather than just importing one.

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All ingame variants have their own unique code, including all reposes of characters. Lost Islands just doesn't support multiple codes of the same character unless it has a different in game model.

However, all cosmetic variants from Giants and onward, including Pumpkin Eye Brawl, DO have their own individual codes. The games recognise them as 'Special' variants. However, if a skylander has two cosmetic variants, their codes will overlap, meaning that there is only one 'Special' Eye Brawl despite him having two cosmetic variants (pumpkin and metallic purple)

Lost islands wouldn't support the cosmetic variant codes because they have no exclusive cosmetic model. It would require them to make a new skin or model entirely, rather than just importing one.

Does Pumpkin Eye Brawl have a special tag? I wasn't sure about that, but I guess it's possible, just like other non in-game variants. You would think, then, that they could have coded him into later games just for the fun of it just for having the "special" tag, and possibly even Lost Islands. But they did have the purple Eye Brawl that registered as "special". But there aren't as many of those. I think people would have rather them programmed a Pumpkin Eye Brawl that works with the "special" tag, whether it be pumpkin or purple, than not have one at all.

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I guess they're hoping we used all our wishstones, and are hard pressed for halls. We maxed out our 14 awhile ago...we only need more halls if they code in the new legendaries from trap team

I have my 14 deployed and had purchased 6 more with wishstones and have been keeping them in storage for just such a possibility. I'm covered for the next 6 Legendary skylanders they bring into the game (which hopefully they will get around to doing!).

That was kind of hasty .

I have both Eye-Brawl and Pumpkin Eye-Brawl, the card is the same, and the fig does not show as "Special" in game.

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That was kind of hasty .

I dunno... I remember about a year ago they temporarily switched the price for halls of legends to gems and it threw everyone into a tizzy. When they switched the price back to wish stones, I immediately jumped on that. I have thousands of wish stones and nothing else to use them for. The only downside of having done that is that I have six spaces in storage taken up. If the switch in price back to gems is permanent, I'll have been happy that I did it.

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If the switch in price back to gems is permanent, I'll have been happy that I did it.

The probability of that ever happening is about 1 percent .

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I have both Eye-Brawl and Pumpkin Eye-Brawl, the card is the same, and the fig does not show as "Special" in game.

PEB just shows up as EB in Lost Islands, Special PEB in Giants and moving forward, and EB in giants 3DS, but doesn't move to the 3DS Skylander collection. (ACTI sent me an extra PEB and 2 different EBs to test that out - its a bug in the 3DS code.)

Wow,the drop rate for the candy in the weekly quest is dangerously low.More than halfway through with the time and still at 200/450, even with the place littered with the better community buildings and banks,loggers and lighthouses(Post offices and snack stands seem to drop even less,if at all). I was all happy to finally make use of Ermit now that I had enough gems to get him on sale, only to find out that sanctuary collections are the smaller problem.

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Wow,the drop rate for the candy in the weekly quest is dangerously low.More than halfway through with the time and still at 200/450, even with the place littered with the better community buildings and banks,loggers and lighthouses(Post offices and snack stands seem to drop even less,if at all). I was all happy to finally make use of Ermit now that I had enough gems to get him on sale, only to find out that sanctuary collections are the smaller problem.

I knocked over the candy in less than 36 hours, dropped fine for me. I did pop down 4 Post Offices to speed things up, and got about a 50% drop rate out of those (so 2 candies every 30 seconds from my 4 post offices).

Been messing with the ones I have decorating the islands and didn't get a single one; heck sometimes not even a single bank drops one.Weird.

I'm having a slow go of it too. Only slightly more than half way there....

I did that part rather quickly as well--without extra construction.

But I'm guessing 70+ gem buildings was my biggest factor for success

Probably only gonna get 10 gems for this one .

35 Gems and 20k Gold is the reward.

I JUST managed to squeak this in tonight!

Ohh nice payout .

So today the "Hall of Legends" is still showing to use Gems not Wishing Stones. I went to by a Hall and 250 gems is still required. The Info sheep does not list it any more, but it looks like it has not changed back

From memory the last time they did the "Hall of Legends available for gems" it lasted past the expiry date as well, but went back to wishstones once the next update came through.

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From memory the last time they did the "Hall of Legends available for gems" it lasted past the expiry date as well, but went back to wishstones once the next update came through.

Yeah. If it went back to wish stones, it would be in the next update. I would think that the currency change takes a change in coding, so it would have to come in an update. As for the last time they did it, there wasn't an expiration date. They just changed it to gems with no notification. They then did a half-price sale and in the middle of that sale released an update that caused the halls to go back to wish stones, so the price was 100 wish stones for a while. The assumption was that they had meant to change it permanently to gems, but when they put out the other update (which, I believe, wasn't a normal update, and maybe a fix or something, especially since it was in the middle of a sale), they still had the wish stone coding in it. We all then assumed that they would eventually change it back, but that's when they went on hiatus. I was glad to see that this time it said it was for a limited time, but we still don't know if the price is or the currency.

Well for a 250 gem costing production house subject to regular or irregular discounts . That would not be an unreasonable gem price assuming they never switched back to wishstones .

200 wishstones is a give away price for a production building 2- 3 times profitable then a 200 gem Cadet/Scout house .

It looks like Hall of Legends is back to 200 wishstones.