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As much as I like his design now, Fiesta's earlier designs might of had a better play style.

agreed

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Honestly, as much as I'd love to see one, I can't see a Zelda and Skylanders crossover simply because of the fact that it could take away from the sales of Zelda 2016 and Twilight Princess HD. I can, however see a Sonic the Hedgehog crossover happening. Sega isn't doing too well these days and selling the rights of Sonic for one game will not only fork in a lot of cash for sega, it would help promote the next game in the Sonic the hedgehog franchise. As it's the anniversary, I'd love to see a classic sonic the hedgehog skylander as I'm not a big fan of the modern design or games, I am however a big fan of the classics, they are some of my favourite games of all time.

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Riiiight... Humans don't exist in Skylands, I forgot that.

Well, besides her, but she's not really a human she has to be something else because there isn't humans in skylands.

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That would be amazing! I also love the classic sonic games! If he was a skylander, it would probably called super speedy sonic or something like that.

Hmm...would Sonic be an Air Element or a Magic Element? And Crash would be an Earth, right? Or would he be a Life or a Tech.

Sonic is Air, he's always been associated with wind powers in the games with elements.

But for the sake of his fandom, he should stay out. The 'Smash 4 is the best Sonic game these last 2 years' jokes are finally getting old :U

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Sonic is Air, he's always been associated with wind powers in the games with elements.

But for the sake of his fandom, he should stay out. The 'Smash 4 is the best Sonic game these last 2 years' jokes are finally getting old :U

What Element should Crash be in? Earth, Life, Magic or Tech?

Anyway, for Skylanders 6, I doubt we will see anything Skymiibos. That is V.V's thing.

I have to say one thing, though. Spyro got in from Toys For Bob. Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are friends. I know that, this year, a big anniversary for Crash is coming up. I think Crash should be bought out to fight alongside his old pal Spyro, just like the old days.

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Sonic is Air, he's always been associated with wind powers in the games with elements.

But for the sake of his fandom, he should stay out. The 'Smash 4 is the best Sonic game these last 2 years' jokes are finally getting old :U

What Element should Crash be in? Earth, Life, Magic or Tech?

Anyway, for Skylanders 6, I doubt we will see anything Skymiibos. That is V.V's thing.

I have to say one thing, though. Spyro got in from Toys For Bob. Crash Bandicoot and Spyro are friends. I know that, this year, a big anniversary for Crash is coming up. I think Crash should be bought out to fight alongside his old pal Spyro, just like the old days.

Depends on the Crash. If it's the classic one, Life. If it's the Titans design/powers, Magic.

May I point out an error I found while looking at Astroblast's upgrades?
The description of the blaster upgrade states "you can charge up Astroblast's blaster to make it shoot rays made of light from hotter suns".

Well... That's wrong.
Astroblast's first laser is light blue and that, along with white, is the color of the hottest suns or stars.
Charging up the ray makes it change from light blue, to white, to yellow, to orange, to red thus using light from colder suns.

I know the higher damage is what matters in the end but I thought this was an interesting trivia to share with you.

VV seems to have a dumb idea about what fire is. Spitfire should also be hotter purple or blue but apparently he's hotter with the magma armor...?

I'm inclined to agree that VV really screwed up on the heat colors.

Did they really said that about Spitfire...?

They did nailed that with Fryno though.
His hands and horn are black when cold, then become red, orange and yellow, after the Soul Gem is purchased.

Apparently blue means cold fire because it's a cold color.

I don't think it's in the upgrade(might be), but in interviews they were always like "look, his fire is even hotter now".

Blue means cold is about as narrow minded as Tech means robot(or Air means bird, Water means fish, but with those it's not too common), really.

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I don't think it's in the upgrade(might be), but in interviews they were always like "look, his fire is even hotter now".

Blue means cold is about as narrow minded as Tech means robot(or Air means bird, Water means fish, but with those it's not too common), really.

Yep.
In fact, I'm still not entirely sure High Volt is a golding inside an armor.
His limbs detach when he does certain actions, if I remember correctly.

But yeah, looking at SuperChargers where our two Air Skylanders are both avians makes me think about Trap Team where none of the 4 new characters was a bird...

High Volt is a robot, he has a mechanical voice ingame :I Looking at the VV design room photos recently taken down, the designer has a page for Tech and it's literally all robots of varying silliness. That's also not bringing up other issues better discussed in the concept art thread in its own board.

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High Volt is a robot, he has a mechanical voice ingame :I Looking at the VV design room photos recently taken down, the designer has a page for Tech and it's literally all robots of varying silliness. That's also not bringing up other issues better discussed in the concept art thread in its own board.

Oh, didn't know that.
The italian voice acting doesn't have any mechanical filter to it.

So all V.V.'s Tech Skylanders are robots...?
And they have never created a dragon of any Element (unless you count Pop Thorn and Fire Kraken)...?

It's almost like they put all their will to be innovative, extreme and "over-the-top" in the games but forget characters, from that point of view.
They seem to be scared to exit from that comfort zone.
I'm really curious to see the direction TfB will take with Skylanders 6.
Less characters? More revamps? More Light and Dark Skylanders?

Looking back at Trap Team I'm kinda confident they will keep their idea character design but you never know...

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High Volt is a robot, he has a mechanical voice ingame :I Looking at the VV design room photos recently taken down, the designer has a page for Tech and it's literally all robots of varying silliness. That's also not bringing up other issues better discussed in the concept art thread in its own board.

Oh, didn't know that.
The italian voice acting doesn't have any mechanical filter to it.

So all V.V.'s Tech Skylanders are robots...?
And they have never created a dragon of any Element (unless you count Pop Thorn and Fire Kraken)...?

It's almost like they put all their will to be innovative, extreme and "over-the-top" in the games but forget characters, from that point of view.
They seem to be scared to exit from that comfort zone.
I'm really curious to see the direction TfB will take with Skylanders 6.
Less characters? More revamps? More Light and Dark Skylanders?

Looking back at Trap Team I'm kinda confident they will keep their idea character design but you never know...

I doubt High Volt is a robot. He looks much more like a Golding with tech armour. Wind-Up isn't s robot, he's a toy brought to life and Countdown is only robot-esqe. He's a bomb with a mech suit.

And yes both Fire Kracken and Pop Thorn count as dragons.

It's easier to note on HV' quest, he only speaks in short commands and dismisses creativity. Whiich kinda gets in the way of how he doesn't seem bound by any programming to act so restricted, since he willingly left his job to join the Skylanders and speaks like most other free robots elsewhere.

Also don't forget Goldlings have white eyes with nothing in them as far as Sprocket is concerned, while he has blue irises.

Light and Dark feel justified for now because of the whole special element thing, but yeah, color palette variations are awesome even if they're small changes. Voodood,Bushwhack and Swarm are great examples, and most people aren't suddenly confused because they're not entirely purple,green or blue respectively - their design speaks louder than their archetype.

For example, Voodod looks magic without wizard anything. He holds the axe like a staff, his supposed armor seems like a robe, and despite the menacing skull it's visibly placed as a hat and not a helmet to bash things with.

I don't know how I feel about it, it is refreshing to see some random colors here and there but I like characters that can be ordered into an element at first sight. I would also like if they keep the shimmery green and sparkly white for Light & Dark, maybe just as a small part of the character like Nightfall.

Rattle Shake is another good example of an unexpected design for Undead.

While I would absolutely love more unexpected designs (such as Swarm, Voodood, or even Rattle Shake, even if I completely agree with Drawdler, that was a failed attamempt) I have to admit I am more a "stereotypical colors for Elements" guy.

I like looking at my collection and see pink/purple for Magic, orange/metallic colors for Tech, green/brown for Life and so on, it just gives me a great feeling.

I'm even ok with Light and Dark being so minimal in terms of color palette (and yet so unique; Dune Bug is the only other character to have Dark characters prominent pearlized shimmery features and still not the same type) for now even if Astrobland could have used some more paint and still not look out of place.

Not to mentions bases are there exactly to make you immediately recognize a character's Element! since they all look the same, no matter the game they come from.
Or at least they used to...

Speaking of the narrow minded designer - no source,but this was posted at the wiki and it's for sure his style:



WELL THAT ONE WAS CLOSE. Like we need more fish skylanders.

That image was found on one of Irategamer's videos on his trip to VV -

Oh,thanks for the source then,Aura, never bothered to watch his videos for long. Or at all,unless when I was looking for news.

I believe they said they didn't go with that design 'cause they couldn't get the fish inside the toy.

Probably could've just painted the fish on, but whatevs.

After watching CrystalBlazier video about getting all the Wave 3 from Activision, I wish I could be an an famous YouTuber or journalist just to receive this type of things.

Same here, Crash...
Same here...

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After watching CrystalBlazier video about getting all the Wave 3 from Activision, I wish I could be an an famous YouTuber or journalist just to receive this type of things.

She has been covering Skylanders since it's beginning...this is why she gets all the stuff.

...Aura is a girl. Pretty sure of that.

Either way,reviewers and big names on LPing get these packages all the time,been happening since Swap Force I think. I remember a user mentioning you can ask them to get figures for your own work, but you probably need a big channel/blog first.

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...Aura is a girl. Pretty sure of that.

Either way,reviewers and big names on LPing get these packages all the time,been happening since Swap Force I think. I remember a user mentioning you can ask them to get figures for your own work, but you probably need a big channel/blog first.

So, I will try to create one. I always wanted to create good Skylanders content for the internet, since good part of the actual content don't have what I exactly like (with exceptions, like CB itself). Maybe in the far future, but, I like the idea.

EDIT: I don't know if you see it, but until December 1st, the PS3 and PS4 digital versions of SuperChargers are for U$29.49, the XBox 360, XBox One and Wii U versions are for U$29.99.

Also, funny image:

I KNEW there were more than twenty characters!

What the...? I saw that, that's kinda dumb.

Not dumb, just goofy.

Hey, it still has a better design then Splat. It doesn't have too much color and probably has a great move set. 12/10 would buy.

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Hey, it still has a better design then Splat. It doesn't have too much color and probably has a great move set. 12/10 would buy.

All nope.

On the topic of designs, I don't remember seeing these anywhere else. Lots of goodies in here. I think Splat was shown off a bit in the past, but not everyone else. Glad that kid told them that female peacocks were brown...even though Stormblade's old designs look pretty.

Stormblade looked beautiful as a peacock. And as a Dark Skylander.... wow! She would've looked wicked!

She looked so much better in sketches than the final version... As it seems to be the norm for most VV characters e_e There's just so much more energy in the first and second iterations, element or not. Even the pose doesn't look too genuine nowadays since it looks like she's squinting and not that excited.

Josh voicing High Volt here, if anyone wanted to see it.


Now I'm left to wonder what those two odd-balls are in the thumbnail. They were in the French video, too. Enemies or, thankfully for that pink monstrosity, scrapped Skylanders? I probably missed that somewhere.

The one on the left could be an early version of Dive-Clops. The other one, no idea...

Is that supposed to be... yarn... and a female. Female Skylandees are made to be great and that would've ruined my trust in V.V forever.

And a female Skylander that goes even futher than Head Rush with a nonstandard body shape,too. Once again, that character designer, ugh.They should just make a game out of the better rejected designs and see the cash flow in.

In the end, they all follow the reactions and responses to the target audience: children. They had kid play testers when they were making SC.

Target audience would've looked at those and said they were cool. The peacock thing I get, kids won't really think of artistic liberty,but the yarn girl?

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Target audience would've looked at those and said they were cool. The peacock thing I get, kids won't really think of artistic liberty,but the yarn girl?

Well, look at it this way: There are much worse designs for female characters.

I personally think that yarn creature could have been an interesting Dark/Magic Skylander.
Gotta keep the stereotypical female body type, I guess.

I really wish I-Wei could be more involved in V.V.'s design process.
Like... A lot more.

I really wish we would have gotten that yarn female skylander. I could only imagine the interesting attacks she could have used, not to mention I just love the design in general.

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Stormblade looked beautiful as a peacock. And as a Dark Skylander.... wow! She would've looked wicked!

Wow, I actually like the first one. The released one looks to play on a more kiddish vibe, so I understand why they went with it, but with the (in my opinion) success of Splat as a female character, the Peacock would have been on the same tier.
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It's a nonstandard character design, good or bad, it's variation and not the umpteenth Stealth Elf/Hex but with a new outfit and species.