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#1 Posted: 14:48:41 08/02/2012 | Topic Creator
I wonder how they will do the starter pack???
If the current portal works with this new game, many of us will not need another portal, right?

Maybe the game will be cheaper and just be sold separate?

Then again maybe they will throw in the Tree-Rex Giant and charge $69.99 or more?

There might be many versions of the starter pack???
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#2 Posted: 14:50:45 08/02/2012
There's a version with the portal, a giant, a new Skylander and a redesigned Skylander.
And a version without the portal but with a giant, a new Skylander and a redesigned Skylander.
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#3 Posted: 14:51:53 08/02/2012
There was a post mentioning that the game will be sold with a returning character (Probably Spyro), A giant, as well as the portal, and an alternate version without the portal.
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#4 Posted: 14:56:15 08/02/2012 | Topic Creator
Hummm that is cool.....pretty confusing for some parents tho.
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#5 Posted: 15:15:06 08/02/2012
I'm guessing there will be some exclusive characters again like there was with the 3DS starter pack. We have the Xbox version and bought the 3DS starter pack just to get the exclusive ones, then sold the pack on minus the characters.

The only ones we don't have now that have been released are the legendary ones. I would hate to think were going to have to buy another starter pack just ensure the kids get all the characters = nightmare!
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#6 Posted: 16:06:50 08/02/2012 | Topic Creator
I just hope they do not start mixing old with new....
Some of the original characters with the Giants ones.

I'm cool if it's a new stance, variant or color....but really do not want duplicates in my collection!
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#7 Posted: 16:14:32 08/02/2012
Quote: Reimu
There's a version with the portal, a giant, a new Skylander and a redesigned Skylander.
And a version without the portal but with a giant, a new Skylander and a redesigned Skylander.


Why in the hell do I need a redesigned Skylander? Because there are so few Skylanders out there?

Hey Activision! WE HAVE ENOUGH DESIGNS ALREADY!!! Just put out new product.
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#8 Posted: 16:19:09 08/02/2012
er ... "Why in the hell do I need a redesigned Skylander?"

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#9 Posted: 19:24:34 08/02/2012
i was wondering the same thing about the starter packs. Before i started reading this thread I was thinking either the normal one with the portal or just the normal game then having to buy the "starter triple pack" separate. I think that way would take up less shelf space. But that also raises the question of packaging all together. Are the giants all going to be single packs? for maybe like $15. I was also thinking double packs. 1 giant and one normal skylander for like $20
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#10 Posted: 21:14:49 08/02/2012
I believe there will be packs of a giant and a normal, just so they can milk a little bit more for people who want to collect the single packs and multiple packs.
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#11 Posted: 21:19:11 08/02/2012
lol some of us might get Zook 2.0 before we find the original....actually that's not that funny.
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#12 Posted: 11:24:41 09/02/2012
i welcome the new starter kit, it will have 3 new figurines and included a portal that hopefully will have a redesign to match the giants... even if you have a portal before you get a one extra, always good to have one in reserve if the other breaks... they also have said the game will be sold separate... so people can choose...
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#13 Posted: 11:29:29 09/02/2012
Quote: kappapopm
i welcome the new starter kit, it will have 3 new figurines and included a portal that hopefully will have a redesign to match the giants... even if you have a portal before you get a one extra, always good to have one in reserve if the other breaks... they also have said the game will be sold separate... so people can choose...



I agree. I'm sure I'll be getting the starter pack with another portal. With a 7 year old, having replacements of anything is generally a good idea... at least with my 7 year old...
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#14 Posted: 11:36:37 09/02/2012
you never know when the kid wants to jump on the portal to enter the game smilie
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#15 Posted: 14:05:51 09/02/2012 | Topic Creator
I really think it would have been a good idea if they would have originally made an all platform portal!!!
This way the same portal would have worked for all the systems and they could have sold portals separately!
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#16 Posted: 05:16:46 10/02/2012
^But then it would be much easier to pirate the game. The portal is pretty much the ultimate anti-piracy device. You can't play the game without it, and to get it you have to buy the game.
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#17 Posted: 05:35:29 10/02/2012 | Topic Creator
^humm never looked at it like that! Good Point!
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#18 Posted: 05:45:41 10/02/2012
The 3DS portal is an all platform portal. Tiny... but it is.
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#19 Posted: 15:57:30 10/02/2012 | Topic Creator
The 3Ds one works with the Xbox???? hummm??? Never tried???

"The game will be packaged along the same lines of Spyro’s Adventure, that is to say Portal + game disc + 3 figures + stickers + web codes, et al. The difference being one of those 3 figures will be a Giant, the other 2 of the new regular-sized Skylanders. Everything else should look familiar. I was told there would also be starter kits packaged without the portal, for us early adopters who already have one. This is a good move and much appreciated."

I am glad to see the game will be sold with-out the portal! Surprised they are not doing a re-modeled portal! hahaha
shhhhhh I should not say that too loud, they maybe listening! haha
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#20 Posted: 15:58:33 10/02/2012
Well, my 3DS portal is not working on my X360.
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#21 Posted: 03:30:13 28/02/2012
I say the Redesigns could be a waste of money! I would only buy them if i didn't have the first design. But I say the starter pack should have Tree Rex, Redesigned Spyro (Like the Prototype) and a New skylander.
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#22 Posted: 14:15:44 03/03/2012
Quote: Spyroguy2
I say the Redesigns could be a waste of money! I would only buy them if i didn't have the first design. But I say the starter pack should have Tree Rex, Redesigned Spyro (Like the Prototype) and a New skylander.



the only way i would buy the redesigns is if they came with new abilities
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#23 Posted: 15:25:08 03/03/2012 | Topic Creator
The game will be packaged along the same lines of Spyro’s Adventure, that is to say Portal + game disc + 3 figures + stickers + web codes, et al. The difference being one of those 3 figures will be a Giant, the other 2 of the new regular-sized Skylanders. Everything else should look familiar. I was told there would also be starter kits packaged without the portal, for us early adopters who already have one.

Wonder what the 3Ds version starter pack will look like? Maybe just one Giant and a new Skylander? No Giant? hummmmm????
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#24 Posted: 15:56:05 03/03/2012
I'd like to hope the 3DS starter pack has something nice for it again, as well as the portal/no portal versions.
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#25 Posted: 16:10:42 03/03/2012 | Topic Creator
I think it will have a no portal version, I hope!!!
....just wondering how they will do the figures???
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#26 Posted: 18:23:25 03/03/2012
Figures i think will be:
Tree Rex / The Unnamed Air Skylander / Redesigned Cynder

Then you get 3 different elements to the original game.
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#27 Posted: 18:29:05 03/03/2012 | Topic Creator
^I agree with you... think that is a good guess for the console!
But what about the 3Ds starter pack??? Any thoughts???
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#28 Posted: 19:33:16 03/03/2012
Quote: JAP28
^I agree with you... think that is a good guess for the console!
But what about the 3Ds starter pack??? Any thoughts???

I think it will be the same, If not them maybe Dark Cynder and Alchemist.
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#29 Posted: 21:15:57 03/03/2012
I hope its Wham shell becaus I wont be getting him I its nice just to get an extra skylander
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#30 Posted: 01:26:59 04/03/2012
Quote: Himewad
Quote: Reimu
There's a version with the portal, a giant, a new Skylander and a redesigned Skylander.
And a version without the portal but with a giant, a new Skylander and a redesigned Skylander.


Why in the hell do I need a redesigned Skylander?


Because you might not have the redesigned Skylander that comes with the game already?
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#31 Posted: 03:32:34 04/03/2012
That and sticking you with a redesign is the gateway drug to hooking you into get other redesigns, and eventually rebuying all 24 of them over again along with the new ones and the Giants.
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#32 Posted: 04:28:20 04/03/2012 | Topic Creator
Quote: GothamLord
That and sticking you with a redesign is the gateway drug to hooking you into get other redesigns, and eventually rebuying all 24 of them over again along with the new ones and the Giants.


^yah they are pretty smart! hahaha.....or greedy!
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#33 Posted: 04:49:09 04/03/2012
Its Activision so its a little of both.
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#34 Posted: 18:06:15 04/03/2012 | Topic Creator
I do not think the 3Ds will come with the same figures as the console....unless they just have the 3Ds game sold by itself. That I could see!
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#35 Posted: 03:10:41 05/03/2012
I think the starter pack will have a Tree Rex, an Alchamest, and a redesigned Cynder. I think this just because they are the most advertized right now for skylanders
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#36 Posted: 06:34:37 05/03/2012
Or possibly the as yet unnamed bird/hairdryer dude.
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#37 Posted: 06:55:31 05/03/2012
Quote: chaosworrier
Or possibly the as yet unnamed bird/hairdryer dude.



nah i think what slpfw0802 is more likely because the more advertised ones in the beginning of the campaign for S: SA were used in the console version and alchemist became known before the air skylander
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#38 Posted: 07:06:45 05/03/2012
Quote: Flameslinger2
Quote: chaosworrier
Or possibly the as yet unnamed bird/hairdryer dude.



nah i think what slpfw0802 is more likely because the more advertised ones in the beginning of the campaign for S: SA were used in the console version and alchemist became known before the air skylander



Yeah but I'm guessing Act. would give us 3 different elements to last time, so I'd say Unnamed Air Skylander is the one.
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#39 Posted: 12:59:36 05/03/2012
^Cynder, Alchemist and TreeRex are 3 different elements too.

The way I see it, we'll have TreeRex, probably the AirBird (if not one of the other elements) and a remodeled Spyro.
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#40 Posted: 01:17:44 06/03/2012
Treerex, Alchemist, and a redesigned Spyro, to show that Spyro is still part of the skylanders
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#41 Posted: 22:40:44 14/05/2012
i think there will be 32 different starter packs each comes with a giant (likely tree rex) a new skylander(possibly alchimist or the eagle guy i call him sgt eagle) and then a origanal skylander so if you have everyone but let's say boomer you could choose the boomer starter pack or if you got the origanal 3ds version the gill grunt starter pack
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#42 Posted: 03:04:29 15/05/2012
Quote: spyrodadragon
i think there will be 32 different starter packs each comes with a giant (likely tree rex) a new skylander(possibly alchimist or the eagle guy i call him sgt eagle) and then a origanal skylander so if you have everyone but let's say boomer you could choose the boomer starter pack or if you got the origanal 3ds version the gill grunt starter pack



now that is probably the dumbest thing i have heard why would they do that?!
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#43 Posted: 05:22:46 16/05/2012
If a parent is that stupid to get a (most likely more expensive) version with the portal when they have it already, then it isn't Activision's fault.

I think the problem is the existence of the starter packs themselves. Just sell the damn game separately at this point. Not everyone wants all the figures and certainly even more people do not want a redesigned figure! Thank heavens for Gamestop!
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#44 Posted: 17:28:34 25/05/2012
The SRP for Giants has been confirmed to be $69.99, so I expect the "expansion" (non-portal version) to be about $10 cheaper.
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#45 Posted: 19:00:06 27/05/2012
Quote: henryszuch
there r 2 things wrong with the starter pack 1 why would u need a redishned skylander? (espically if u have there oringal version) 2 its got to be confusing to parents which starter pack to buy (with or without portal) so they might get u the wrong one. (u'd probably be with them though unless they got it for you for christmas)


but do you guys have any idea who's in it?


think its alchemist (cause he was before vac eagle) tree rex and either new prism break new cynder or new zook (not though cause he and tree rex in the same element and i said these guys cause they're the only known redesigned people)


if its a new spyro to show he's still a part then it will be vac eagle cause spyro and alchemist are in the same element



idk if its true but the starter pack for one of the systems (i dont remember which one) consists of tree rex, airgle (this is the confirmed name of the bird skylander), and the remodeled cynder
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#46 Posted: 21:08:32 30/05/2012
wait, so there might be different skylanders in the starter pack for each system? is that what you are saying flameslinger2? if so sweet!!
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#47 Posted: 19:46:10 31/05/2012
A Giants article in the June 2012 issue of Nintendo Power has info on the starter packs:

- Starter pack for 3DS will have game & portal with: Tree Rex, Cynder repose, and Alchemist (article is now calling him Pop Fizz)
- Console starter version will have game & portal with: Tree Rex, Cynder repose, and Vac-Eagle/Airgle (article is calling him Jet-Vac)
- Booster pack with game (no portal) will only have Tree Rex. This is different from what we were previously told

Don't know if this info is 100% accurate, but Nintendo Power states they are getting exclusive info from Activision. The booster pack with only one giant is kind of a bummer though.
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#48 Posted: 19:54:59 31/05/2012
Quote: CynderVolts
wait, so there might be different skylanders in the starter pack for each system? is that what you are saying flameslinger2? if so sweet!!



He might have been talking about for either console versions or 3DS version.
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