darkSpyro

Sorry if this has been covered, I skimmed the first 2 pages of this forum but didn't see an answer. I have swap force for the wii u and I got the mobile starter pack from ebay, and my son chose Gnarely Tree Rex as his first Giant. I also understand that the portal from Swap Force will work for the older games. Adding those factors, the only thing I would actually use from the Giants starter kit, is the disc itself. It looks like I can get a disc on ebay for around $15 and the cheapest I've seen the starter pack was $30 at TRU (but they didn't have the U version in the store and I was on the fence if I wanted to buy it or not at that time.)

So, the question is, can I just buy the disc and use my existing portal? Can anyone think of a benefit from actually getting the starter kit seeing that I already have all 3 figures that come with the box? Anyone have any reason at all to advise me not to buy a Disc only version from ebay (fake copies that don't work/aren't complete flying around, anything like that)?

You can buy the game disc itself on Amazon.com:

http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...ers+giants+game

http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...ers+giants+game

http://www.amazon.com/Skylande...ers+giants+game

I don't want to get too much into my opinion of amazon market place but I'd rather buy from ebay personally. To be specific, I love purchasing from Amazon the seller, I'm talking specifically about the market place vs ebay. With Ebay, I assume I'm not buying from a particularly "reputable" supplier. When I go to Amazon.com I expect to be purchasing from a reliable source and to receive exactly what I thought I was going to receive. With them adding market place, and letting pretty much anyone, sell pretty much anything, at pretty much whatever price they can imagine, things have really gone downhill. I used to be able to go to Amazon to check what price I should expect to pay for something, and not get ripped off too much. That's no longer the case, it's often way way more expensive to get stuff from the market place than it would be to get it in store or on ebay. Also, it's just as likely to be a fake copy of something on amazon now as if you were buying it from ebay, unless Amazon is the actual seller.

If I were you, I'd get the disc alone. Make sure of Wii U version though. :/

There is a Boosterpack for people who allready have a portal it just contains the game and Tree Rex

I would go with Kevin16's suggestion. But the normal 75$ pack has 2 extra characters, while the 50$ only has Tree Rex. If you want more characters, go with the Starter Pack. If not, then do the Portal Owner's Pack.