Skylanders Swap Force: State of Swap

Hello Portal Masters,

Before e3 I wanted to sum up where we currently stand with Swap Force figures and stuff.

First, the prices for Swap Force:
New Prices:
Core & S3: $10.00
Lightcore: $12.00
Swap Force: $15.00

Now let's talk about the characters so far.

Air
S3: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Swap Force: Eagle Guy (1 missing)

(6 missing)

Earth:
S3: Terrafin (1 missing)
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Swap Force: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)

(6 missing)

Fire:
S3: Eruptor and Hot Dog
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Swap Fore: Blast Zone (1 missing)

(4 missing)

Life:
S3: Stealth Elf, (1 missing)
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Nothing is known yet., (2 missing)
Swap Force: Stink Bomb, Bee Guy (might be core)

(4 missing)

Magic:
s3: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Light Core: Nothing is known yet.(1 missing)
New Core: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Swap Force: new hooded mage (might be core) (1 missing)

(6 missing)

Tech:
s3. Trigger Happy, Sprocket
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Coutdown, (1 missing)
Tech: Magna Charge (1 missing)

(3 missing)

Undead:
s3: Chop Chop (1 missing)
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Roller Brawl (1 misisng)
Swap Force: New Snake Guy, Night Shift

(3 mssing)

Water:
S3: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing)
Light Core: Nothing is known yet. (1 missing)
New Core: Nothing is known yet. (2 missing9
Swap Force: Freeze Blaze, Wash Buckler

(5 missing)

Now let's see how many holes E3 might fill!

Enjoy your day!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: New Characters

Hello Portal Masters,

Today I have a lot of news aabout Sswap Force.

There have been several new pictures of Skylanders and with E3 arroud the corner, we can look forward to a ot of exciting things to come.

This shows us the starter pack for the consoles ps3, wii and xbox360.

So we will have  Blast Zone, Wash Buckler and Stealth Elf in the pack.

Interesting: The card says Ninja Stealth Elf, so maybe the S3 Characters get a new name part?

Up next the handheld 3DS Version of the Intro Pack:

We see a new Undead Swap Force Snake, a new Swap Force Eagel and S3 Volcanic Eruptor.

Since the coloring is quite of for Eruptor and we always got a variant in the hand console versions, I think Eruptor S3 will actually look a little different.

And this is not all news for today.

We have another new Swap Force:

He seems to like Honey and Bees a lot and is a new Life Skylanders based on his look.

Is he Swap Fore or Regular? We don' know yet, but time (hopefully E3) will tell.

Also in this pic: S3 Trigger Happy. And apart from him there are more serues 3 "confirmations" or guesses:

The book is a new art for Hot Dog. Since the burning bone in his mouth is a new thing and light core never got a new power so far I assume it is his S3 art with Wow Pow..

The lower picture shows the intro pack (again. BTW: LC Hex as a Pre Order Bonus) and the logo shows S3 Eruptor (different coloring) and S3 Terrafin.

Now that is some news!

What do you think? Excited? Or havc you all changed to infinity?

Let me know!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: New Magic Skylander

Hello Portal Masters,

Finally some new worth posting.

There has been a picture of a new Magic Skylander, which I think look absolutely amazing

Also, there has been a video confirming series 3 Sprocket, Trigger Happy and Chop Chop
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKicFuZAUSU
The video is LONG, but the news is at 21 minutes!

Hope ypu enjoyed the little update!

Speak to u soon!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: Upgrade

Hey!

A little video to enjoy. It includes some information about the upgrade paths, but they are really shy about details so far.

CU soon!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: Toys

Hello Portal Masters,

Some prototype pictures of the toys for you to enjoy.

Life: Stink Bomb / Stealth

Undead: Night Shift / Teleport

Waters: Freeze Blade / Speed

(source; http://www.thehdroom.com/news/Skylanders-Swap-Force-Exclusive-Protoype-Pics-for-Freeze-Blade-Stink-Bomb-and-Night-Shift/12042)

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: "Exclusive" information?

Hello Portal Masters,

in a german video
http://www.pcgameshardware.de/Skylanders-Spyros-Adventure-PC-236980/Videos/Skylanders-Swap-Force-Preview-zum-neuen-Skylanders-Spiel-1047468/

there have been some information from a German Event, that were not in any other video.

According to the video, while using the left movement cross thing, you can change the facial expression of your skylanders. Also, they mention some of the movement

climp, stealth, rocket, speed, teleport, 

And on oneof swords I found digging as a movement. 

So we know 6 of 8 movements already.

And they said that two players can fly side by side in the swap zone. I wonder if you need both flying characters for that but probably not :)

Will keep you updated!

Charon

Skylanders Giants: Wave 2

Dear Portal Masters,

Today I will review wave 2 of the giants, since I got asked about that a lot.

So let me first say who was in the wave:

Giant: Hot Head

New Skylanders: Sprocket, Flashwing

Series 2: Bash, Drill Sergeant, Flame Slinger, Hex, Stump Smash, Sonic Boom, Gill Grunt, Double Trouble

Light Core: Jet-Vac

This time I did not get all the figures, just the new ones in the tripple packs
(Sprocket, Sonic Boom, Stump Smash) and (Flashwing, Gill Grunt, Double Trouble)
as well as Hex and Hot Head

I will share my opinion about the new ones:

Sprocket:
She is a lot of fun and very different from all the other Skylanders. I think she is a little trickier than some others, so maybe smaller kids will have troube getting the best of her.
But I think she is great.

Flashwing:
Suprised me as being pretty powerful. She is quick and can do a lot of things. I think her gameplay is not the most fun, since it is not as versatile as I like my Skylanders, but I still like her and she is better than I expected.

Hot Head:
A real power house. One of my favourite Giants so far playwise (I still don't like the figure that much, but ok). I do think that his motorcycle ability is absolutely useless, but ok. The other abilities are really strong.

I woud definetely recommend Hot Head! He is strong and a cool Fire Skylander. Probably my favourite of the Giants playwise (from series one and two). Sprocket and Flashwing are both very nice. I would consider Flashwing for younger players and Sprocket for players who want a more strategicly chalenging character.

Hope this helps some (although you all might already have all the characters ;))

Talk to you soon!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: Gameplay Video

Dear Portal Masters,

A gameplay video showing a lot things seen on Family Gamers Video, but also some more attacking of the new Skylanders!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDA7dO4X8nc

ENJOY!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: First Gameplay Video

Hello Portal Masters,

there is a new video of Swap Force on FGTV (I am so jealous..:)) where he shows the introduction of Skylanders Swap Force and we get to see gameplay.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_V2hXs70T-A

Just the look of Eruptor got me really exited! He looks SOOOO much better and more detailed, I can't wait to see the rest of the old ones!

And the jumping and level design and new gimmicks look promising. I cannot wait to play myself!

What do you think? Will you give "Swap Force" a chance or is it all over after Giants for you?

Let me know and enjoy!


Charon

PS: Some other videos he posted: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yUW3J2KeRFs and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kwlVUO_H-A

Skylanders Swap Force: Characters 2

Hello Portal Masters,

so the new trailer shower us some more Swap Force Characters.

We can add

Stink Bomb (Life Skylander)

Freeze Blade (I am pretty sure it should be a Water Skylander)

Night Shift (Undead Skylander)

These make me like the new swap option a lot, since I really like the bottom of Night Shift, but do not enjoy his top half that much.

But I will get to my opinions another time!

CU!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: Trailer

Hello Portal Masters,

the first teaser trailer of the new game is out!

Enjoy!

So we get to see some new characters and "movements".

Quiet cool!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force: Pictures

Hey Portal Masters,

Today is really exciting! So I want to share some picures.

First let's see the main thing of the new Skylanders: Taking the Skylander apart and combining them:

Now let's see some sizes of the Skylanders and the Swap Skylanders:

Now some In-game of the new great quality (it all looks really good):

In a video I heared that it will be possible to change the facial expressions of the Skylanders this time.
I think that is a nice new feature. Looking forward to using that.and seeing the faces of all the skylanders which are possible.

Ok guys I hope you enjoyed this little first impression!

And you enjoy this blog beeing back (don't worry, Giants is not forgotten!)

CU next time!

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force

to be added

Skylanders Swap Force: Story

In Skylanders SWAP Force, Portal Masters embark on an all-new adventure in the mysterious Cloudbreak Islands, home to a mystical volcano that erupts every hundred years to replenish the magic in Skylands. During an epic battle, a brave group of Skylanders were caught in the volcano's eruption, which blasted them apart and sent them to earth. But, the magic of the volcano gave these heroes a remarkable new power -- the ability to swap halves -- turning them into a special team known as the SWAP Force. Meanwhile, Kaos is back with a new evil plan. And now, Portal Masters everywhere must reassemble the SWAP Force -- in their original form or in new combinations -- and send them back to Cloudbreak to save Skylands!

Skylanders Swap Force: Characters

Hello Portal Masters,

A first break down of characters!

16 Swap Force
- Magna Charge (Tech Skylander)

- Wash Buckler (Water Skylander)

- Blast Zone (Fire Skylander)

Nine Swap Force combinations
Magna Charge
Magna Buckler
Magna Zone
Wash Charge
Wash Buckler
Wash Zone
Blast Charge
Blast Zone
Blast Buckler

8 New Lightcore

16 Series 3 Returning from Giants and Spyro's Adventure

- Stealth Elf

16 new core Skylanders

- Rollerbrawl (Undead Skylander)

- Countdown (Tech Skylander)

All up that would be 56 more Skylanders.... poor Bank account...

Charon

Skylanders Swap Force

Hello Portal Masters,

As promised, a new game has been anounced.

It is called "Skylanders Swap Force".

For now, here is a small video of Family Gamer with the first information as well as a slideshow of some toys.

I am not sure if I even want to swap the parts, but it is a new idea.
Most interesting things:

- old characters are all useable
- lots of new toys
- characters can jump
- the bottom (defining movement) will have new symbols for certain gates
- there will be some remodels (again) but only 16 this time (really hope some of the ones who just got one version yet) as well as new lightcores (I wonder if there will be remodeled giants..)

I do not like the look of the new portal a lot and I am confussed that Toys for Bob is not behind the game, but let's wait and see... I really like the new undead girl (she will not be swapable, since her bottom does not have the new symbol).

Hope you are excited!

Charon

Skylanders Giants: Free Ninjini and New game!

Hello Portal Masters,

this blog will live again!

Why? Number one, I finally will have Eye-Brawl and Thumpback (no Hot Dog yet :()  and start playing with those, so I can do some review on Wave 2/3.

The other thing: Ninjini will be given away in New York Toys R Us for free because of the Toy Fair next week.

And at new game should be announced very shortly..

I will keep you informed!

Charon

Skylanders Giants: The waves

Hello Portal Masters,

I wonder if you still know who I am.

I know, I have been a little quiet on the Skylanders front, which has various reasons.

Reason Number one:
I have trouble getting some real good information about waves and stuff.
There are a lot of people on forums and a lot of information, but rarely any official statements.

So far, three waves seem to be released.

I will try to get article together, but it will take a little time.
Which leads me to a second reason.

Reason number two:
I have troubles getting any of the figures, which reduces the fun of doing this blog. I don't wanna complain, but at amazon Germany, the release date for Thumpback and Eye-Brawl and Hot Dog (in the battle pack) is currenty April. That is a little more than two months from now.

Two months while people in the USA are already testing, unboxing and playing.
I am honestly jelous and cannot understand why in a globalized environment as in todays time, activision does not do worldwide release dates. Or maybe a few days in between. But two months? I finished the game and all I can do with the new characters is leveling them up and wait for Skylanders 3.
While other players already played.
I already was not to happy about the sidekicks, there does not seem to be a royal double trouble in Germany and the list goes on.
I mean, I write this block in english, which is not my native language (so frogive me my mistake) to share things with a bigger audience, so not getting the things to share is a real downside.
I was considering youtube-videos to review and show off the characters, but honestly, by the time I get them there are tons you can already watch.

Ok, I think I complained enough for today and I will try to fill this blog with more life.

CU soon!

Charon