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Quote: Buuzer

I know it's too late but I found a hidden message in Thumpin' Wumpa Island Level.
No one noticed it before, right?

I never noticed it
VV did a great job on this level despite me hating Swap Force and finding Superchargers ok.
Nice Find Buuzer!

That's a cool Easter egg you found. Heck, I didn't even see it at first in your video.

So the new packshot of the CTT that's on the site, any idea where it's from? The yellow at the top means it's from somewhere other than the UK (the other packages we've seen so far) right?

Quote: GinjaNinja

That's a cool Easter egg you found. Heck, I didn't even see it at first in your video.

So the new packshot of the CTT that's on the site, any idea where it's from? The yellow at the top means it's from somewhere other than the UK (the other packages we've seen so far) right?

Neither did I

What is that ship supposed to be?

Absolutely didn't knew about that easter egg either.

Kinda reminds me how the last few games sorta lacked similar secrets: like Spyro's skeleton in Giants (or SA, can't remember).
I'm sure there were at least a few other examples.

Spyro's skeleton, Spyro inflatable tube in the Kaos Kastle,some stuff in SF I can't recall, TFB logo as a Legendary Treasure, I don't think SC had anything unless the Eruptor and Spyro engravings in Spell Punk Library books count.

So I found CTT in Germany, even though amazon.de delayed it for a week again. I'm happy but Activision really needs to take care of the releases.
Wild Storm's figure is gorgeus and has a lot of details. I'm really looking forward to play with him.
(Oh and he also has the same candy-scent as Splat & Boom Bloom.)

Boom Bloom has a candy scent ?!!!

Nah, Boom Bloom's not candy scen-

*goes to sniff her*

Well... Yeah, she does.
At least mine.

I get Splat, since she's all pretty and sweet and Boom Bloom has flowers instead of ponytails, but Wild Storm...?
I'd have expected Pain-Yatta to have it, if anything.

His farts smell good

Is Wild Storm's scent better then EEF, Because Enchanted Elven Forest scent is STRONG

Quote: Drek95

Nah, Boom Bloom's not candy scen-

*goes to sniff her*

Well... Yeah, she does.
At least mine.

I get Splat, since she's all pretty and sweet and Boom Bloom has flowers instead of ponytails, but Wild Storm...?
I'd have expected Pain-Yatta to have it, if anything.

Well I guess you could say he's a... sugar daddy.

*gets banned*

I'm wondering if I ought to wait for CTT to hit US or order it overseas. I'm at 85% completion, though I'm having a difficult time completing the chili pepper run for Neo Cortex's soul gem. trying to complete some of the speed runs, etc.
I love creating new characters. trying to do my versions of the Universal Studios' monsters. I've got my versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. also have Clint Eastwood 's Man with No Name, among others. even got Joker and Harley Quinn

Quote: Insane01

I'm wondering if I ought to wait for CTT to hit US or order it overseas. I'm at 85% completion, though I'm having a difficult time completing the chili pepper run for Neo Cortex's soul gem. trying to complete some of the speed runs, etc.
I love creating new characters. trying to do my versions of the Universal Studios' monsters. I've got my versions of Frankenstein, Dracula, The Mummy, The Wolfman, The Invisible Man and The Creature from the Black Lagoon. also have Clint Eastwood 's Man with No Name, among others. even got Joker and Harley Quinn

What I did was use a giant for more coverage and also if you miss a few in a aection, just call off into a pit. It puts you back a bit and you can get any you missed.

I'll probably just import CTT soon.

I did, Zap. I ordered it from Amazon UK. I'm getting it on Thursday and it cost me about $61 and change.
but it will be in my hand and not a pre-order, so I'm looking forward to it.

Quote: Insane01

I did, Zap. I ordered it from Amazon UK. I'm getting it on Thursday and it cost me about $61 and change.
but it will be in my hand and not a pre-order, so I'm looking forward to it.

$61 bucks? that's a lot for CTT.

Must have picked global priority shipping. I only paid $45 and that included standard global shipping. Ordered last Friday, arriving this Thursday.

that's right, Dahvoo. otherwise it would arrive a week from today.

Nearly all the all-purpose parts are in CTT, with some cooler stuff in LIM. Pharaoh Guns and Cybug Set included :c

I just wish we had certain molds so that I can actually create some of my newer characters.

So I got TKC, Krankcase and Pit Boss today. I'll make headcanons later, but I noticed something about Tae Kwon Crow. At Level 1 with no upgrades, he can only do 16 (2x2x2x2) and 32 (2x2x2x2x2) damage, excluding critical hits. This means his OCD basically affects his in game damage. Once you level him up or get an upgrade, he probably secretly hates you for it.

Load Time comparsions

Nintendo Switch load times 10/10

Wow, this is bad. Not even BOTW's worst gets this slow. Guess it's what you get with half the usual effort.

Quote: Bifrost

Wow, this is bad. Not even BOTW's worst gets this slow. Guess it's what you get with half the usual effort.

No the system is that bad

That's not what most people are saying, defects notwithstanding - especially when the WiiU runs better(iirc, I'm not touching the game until Bad Juju finally arrives). This is just a bad port.

Right. Breath of the Wild's load times aren't unreasonable for a game of that scope, and it's largely seamless unless you die or enter a dungeon. I have zero complaints about the load times for it.

But the Switch port of Imaginators is just atrocious when it comes to load times. They clearly screwed up the optimization... hopefully it gets fixed when (read: "if") they do another patch. But there's no excuse for load times this bad on a cartridge-based game.

The system itself isn't bad, Breath of the WIld (which is much more impressive than Skylanders) runs better. The port was probably just throw me in there

The system itself is excellent; BOTW has one of the biggest and seamless console game worlds ever, and it takes hardly any time to load. The problem is that the developers were far too lazy to further optimize Skylanders for the Switch.

Getting into the game: about 30 second difference.
Loading the cutscene: 5 second difference.
Actually going into the level: 1 minute 40 second difference.

Even if you enter Framerate Forest -cough- Kokiri Forest and die or get inside a Shrine you can't get this much load times in BOTW. That one is limitations of the system, this is a bad port. But with little budget or care from Acti, they'll probably leave it as is and then blame it on the QA(who probably found this out and were already laid off) or something just as ridiculous.

Oh hey so I can watch an entire Season of Academy while I wait for this game to load.

Activision you're a evil genius.

Hmm... each episode of Academy is 22 minutes long. The first one is 44, right? So 44+(22x11)= 286 minutes. 286/1.66666... minutes is 171.6 times loading a level. According to my money method...

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1. Beat the game.
2. Beat the first level on Nightmare.
3. Collect these gems in Mushroom River.
- Behind the waterfall at the start
- Bounce to the left on one of the mushrooms to a water platform thing
- On the ledge to the left (small)
- At the beginning of the river
- In the first hut (there are two there)
- In between the first and second hut behind a fence (small)
- In the second hut
- On the other end of the planks with the Ninja Shrine
4. Restart the level and repeat step 3.

Each cycle gives you about 1160 gold so you have to do it 57 times for max gold.

You could get max gold for three Skylanders with this trick if you didn't have sit through the loading screens.

I don't know where I was going with this.

Ok so this showed up in my recommended, and it gives us some news





1:Skylanders 7 is confirmed to come out in 2018
2:Season 2 of Academy is still happening(not that big of news)
3:There will be a 3rd season of Skylanders Academy in 2018, which is currently in development


It doesn't talk about the new Skylanders mobile game.

You just posted in the thread.

1. The article is wild speculation.
2/3. Both season are old news, like, start of February. It's not like people care about Academy until late in the year anyway, since that section is dead even with the Community QA.

Quote: Bifrost

You just posted in the thread.

1. The article is wild speculation.
2/3. Both season are old news, like, start of February. It's not like people care about Academy until late in the year anyway, since that section is dead even with the Community QA.

Sorry, didn't realize

Quote: King-Pen Krazy

Ok so this showed up in my recommended, and it gives us some news

1:Skylanders 7 is confirmed to come out in 2018
2:Season 2 of Academy is still happening(not that big of news)
3:There will be a 3rd season of Skylanders Academy in 2018, which is currently in development


It doesn't talk about the new Skylanders mobile game.

Not official from Acti themselves but hoping that's gonna be the case. However we need to wait until 2018 anyway lol

As I've mentioned before, I careless for a new entry and more for continued support and add-ons (at a fair price) of new content for existing.
-Unreall

That's not how the industry works recently, especially since season passes are becoming less common as of late. Stay relevant, at the expense of dev time(the main one or other devs as Skylanders RPG shows). Not everyone can spend quality time polishing a great game like Horizon or BOTW because it's just not priority for anyone but the fans.

Quote: Unreallystic

As I've mentioned before, I careless for a new entry and more for continued support and add-ons (at a fair price) of new content for existing.
-Unreall

I think I agree with you, on this one.

Imaginators is such a good game, but it could easily become even better: a deeper Arena Mode, the return of PvP (somehow), new characters (not necessarily Senseis), new levels, more extra missions and even new tracks if they wanted to expand Racing as well.

Between what I just said and the fact I'm pretty sure Activision realized Adventure Packs and figures are more profitable than Starter Packs, I could see why they could want to try Dimension's way.
Besides, I personally have all I could wish for and don't really see which innovation could top character creation and justify a new entry.

Innovation? We still need level editors.

I'm biased, I know this is a functionality for the devs by Imaginators, but it feels like they'd need an entirely new game to add one proper that's optimized and acessible.

A level editor would make sense for Skylanders, even if levels themselves aren't the series main thing. As long as we can use any gimmick we want in the levels...

I want sky 7 to be Skylanders Spellfighters (yes I know cringy name I'm still working on it) basically we get more open wild like levels, over 20 story levels and the gimmick is advanced combat. There is a zone called a Spellfighter zone where they go through a rift and the gameplay changes COMPLETLY. Just my thought

So SuperChargers.

On level editor, I've had way too many ideas since the first game, almsot as much as I want Skylander specific games. My second display shelf(I think I posted it in Collections? can't remember) is designed over an idea of a triple-element region which I've had since Skylanders: Universe released elemental islands.

I keep looking at Dr. Krankcase on the portal and thinking he's a swapper.

He is kind of like a Steampunk Spy Rise.

i wonder if he can climb walls like spy rise.