darkSpyro

My son wanted a Swap Force character, cleared every goal and leveled up everyone to just make it to 200 gems and bought Pop Thorn only to find out he is not from Swap Force and cannot clear the sugar bats for the shrine goal. He was released the same time and since Swap Force will be a Christmas present we do not know all the new characters. Waste of 200 gems. Had to shell out $1.99 to buy more. Bummer!

It's tough being new to a franchise but the SWAP Force is a subset of the Skylanders which Pop Thorn is not a part of. The SWAP Force characters are labeled as SWAP Force when you view the collection page. To correct your particular issue, if you end up buying a Pop Thorn figure down the road you can enter the web code that comes with him to unlock him in Lost Islands (again). Doing so will refund you your Gems.

There are a lot of new Skylanders from the game "Skylanders: Swap Force" but not all of them are "Swap-Force" Skylanders which can swap parts. These are easily found because they have "SWAP-FORCE" written over their picture in the selection screen. One other difference is, the swappable Skylanders cost 300 gems, the "normal" ones 200.

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Quote: portalflip

It's tough being new to a franchise but the SWAP Force is a subset of the Skylanders which Pop Thorn is not a part of. The SWAP Force characters are labeled as SWAP Force when you view the collection page. To correct your particular issue, if you end up buying a Pop Thorn figure down the road you can enter the web code that comes with him to unlock him in Lost Islands (again). Doing so will refund you your Gems.

Thank you, that is good to know as I don't know which characters we will end up buying (we can't afford the whole collection), but I know we will obviously purchase some for the actual game.

Quote: ExTenebraeLux

There are a lot of new Skylanders from the game "Skylanders: Swap Force" but not all of them are "Swap-Force" Skylanders which can swap parts. These are easily found because they have "SWAP-FORCE" written over their picture in the selection screen. One other difference is, the swappable Skylanders cost 300 gems, the "normal" ones 200.

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Thanks ExTenebraeLux :-) Also helpful info, and I do see that now. Live and learn!

dkbunches: I hope you're aware that buying the toys also gives you a code to put the character from the toy into lost islands and other games. If you're trying to be frugal, buy the toy, not the online version!