4 "Series 2" Skylanders and 4 "New" Skylanders will have the Light Core.

^Ahhh... Missed that. OK - it's a *bit* better.

Not worth $10 ea.

So yeah, 20 vs. 48.

I've been trying that for a few days now. It never seems to add it to my alerts any more even though I'm telling it to. Very frustrating.

That's pretty much my take on it too. But I'm sure the kids (at least the boy - he's obsessed!) will ask anyway. Those will be the ones I'll tell them purchase when they are with the great grandparents...

I tried to contact you through the PSN to see if you need help in getting this. If I can snag it online at Amazon I could have it shipped directly to you. I have Prime. Let me know if you need the help. I just got an alert on it a second ago but was already sold out by the time I went to Amazon to purchase it.

I'd love that if you could. I'd Paypal you for it. I'll PM my address. Thanks.

Took Wham Shell out of his package, turned on the Wii, and... disc error every time and with every game.

We've had it for 6 years... I'm surprised that it lasted this long.

Not sure if I should pay the $75 to get it fixed or wait for the Wii U and transfer everything over to it.

Oh well.

Legendary Trigger Happy is now $4.99 with Free Shipping at Toys R Us (where it is an exclusive, and where they have enough in store stock to build a Legendary Trigger Happy fort).

The Starter Packs are $40 as well, if anyone still needed one.

^That free shipping is only if you purchase $75 or more in "qualifying" product. I put one in the cart and was told "Purchase $75 or more in additional eligible merchandise to qualify for Free Shipping (up to $20)" which seems to indicate this product doesn't qualify.

I also put almost $90 worth of Skylanders in my cart to check this. Shipping was not free. Apparently Skylanders do not qualify at all (probably to make back the $$ lost in free shipping on Skylanders before Christmas).

Their 5 plus dollars for shipping on one Skylander along with their boosted price makes it not worth it. I was able to grab another Wham Shell for my daughter today on Amazon not including the one that I picked up for Decker and is on the way to him right now.

Figure hunting aside I finally got 1000/1000 last week. Was t too hard but I didn't want to just plow through my kids save file to get it. The one for not getting hit by laser beams gave me problems. Took me abou an hour of restarts to get it.

My PS3 is hooked up to our main TV (also the Blu-ray player) and the Xbox is connected to my home theater. I got Skylanders for PS3 so I wouldn't have to fire up the projector whenever my son wanted to play.

The downside to his dozens of hours of play is I have zero Achievements to show for it

He got it today and was THRILLED. I like Wham Shell -- the metallic paint makes him a little unique. Thanks again for the help.

Now I have to give him the Wrecking Ball figure I won from Fritos and was hanging onto and complete his set.

Anyone else get the "Gotta but them all" trophy/achievement glitch? We have leveled up at least 5 different characters and bought all of their moves. I know their is a workaround but it includes resetting your character, backing up your save, starting the game all over again and leveling up the character from the beginning of the game. What a pain in the ass! Couldn't they have patched this?

My boy got Wham Shell in today and he is ecstatic!

I thought we were done and then he turns to me and says..."Now I just need Dark Spyro!"

It never ends...

Not sure about the glitch, but if you've made it to Kaos's Lair, you could easily reset and re-level fairly quickly, especially if you have the Accolades XP bonuses.

However, I believe the glitch was found in the game save meaning I will have to reset my character and then buy his soul gem power. Once I do that I am supposed to backup my save and then delete everything from the PS3 and then start the game over leveling up the character and buying all of the powers from the start of the game. The beginning of the game has nowhere near the leveling up or money power of the latter parts of the game.

My local Target has tripled the shelf space they've dedicated to Skylanders and put out the last few waves. Unfortunately, this is the Target that raised all the prices to 9.99/24.99 a month or so ago. I guess they need the extra space for when the new game comes out.

The new Skylanders game is only a few months away. The kids will go back to school and before you know it we will be out hunting even more figures.

I haven't even told my 8-year-old about Giants yet.

Might as well tell him now and give him a reason to earn some money and save it for the first few characters. Give him some chores to do to earn a buck or two.

I heard that the Skylanders Sidekick promotion with Frito Lay kicks off today. Also, I was wondering which characters you guys have completely leveled up and all abilities purchased for. We have done several so far and I will list a few.

Gill Grunt
Stealth Elf
Drill Sergeant
Wham Shell (One of my favorites.)
Slam Bam

I found that you can level up a character from level 1 to 10 and get enough money to buy all of their abilities in less than an hour. You can do this by playing the very last level leading to the boss. You only play the first part of the level where you can collect the three sets of gems which will net you about 800 gems or so. Also, you will level up your character very quickly to about level 7. Once you get the three sets of gems just allow your guy to die and restart the level. Once I'm completely leveled up and still lacking gems I would just blaze my character from one set of gems to the next, collect them all, let myself die and then rinse and repeat a few more times. You get so much XP during that level that your character will sometimes level up 2-3 times during the first few playthroughs.

I just finished off the platinum on this game and was able to defeat Kaos with Gill Grunt. The whole actual fight took about a minute and would have been over quickly if you could skip all of the excessive talking. Anyways, here are the characters that we have completely leveled up and purchased all of their upgrades:
Gill Grunt
Slam Bam
Wham Shell
Zook
Stealth Elf
Cynder
Hex
Drill Sergeant
Trigger Happy
Whirlwind
Terrafin

We have a handful of others that are oh so close to be finished off and I will likely knock them out shortly. We would like to get at least half of my daughter's collection completely leveled up. Gotta get some of our money's worth out of them.

You can also use the Treasure Chest on the portal world repeatedly for more money. Open the chest, go talk to someone (like Persephone), and press the button to skip the chat. The chest will be "reloaded". Repeat. There are several chest locations close to a character who, when talked to, causes the chest to "reset". Using this method can be quicker than going into a level as you don't have to wait for the NPC to finish their talk to reset the chest or wait for a level to load. The biggest challenge is putting the chest on and off the portal until you get a location that works well with little walking to/from a character. There are 2 locations very close to Persephone with one almost on top of her.

But... If you use the gem method why "die" to end the level? Just use the button on the controller to return to the portal. That should be a bit quicker than waiting to "die".