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Okay

i'm FINALLY going to walmart in about 10 minutes

GOOD NEWS MY DUDES (Or at least for us collectors, anyway.)
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Checked my Wal-mart and Target today. Nothing. Oh well.

I'm going to get the Wii U starter and Ambush on day 1. Other than that, I'll wait until Christmas to hopefully get Starcast, Hood Sickle, and a Dark Creation Crystal (for my dark collection) and Flarewolf.

I had a weird dream last night. I dreamed that Fright Rider was coming back, but now he was in the Dark Element. He had dual spears, and here's the weird thing - instead of riding his ostrich, he was riding Blackout. I remember some of their gameplay as well. They add this attack where Fright Rider held his spears forward and Blackout burst forward, leaving a path of thorny vines behind them. It was pretty cool. In the same dream, we also got a new Sensei, and it was literally Ember in the Dark Element. She was exactly the same except she was all black and white.

My closest Target (Durham, NC, near the Southpoint mall) has a bunch of pegs with Imaginators labels, but no items hanging from them yet. Looks like the display will be quite large, about 3/4 of the toys-to-life row.

im going to smyths tommorow

ill let you guys know if there is anything there but i know you can pre-order the starters anyway and get a free kaos

edit: also @chompy king a fright rider blackout? wish that was real cause that sounds BADASS

maybe something for sky 7 thats sort of like the "mario kart double dash" but its two skylanders working together per skylander? would be complicated but cool

just got TKC, Krankcase and ambush + air and light CC from walmart
the funny part is it clearly said on the side of the box he got the figures from said do NOT sell until Oct 16

You're all CRIMINALS, breaking the laws!

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just got TKC, Krankcase and ambush + air and light CC from walmart
the funny part is it clearly said on the side of the box he got the figures from said do NOT sell until Oct 16

How the hell do SEVERAL people across MULTIPLE DIFFERENT STORES NOT FREAKING READ THE SIDE OF THE BOX!!?????!!!!?!??!

^ Retail stores' stock crews aren't exactly hired for their education.

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You're all CRIMINALS, breaking the laws!

We aren't criminals, whoever doesn't put a street date in the system is LOL

You're all going to jail for being STREET DATE BREAKING CRIMINALS!

But that makes me want to be a criminal too. If only they weren't so legal around here.

Not Me...
*skips off happily watching most of friends being taken away*

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Bye Bye!

I've been summoned?
Well, we all know the one and only ship on here named Sta- *falls from chair*

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My headcanon is that Buckshot has a crush on Splat, but Splat's not straight and has feelings for Nightfall.

TRIGGERED

only zapnorris will get the joke

I get the joke...

There's no way you would get it, it comes from an RP me, Zap, and this guy named Sleepy who no longer likes skylanders participated in

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weed em' and reap.


EDIT:

Walmart had nothing, but it won't matter in ONE WEEK



Also, skylandsfan was sent an image of mysticat at target. So i guess that's 3 stores with W2 day one!

I looked at an Xbox One starter when I went to walmart, I need to be locked up!

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It feels like forever since we last saw a clean artwork, these should be commonplace.

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Thank you so much, ToyNerd!
Heh, I was wrong: just compared my Ninjini to Knight Light and Senseis bases are quite larger than his.

I hope they'll return to create bases according to the characters and their poses, and not the opposite: just think about Tread Head and Snap Shot, the former has a much wider base than the latter even though he's obviously smaller.

I'm not giving you the cold shoulder, juarmo.
Just because it says I am connected doesn't mean I'm actually browsing the forum: I just read your post, in fact.
I appreciate your corrections but feel you often tend to nitpick even when it's really not necessary: for example, of course a big Skylander is a giant but Giants (with the capital "G") aren't simply huge characters as I've tried to explain.
Otherwise Trap Masters would be Giants as well.

And thanks Bifrost, won't look for videos anymore from now on.
Almost spoilered myself The Darkness, last year.

For the record, I don't know how to check if someone's online. I just thought so because I comment on your posts pretty often, and haven't gotten any replies until now.
I guess since people are far more vocal about things they hate rather than things they like, you just didn't have much to say or anything.

On-Topic: If I remember my posts correctly, I actually pointed out not only the size, but also the physical strength.
If they are capable of Feats of Strength, and are large enough to be giant, would that not be enough to call them giants, at least as far as gameplay is concerned?
Those 8 were the first Skylanders, but if a being could match their size and strength, would it not make them giant too?
For instance, the npc from Time of the Giants, was Collossus his name? If he became a Skylander, could he be classified as a Giant? Even if he wasn't part of the original team or even from that era per se (he is, but pretend he wasn't for this theoretical)

A game with all gimmicks and all new ones would have to find workarounds such as that.

I know this is a little off topic, but for those who participated in my imaginators RP, I am starting it back up again.

I feel that the Senseis are completely superfluous in Imaginators. The Senseis just feel like they are selling giant plastic pay walls. I would have paid for the Villains as regular Skylanders. They didn't need to make them Senseis...oh well.

It would have been so cool having the already existing Skylanders showing the Imaginators the ropes. I mean they are already part of the narrative. How cool would it have been to pick one of the original 32 as your Imaginator's "coach" while leveling. I mean we already have all the Battle classes represented in the original 32 (Hell you could take from Giants and or Swap as well) anyway. Oh well at least we are finally getting Skylanders as N.P.C.'s in the story so that's something.

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I feel that the Senseis are completely superfluous in Imaginators. The Senseis just feel like they are selling giant plastic pay walls. I would have paid for the Villains as regular Skylanders. They didn't need to make them Senseis...oh well.

That's what Toys For Bob does now unfortunately. Big toys for no real reason anymore.

They kinda have to make new characters each game. Villains are functionally our "reposes" of the game, at least they're part of the gimmick this year.

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I would be completely outraged if they didn't make new characters. I honestly hate the Imaginators and am pretty much never going to use them. If they didn't make the Senseis I may very well have quit.

It's not that they made new characters. That's a must. But it's the old problem with TFB that make those character big just to charge more money for them. I enjoy the senseis and plan to get 10 of them, and I like what they do for the game, BUT there is no reason for them to be so large. They could be core, or even VV size (they have a good middle ground with their snappers and superchargers). Neither Trap Masters or Senseis need to be as big as the Giants, toy wise. That's my whole thing with TFB.

TLDR: New characters is always needed, but making them big toys just to make extra money is not needed.

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I feel that the Senseis are completely superfluous in Imaginators. The Senseis just feel like they are selling giant plastic pay walls. I would have paid for the Villains as regular Skylanders. They didn't need to make them Senseis...oh well.

That's what Toys For Bob does now unfortunately. Big toys for no real reason anymore.

Yeah I know. It's unfortunate. It's a real shame though because they gave us some AMAZING core it Trap Team. I never use any of the Trap Masters but I use the Cores all the time. Torch, Echo, Deja-Vu, Bat Spin, High Five, Black Out, Spot Light and many more. I guess the idea for this one is that we make our own core. I just hope they work in the next game.

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TRIGGERED

only zapnorris will get the joke

I get the joke...

There's no way you would get it, it comes from an RP me, Zap, and this guy named Sleepy who no longer likes skylanders participated in

My mistake. I was thinking of something COMPLETELY different.
I thought Astroblast was triggered because I was thinking of a headcanon where Astroblast would flirt with Nightfall, but Nightfall had no interest since she was lesbo for Splat.

To be fair, bigger toys are better than more small useless toys if we really have to choose something arbitrary to jack up prices. I didn't buy a SINGLE vehicle because they were just an addon to the characters and now they're useless theming-wise, while my list for Senseis only increases because I know that even when their gimmick is gone, I'll have more or less the same fun.
Traps were a bit of an unfortunate exception, since I'd definately buy more if they had a use going foward, since again, they're characters and not addons.

If I can come to the defense of TFB here, I think the reason they want to stick to bigger figures instead of the smaller Cores is because they want to have more extravagant poses and more detail in their toys. As good as the molds were for the cores, the poses were limited for the most part. Does that mean there were NEVER any good poses for the cores in previous games, no. I think the Reposes were a good example proving the opposite, but I do believe that with Disney Infinity (RIP) and Amiibo entering the Toys to Life market they probably felt it necessary to find a way to scale the toys up so that they could compete with the other's toys

That being said, in-game is a whole nother story.

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They could be core, or even VV size (they have a good middle ground with their snappers and superchargers).

Is that like Whipper's or The Carlton?

Yeah, the only think I genuinely don't like about TfB is they apparently have to make big figures, and the fact Imaginators doesn't have proper Cores (though we can technically make our own ones but it's not the same thing) doesn't help.

I'm still unsure if it's Activision orders, after all SuperChargers didn't have big figures simply because vehicles were already 15$/€.
But Trap Masters and Senseis could have easily been smaller, no doubt, especially since the second don't seem as big in-game.

I sure hope they'll return to more manageable sizes in the future.

I don't know if the character pictures made popular or not but my posts are actually showing up in recent on the skylanders hashtag!!!

Just wanted to say 21!!!! (21000th Post)


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Great info sprocketrocket! Thanks!

If you (or anybody) happen to see 2 or more Crystals Designs of the same Element, can you take pics of the SKUs? Reason, trying to see if the Crystals of the same Element share the same SKU. Hope they dont share.

I have 3 undead crystals (there are 3 different molds that were at walmart), and they all share the same SKU.

How many total different crystals did they have? Just wondering how many of the 31 I will have day 1.

14 different single pack crystals, plus one earth one from the adventure pack, the fire one that comes with the starter pack, and if you're getting the dark edition, you'll also get a dark and life crystal. So total number of different crystals releasing day 1 is 18, but you can only get two of them if you have the dark pack preordered.

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If I can come to the defense of TFB here, I think the reason they want to stick to bigger figures instead of the smaller Cores is because they want to have more extravagant poses and more detail in their toys. As good as the molds were for the cores, the poses were limited for the most part. Does that mean there were NEVER any good poses for the cores in previous games, no. I think the Reposes were a good example proving the opposite, but I do believe that with Disney Infinity (RIP) and Amiibo entering the Toys to Life market they probably felt it necessary to find a way to scale the toys up so that they could compete with the other's toys

That being said, in-game is a whole nother story.

This so much.
And what Bifrost said.
At least the plastics seem sturdier with TFB figures, the sculpts are more detailed, and this years bases/packaging... Looks like it could've almost come from a comic book store rather than a toy or electronics store. They're not going to become useless in a year either

Yeah, the packaging is simply amazing. Especially after Trap Team's.

Aaaaaah yes...the Trap Team packaging....

Never thought they would outdo Trap Team's packaging, but it looks like they have.

These boxes are gorgeous. Trap Master packages looked nice, but they were a pain to open.

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Yeah, the packaging is simply amazing. Especially after Trap Team's.

Trap Team's packaging was easy on the eyes, but hard on the fingers, if you know what I mean.

This games packaging looks really nice in a collectable sort of way. (If I could get singles of EVERYONE, I might keep it all in its packaging. But I can't afford 2 sets of stuff, so...

So, should I go to YouTube? I mean, I won't get this game any time soon, so I shouldn't really mind for spoilers, since, one way or another, I will eventually discover then before playing the game.

Seeing as how this is release week for most, and a user is already posting a walkthrough on the game for the sake of views, then yeah. You should avoid youtube for a while to avoid getting spoiled, especially with spoilerific thumbnails.

Can someone who speaks German go through this to see the names of a few things? Namely the 2nd Secret Technique for Sorcerers which is scrolled over for a mere second. Among a few other things.

Dont worry about spoilers, its nothing that JosPlays hasnt put up. As a matter of fact it takes them so long to not even finish the level because of the constant character switching lol. They switch almost as much as me.

^ The Sorcerer techniques are listed on the Wikia site. http://skylanders.wikia.com/wiki/Battle_Classes

Pretty much. The thing is that it will take me years to get the game, and people will gradually talk about spoilers in a more common/open basis, so I'll get the spoilers without playing the game sometime.

Any news on whether Wave 2 will be available Day One in Australia?