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In all honesty, something tells me they will only be released at different times. But, I'm surprised were getting a Dark Creation Crystal in wave one, sucks I may have to wait for Light though. Hoping Water and Undead will be in wave one too!

dear god i just hope an air one is in wave one so i can make the balloon sentinel i came up with.

Nah, I just hope Dark & Water are in Wave 1, but I'm 100% sure that we won't see Magic until Wave 3.

I think Dark is confirmed for Wave one as it's in the Dark Starter Pack.

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I think Dark is confirmed for Wave one as it's in the Dark Starter Pack.

I wouldn't be so sure about that. They could put it in a later wave and use this one for people that want it on release.

True...
But it's never happened before with the Dark Starter Pack. In previous years, they've always had dark variants for characters in wave 1.

Magic is always late, but I hope Undead is in Wave 1.

My only hope is that I'll get dark and undead on day one.

If light comes out wave 1, I might put my character Eye-Tunes on a light crystal

I just need Water, I wanna see how good/bad my Lapis will look.

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I just need Water, I wanna see how good/bad my Lapis will look.

lapis as in steven universe???

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True...
But it's never happened before with the Dark Starter Pack. In previous years, they've always had dark variants for characters in wave 1.

Kaos Trap, Kaos Trophy.

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True...
But it's never happened before with the Dark Starter Pack. In previous years, they've always had dark variants for characters in wave 1.

Well...

The Trap Team starter had the Kaos Trap - which, in some regions, was the only way to get it at launch. And even for those of us in the US, getting a single Kaos trap around launch was near impossible. TRU had a small amount in their initial shipments, but I don't *think* the trap was included in the regular waves until W3.

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True...
But it's never happened before with the Dark Starter Pack. In previous years, they've always had dark variants for characters in wave 1.

Well...

The Trap Team starter had the Kaos Trap - which, in some regions, was the only way to get it at launch. And even for those of us in the US, getting a single Kaos trap around launch was near impossible. TRU had a small amount in their initial shipments, but I don't *think* the trap was included in the regular waves until W3.

yep. The kaos trap was included in w1 of trap team, but was damn near impossible to find. when wave 3 started showing up, they got more common. In wave 4, it was just an all-out assault of them.

I would hope/assume that they'll have at least one of each element represented like they did with Traps for Trap Team (This time they'll hopefully include Light and Dark at launch).

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I just need Water, I wanna see how good/bad my Lapis will look.

lapis as in steven universe???

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Well, in Trap Team they had all the elements out on day 1 right? At least 1 mold for each element. So it'll probably be like that, given the crystals appear to have different containers. I'd guess at least 1 of each element will be out at launch, but don't expect an element of each Sensei, or Battle Class, out at launch.

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I just need Water, I wanna see how good/bad my Lapis will look.

lapis as in steven universe???

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THIS!

Does anyone else think the crystals are a little expensive?

I mean, they are worth it to create your own character, but it just seems like a decent price jump from traps for what they are.

Escpecially if we have to wipe our design on each one to make a new charscter, hopefully they have a creation bank.

I'm pretty sure that they will split the Creation Crystals in the waves, since it's the main point of interest in the new game, and, as a smart-in-business company as Activision is, they want to keep people interested during the whole release window of the toys.

Since were most likely getting them at different times, I'm going to assume we'll get Water, Fire, Life, Dark, and Air in wave one.

Fire, obviously, and two more. I'm gonna assume Life and maybe Dark.

Fire, Life, Dark, Water, and Earth

Fire, Water, Life, Dark and Air.

Fire Life and Dark must be in it as they are in the Dark Starter Pack. I'd also assume Water and Air or Earth.

not magic or light.

Light is always one of the last ones.

Water, Life, Fire (the water trap of iimaginators) and Life.

Water, life and fire.

I expect wave 2 to be released pretty quickly - my guess is air, tech and undead. That leaves earth, magic, light and dark for later on.

I can imagine light/dark being hard to get hold of, but I hope I'm wrong there

Fire, Life, Dark, Tech

And for characters:
King Pin, Golden Queen, Wolfgang, Tri Tip, (Fire Skylander), Chompy Mage, (Air Skylander)

Light, Fire, Magic & Life

I would have said no, but a post from Skylanders' official Twitter account seems to confirm all Elements will be available at start:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sky...86420981760?p=v

Take it with a grain of salt, though, they might have completely ignored the first question and only answered the second.

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I would have said no, but a post from Skylanders' official Twitter account seems to confirm all Elements will be available at start:

https://mobile.twitter.com/Sky...86420981760?p=v

Take it with a grain of salt, though, they might have completely ignored the first question and only answered the second.

I think that's exactly what happened. It would be too good to be true and of course they wanna make the fans wait for their favorite elements (mostly Magic).

I think the 8 main elements will definitely be released Day 1, but Dark and Light might come out later.

Well their response is really only a half answer. But, going by Trap Team, the main 8 elements were available on Day 1 - you could even get the two three packs combined with the Starter have have all 8. Light/Dark obviously came out later because those elements were "secret".

I hope if they trickle those out over time they release the elements on Day 1 and allow users to collect different models later if that's how they go. I personally think trickling them out is going to be a huge risk, if Skylanders doesn't step up the sales this year, Wave 4 and 5 might be hard to come by or not even stocked (Yawn Traps ...). But, given that we all learned our lesson on trap collecting, they may have adjusted on that to draw out sales post Christmas.

Going by history, you should be able to access all content by Wave 3 even if they do hold stuff back. They have been fond of holding one element/type back until Wave 3 so people don't buy, finish then put the game away and forget about it.

Wellll Dark IS in the Dark Starter Pack...

I'd bet at least one per the original eight elements at least.

I'm thinking that there might be multiple designs of crystal within each element, much like with the Traps. This could mean we have all the elements at launch (possibly excluding singles of Light and Dark), but only a few different designs for them, with crystals of different elements sharing the same design. Then, each wave would introduce a sprinkling of additional designs, to keep those who want multiples (or those with OCD such as Yours Truly) interested.

The Dark Crystal will probably only be available in the Dark Edition until Wave 2-4.