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We already know were getting a Light Brawler, Life Bazooker, and a Water Knight

how do you know that

i said how do you know that

whats that on the ground over there, is that the script

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I honestly don't like any of them. Hate humanoids, so Bar is out. And Chop looks really really lame, just a ball holding a weapon. /: What happened to animals or mythical creatures or dragons. Humanoids/human parts everywhere.
Also, don't care for TKC at all. Krackencase maybe the only one i'm slightly interested in. Idk about this game anymore.

Just because they're not quadruped doesn't mean they're not mythical creatures or animals. About Chopscotch being "a ball holding a weapon", this was made in all of the games, and, personally, I like this style of Skylander.

I personally like quadrupeds, and when I speak of mythical I mean like griffins, or dragons, rather than witches or vampires. I'm speaking in term of my preference. I also understand people can have different opinions, but I really don't like the ball-like characters and never will.
I'm disappointed, but I'm happy to see others really like these characters.

edit: to add i wouldn't mind characters like tuff luck, who are very obviously animals, just bipedal versions. So King is good, Ambush is good. Its that we keep seeing installments like Barbella that are very clearly humanoid. I just don't like human-like faces I guess is my best explanation.

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We already know were getting a Light Brawler, Life Bazooker, and a Water Knight

how do you know that

i said how do you know that

whats that on the ground over there, is that the script

Those are the only 3 classes left. We can't have a Water or Life Brawler since we already have both of those, so Brawler goes to Light. Life already has Knight, so that goes to Water. That leaves Life with Bazooker.

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I honestly don't like any of them. Hate humanoids, so Bar is out. And Chop looks really really lame, just a ball holding a weapon. /: What happened to animals or mythical creatures or dragons. Humanoids/human parts everywhere.
Also, don't care for TKC at all. Krackencase maybe the only one i'm slightly interested in. Idk about this game anymore.

Just because they're not quadruped doesn't mean they're not mythical creatures or animals. About Chopscotch being "a ball holding a weapon", this was made in all of the games, and, personally, I like this style of Skylander.

I personally like quadrupeds, and when I speak of mythical I mean like griffins, or dragons, rather than witches or vampires. I'm speaking in term of my preference. I also understand people can have different opinions, but I really don't like the ball-like characters and never will.
I'm disappointed, but I'm happy to see others really like these characters.

edit: to add i wouldn't mind characters like tuff luck, who are very obviously animals, just bipedal versions. So King is good, Ambush is good. Its that we keep seeing installments like Barbella that are very clearly humanoid. I just don't like human-like faces I guess is my best explanation.

I also like quadrupeds, and I expect then to come back, but I feel that they only will when they make Cores again, since SuperChargers and Imaginators only have gimmick Skylanders. I understand that you don't like characters that are too much human-like. But I have the bad sensation that your opinion about the new characters will not change much until we get a new game with Core Skylanders.

I kinda think since Crash is probably just an additional Life character, that the villain could still be a Brawler. I know he's most likely on the poster, but since they made four characters for two elements I think they wouldn't care if the same class is in an element twice.
So, my prediction:

Light: Luminous - Knight
Water: Chill Bill - Bazooker
Life: Chompy Mage - Brawler

I feel that the Life Villain will be a Sorcerer. Broccoli Guy or Chompy Mage.

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I feel that the Life Villain will be a Sorcerer. Broccoli Guy or Chompy Mage.

We already have a villain that's a Sorcerer though.

We already have a Villain Sorcerer, dude.

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I wonder if I can convince an employee that works at a store that sells the crash edition to sell me crash alone <.<

Considering how DK and Bowser were released seperately, I'm sure Crash will get a separate release, too

No I meant like on release day they could sell him separately to me

Anyone else kinda feel like the Senseis were made in the creator first, and then fleshed out with more actual concepts?

Quote: Bionichute

Anyone else kinda feel like the Senseis were made in the creator first, and then fleshed out with more actual concepts?

The parts in the creator are based off the Skylanders, not the other way around.

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Anyone else kinda feel like the Senseis were made in the creator first, and then fleshed out with more actual concepts?

The parts in the creator are based off the Skylanders, not the other way around.

So, there was a silhouette that looked exactly like Tae's weapon in the backpack section. He probably has his weapons on his back too

Edit: What if Chopscotch's catchphrase was Stop, Chop, and Roll! I'm so proud of myself I actually created a creative catchphrase.

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Anyone else kinda feel like the Senseis were made in the creator first, and then fleshed out with more actual concepts?

Some of them do.
Class rules aside, characters such as Ember, Wild Storm, Barbella, Ambush, the Water Quickshot girl and even Crash do look like Imaginators on steroids.

Not that it's an objectively bad or good thing, but I think it's true.

I'd like to give a small... Let's say guide-line to villains based on what we know, if I may:

- Elements aren't indicative anymore, maaaaybe only for Doom Raiders;
- weapons apparently can be changed but not heavily, as seen with Wolfgang's and Hood Sickle's;
- I agree with the fact Elements probably won't have more of the same Classes but I don't think Crash counts, being a guess-star, so a Life Brawler is still possible.

Hope it's helpful for speculations!

From EBGames.ca

Oddly, the Starter Pack picture is of the Nordic version (XBone and X360 also show Nordic, while PS3 and PS4 show the NA version, with the Swap Portal).


So, looks like Europe is getting the new Modded Rift Portal, just like Australia.

I'm not even taking it out, it's going into the trash like all the other garbage.

Yup.
Another Portal which is going directly with the forced reposes and Super Shot Stealth Elf.

I'm still hoping for an Imaginite Portal of some kind.
Come on, TfB, I know you can do it (if you have the time...)!

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Yup.
Another Portal which is going directly with the forced reposes and Super Shot Stealth Elf.

I'm still hoping for an Imaginite Portal of some kind.
Come on, TfB, I know you can do it (if you have the time...)!

They could literally make the portal in a day. They just have to throw a design together and then rip the wiring from the previous Portals.

That's uh, not entirely how it works.

I don't think what is on that poster is everything in Wave One. I think it only shows some of the more recently revealed characters. I mean, why wouldn't Tri-Tip and Ember be there? And let's be honest - there's no way they'd only release 9 Crystals on Day One.

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That's uh, not entirely how it works.

It can be if you believe in yourself

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there's no way they'd only release 9 Crystals on Day One.

Sorry, what? 9 would be enough to get one of each Element (if all are different elements and not Fire). Why would they put out more than that on day one?

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there's no way they'd only release 9 Crystals on Day One.

Sorry, what? 9 would be enough to get one of each Element (if all are different elements and not Fire). Why would they put out more than that on day one?

There would be two Life Crystals.

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That's uh, not entirely how it works.

It can be if you believe in yourself

Once they have the design for a portal sketched, rendered in a CAD program, and have a physical mock-up made, they need to get everything set up for mass production (molds, ect...) so one can be included in each copy of the game. It's a lot easier to use a portal that they either have plenty of unsold copies of, or to use old molds/slightly modified old molds that can also accommodate the RFID reader components already designed to fit them.

EDIT: On my laptop now, and I can type more. As for why Superchargers got a new portal after Trap Team despite having no real need for a redesign, I'm guessing some component of Trap Team's portal was more expensive? Maybe the multiple lights that could change colors independently of each other, maybe the speaker, or the Trap LED (All of these went unused in Superchargers), or any number of those components. At any rate, the Superchargers portal was technologically minimalistic, with no light effects, and was otherwise a Swap Force portal in terms of how many RFID chips it could support. Seeing as the Trap slot is apparently being phased out (having only fringe use in Racing mode outside of Trap Team), both the redesigned Rift portal and the reused Swap portal lack it.

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there's no way they'd only release 9 Crystals on Day One.

Sorry, what? 9 would be enough to get one of each Element (if all are different elements and not Fire). Why would they put out more than that on day one?

There would be two Life Crystals.

Oh, you meant including the 1-3 Starter Pack Crystals. I thought you meant 9 singles, which made no sense to me. Anyway, most games have delayed at least one Element to a later wave, so it wouldn't be anything out of the ordinary.

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Once they have the design for a portal sketched, rendered in a CAD program, and have a physical mock-up made, they need to get everything set up for mass production (molds, ect...) so one can be included in each copy of the game. It's a lot easier to use a portal that they either have plenty of unsold copies of, or to use old molds/slightly modified old molds that can also accommodate the RFID reader components already designed to fit them.

Legal and safety aspect too. I've seen the registered documents online for the prior portals and that's a ton of legalese and complex techno babble that probably takes months to bang out properly. Someone probably has to do a lot of research on them to make sure the portals won't explode or melt and then they probably need to get it approved by some safety commission out there. It's probably a few million dollars or so cheaper to just reuse an older portal. I would do it too as I don't think people are really all that excited about new portals anymore, are they? The SC one seems to be almost universally hated.

So about the waves, it looks like 6 right here on that sheet. Assuming 6 per wave, that's 5 waves again. First day release, second week, a couple weeks before Christmas, around Easterish and then "if-ever" for wave 5 (no more Thrillipede hi-jinx please).

Sadly (or perhaps luckily as I'll still be playing that new Paper Mario on Skylanders release day) the first wave characters I'm not all that excited about. Most are nice yes but nothing I must absolutely have right away either. Barbella Cyrus really doesn't appeal to me and I'm a bit disappointed as I really thought that Ember was the day one waifu.

Also, about ChopScotch I'm calling Easter variant! Eggfu (Egg Waifu) is interesting even if she's not a she. I'm the excited about that character the most out of the six.

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Anyone else kinda feel like the Senseis were made in the creator first, and then fleshed out with more actual concepts?

The parts in the creator are based off the Skylanders, not the other way around.

So, there was a silhouette that looked exactly like Tae's weapon in the backpack section. He probably has his weapons on his back too

Edit: What if Chopscotch's catchphrase was Stop, Chop, and Roll! I'm so proud of myself I actually created a creative catchphrase.

Hey that is a pretty good catchphrase well done there. I like my catchphrase for her "Chop, Skip and a Jump" since you know her name is based off of hopscotch. Either way you really did think of a good catchphrase for her.

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I honestly don't like any of them. Hate humanoids, so Bar is out. And Chop looks really really lame, just a ball holding a weapon. /: What happened to animals or mythical creatures or dragons. Humanoids/human parts everywhere.
Also, don't care for TKC at all. Krackencase maybe the only one i'm slightly interested in. Idk about this game anymore.

Just because they're not quadruped doesn't mean they're not mythical creatures or animals. About Chopscotch being "a ball holding a weapon", this was made in all of the games, and, personally, I like this style of Skylander.

I personally like quadrupeds, and when I speak of mythical I mean like griffins, or dragons, rather than witches or vampires. I'm speaking in term of my preference. I also understand people can have different opinions, but I really don't like the ball-like characters and never will.
I'm disappointed, but I'm happy to see others really like these characters.

edit: to add i wouldn't mind characters like tuff luck, who are very obviously animals, just bipedal versions. So King is good, Ambush is good. Its that we keep seeing installments like Barbella that are very clearly humanoid. I just don't like human-like faces I guess is my best explanation.

Your definition of "mythical" makes perfect sense until you realize that the majority of humanoids are cryptids, and that the majority of non-humanoid creatures actually exist.
About 90% of humanoids are mythical.
You've got humans and a bunch of primates irl.
You've got moth-man, Ents, Bigfoot, the Yeti, fishmen, vampires, Zombies, Dearves, Elves, Gremlins, Fauns, Goblins, Grays, Slim men, and a ton of local folklore humanoid creatures that are known for... The thing priests used to be known for as well.
But for every real animal off the top of my head, I could come up with at most one mythical one.
Cats, dogs, Horses, elephants, rhinos, Hippopatumus.
Dragons, Griffins, Wyverns, etc
so maybe you should "rethink" your definition of mythical.
If you mean wuadrapeds, then say quadrapeds.
But Dogs aren't mythical, cats aren't, nearly every creature that's standing upright is mythical, save for apes of some sort, but at most half of those who are walking on all legs are mythical

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I sinned

I don't think I have any attraction to Golden Queen (she's all solid metal it seems) but I still like calling her Golden Waifu.

I don't know if this counts, but IDW Publishing announced that Skylanders will be featured in SDCC for a Kids Rule time schedule next Sunday for the writers to talk about the Skylanders comics and doing Q&As.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/i...-2016-schedule/

So far, no sign of Imaginators.

Anyone else think chopscotch looks like a voodoo shrunken head?

I'm not really digging any of the humanoid characters either, mostly because my preference is animals, too. I'm also wondering why there have never been gimmick quadrupeds. All you have to do is make the said character bigger and bam, it fits with the bunch. Mostly my favorite characters in the game are the returning villains. (You know, cause the animals.) But hey, I still like Wolfgang, Krankcase and Crash a whole lot. It's just the slight disappointment comes around now and again, you know? I'm not really trying to be negative at all.

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Anyone else think chopscotch looks like a voodoo shrunken head?

I thought she was an egg at first, but looking closer at this picture I see tiny feet

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I don't know if this counts, but IDW Publishing announced that Skylanders will be featured in SDCC for a Kids Rule time schedule next Sunday for the writers to talk about the Skylanders comics and doing Q&As.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/i...-2016-schedule/

So far, no sign of Imaginators.

Hm, well at least they'll be there. Though I'm sure we'll get the Elites and after this massive leak I would only be slightly disappointed if we wouldn't get anything. (Though I want more of these until gamescom)

I'm thinking elites and Barbella, Chopscotch, Krankcase and Tae Kwon Crow if they are really wave one, also possibly Hood Sickle as we didn't get gameplay or backstory

Since it's IDW I only expect comics for now. Hope to see the TV series and maybe some new gameplay.

Also, I have to say that I'm one of those guys who never gets disappointed by the design of some Skylanders. Maybe because I'm one of those who buy them all or one of those who like all types of characters. I only wished that there was some more quadrupeds. Aside from that, everyone is looking good for me.

Ok seriously does anyone know if the catalog is online?!?!

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Chompy Samurai.

I don't think that's a Chompy

Dang Buuzer, I was going to post it. anyway, it's to commemorate the World Emoji Day.

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Dang Buuzer, I was going to post it. anyway, it's to commemorate the World Emoji Day.

Reveal Spoiler

Why the heck there's a World Emoji Day?

there's a day for everything

At least we're starting to see some new imaginators classes in these pics ( I'm assuming that's a sentinel )

Now give us a Swashbuckler... QUICK!

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I don't know if this counts, but IDW Publishing announced that Skylanders will be featured in SDCC for a Kids Rule time schedule next Sunday for the writers to talk about the Skylanders comics and doing Q&As.

http://www.idwpublishing.com/i...-2016-schedule/

So far, no sign of Imaginators.

Zap, take note though I don't remember which day are you going.

Here's one I found a few day ago, The Statue of Liberty

Already posted, it was for the 4th of July.

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Here's one I found a few day ago, The Statue of Liberty

A little lat to the party...

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From EBGames.ca

Oddly, the Starter Pack picture is of the Nordic version (XBone and X360 also show Nordic, while PS3 and PS4 show the NA version, with the Swap Portal).


So, looks like Europe is getting the new Modded Rift Portal, just like Australia.

are they seriously not gonna redesign the portal at all?? and just make some small adjustment of the supercharger/swap force portal???..

Was it confirmed that you can use the TT portal?

They said they might not have the time for a new one, and in that case they just wouldn't bother. I just hope the US ones have the SF or Traptanium portals, the lack of lights on these is painful.

Any portal works minus the limitations, it just changes which is bundled in the starter pack.