Skylanders: Trap Team
Skylanders Trap Team is the second latest entry to the Skylanders series, it is the followup to 2013's Skylanders Swap Force.
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Story
The story and background for the new types of toys is as detailed below:
In Skylanders Trap Team, Kaos continues his ongoing quest to rule over Skylands. He has discovered the location of the legendary Cloudcracker Prison -- a fortress built entirely out of the magical substance Traptanium and home to Skylands' most nefarious baddies. In an attempt to build his own army of foes, Kaos blows up the prison, releasing the most wanted villains and blasting shards of Traptanium to Earth in the form of Traps. Now it's up to Portal Masters to recapture all of the escaped villains using powerful Traptanium Traps and defeat Kaos before it's too late!
Characters
All pre-existing figures work with Trap Team but of course there is a whole slew of new toys to collect. First to note are the 18 new Trap Masters, Trap Masters are a larger Skylander toy that wields a translucent "Traptanium" weapon and has an advantage when fighting the capturable villains. There are also 18 new core Skylanders who will join the fight, new mini versions of old characters as well as several reposed fan-favourites from previous adventures.
Here are pictures of all of the so far revealed brand new Skylanders:
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To help differentiate between the old and new sets, the base of the Skylanders for Skylanders Trap Team is coloured red instead of the green/orange/blue currently seen on the Spyro's Adventure, Giants and SWAP Force toys.
Traps
Another new toy added with Trap Team is the Trap. These translucent crystals are made of Traptanium and are essential for capturing the various villains. Each Trap is a specific element and allows you to capture villains that match that element.
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When placed on the portal you can easily switch between the captured villain and your Skylander at the push of a button. Here is a list of all of the known villains and their elements:
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Portal of Power
The newly redesigned Traptanium Portal of Power features a slot for the Traps and a speaker for the trapped enemies to speak through.
Platforms
Skylanders Trap Team launched in October 2014 with Toys for Bob handling the game on PS3, Xbox 360 and Wii, Beenox on the Wii U, PS4, Xbox One and 3DS versions, and Vicarious Visions making the tablet editions.
Comments
Undead: Undead orb
Earth: Earth orb
Magic: Magic rocket
Fire: Fire???
Water: Water angel
Life: Life snake
Air: Air snake
Tech: Tech hand
Kaos: Ultimate Kaos trap
Light: Light hawk
Dark: Dark spider
Favorite Traps:
Magic: Biter's Bane
Tech: Grabbing Gadget
Life: Emerald Energy
Water: Flood Flash
Fire: The scepter (forgot it's name)
Earth: Dusts of Time
Air: Breezy Bird
Undead: The axe (forgot it's name)
Light: Heavenly Hawk
Dark: Shadow Spider
Fav traps-
Fire: Totem
Earth: Hammer
Magic: Skull
Undead: Skull
Tech: Hand
Water: Angel
Air: Screamer
Life: Snake
Light: Yawn
Dark: Spider
Light : Heavenly Hawk
Fire : Eternal Flame
Earth : Banded Builder
Tech : Grabbing Gadget
Life : Shrub Shrieker
Air : Tempest Timer
Water : Soaking Staff
Magic : Spell Slapper
Undead : Spooky Snake
Dark : Dark Spider
Tech: Tech scepter
Life: Life Torch
Fire: Fire Screamer
Water: Water Angel
Magic: Magic Axe
Light: Light Hawk
Undead: Undead Skull
Kaos: Kaos Trap
Dark: Dark Spider
Earth: Earth Hourglass
Air: Air Toucan
What's everyone's favorite Trap of each element? Mine are;
Magic: Arcane Hourglass
Earth: Dust of Time
Water: Frost Helm
Fire: Spark Spear
Tech: Grabbing Gadget
Undead: Spooky Snake
Air: Cloudy Cobra
Life: Seed Serpent
Light: Heavenly Hawk
Dark: Dark Dagger
All: Spooky Snake
Fire: Fossil Fuel, Inferno, CannonBoom, Firearm
Water: Cataract, Siren, Current, Kelpless
Life: Buckshot, Pawprint, Headstrong, Hybrid
Undead: Loose Cannon, Jack Hollow, Nightwatch, Enchantress
Magic: Disco, Magenta Mage, Bookworm, Pokerface
Air: Parasol, Dradle, Psyclone, Jet Stream
Earth: Chameleon, Tombstone, TripWire, Skyscraper
Tech: Gigabyte, Bomblast, Ramshot
I have to purchase my own skylanders, I had help in the first two games, but I had to buy all of my swap force and Trap Team figures. The only time I don't pay for them is Christmas and my birthday.
The Skykids have their dad buying them every little skylander the moment they hit the shelves plus they have Activision sending them gifts for Launch day.
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They're all Skylander fans but they don't start squealing when they get a new Skylander toy.
Those 3 are spoiled by their father which isn't their fault, and i can see why it gets annoying after a while.
As for their success, they got their dad to make a Youtube channel like so many people that have done before them, and the reason they get all the free stuff is because Activision see it as a good way to push the figures, which is called subliminal advertising.
There will always be people that like them and others that don't, but that's freedom of choice, and unfortunately you can either cry about it or deal with it.
The only traps i don't really like are the Logholders, i only got them because there weren't many traps left for Magic and Water at the time.
The spider is a nice mould for Dark, but the Hawk is a bit of an odd choice in my opinion, but i'm sure there's a reason behind it.