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Just some similarities I found between SF and SC that I thought I'd share because I guess I have nothing better to do while I'm waiting for the game.

• Pop Fizz, Trigger Happy, Stealth Elf, Gill Grunt, Eruptor, Terrafin, and Jet-Vac got reposes in both games.
  
• Certain race tracks appear to take place in locations from Swap Force, like Calamity Canyon, that Fossil Festival race track (forgot the name), and an unknown track seen in the Overview trailer that seems to take place in that Arkeyan graveyard.
  
• Kaos' Doom Jet looks identical to the vehicle he piloted in the Fantasm Forest level of Swap Force.
  
• Fewer levels, but said levels are longer and more expansive.
  
• All characters who are part of the game's gimmick are bipedal.
  
• Spitfire, Smash Hit, and Stormblade share design similarities with Fire Kraken, Rubble Rouser, and Free Ranger respectively.
  
• The gameplay, obviously...
  
• Both games have Dark starter packs (though granted, so did Trap Team...).
  
• Gimmick encourages mixing and matching (Thanks to Drek for pointing this out).
  

I'm sure there are way more similarities than that though.

The gameplay appears a bit different, it seems (on inflatrators at least) they won't react when hit for the first time (that is, play a special animation that delays their attack)
I'd love to be proven wrong though

Also, maybe they'll make Lob-Star un-suck

I feel like I'm the only person that dislikes the fact that they named Kaos's vehicle after this guy


I mean really, you can only put Doom in the name to make it sound evil so many times (I feel like after The Doomstation of Ultimate Doomstruction you should just stop)

(Not really spoiler but whatever)

Vicarious Visions developed both games in all systems except for the Wii and Nintendo 3DS.

Even Toys for Bob, with his conservative style, are not sticky in these same reposed Skylanders as Vicarious Visions.
Just kidding. The 2 games are made by VV, so obviously they will share more similarities.

Spitfire isn't bipedal...

Neither was Wash Buckler, Doom Stone, Magna Charge, Night Shift, Rattle Shake or, Spy Rise.

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Spitfire isn't bipedal...

He's still shaped/stands in a bipedal position

I can see a lot of "reuse" in the game...makes sense...they did an awesome job in Swap Force...and it is suicidal to have to start every game "from scratch"...which is why I'm wondering why they don't make these 18month releases and release additional DLC (just pay for the content, instead of having of locking it on the disc before launch) to fully maximize the game's potential...

- most of the designs of course;
- the fact the gimmick still encourages combinations of some sort;
- in-game proper cutscenes (Trap Team had it too but SWAP Force introduced them to the series);

Sincerely hope they won't touch Lob-Star since I personally consider him to be one of the strongest characters around.

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- most of the designs of course;
- the fact the gimmick still encourages combinations of some sort;
- in-game proper cutscenes (Trap Team had it too but SWAP Force introduced them to the series);

Sincerely hope they won't touch Lob-Star since I personally consider him to be one of the strongest characters around.

Well, TFB's characters will still pretty good in Swap Force, so I trust the new TFB characters will be right in the ballpark.

Knock back effect damage is another similarity

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- most of the designs of course;
- the fact the gimmick still encourages combinations of some sort;
- in-game proper cutscenes (Trap Team had it too but SWAP Force introduced them to the series);

Sincerely hope they won't touch Lob-Star since I personally consider him to be one of the strongest characters around.

Drek, I sincerely respect you but
You're joking right?
The most damage Lob-Star does is 60, until you boil him, which takes forever
Proportionately his main attack does the equivelent of 10 damage in Swap Force

Has anyone else besides me noticed that Lava Lance Eruptor looks like Lava Barf Eruptor?

The only gimmick in SSC is the supercharged combo, that's it. What do you get when you put a non-matching pair together? ... nothing, except looking at and wondering how they fit in the vehicle. Mixing and matching were better in SSF because you get to use two different Skylanders' abilities at once, but not in SSC.

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- most of the designs of course;
- the fact the gimmick still encourages combinations of some sort;
- in-game proper cutscenes (Trap Team had it too but SWAP Force introduced them to the series);

Sincerely hope they won't touch Lob-Star since I personally consider him to be one of the strongest characters around.

Drek, I sincerely respect you but
You're joking right?
The most damage Lob-Star does is 60, until you boil him, which takes forever
Proportionately his main attack does the equivelent of 10 damage in Swap Force

You know you can jump while he's still boiling to immediately end the animation and still gain the power boost, right...?

Also he's one of the few Trap Masters with a strong and highly controllable dash attack, has a devastating AoE ability, is truly versatile in many situations and on the upper path his stars can pierce through enemies to attack other ones.

He might have low numbers but that's not what interests me the most in a character.
I simply know he can wipe out an advanced Doom Challenge on Medium even without being maxed out.

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The only gimmick in SSC is the supercharged combo, that's it. What do you get when you put a non-matching pair together? ... nothing, except looking at and wondering how they fit in the vehicle. Mixing and matching were better in SSF because you get to use two different Skylanders' abilities at once, but not in SSC.

It still encourages you to try and drive with all your collection and also use your traps to gain special elemental boosts.
Not to mention you can also mod the vehicles to experiment with the different part combinations.

I mean... The game literally forces you to always have a vehicle on the Portal to simply play and nothing on Earth will make me swap my Pop Thorn or Rocky Roll when approaching a vehicle area just because they won't supercharge the vehicle I'm about to use (at least not always).

Might as well see how they drive.

Some more:

• The two games are the only ones in the series released first in North America.
  
Reveal Spoiler
The two games have one giant entity as the final boss.


• The two games uses the gimmicks in special zones with different gameplay from the rest of the game.
  

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Spitfire isn't bipedal...

He's still shaped/stands in a bipedal position

"Bipedal" means "two-legged". It is not a stature, it is a leg count.

Chopper and Fright are actual bipeds, but they have horizontal spines.

The accurate description would be saying they have a vertical build.

P.S. Spitfire does not "stand", he hovers.