darkSpyro

Unlike past Skylanders games, the hats you receive from finding and opening hat boxes is completely random. You can also replay levels and open the same hat boxes again to receive a different hat. It's also possible to get the Rainbow Hat by doing this, which is the hat you receive on the console versions by completing the game on Nightmare mode.

Best place to get a hat quickly is the Palace of Waking level in the Tradewind Isles area (the fourth "world" you can unlock). There is a hat box you can get immediately at the start (walk towards the bottom right of the screen). Open the hat, then exit to the Eternal Archives (the main hub), and repeat as often as you want to get new hats.

Although there is a retry option while in a level, you need to exit to the Eternal Archives/hub to force a save, otherwise if you just retry the level you will lose whatever hat you just unlocked.

And now for the tedious part. The only real downside is the loading time for the level/hub and the intro to the stage which can't be skipped. It's about 45 seconds to start the level and another 25 seconds to get back to the Eternal Archives. So roughly over a minute per hat. :/

I got the Rainbow Hat this way and I'm planning to scan it to some of my figures using the 3DS game/portal and then play Nightmare mode on the console and make good use of the boosts it provides.

I was assuming this was a glitch! LOL

I also noticed that I get treasure chests in some chapters, but it doesn't seem to count them. Then I replay the chapter, get the same chests and it does. I'll pay closer attention to be more specific

The treasure chests will always reappear if you replay a level. But you have to open the required number of chests in one playthrough of the level to meet the requirements for a star. So if you only opened 4/5 chests in one level, when you replay the level you still need to open all 5 chests in meet the requirement, not just the one you missed the first time.

It has all the hats in it. Even the ones were not suppose to know about.

Yep. I unlocked all 245 hats.

easy and easy... its a 2 hour straight grind, lol..

is the UFO hat part of this?

That's the only thing that i am missing from Swap Force.

Got the platinum, just wanted this to complete the sweep.

How does transferring the hats to your characters work?

If I level Jet Vac for example in the 3DS game to level 5 and level him on the console to level 9, what will happen when I try to bring them together? Do they keep the highest level and all hats?

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How does transferring the hats to your characters work?

If I level Jet Vac for example in the 3DS game to level 5 and level him on the console to level 9, what will happen when I try to bring them together? Do they keep the highest level and all hats?

If you have a Jet Vac at level 9 on the figure (from playing the console game) but in the 3DS game Jet Vac is at level 5, when you next scan Jet Vac into the 3DS game's portal it will update Jet Vac to the highest of the two. So Jet Vac in the 3DS will now appear as level 9. Same thing if you have a Jet Vac at level 9 on the 3DS game but the figure has a lower level, the figure gets updated to level 9.

The hat a figure is wearing gets transferred too, but I'm not too sure about which hat is kept if they are wearing different hats when you scan on the 3DS portal. My guess would be the 3DS game defaults to the figure wearing the 3DS hat.

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is the UFO hat part of this?

That's the only thing that i am missing from Swap Force.

Got the platinum, just wanted this to complete the sweep.

You can get 241 hats out of 245 through opening hat boxes, but for the last 4 (Jolly Hat, Kickoff Hat, Springtime Hat and UFO Hat), you need to scan the special figures that came with those hats from Swap Force and the Target pre-order card from Swap Force.

Actually, I'm not sure if you can just scan any figure already wearing one of those hats to unlock them, or if you in fact need the original figures/card. I just used the actual original figures/card when I unlocked them on my game.

gold hat is pretty good 3ds hat....

health: +15%
damage: +15%
experience: +15%
critical hit chance: +15%

the rainbow hat look totally different than console rainbow hat... 3ds version only have health:+5% and dodge chance:+15%

Yep, Gold Top Hat is the best hat in 3DS Trap Team.

Count, do you recognize any 3DS hats as the "Frostfest Hat"? In the strategy guide for the console, it says at Portal Master rank 40 the prize is the Frostfest Hat, but I can't tell which 3DS hat that is. That's the last prize for getting the highest Portal Master rank, so it has be a good one.

The names might be off, as the guide says at level 34 you unlock the "Oracle Hat", which I'm guess is the Octavius Cloptimus Hat. I'm only at level 31 right now.

anyone have a ufo card hat that i can borrow?:-)

Even when you get the Rainbow Hat from the 3DS version, won't that be impossible to add the Rainbow Hat to the in-game collection like all Legacy Hats?

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Even when you get the Rainbow Hat from the 3DS version, won't that be impossible to add the Rainbow Hat to the in-game collection like all Legacy Hats?

Correct, you can't add it to the console version's collection by carrying it over from the 3DS. But you can use the hat on the console before actually unlocking it. That's the benefit, especially when you're playing the game on Nightmare mode.

Not everyone will agree, but I think's its great to have the option of being able to use the best hat while playing the game on it's most difficult setting.