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http://img96.imageshack.us/img96/3637/skylandercard.jpg

These started popping up in my local stores (HEB and Walmart).

$6.50 for the chips (20 single-serving bags)
$2.00 for shipping & handling
$0.44 for the stamp

~$9.00 a pop for these midgets... plus the chips! ;)

You can rank the order of preference of what they send you.

Note to add: I just got back from the store and bought three more packs. I have all the forms filled out, checks written, envelopes addressed, UPC symbols cut out, and ready to stamp them and drop them in the mail. I think I have a problem... ;) I wanted to do them early enough to try and guarantee that I get one of each.

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$6.50 for chips? How big a bag is that?

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Variety Pack of 20 bags.

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My fuzzy Stump Smash came in the mail today. Thanks for the heads-up.

Now to go buy some chips, I guess.

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So did I.

Its going to eBay. Going for about $80-90.

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Wham Shell looks like he's going to be in stock at Amazon on Friday for 8.99. I just ordered mine for that price.

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mine showed up today as well; have it for sale on Craigslist, don't want to deal with the ebay crap.

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I can't imagine that anyone here still needs readily-available figures, but if so : Fry's is selling basic single figures Buy 1, Get 1 Free for the next week. Also they have the Starter Pack with a free single figure for $39.99.

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whoa, that's a pretty good deal, but that means I have to go to a Fry's though. They're such a zoo over here.

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Wal-Mart will/should price match the online ad, if that's any better.

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Dammit, my son tore his fuzzy Stump Smash open before I could stop him :lol:

Oh well.

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ditto. :sad:

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The Frys ad here says buy 2 get 1 free. Not as great of a deal.

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Whoh, they changed it. At least I think they did; I'm pretty sure I read it right this morning.

Maybe they got hammered with hoarders and felt the need to change the deal. Never seen them do that before though -- usually their good deals just sell out really quick.

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Mine hasn't showed yet. :(

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I just received an email update from Amazon about my pre-order of Giants:

"Skylanders Giants Starter Kit"
Previous estimated arrival date: January 08, 2013 - January 14, 2013
New estimated arrival date: October 29, 2012 - November 01, 2012

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Huge picture of a new Skylandres Giant pack

Guess that confirms the suspicion that if you want all the new figures, you'll have to re-buy a lot of the older figures as well.

From Kotaku:

GameStop Secures Exclusive Skylanders Giants DLC the Hard Way
Mike Fahey

GameStop loves its retailer-exclusive downloadable content, but Skylanders Giants DLC all comes by way of toys. What's the world's largest dedicated video game retailer to do? Exclusive toys, of course!

GameStop is now taking preorders for the Golden Dragonfire Cannon Battle Pack. a special package that contains the series 2 version of the Skylander Chop Chop, a new figure named Shroomboom and the Golden Dragonfire Cannon, which when placed on the Portal of Power while playing Skylanders Giants unlocks a special in-game battle arena.

Activision and Toys for Bob have previously released limited edition recolorations of existing toys for Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure, but never before has a retailer had a lock on a figure that provides exclusive in-game benefits (except for Toys R Us' Legendary figures, which had slightly better stats) . Pretty sure this will be more of a timed exclusive situation, but collectors might want to head to GameStop and put a little money down, just in case.

Skylanders Giants hits stores on October 21.


Note to folks thinking of getting Giants: It's available for the current $10 off preorder deal at New Egg with the code EMCNBNG58. Both the Portal-owner set for $59.99 - $10 and the Starter Packs for $75 - $10 (which is what I went for -- probably the best launch deal we'll see).

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Didn't Best Buy have an exclusive accessory or something? I never saw it in store, but I remember it was advertised in the flyer. Or was that just a repaint?

Oh, and I see it might be a timed exclusive, I thought Dragon's Peak was a TRU timed exclusive too.

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I'm not aware of any Best Buy exclusives, besides their Mega Pack Set packaging and the free T-shirt they gave away.

You're right about Dragon's Peak -- it was a TRU timed exclusive. Just like Wirlwind was a timed Target exclusive and Drill Sarget was once exclusive at Walmart (and later red Drill Sargent became a WalMart exclusive.

Speaking of Skylanders shirts, has anyone seen the cute "Augmented Reality" Skylander shirt at Target from Zappar? It's really nice and my son just loves it (though the "augmented reality" feature is pretty lame. Shirt's a great deal for $8.

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Yes Best Buy had a little trinket that unlocked a repainted battle arena in game. Totally worthless.

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I stand corrected. Thanks for the info.

BTW : I think I may have to check these out for halloween this year. : http://www.costumeexpress.com/browse.../results1.aspx

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Which one are you thinking about wearing?

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http://spyro.wikia.com/wiki/Skylanders:_Giants

:down: to double-dipping on Tree-Rex and Cynder (v2) for Starter Pack and 3DS purchasers.

I'm torn between getting the Starter or Portal Owner sets. :(

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I just bought this game Saturday and I have already gone to the store and bought chips for the sidekicks. Sadly they all expire in early Sept. Hopefully they still taste okay in Oct/Nov as I really don't think my kids need to eat 80 bags of chips in a month.

Is there any reason to buy series 1 figures that are coming out again in series 2? I don't really care about collecting the different variants unless it effects something in game. I am thinking that I should probably just wait until more info is released for the new Giants game.

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I'd say it's worth getting the S2 variants because they'll have more moves, plus you also have the lightcore ones that light up. Of course, this recommendation depends on whether or not the remolds carry a higher pricetag. Also I'm sure it'll be easier to find S1 figs now than later. I imagine S2 will replace the old ones on store shelves.

So yeah, not really a lot of help here. :lol:

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The Skylanders iPhone/iPad app is free for the first time

http://appshopper.com/games/skylanders-cloud-patrol

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Did something I haven't done in years... made a pre-order at Gamestop for the exclusive Battle pack. Neither employee knew anything about it when I asked to pre-order.

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I saw on CAG that BB will have the 3 character packs for $14.99 starting Sunday. I think I'll just pick up a pack with the air and life elements that I am missing and wait for series 2. It sounds like all the series 1 characters are being rereleased.

Edit: It looks like there are only 3 packs that have life and air elements.
Ignitor, Warnado, Camo
Cynder, Lightning Rod, Zook
Wrecking Ball, Stealth Elf, Sonic Boom

Is one of those 3 better than the others? I know the Ignitor, Warnado, Camo pack might be more difficult to find. My daughter wants stomp smash so I might just have to just buy that on it's own.

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You'd think that they would be told about it as that might be the easiest thing for them to get preorders for. I was in there the other day to get Mortal Kombat Komplete and they kept trying to get me to preorder something.

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Exactly. Easiest pre-order sale ever. Back when I was tracking down figs they told me, at the time, they were getting at least 2 dozen calls a day.

All personal preference, and not what you want to hear, but honestly each set has one great one, the rest are kind of 'meh, with the exception of Wrecking Ball, who is terrible.

Stealth Elf and Cynder are my two go to characters. Stealth Elf for close quarters combat (she's a beast leveled up) and Cynder for range attacks. They are also two of the three(plus Whirlwind) female characters if that matters to you or your kids. Ignitor is the other strong one, IMO and he's a pretty cool looking figure.

If I were to pick one I'd say the Cynder pack because Lighting Rod and Zook are probably the best of the other 6 listed.

Not all, IIRC, but at least 2/3 of them. It's listed earlier in the thread if you want to browse back some.

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Good idea with that pre-order. I'll do that today.

I just sent off the chip coupon for the Sidekicks yesterday -- I'd forgotten all about that promo, but say a huge display of the chip bag at Wal Mart, so I grabbed one. Might go back for another soon. They're less than $7 at Wal Mart. Anyone get their Sidekick yet? Do they do anything in game besides hang around?

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Thanks. I was reading the wrong Wired article. I was reading up an old one where they were guessing that all 32 were being reposed.

Edit: I guess it doesn't really matter which set is better if all the stores I go to only have one of the 3 sets (stealth elf). On another note TRU said someone returned 32 drobots. I guess their resell plans fell through.

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YMMV but my local Walmart has the 3 character packs for $15.50. Picked up Ignitor, Warnado, Camo &
Cynder, Lightning Rod, Zook. I am sure I would have bought a lot more if they had other packs available... I have already failed on my plan to wait for more series 2 info. I need to stay away from Best Buy on Sunday so i don't buy more figures when they go on sale for $14.99...

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I preordered the Battle set from Game Stop yesterday. The guy there repeatedly asked "For which system?" and then said "We don't preorder the packs". I kept asking him to just check in the computer before he acknowledged that they could indeed preorder that set. -rolleyes- It's what, $25 now or is it $30? Either way, it seems too much. I might just go eBay this set instead of leaving it for Santa.

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$25

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This has to be the ultimate irony. Gamestop finally has something that people want to pre-order but the employees are clueless. :lol: They did try and get me to pre-order Borderlands or Madden.

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I think I've decided to go with the Portal Owners pack for Giants instead of the starter pack. The two extra characters in the starter pack are Cynder (series 2), and Jet-Vac (360/PS3/PC). Jet-Vac is also supposed to be a light core figure which I would prefer, and I'm not sold on the series 2 figures even if they do have a new attack.

It seems as though with the Amazon.de early listings the new three packs are going to be one "new" skylander, and two series 2 reposes. This info comes from the Darkspyro.net forums.

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Wow, that's lame. Guess it's all singles for me this time out.

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That's disappointing. I agree about not buying two repeats in a three-pack.

I used the coupon from www.toysrus.com to get a Legendary Trigger Happy for $5. I suppose I could have also gotten a three pack of Legendaries for $15, but didn't really see the need for that. Maybe I'll change my mind tomorrow if I go back there and it's still in stock.

They had a fairly terrible and somewhat strange pre-order "Bonus" at TRU for Skylanders Giants : Preorder now, and we'll guarantee that at least one single Skylanders Giants figure will be available for you to purchase when you pick up your game. Gee, thanks.

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I was thinking of getting the Legendary 3 pack yesterday but $15 after coupon still seemed too expensive for a pack of repeats with a stat boost. It's sad that they have to have a 20% off sale just to get their figures to msrp prices.

Hopefully the series 2 three pack prices aren't accurate. If they are, I am guessing the single packs may go up in price as well.