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
I hope/thin it was an accident, but you would think that they would have realized by now.
I think the days after swap force comes out at toys r us there will be some of wave 2 availble for purchase like
. Stink bomb or trap Shawdow since there was no stealth zone released in wave 1
. Grilla Drilla or rubble rouser since no there was no dig zone released in wave 1
. 1 or 2 core figures
I think it will be stink bomb and rubble rouser since there was no earth or life swappers available on day one
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Thanks I'm going to go check it out
Also, the Jolly Bumble Blast, all of the Skylanders that have a variant have a button saying "ALT DECO" which of course means Alternative Decorations, or a variant. Bumble Blast doesn't have one for his Jolly counterpart. Although to be fair, neither do Zoo Lou or Night shift, but they have been confirmed in high quality images.
Big Bang Trigger Happy
Volcanic Eruptor
Jolly Bumble Blast
Legendary Zoo Lou
Legendary Night Shift
Sorry for triple post, but what the Freeze Blade is up with Horn Blast Whirlwind's "video?" http://www.skylanders.com/char...blast-whirlwind This is her "video" if you just want the link straight to it and not her page http://www.youtube.com/watch?f...d&v=kBYcbJBtjgE That's right. That's the video that comes up for her character trailer. ~Cuz' you can go your own waaaay~ Like, what the Free Ranger Acti??? This makes no sense.
swappers
16. hoot loop
15. doom stone
14. wash buckler
13. fire kraken
12. freeze blade
11. rubble rouser
10. rattle shake
9. spy rise
8. blast zone
7. magna charge
6. night shift
5 . grilla drilla
4 . boom jet
3. trap shadow
2. free ranger
1 stink bomb
the next list i sent tomorrow
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