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
Tech: Spy Rise and Wind Uo
Earth: Rubble Rouser and Slobber Tooth
Air: Boom Jet and Scratch
Life: Stink Bomb and Zoo Lou
Undead: Night Shift and Roller Brawl
Fire: Fire Kracken and Fryno
Water: Freeze Blade and Punk Shock
and 
don't get wow-pows.
hahaha
Magic - Trap Shadow and Dune Bug
Fire - Fire Kraken and Lava Barf Eruptor
Air - Boom Jet and Scratch
Water - Wash Buckler and Punk Shock
Tech - Spy Rise and Wind Up
Life - Grilla Drilla and Zoo Lou
Earth - Doom Stone and Knockout Terrafin
Undead - Night Shift and Legendary Lightcore Grim Creeper!
I've said this a million times...
Activision is trying to make a Skylanders game every year for the next 10 years. Here's my proof:
http://nintendo3dsblog.com/act...least-10-years/
http://www.gonintendo.com/?mode=viewstory&id=195694
That made me choke on my Gatorade.
Magic- Hoot Loop & Dune Bug
Water- Freeze Blade & Riptide
Fire- Fire Kraken & Fryno
Life- Stink Bomb & Zoo Lou
Earth- Doom Stone & Slobber Tooth
Undead- Rattle Shake & Grim Creeper
Air- Boom Jet & Scratch
Water: wash buckler and riptide
Fire: fire kraken and fryno
Undead: rattle shake/night shift (like them both) and roller brawl
Magic: hoot loop and dune bug
Life: grilla drilla and zoo lou
Air: boom jet and pop thorn/scratch (like them both)
Earth: doom stone and slobber tooth
Magic: Trap Shadow & Wrecking ball
Earth: Rubble Rouser & Scorp
Water: Wash Buckler & Wham-shell
Fire: Blast Zone & Eruptor
Tech: Magna Charge & I don‘t know, I like them all.
Undead: Rattle Shake & I like them all too.
Air: Free Ranger & Warnado
Life: Grilla Drilla & neh, I like them all too.
Magic: Hoot Loop, Star Strike/Scarlet Ninjini
Undead: Rattle Shake, Rollerbrawl/Hex
Life: Stink Bomb, L-Zoo Lou/LC Shroomboom
Water: Freeze Blade, Punk Shock
Fire: Blast Zone, Smolderdash
Air: Free Ranger/Boom Jet, Scratch
Earth: Doom Stone, Slobber Tooth/Flashwing
Tech- Magna charge and countdown
Earth- rubble rouser and slobber tooth
Magic- hoot loop and dune bug
Fire- fire kraken and fryno
Undead- rattle shake and grim creeper
Life- grilla Drilla and zoo Lou
Air- free ranger and popthorn
Magic - Trap Shadow, LC Star Strike, Dark Mega Ram Spyro, and Super Gulp Pop Fizz
Tech - Nitro Magna Charge
Earth - Rubble Rouser and LC Flashwing
Air - Legendary Free Ranger, Horn Blast Whirlwind, and Scratch
Fire - Dark Blast Zone and LC Smolderdash
Water - Dark Wash Buckler, Freeze Blade, Riptide, and Punk Shock
Life - Stink Bomb, Legendary Zoo Lou, Dark Ninja Stealth Elf, and S2 Camo
Undead - Legendary Night Shift, Rattle Shake, Roller Brawl, Legendary Grim Creeper, and Phantom Cynder
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tech:spy rise, countdown
water: wash buckler, punk shock
air: boom jet, scratch
life: stink bomb, zoo lou
earth: rubble rouser,scorp
fire: fire kraken,smolder dash
undead: rattel shake, roller brawl