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
Skylanders with the highest card stat totals are released last!
Ninjini was the last Giant and had the highest card stats total out of the other giants.
Hot dog was the last New Skylander and he had higher stats totals than the other New Skylanders.
Spyro, Wrecking Ball and Drobot were the last Series 2 and Spyro has the greatest total with 300/600 while Drobot had 295/600 and Wrecking Ball had 290/600.
Want more proof?
Well if you look on the Figures section on this website or the Skylanders.com website you can see Doom Stone, Freeze Blade and Trap Shadow; they have the highest stats out of all Swap Force.
Look at the new cores.
Wave 1
Pop Thorn 310/800
Bumble Blast 310/800
Countdown 310/800
Roller Brawl 310/800
Zoo Lou 310/800
Slobber Tooth 310/800
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Wave 2
Scorp 320/800
Rip Tide 320/800
Star Strike 320/800
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Wave 3
Grim Creeper 330/800
Wind-Up 330/800
Dune Bug 330/800
Smolderdash 330/800
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Last Released
Fryno 340/800
Scratch 340/800
Punk shock 350/800
We could of known this at the launch of SSF.
Shroomboom overrated? Are you serious? Loads of people hate him for no reason! He is underrated.
. But tomorrow I‘ll get the battle pack with 
and overrated 
!We need more troll skylanders.
! Already found 
and 
and Regular 
at Toys R Us today!Hopefully my Target will get the Swappers tomorrow (I called them but they had no delivery yet).
my fav well 4th and 
. All dark onesI also got
total OP 
2 
s 1varite 1 normal and I got
tower of time 
then two days later I got 
my 1st fav but did not get him
Ahh I was wondering because Smyths is in UK as well.
Ireland is basically next to UK.
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