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Drawdler, I'm not even gonna bother engaging. We've all said enough in other threads and the advice has not changed.

Beta Ninjini really didn't work ingame for me. She just looks so pale, and the contrast with the eyes makes it very unsettling. Really nice idle animation in that version though!

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The prophecies were true!!

in light of recent events if the franchise rights got sold to another studio who would be your first pick

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in light of recent events if the franchise rights got sold to another studio who would be your first pick

If they actually got their **** together, Ubisoft, they seem to be doing little forays into more cartoony works and this could be an IP of their own. More likely they'd just staple it to another franchise because they have no confidence in their kids' games though.

In a perfect world, Nintendo or Devolver, but they'd just kill it off.

series 2 trap masters!!?! and sunburn!?!??! boy we missed out T___T

i'm sort of curious to see how an indie dev would handle skylanders, but i doubt that'd be optimal

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Concerning level design and themes I wish SI was more like TT, honestly.

surprised nobody mentioned this earlier, but Norm MacDonald, who did the voice of Glumshanks in Academy, unfortunately passed away.

oof i'm checking the schedule and maybe i can catch the stream but maybe i can't

if anyone is able to make it, please report back here!

hopefully they announce a remake of the first game.

i'm crying in the club rn

I've been looking through the SF alpha files, and while there isn't much on Shapeshifters, there are some leftover animations and effects. From these, we finally have a name for the "Bird Skylander", being Breezewing. There's also an alternative name for Aftershock, being Tellus.

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I've been looking through the SF alpha files, and while there isn't much on Shapeshifters, there are some leftover animations and effects. From these, we finally have a name for the "Bird Skylander", being Breezewing. There's also an alternative name for Aftershock, being Tellus.

Quite interesting! Any 3D models to use or use in-game like the old troll sniper from Giants?

There are leftover textures for Aftershock's tail and arms (which are currently inaccessible) but aside from filenames, there's nothing too interesting. The build we have is from March 25th, 2013, so it isn't early enough for the really interesting stuff. Aside from the textures, there are a few leftover vfx, animations, and model effects.

For vfx, we have some attacks mentioned. Aftershock's include "belchquake", a melee fist attack, and a spiked roll attack (probably like scorp/bash). Breezewing only has a melee claw attack and a boomerang tail attack. Then Krayken has a bubble gun and an electric tail attack.

For animations, we have a few shapeshifter tails that hadn't been previously mentioned. These include "snake", "thorns", "mist", and "tornado". Of course, there's also tail animations for the 3 known characters.

Finally, for model effects, there are files leftover for a tech shapeshifter who had a chain gun for their arm attacks.

Giants turns 10 this year

Microsoft has purchased Activision, so that's something

this also means TFB could totally do a Banjo-Kazooie game now or Todd Howard could make Skylanders 7

Skylanders 7 with Banjo-Kazooie as a Skylander. Do it now.

interview with everyone's favorite ceo

https://venturebeat.com/2022/0...with-microsoft/

specifically mentions skylanders

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Skylanders 7 with Banjo-Kazooie as a Skylander. Do it now.

you know what. i am okay with this

" Skylanders too. One of the great disappointments of my career is that other people came in and they came out with crappy alternatives. And they dumped all of these crappy alternatives in the market, and basically destroyed the market for what was a really cool future opportunity. If you look at Skylanders, with its hardware and manufacturing and supply chain, there are the same kinds of things that we can’t do but Microsoft can."

like how he blames the competetors (albeit infinity especially didn't help since it suffocated skylander space) for the failure of the franchise in later years rather than the fact the access point for 100% completion went up in price and poor distribution caused lots of characters to be borderline unreleased.

maybe we'll get a comeback under microsoft, who knows, doubt it'll have toys, because covid supply issues

So I'm not yet sure how I feel about all what's gone on with Activision and Microsoft. If I'm not mistaken Skylanders has been the only thing Activision has made money from me on in many years.
But I guess I have the idea that maybe at least now we can possibly get backwards compatible Xbox Series X versions of SA and Giants.

But sadly i assume this means we'll never see that Princess Peach Sky/Amiibo that they almost did back in Superchargers.

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" Skylanders too. One of the great disappointments of my career is that other people came in and they came out with crappy alternatives. And they dumped all of these crappy alternatives in the market, and basically destroyed the market for what was a really cool future opportunity. If you look at Skylanders, with its hardware and manufacturing and supply chain, there are the same kinds of things that we can’t do but Microsoft can."

like how he blames the competetors (albeit infinity especially didn't help since it suffocated skylander space) for the failure of the franchise in later years rather than the fact the access point for 100% completion went up in price and poor distribution caused lots of characters to be borderline unreleased.

maybe we'll get a comeback under microsoft, who knows, doubt it'll have toys, because covid supply issues

I'm okay with a digital library or NFC cards if it means it can come back

So say if a 7th game is announced do you think a lot of people would come back here or are we all that's left for good?

I'll take it as no.

if they do a 7th game i'll go all in again, i need that feeling of nostalgia

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if they do a 7th game i'll go all in again, i need that feeling of nostalgia

Same here. Love this series!

I'm so proud of this community

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I'm so proud of this community

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I'm so proud of this community

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Did it work this time?

i can see this one on my end

if there will be a 7th skylander game i hope it will not have any figures to buy. just thinking about trying to buy 100s of figures from different online retail shops gives me the chills. the shops might even not get the figures because of all the crap that is going on in the world now.. this is a nightmare i dont want. gimme a good fun platformer with some of the old characters, and no need to buy anything more, i will be happy with that.

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if there will be a 7th skylander game i hope it will not have any figures to buy. just thinking about trying to buy 100s of figures from different online retail shops gives me the chills. the shops might even not get the figures because of all the crap that is going on in the world now.. this is a nightmare i dont want. gimme a good fun platformer with some of the old characters, and no need to buy anything more, i will be happy with that.

Absolutely. Toys To Life died for a reason. Manufacturing figures is hard in today's climate the CEO of Activision himself said it.

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hello guys

Someone on Reddit is passing this up as a leak of a "cancelled" Trap Team 2

idk if i ever said this here but in the alpha builds of giants one of them confirm series 2 sunburn was gonna be a real thing

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idk if i ever said this here but in the alpha builds of giants one of them confirm series 2 sunburn was gonna be a real thing

That would have been cool. It makes you wonder what the Wow Pow would have been

someone mentioned imaginators to me today but just rolled their eyes...

Ok so I'm probably gonna restart the whole slylanders game review thing, since its been so long since i actually did anything with it. Starting with SSA, but I don't know what 3 characters to use. So I would appreciate suggestions for the most random 3 Skylanders you can think of. The only characters I'm not using are

• Spyro/Dark Spyro
  
• Gill Grunt
  
• Trigger Happy
  
• Stealth Elf
  
• Eruptor
  
• Drobot