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Dunno, employee variants are TFB just having fun. It's not as visible in the figure but her artwork is definately ghostly.

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Dunno, employee variants are TFB just having fun. It's not as visible in the figure but her artwork is definately ghostly.

Well even if that's the idea, sometimes the ghost of Christmas past is depicted with ice or sparkly snow to give it a cold feeling.

Christina Aguilera as skylanders ambassador !!!
https://twitter.com/xtina/status/809151049663512576

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Christina Aguilera as skylanders ambassador !!!
https://twitter.com/xtina/status/809151049663512576

christina aguilera is a skylanders fan?! well its nice to see celebrites share are love for the franchise .

Some really creepy Candyland birthday party themed images for a 37 year old woman. I mean, Christina Aguilera looks like an aged Vegas show girl...



And everything looks like it's for an eight year old spoil brat. So tacky. Anyway Skylanders seems to be Max's fav game according to this article.

http://www.usmagazine.com/cele...me-game-w455468

Look at all the sweets. I hope they had a few Pain-Yattas there at the party to go with them. Actually there may be one in the Candyland Christmas tree image (see article)...my eyes hurts just looking at it, so I cannot tell.

I think I both got a cavity and went blind looking at that second picture.

I saw that on Twitter yesterday. Even though I'm not a fan of her in particular, I love it when a celebrity shows support for Skylanders. It always makes me happy for some reason.

You know, I got to thinking. This is how they should debut new waves of figures. Imaginators wave three party, aka Pain-Yatta's "too sweet to be beat" celebration bash. Invite a bunch of kids over and let them go wild and film the event for Youtube or whatever PR stunts. I mean they used to do these things years ago when Skylanders were a thing, right? LOL Now days it's like "A new wave of Skylanders? Meh, whatevs." Come to think of it, Christina and Skylanders are probably on the same level of downtrending popularity right now, so it's a perfect match.

Kinda weird how they're having a party with Skylanders, don't you think Acti would stop investing in Skylanders except when it comes to releases?


This is only if the series is cancelling of course.

Saw at a Best Buy, each for $19.99, the Mysticat and Wolfgang combo packs.

I'm snowed in my driveway, so it might be a while until I get to Gamestop for Mystical Bad Juju. Oh well, I can call and hopefully they'll hold.

Also, some gift cards feel into my lap, so I plan on buying some crystals to make some Guest Stars. They will be:

At Gamestop:
Mario (Fire or Light Smasher)
Luigi (Water Sentinel)
Hulk (Earth Smasher)
Captain America (Earth Brawler)

At Target:
Ant Man (Earth Brawler)
Tiny Tiger (Life or Earth Sentinel)

On Amazon:
Robbie Rotten (Magic Smasher)
Count Moneybone (Undead Sorcerer)

In Question:
Dingodile (Fire Bazooker)
Flynn (Air Bazooker)

Also, if I were to make Mario, would he be Fire (in reference to throwing fire) or Light (in reference to his star attacks from Galaxy?)
And what should Undyne's first attack be as a Sentinel? Acrobat or Buster?

Hello, my kids are diving into this after getting it this week. They just did their first crystals this morning, but don't know where to go to change things about their creation. Is this somewhere in the hub world? It doesn't appear to be on the menu...

This game seems pretty cool, at least to them with the constant unlocks. I just bought them 2 blind bag treasure chests and Mysical Bad Juju at GS this morning. My location only had 3 of Bad Juju, but didn't even have them out, just locked in a drawer.

You change with the Select button - same you use to see a normal Skylander's stats, or the equivalent depending on your console. Can be done at any time.

The treasure chests I wouldn't buy too many of, though. They give the same things you can get by playing the game, just faster, and they only work once.

Sweet, that worked, now they'll be back at creating for 10 mins each! Yeah, I realize that about the chests, I guess if you just wanted to try to get silver or gold colors, we just got 2 bronze..

How's Skylanders Day for everyone?

I can't go because I'm unable to buy anything at them moment. I just wondered if any Wave 3 characters are there as well as Mystical Bad Juju's stock.

Has anybody seen the wave 3 crystals at Gamestop today? That's the only thing I'm after.

I found 3 of the four at a Best Buy. I already had the tech one from Toys R Us, so I only picked up the life and water ones. I am still missing the fire one. My local GameStop did not have any wave 3 stuff, except for Mystical Bad Juju and the Crash combo pack. I have seen wave 3 at Toys R Us, Target, and Best Buy, but not at a GameStop. The wave 3 crystals, though, are proving hard to find.

I saw EEF at Gamestop...didn't know it was there yet.

They got in 3 mystical bad jujus at my Gamestop and that was it. Nothing from wave 3 and no poster. Not much of a Skylanders day.

Yeah I got Ember and Starcast but I hope to get some other Senseis tomorrow. I was surprised to see EEF there, but nothing else from Wave 3

Just wished that both of the Pain-Yatta combo packs were out already. As soon as I complete getting the Candy Fantastic set, I want to create a gang using this Imaginator set, hopefully creating different classes in the Magic element. Brawler, Smasher, Quickshooter, etc.
I'm going to call them The Sugar Hill Gang (yes, the same name as one of the earliest rap groups).

We really do need update patches for this game I wish that TFB would try to get out of their comfert zone for once

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We really do need update patches for this game I wish that TFB would try to get out of their comfert zone for once

Doesn't Activision decide that?

Can we please stop with this whole "TfB is afraid of getting out of their comfort zone" thing, please?
I feel like people give them way less credits than they should.

Let's look at Trap Team (first game after V.V.'s debut): first game to introduce a non-Skylander gimmick figure, first game to make villains playable in some way and let's not forget the introduction of Light and Dark.

SuperChargers?
Aside from focusing on something so different from the idea of the series, like vehicles, what did it introduced?
Revamps of the same old flagship characters, a small roster of humanoids or upright creatures and a different final bossfight which doesn't feel like a fight at all (still unsure if Activision itself is to blame for the former though).
Won't talk about Skymiibos because Imaginators shown how guest-stars should be handled properly.
How about their comfort zone?

Not to mention that even if TfB doesn't innovate or change as many things as V.V. it may simply mean that they know which features can be changed and which should remain the same better.
Innovation isn't automatically good.

TfB does typically use the same puzzles, while VV makes up brand new ones, which makes gameplay less repetetive.


Both studios have trouble outside their comfort zones, but I feel TfB tends to stay in theirs more. Quadrupedal Superchargers were considered at one pojnt but were scrapped. Hell if TfB did SSC, I question if TfB would have made Quadrupedal ones either.

TFB probably wouldn't have done Land and Sea vehicles since it's Skylands and all of their games have air transportation or straight up airships involved above all. Much more room when you just have to design drivers for those.

They also changed a lot on their pressure plate puzzles and the laser ones are much quicker. Fizzland is also pretty much the only place they had proeminent pushblock puzzles,too, the rest were shorter or not the focus.

THO, whoever did the bridge puzzles deserves a slap. Sure the ones on Trap Team were dull visually, but I kinda don't want to keep falling off the plataform to get the next piece, ESPECIALLY for the secret collectible.

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Won't talk about Skymiibos because Imaginators shown how guest-stars should be handled properly.

B-But... It was VV who did the Imaginators' Guest Star content... TfB had nothing to do with it... N-Nothing at all...

Got gameplay of some of the rarer Wave 3 figures live for y'all before I leave on holidays this week All Level 20 with one of the skill branches fully unlocked.

Pain-Yatta

Good golly, the screen is just constantly full of colour and SFX when you're playing as this guy, haha. He has a lot of abilities that don't help out that much but he's heaps of fun to play as.


Legendary Pit Boss

This guy is crazy overpowered once he's got some upgrades. You can carry enemies around to incapacitate them which also boosts the power of his snake form, dealing crazy damage to everyone around him. His projectile attack is really fast too, and you can use his pit attack to deal with enemies in other areas.


Mystical Bad Juju

She seems quite weak at first but you can pull off some cool maneuvers once she's been upgraded a bit. You can use Juju Junior to hit enemies from a distance, and can reel him back in to knock away enemies who get too close to you. A very different style of play to the other Senseis.

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Can we please stop with this whole "TfB is afraid of getting out of their comfort zone" thing, please?
I feel like people give them way less credits than they should.

Let's look at Trap Team (first game after V.V.'s debut): first game to introduce a non-Skylander gimmick figure, first game to make villains playable in some way and let's not forget the introduction of Light and Dark.

TfB definitely did some great up front work on Skylanders, and they have an excellent attention to detail - like the little things that are always in their games. However, they ARE resistant to updating their original formula - whether that be from a lack of an innovative spirit, or just reticent to change what works ("not invented here" syndrome). They are on record saying they didn't like things that were added by VV, like jumping - and said they would undo it if they could.

Let's face it, jump pads are terrible, particularly in two player - this is a case of them valuing their design over what the customers want overwhelmingly. As a software developer, I've run into this - times when clients wanted changes that did not fit in with my design, but they are paying the bills and using my software, so you adapt and make their demands work. And when their ideas are right, and it does improve things - you don't try to push the features back out of the software out of pride. There are many instances of this in TfB Skylanders games. My biggest frustration with Trap Team (which I thoroughly enjoyed) was the things they removed or added back after Swap Force.

Guys I'm not saying that their work isn't good I like their games...I just need an updaaaate !!!
I want more parts and gears

Damn, so if VV never stepped in, we would still have no jumping and old graphics? That's crazy.

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Damn, so if VV never stepped in, we would still have no jumping and old graphics? That's crazy.

Yeah and Kaos's mom would look like Kaos in a wig lol

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Damn, so if VV never stepped in, we would still have no jumping and old graphics? That's crazy.

Acti would push them to move to newer console standards eventually, but they might've gone the way of Legend of Spyro and improved shaders instead of model quality.

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Won't talk about Skymiibos because Imaginators shown how guest-stars should be handled properly.

B-But... It was VV who did the Imaginators' Guest Star content... TfB had nothing to do with it... N-Nothing at all...

Well, technically Bowser and Donkey Kong were specifically requested by V.V.'s former leaders out of their love for Nintendo while I guess Crash and Cortex were more of a Sony request to promote the remake trilogy (and possibly to have both Spyro and Crash in the same game once again).
That being said, they did an amazing job both with the characters and the Adventure Pack, absolutely outstanding.

And I definitely agree that TfB is less prone to big innovations compared to V.V. (which again I don't consider as a problem, but what is true is true), but one thing is saying that and another is repeating that "they never exit their comfort zone".
That's what I find exaggerate, to say the least.

Regarding the "Skylanders is doomed" discussion, it's not much but today I read the first italian article about the series, and thus the toys-to-life genre being close to its end.
Sure, their only proof is that apparently 2017 won't see a new game (which I think it's pretty much confirmed by now), which doesn't immediately mean it has been cancelled, and their explanations are things like "Imaginators was the peak of the series and now it is slowly decaying".
Except the series cannot be decaying if this year's game, the latest, is it's peak.

Won't bother linking it because automatic translation may cause unnedeed panic.

...Crystal...or Candy Pain-Yatta ...might be the first chase variant I'm willing to spend money on...holy crap...
- Unreall

Yeah, that Pain-Yatta variant is beautiful ;.; I'd definitely pick up that one if I saw it. One of the better chase variants.

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Won't talk about Skymiibos because Imaginators shown how guest-stars should be handled properly.

B-But... It was VV who did the Imaginators' Guest Star content... TfB had nothing to do with it... N-Nothing at all...

Well, technically Bowser and Donkey Kong were specifically requested by V.V.'s former leaders out of their love for Nintendo while I guess Crash and Cortex were more of a Sony request to promote the remake trilogy (and possibly to have both Spyro and Crash in the same game once again).
That being said, they did an amazing job both with the characters and the Adventure Pack, absolutely outstanding.

And I definitely agree that TfB is less prone to big innovations compared to V.V. (which again I don't consider as a problem, but what is true is true), but one thing is saying that and another is repeating that "they never exit their comfort zone".
That's what I find exaggerate, to say the least.

Regarding the "Skylanders is doomed" discussion, it's not much but today I read the first italian article about the series, and thus the toys-to-life genre being close to its end.
Sure, their only proof is that apparently 2017 won't see a new game (which I think it's pretty much confirmed by now), which doesn't immediately mean it has been cancelled, and their explanations are things like "Imaginators was the peak of the series and now it is slowly decaying".
Except the series cannot be decaying if this year's game, the latest, is it's peak.

Won't bother linking it because automatic translation may cause unnedeed panic.

I just loved the ideas of Donkey Kong and Bowser being in Superchargers and Crash and Cortex being in Imaginators. Their inclusion makes both games so amazing to me. While I'm still disapponted that Kirby, Peach and Fox were scrapped from Superchargers, the fact I can play as Donkey Kong and Bowser is good enough for me in SuperChargers. I can't wait to play as Crash and Cortex in imaginators once I get their hands on them. Hope I'll get them for Christmas. I wonder if there will be a future skylanders game that will hint a Classic Spyro HD remake too?

I don't really care that Toys for Bob doesn't have as much exciting stuff then Vicarious Visions. To me, both companies are equally awesome.

So the Itallian news "confirms" that there will be no 2017 Skylanders game? While I do agree with you on the fact it may not have anything to do with the whole Skylanders series being cancelled thing, I still think this whole no 2017 game is just an ugly rumor. If there really is no 2017 game that's confimed by both USA and Itallian news, why doesn't Activision just confirm it already? It'll save us a lot of trouble of dwelling and paniking on the news and rumors. I'll truly understand that it's true if the next Skylanders game is taking a long time to develop and it won't make it in time for a 2017 release. But give up on it so soon just because of poor sales? i don't beileve it one bit. DX

What Itallian article are we talkin' about?

This one:

http://it.ign.com/skylanders-i...ne-della-storia

They even talk about how Dimensions won't last either because it does a poor job relating to kids; because obviously are the only customers interested in toys to life.
Activision made the focus target very clear since the beginning but I don't think Lego did the same.

The A-Team and Portal figures aren't certainly aimed at kids but that doesn't mean they were "poor choices", simply a way to attract older customers.

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This one:

http://it.ign.com/skylanders-i...ne-della-storia

They even talk about how Dimensions won't last either because it does a poor job relating to kids; because obviously are the only customers interested in toys to life.
Activision made the focus target very clear since the beginning but I don't think Lego did the same.

The A-Team and Portal figures aren't certainly aimed at kids but that doesn't mean they were "poor choices", simply a way to attract older customers.

Hmm, reading it and it's source article doesn't confirm it IMO, the over all source is the original video, which itself just discusses the possibility of it ending, and just that.

New minigame on the website!

Did I say minigame? I meant fanfic generator.

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New minigame on the website!

Did I say minigame? I meant fanfic generator.

My computer isn't working very well at that moment so I can't check the link, but what do you do in the minigame?

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This one:

http://it.ign.com/skylanders-i...ne-della-storia

They even talk about how Dimensions won't last either because it does a poor job relating to kids; because obviously are the only customers interested in toys to life.
Activision made the focus target very clear since the beginning but I don't think Lego did the same.

The A-Team and Portal figures aren't certainly aimed at kids but that doesn't mean they were "poor choices", simply a way to attract older customers.

Hmm, reading it and it's source article doesn't confirm it IMO, the over all source is the original video, which itself just discusses the possibility of it ending, and just that.

Yeah, maybe "confirm" wasn't the right term, but seeing how they said the insider was a trustworthy source (in another article listed below) it seems like it's probable we won't at least get a new game in 2017.
Which, of course, doesn't mean the series has been abandoned.

Wow that has to be the lamest minigame thing I've ever saw. Basically you select some parts, some slogans and it does this:

This new online game (if you can call it that) sucks big time. Some fanfic generator, or Mad Lib knockoff? I'm too apathetic to find out. They actually expect me to read? Pathetic.

I actully dont mind this game, the only down side is that i cant use other skylanders instead.

forget what i said, not thier best mini game.

its easier just to write your own fanfic.

off topic quastion: is there a place here that i can post my skylanders spin off ideas?

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off topic quastion: is there a place here that i can post my skylanders spin off ideas?

Here.

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off topic quastion: is there a place here that i can post my skylanders spin off ideas?

Here.

Thenks.