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I found out that some of the stores had the new 3 packs and ice pack in my area but it had to be while I'm at home sick. I guess I'll have to wait until they get them back in as they sold out within hours of getting them.

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I just picked up Empire of Ice @ Best Buy 2 days ago. Most all stores have been out of stock of add-on adventures and characters for awhile. I've been constantly checking stock on Best Buys website. Then the other day some showed up, I called and had them hold Darklight Crypt for me. The guy told me it was the last one on the shelf. When I got there I picked up the Crypt at customer service but went back to the games area to see if anything else was around and saw Empire of Ice on the shelf (last one). They also had a 3pack (Eruptor, Bash, and Chop Chop), ones I didn't have. I bought the Xbox 360 starter, two 3-packs, Pirate Seas, and one single (Flameslinger) for Christmas. The Christmas purchase covered all the elements, but now the kids love it so much that wanted a few more, but more so the add-on adventures. It's a great game. Just went through the Crypt and looking forward to Ice. At this point not to worried about getting more characters just the adventures. The good thing at Christmas was being able to have Best Buy price match all the other stores. So received the starter for $59.99 (matching Target) and got Pirate Sea free (matching ToyRus) and now I'm using reward zone certificates from that purchase to get the other stuff now.
Looking forward to getting Dragon's Peak to keep the adventure going!

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None of the Gamestops that I called that had them in stock would hold them for me so I didn't bother trying to race across town. I was feeling like shite yesterday and was curious to see if they came out and called a few stores and some of them had some but not one would hold any for me. As long as I can find them in the next few weeks for my daughter's upcoming birthday then it will be alright.

Edit: 10,000th post!!!!

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Well the 16th rumors were correct. Stopped by Target on the way to work and grabbed the new Whirlwind, Double Trouble & Drill Sargent 3-pack.

They hadn't unboxed them yet, so they let me go through them. They had four boxes. 3 boxes were Adventure packs (looks like 2 Empire of Ice packs per box, 2 Pirate and 2 Darklight), and 1 box of character 3-packs. There were 2 of the new character packs.

They didn't get any singles, so no sign of Cynder, but it looks like he'll also be a part of a new triple pack with Lightning Rod and Zook.

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I'm so glad that I'm not into this game because reading peoples' comments in search of the figures remind me of the days that I used to collect the McFarlane sports figures. Going to Toys'R Us and Wal-Mart searching for specific figures was a bad time in my life...

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:lol: It totally scratches that Star Wars collecting itch I had in the 90's. It's all part of the fun. :)

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The first Target I stopped at this morning still had the adventure packs, so I grabbed the Empire of Ice. The store associate told me 2 of the area stores had received singles, but after calling them it seemed to be the last wave (Hex, Dino-rang, etc...). The local Wal-marts haven't gotten anything yet (since last week) or it was wiped out quickly, and one of the Best Buys still show 18 coming.

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Went to Best Buy, Target, and Walmart today. Nothing. :(

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Got these babies today. Someone is selling a Cynder for over 200 bucks. Only idiots would pay those prices.

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The story is that we were driving right in front of a local mall so I decided to call their Gamestop. I asked the guy if they had any Skylanders and he said no but before we ended our conversation the cell lost its connection. I decided to call him back just to let him know that I hadn't hung up on him and while I was talking he said that he had just opened a box that they received and lo and behold those 4 singles were in there. I asked him to hold them and since I was just around the corner he did. It was worth my while to call back and show courtesy. The Empire of Ice pack came from a Target across town and they also held it for me when I called. Today was a lucky day for my daughter. She is getting her birthday presents a month early.

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Finally had some success. Just starting out getting them for my boys. My local Target showed that they had various triple-packs "in-stock" online, so I went up there and found empty shelves. The guys in electronics looked the number up for me and found that they had received a case in the back. They were two of the older sets, nothing new, but I'll take what I can get.

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I just took a closer look at some of the auctions on Ebay and many of them are just to reserve the figure for when they come in stock. There are people paying 3-10 times as much to reserve a figure the seller doesn't even have in hand yet. What a crock!

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Nice. So it seems Gamestop is the only one people are finding Cynder at. I wonder if it's an unofficial/temporary exclusive. I'd much rather get the the triple pack though. Saving a few bucks is always nice.

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I check my local Targets' inventory online this morning and one about 10 miles away had triple-packs listed as in stock. Because I couldn't get there right away, I figured they'd be gone by mid-morning, but at 10:30 they were still showing up as in-stock so I made the trip. Bingo - they had the Empire of Ice pack and two of the Whirlwind/Drill Sergeant/Double Trouble pack, so I grabbed one each. Since me and my boys are new to this, I had no idea that the second pack was new and going for around $60 on eBay. Maybe I should have grabbed the other one they had! ;)

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I'm down for saving some money as well but once those figures were in my hands I was not going back to the calling and hunting for these. I'd gladly give up a few extra bucks to just have them and be done with it. I could probably sell the Cynder by itself and pay for the whole lot of them but I'm not interested in ripping people off.

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Target online showed that the store here had some 3-packs. I went by just before noon to be told they *did* have some this morning but "they're gone now". I didn't have enough time to check GameStop and BB even though they are in the same mall.

I got back to the office to find that Amazon had a few back in stock:

Drobot
Bash
VooDood

These 3 currently show to be in stock, but nothing else.

When I saw this I went ahead and ordered Bash and Drobot since we already have at least 1 other character from each 3-pack in which those can be found. With a couple of other recent purchases we're down to needing only Flameslinger, Chop Chop, Wrecking Ball, and Stealth Elf from the initial releases. I'm hoping that those four, Cynder, and the 3-pack with Whirlwind, Drill Sergeant, and Double Trouble show up before long. I can wait though.

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I know the pokemon people are shitting themselves that they didn't come up with this idea.

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Asked at my BB today and they said they've been back-ordered for 6 weeks but that some should be coming in on Thursday morning. We'll see.

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starter pack is now 49 bucks new all versions at gamestop.com....

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I've been having luck tracking singles here and adventure packs here. Just keep the window open, it refreshes itself every 60 seconds.

I'm not spending $10+ shipping on TRU and some of the other sites. But I have managed to snag a couple singles off Amazon for the proper $8.

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Thanks for posting that link. Very helpful!

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Well, I thought I was done getting characters, until my daughter saw the soul gem video for Whirlwind. She fell in love with the rainbow effect. So have been checking the past few days for the Whirlwind, Drill Sergeant, Double Trouble 3-pack. One Target I went to at lunch time, which stated online as in stock, didn't have any 3-packs left. They did receive six 3-packs, with one of them being the Whirlwind pack. The employee said one guy came in first thing and bought four 3-packs, and another person bought the other two. That was within the first hour the store was open. I'd say there inventory system isn't very timely being that 4 hours later it was still stating "in stock" online.

Anyways, I had to run some errands early this morning, so thought I'd check stock online for BestBuy and Target. Best Buy had nothing, but a different Target listed 3-packs in stock. I got there at 7:50 and waited outside the door. I was the only one there and when they opened at 8 went right to the games section to find six 3-packs. Four of them were Stealth Elf, Wrecking Ball, Sonic Boom and the other two Whirlwind, Double Trouble, Drill Sergeant. So it looks like stock is slowly coming around again, it just takes persistence to get what you want.

So the other video my daughter saw that she liked was Camo. Is that one out yet or is it coming in an adventure set?

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Camo is part of a three pack with Warnado & Ignitor, due out in the Spring along with the Dragon’s Peak Adventure Pack which comes with Sunburn.

*edit - just got through on the TRU Legendary set. :bdance:

** edit - using zoolert I also managed to snag the final 3 I needed for a full set of released figs so far. (3DS figs excluded)

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Stopped by about 7 different stores today and finally got lucky at our very last stop. Wal-Mart had only 1 life element so we picked up Stump Smash and we picked up Sonic Boom as well. Now we have 1 of every element. Now to pick up the cooler looking figures here and there as I see them.

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My frustration at the lack of finding an individual character is finally over. I finally found Sonic Boom for my daughter.

I accidentally got caught up in this skylanders madness through a bone headed move on my part. I bought the game for my kid for X-mas. She wanted Sonic Boom character very badly. She had christmas money to spend.

Shortly after Christmas, we went to Target. They had two Sonic Boom's. I then thought, lets go to best buy and see if they have it, that way I can use my reward zone card to add to my points!

We went to best buy, they didn't have it of course, went right back to target and the sonic booms were gone. I felt tremendous guilt over this.

And ever since I have peeked into Target, Wal mart, Game Stop and Toys r us to see if I can find that damned sonic boom for my kid. Nothing, nada all this time. No way I was gonna pay the outrageous prices on Amazon and ebay for it either.

Finally got it yesterday on amazon for regular price. If I had just bought the damned thing at Target that night, I would have never have known or cared about the lack of in stock items for Skylanders characters. Crazy.

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Just a few more characters to get once they release and this will all be over until the next game releases with a whole new slew of them. i guess I have found some fun in it and a little nostalgia taking me back to the days of collecting cards and action coins from slurpees as well as action figures.

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There's still a few left, but I have zero doubt this will quickly be a yearly release so that Activision can run it into the ground like every other popular franchise they've ever touched.

What's left:
Wham-shell
Warnado
Lightning Rod
Sunburn
Zook
Camo

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Will Ignitor ever see an individual or a 3 pack release?

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Ignitor: Single pack Easter, Triple pack in June.

Source

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So the next three pack and adventure pack are coming out around Easter?

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That's what it says. :lol:

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Where are you getting the info from? All I've read is speculation from various people.

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Well, the link above says rumored. I just started using that site, but I've been following this one for a couple weeks and they were right on with the latest batch.

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I think a lot of it stems from a foreign Skylanders catalog posted in this auction listing that someone on Gamefaqs posted at the end of last year.

I'm really liking Slam Bam. I'm not much for the up close melee characters as I prefer ranged attacks, but I'm enjoying him maybe because I can send the ice prisons out from a distance and then pummel them.

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Jackpot at the new TRU of 410 & San Pedro.

Dozens of single characters (Prism Break, Bash, Voodood, and Drobot) and about 4-5 of the three-packs (Dino Rang, Hex, Zap & Bash, Voodood, Drobot).

Too bad I have them all already. :(

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Yeah, I started out with Trigger Happy, but have transitioned to Stealth Elf(melee) just to see if she'd be any good leveled up. Just bought some kick-ass hovering blades, that attack in coordination with the melee attack, last night.

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Target continues to be my go-to spot, using their mobile app to check inventory. Saw a few of them near me had individual figures in stock, but I had a meeting this morning. By the time that was over, the store closest to me was out of stock, so I headed out to one a little further out that still said in-stock. Bingo. They had about 30 figures on the shelves (maybe 15 or so different ones), and 6-8 of the triple packs/pirate ship/darklight crypt. I had to laugh since I had been slowly acquiring all of these one or two at a time the last 7-10 days via Amazon, Best Buy, etc - when I could have just waited and hit the motherlode here. Anyway, grabbed a Cynder, left one for the next man.

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Through the zooLert links I was able to score Prism Break and Flameslinger.

All I need now is the Darklight Crypt and Ghost Roaster.

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zooLert is awesome. I've managed to get one of each element for my son in two days just by watching it.

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Went through the list again, and apparently I'm still missing Boomer. No such luck on Zoolert in the past two days though(through Amazon).

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Thanks for the tip. The app is awesome! There was a store not far from me that I rarely go to that had a ton! Three different three-packs (including Whirl Wind, Double Trouble, Drill Sergeant) and a dozen different singles!

Still need the Crypt.