Skylanders: Swap Force
The third in the Skylanders series, follow up to 2012's Skylanders: Giants.
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Story
The story and background for the new types of toys is as detailed below:
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!
Characters
As well as being able to use all of the Skylanders from the original two games, Skylanders: Swap Force introduces 32 brand new characters to play as. This new lineup is made up of 16 Swap Force Skylanders which break apart into two pieces that can be mixed-and-matched between them all and 16 new regular "core" Skylanders that won't have the swapping feature.
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That includes new poses for 16 old characters from the first two games and eight Lightcore versions of new and old, bringing the total number of new playable toys to 75. That's a grand total of 174 toys if you include the 99 from Spyro's Adventure and Giants.
In the brand new Starter Pack you will get three Skylanders, that's two Swap Force and one Series 3 returning Skylander. It'll be Wash Buckler, Blast Zone and Ninja Stealth Elf for the consoles and Free Ranger, Rattle Shake and Volcanic Eruptor for the 3DS. There is no Portal Owner's Pack this time due to the need to use the new portal.
To help differentiate between the old and new sets, the base of the Skylanders for Skylanders: Swap Force will be blue instead of the green/orange currently seen on the Spyro's Adventure and Giants toys.
Adventure Packs and Battle Packs
There will be two new Adventure Packs and two new Battle Packs as part of Swap Force. The Adventure Packs are called Tower of Time and Sheep Wreck Island. The Battle Packs are called Fiery Forge and Arkeyan Crossbow.
Tower of Time includes new Skylander "Pop Thorn" as well as the Tower itself and two Magic Items "Battle Hammer" and "Sky Diamond".
Fiery Forge includes new Skylander "Bumble Blast", reposed Series 3 "Knockout Terrafin" and the battle item "Fiery Forge".
Triple Packs
Again there will be triple packs with three characters in them.
A: Slobber Tooth, Lava Barf Eruptor, Super Gulp Pop Fizz
B: Zoo Lou, Mega Ram Spyro, Blizzard Chill
C: Star Strike, Anchors Away Gill Grunt, Big Bang Trigger Happy
D: Scorp, Twin Blade Chop Chop, Heavy Duty Sprocket
Magic: Mega Ram Spyro, Super Gulp Pop Fizz, Star Strike (Walmart exclusive)
Swap Force Abilities
The new Swappable characters can do more than just swap, each of them has a movement ability associated with their lower half, this ability can unlock the special Swap Zones that you'll find in each level.
These abilities are exclusive to the swappable Swap Force characters and have not been retroactively given to existing characters. Just like there are two new characters for each element there are two characters for each ability (you can still manage to get one of each element and have one of each movement type if you choose them carefully).
Portal of Power
The game uses a brand new Portal of Power, redesigned to be able to recognise the ever changing forms of the Swap Force toys. It is unknown whether the new portal will work with Spyro's Adventure and Giants so don't go throwing the old portal out just yet.
To help with the swapping in the 3DS game you will be able to load in all of your figures rather than be stuck with the limit of just two figures that you had in the last two games.
Platforms
The game will appear on Xbox 360, Xbox One, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, Wii, Wii U, and 3DS as well as on mobile devices and the web.
Comments
Stink stone
Blast rouser
Hoot drilla
Magna jet
Spy blade
Every day I don't look at it,I can look at
It the next day new characters appear!
Doom stone
Rubble rouser
Magna charge
Grilla drilla
Trap shadow
Fire kraken
Rattle shake
Night shift
Hoot loop
Free ranger
Wash buckler
Spy rise
Boom jet
Freeze blade
Stink bomb
Blast zone
Wind up tech,scratch water,dune bug
magic,punk shock air.
Magic
Mega Ram Spyro
Super Gulp Pop Fizz
Star Strike
*Dune Bug*
Lightcore Star Strike
Hoot Loop
Trap Shadow
Undead
Phantom Cynder
Twin Blade Chop Chop
Roller Brawl
Grim Creeper
Lightcore Grim Creeper
Night Shift
Rattle Shake
Fire
Lava Barf Eruptor
Fire Bone Hot Dog
Fryno
Smolderdash
Lightcore Smolderdash
Blast Zone
Fire Kraken
Water
Anchors Away Gill Grunt
Blizzard Chill
Riptide
*Scratch*
Lightcore Wham-Shell
Wash Buckler
Freeze Blade
Life
Ninja Stealth Elf
*Series 2 Camo or Series 3 Stump Smash*
Bumble Blast
Zoo Lou
Lightcore Bumble Blast
Stink Bomb
Grilla Drilla
Air
Horn Blast Whirlwind
Turbo Jet-Vac
Pop Thorn
*Wind Up*
Lightcore Warnado
Free Ranger
Boom Jet
Tech
Bang Bang Trigger Happy
Heavy Duty Sprocket
Countdown
*Punk Shock*
Lightcore Countdown
Magna Charge
Spy Rise
Earth
Knockout Terrafin
Hyper Beam Prism Break
Slobber Tooth
Scorp
Lightcore Flashwing
Rubble Rouser
Doom Stone
*Reasons*
Wind Up - obviously because of its name.
Punk Shock - it's name is a pun of PUNK ROCK a genre of music that uses mostly electrical instruments.
Dune Bug - a dune is a large pile of sand and if I didn't already know of slobber tooth or scorp I would assume it was an earth but I feel as though it is magic.
Scratch - I can't go by the name as it is too vague but I think that perhaps it is an ironic name because perhaps it has pincers.
Repose life - stump smash is a very popular and powerful life skylander but I would love to see a return of camo.
Sorry for the very long post but I just had to type what I thought
thanks to anyone who took the time to read it.
V
V The top of his Mace.
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Wind up/air Punk shock/tech Scratch/Magic Dune bug/water.