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The video gives a better indication that the Golden Queen Track actually takes place in liquid gold. The screenshot had me thinking it might just be a reflection in the water. Makes me wonder if any other tracks will have you driving in non-water environments. Will the vehicles handle differently in them?

To be fair, fantasy game. Technically you shouldn't be able to drive anything with an engine on liquid gold, because it's get stuck inside it, not to mention how hot it would need to be to stay open as a river like that.

So probably every liquid will act the same,but the landmass obstacles will be different, like in Frozen Fossil Festival where you can only get through by slipping on the ice if you come out fast out of water, otherwise you'll nearly stop over it.


Luminous, there's also Frightbeard,confirmed by Tropic Plunder having the Phantom Tide anchored.

I'm checking the Singleplayer Online video, where Chill Bill appears. Yup, it's him, you see a buncha crystals coming past Reef Ripper when he attacks.

So Frightbeard must be a boss race in the story mode.

Did we ever get actual confirmation that there was only 4 villains in a pack? I don't remember it coming from anything official.

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So Frightbeard must be a boss race in the story mode.

If he's in the Racing Pack, I'm not so sure.



The 4 villain thing comes from the press text. Copypasta from the articles I've seen:

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There are 12 boss villains across all three packs, with four in each pack, which players can defeat and play as. Fans can then store these boss villains on their villain trophy toy to play at a friend's house.

But keep in mind they're specifically called Boss Villains. It could be only for the major villains like Frightbeard, but Chill Bill and others are unlocked by default?

I think we can safely presume that Dreadbeard will be one of the bosses, since Tropic Plunder is pretty dang pirate themed.

Bifrost, do you know what the other 2 water tracks are? We can probably figure out the villains that way.

Isn't it only two tracks per Trophy?

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The villain trophy unlocks two new tracks and new modes, including SuperVillain Cup, Boss Pursuit and Mirror Cup.

Yup, two tracks, two boss villains stay homeless. And with three - Gulper, Mesmeralda and Chill Bill - on screenshots we can't even use that as reference. There's something else they didn't tell us.

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Isn't it only two tracks per Trophy?

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The villain trophy unlocks two new tracks and new modes, including SuperVillain Cup, Boss Pursuit and Mirror Cup.

Yup, two tracks, two boss villains stay homeless. And with three - Gulper, Mesmeralda and Chill Bill - on screenshots we can't even use that as reference. There's something else they didn't tell us.

There are 4 tracks for each type of vehicle, and 4 villains for each type of vehicle. Each track is designed for a specific villain. If we know the default water tracks, we can figure out who the other two are.

I know one of them is ice, so probably Chill Bill.

The other is the Mystical Vault however,which fits no one. It might have a relation with whoever's a story villain, but I'm not touching the spoilers with a ten foot pole. Spellslamzer, who also uses a Sea vehicle, maybe?

Do we know what type of vehicle Broccoli Guy drives?

Land,he and Chompy Mage share terrain, that I remember. And pretty obvious which one of them fits Chompy Garden.

Mystical Vault is a pretty hard nut to crack right now so I'm just gonna guess that it's Spell Slamzer, since we don't know much about him. Or, maybe Mesmerelda, since she kind of has a wood thing going on with her boat. That's stretching though.

Yeah, it also some shells shaped after her bangs,so she'd be much more boat themed. But it still doesn't help that there'll be at least one villain per terrain that can't be from Boss Cup,if not three in Sea's case.

I'm still guessing that some of them will simply end up being fodder for races and not actually playable.

Also, we don't know if villains have their own weapons and abilities yet, so that's weird.

Well, the vehicles have weapons, but we only see Krankcase's in detail since it's one of the few times they're shown attacking with the mirror camera.

Also I looked at a screenshot that wasn't posted here from the amazon listing... Is that a Mabu cosplaying as Golden Queen(neck is too thick to be her) along with another cosplaying as Flynn(smaller eyes and no pronounced ears) on the banners? Oh lord.

Oh yeah and since it's clear so many people here don't read the comics, Hologram Eon for comparison now that I have some spare time to edit pictures:



Ossio's drawn effects aside, you notice he has a lot more color ingame. But he also looks a lot less lively than in the comics, for the lack of a better term...

^ Finally read this issue last night!

To be fair, the comic picture has him doing awesome magic spells, and the game basically has him saying "Watch out, yo", so saying he's less lively is kind of unfair.

Nah, he doesn't do any spells in the comic. He's just levitating the necklace, kinda hinting that it's Malefor's source of power drain to the viewers. He's mostly bluffing(there probably ARE reinforcements coming,but not in time until Malefor stomps all over the school), so much that he disappears after Spyro and co. show up.

Still, he's doing cool and/or awesome things there, but in the game he's just telling us a dire warning before the action actually kicks in, I'm guessing.

I haven't seen this posted anywhere, but BestBuy.com is showing 2 Dual Packs coming on October 2nd.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ac...8&skuId=4328910

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ac...0&skuId=4328927

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Few new screenshots





Credits go to myskylanders.de

Oh my gosh this is cool. I hope the KAOS Trophy unlocks Vathek. If Mesmerelda gets in then so dose Vathek.

I wouldn't count on it, Vathek was turned to stone since SSA. And just because Mesmeralda is in it, doesn't mean Vathek is in it too.

I knew it that the would be back, but wow he actually has a cool vehicle.

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I wouldn't count on it, Vathek was turned to stone since SSA. And just because Mesmeralda is in it, doesn't mean Vathek is in it too.

And Frightbeard was sealed, then unsealed, then resealed, then somehow got out,then got arrested,and he's back again with his entire ship. He probably holds a bigger record than Kaos on being slippery - it only takes the devs wanting someone back,but unfortunately Vathek doesn't seem too popular among them,despite being a cut skylander.

I can see why longtime fans of Skylanders would be concerned about all the recent focus on vehicle gameplay. Definitely makes it seem like on-foot will take a back seat (particularly when it comes to the supplementary modes, in which case it seems like everything will be vehicle oriented).


However, as a huge fan kart racers and especially of vehicular adventure games like Diddy Kong Racing, Crash Tag Team Racing, and Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts and Bolts, everything I'm seeing lately is making me really excited. SSC is looking to be a really solid take on a rather underrepresented sub-genre (I mean, sure, there are a lot of racing games, but how many vehicular adventure games are there?).


And for those who want classic Skylanders gameplay back...on the bright side, all of the racing stuff will most likely be ditched in the next Skylanders game since TfB has a much more conservative approach to game design. So just think of this as a spinoff while you wait an extra year for the next main game (which isn't so bad considering how much longer other series usually have to wait for a main game to come out).

I got this email from Gamestop:
http://form.e.gamestop.com/ats...f85a442490127f5

There are only 4 Vehicles and 4 (5 if you count exclusive) SuperChargers up for preorder. Seems like wave 1 is not that big.

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I got this email from Gamestop:
http://form.e.gamestop.com/ats...f85a442490127f5

There are only 4 Vehicles and 4 (5 if you count exclusive) SuperChargers up for preorder. Seems like wave 1 is not that big.

I wouldn't take this as gospel however, because we know Best Buy will have Smash Hit, and Target will have Stealth Stnger
I feel like this is a cover up until Acti Officially announces Smash Hit, and High Volt

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I got this email from Gamestop:
http://form.e.gamestop.com/ats...f85a442490127f5

There are only 4 Vehicles and 4 (5 if you count exclusive) SuperChargers up for preorder. Seems like wave 1 is not that big.

We already know the waves...

Yeah but there have been speculations about Nightfall, High Volt and Smash Hit in wave 1.

I imagine they will be shown in a level a few weeks before the game comes.

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I got this email from Gamestop:
http://form.e.gamestop.com/ats...f85a442490127f5

There are only 4 Vehicles and 4 (5 if you count exclusive) SuperChargers up for preorder. Seems like wave 1 is not that big.

I wouldn't take this as gospel however, because we know Best Buy will have Smash Hit, and Target will have Stealth Stnger
I feel like this is a cover up until Acti Officially announces Smash Hit, and High Volt

They actually DID announce Smash Hit on their official Twitter page.

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I got this email from Gamestop:
http://form.e.gamestop.com/ats...f85a442490127f5

There are only 4 Vehicles and 4 (5 if you count exclusive) SuperChargers up for preorder. Seems like wave 1 is not that big.

Not that big?

Once you add in all the Starter Pack figures we have exactly 50% (20 of 40) of the figures and vehicles to be released.

More than likely waves 1 & 2 will be out, like TT and SF

I'm hyped for Terrafin now!

Im guessing that's what the Meet _____ videos will be like when the website gets updated. Hopefully this could be a signal of the update coming soon

I hate the revamps, but is it wrong I want him? Also were those Voodoo chompies?

EB Games Australia posted all of wave 1 "Meet the Skylander" videos:

https://www.youtube.com/user/EBGamesAU/videos

OMG
0:17-0:18
LOOK AT THAT AND SAY YOU'RE NOT HYPE

Anyways, if they don't have the Jet-Vac/Jet Stream Duo Pack and Nightfall day 1 I will lose it

Cool.

Now, can we see videos of the actually new characters without having to also look at vehicle's gameplay, for once...?
They are really starting to push it a bit too much for my tastes.

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EB Games Australia posted all of wave 1 "Meet the Skylander" videos:

-snip-

Can anyone identify that vehicle at 0:16?

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Cool.

Now, can we see videos of the actually new characters without having to also look at vehicle's gameplay, for once...?
They are really starting to push it a bit too much for my tastes.

Here's a video that's mostly Dive Clops gameplay, stop complaining now.

And if you start complaining about them also showing of the Dive Bomber, I can gladly redirect you to the Dive Bomber's own trailer.

Also, saying that they're pushing the cars is like complaining about them pushing the villains or the giants, it's the gimmick, it's new, it's the selling point stop complaining about business stuff that you clearly do not understand.

I just looked at an internet archive and found they updated the Skylanders Website between September 12th-19th last year. That's 20-13 days before the game released

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EB Games Australia posted all of wave 1 "Meet the Skylander" videos:

-snip-

Can anyone identify that vehicle at 0:16?

That's DD Trigger Happy's vehicle.

Now I REALLY want the website to be updated. Im dying to see gameplay of Astroblast. Weirdly he shows up a lot in the Sky Slicer video

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EB Games Australia posted all of wave 1 "Meet the Skylander" videos:

-snip-

-snip again-

Can anyone identify that vehicle at 0:16?

That's DD Trigger Happy's vehicle.

Now I REALLY want the website to be updated. Im dying to see gameplay of Astroblast. Weirdly he shows up a lot in the Sky Slicer video

Yeah, I figured that out right before I checked this page. xD

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And for those who want classic Skylanders gameplay back...on the bright side, all of the racing stuff will most likely be ditched in the next Skylanders game since TfB has a much more conservative approach to game design. So just think of this as a spinoff while you wait an extra year for the next main game (which isn't so bad considering how much longer other series usually have to wait for a main game to come out).

Provided people don't get so turned off they forget to buy this game. Let's not kid ourselves...the actual core skylanders game is very much the backseat....wasn't always this way. It used to be COMPLEMENTARY. I'm also worried I haven't seen a ton of enemies in levels...they seem sparsely populated.

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Cool.

Now, can we see videos of the actually new characters without having to also look at vehicle's gameplay, for once...?
They are really starting to push it a bit too much for my tastes.

Here's a video that's mostly Dive Clops gameplay, stop complaining now.

And if you start complaining about them also showing of the Dive Bomber, I can gladly redirect you to the Dive Bomber's own trailer.

Also, saying that they're pushing the cars is like complaining about them pushing the villains or the giants, it's the gimmick, it's new, it's the selling point stop complaining about business stuff that you clearly do not understand.

Except villains and Giants (and Swappers) weren't a major departure from classic ganeplay like vehicles are.
They improved it instead of taking its place in certain areas.

I personally studied marketing and particularly advertising and I can tell you they might be losing older fans by focusing so heavily on vehicles and racing.
They got the balance right for swappability, Giants and traps... Now they are definitely passing the limit.

We already had people screaming this game would have been a full fledged racing game while we all know this isn't true and frankly it isn't difficult to imagine why.

It's great to try and attract new customers but this should never mean losing the old ones.

On-topic, Dive-Clops looks great as always!
Don't want to spoil myself too much of the new characters but I did saw Sky Slicer's video and Astroblast's head definitely looks like it's made of some kind of crystal.
Soda Skimmer looks sweet too!

Astroblast is visible on the Sky Slicer's trailer at about 0:20.

And Lava Lance Eruptor appears in the beginning of Dive Bomber's trailer.

I've never seen someone as arrogant and depressing as you Lemon. Your posts always put me in a bad mood, which is really an accomplishment since I'm generally a very chill person. it honestly seems like your trying to make people angry, but I can't be sure.

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I've never seen someone as arrogant and depressing as you Lemon. Your posts always put me in a bad mood, which is really an accomplishment since I'm generally a very chill person. it honestly seems like your trying to make people angry, but I can't be sure.

Huh? Stating an opinion makes me arrogant and you depressed? Not sure what to say...

Nope, I care not for you or your feelings. I'm stating an opinion. Just like you stating your opinion that my post was "late" and "old"---that was a more direct attack than what I'm doing here--saying that the core sky experience is in fact appearing to be more in the backseat. Kinda funny...I did a pun based on a vehicle.

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I've never seen someone as arrogant and depressing as you Lemon. Your posts always put me in a bad mood, which is really an accomplishment since I'm generally a very chill person. it honestly seems like your trying to make people angry, but I can't be sure.

Huh? Stating an opinion makes me arrogant and you depressed? Not sure what to say...

Nope, I care not for you or your feelings. I'm stating an opinion. Just like you stating your opinion that my post was "late" and "old"---that was a more direct attack than what I'm doing here--saying that the core sky experience is in fact appearing to be more in the backseat. Kinda funny...I did a pun based on a vehicle.

The opinion that you posted is that EVERY Skylanders fan will instantly forget about the series after this game, because "lol its not like the old ones". You're arrogant for attributing your opinions to people you don't know. And that bad mood isn't depression, it's anger.

Questions about the Racing Action Packs :

How will the 6 unlockable courses from the Action Packs work with Online Mode? Are they not apart of the Online Mode since anyone that didn't purchase the Action Packs could play on them then, or, if they are apart of Online Mode, would this prevent those that didn't purchase the Action Packs from playing on them (since they're "locked" on their game)?

Perhaps it's been answered, but I haven't read or heard it mentioned anywhere yet.