dsa_shea

The sword is some kind of toy. I would rather have a free trap master than that. Now, the free trap and villain is nice but not enough to offset the 16 bucks or so that I will save with my GCU. I am considering getting the Dark Edition but still not sure just yet.

dadaluholla

Took a box of figures to trade at Gamestop and was able to pay for the Dark Edition Starter set. I purged the collection of most of the reposed/multi series figs.

fujishig

If you get the Dark edition, how do you get the normal starters, are they going to be sold separately?

Decker

Once you go Dark, you don't go back.

Edison

How much did they trade-in for?

I went in and talked to a manager today to see if he had heard anything else about the portal trade-in for Punch Pop Fizz, and to see if they were opening early Sunday. Unfortunately the answer to both was no.

Edison

They are usually not sold separately, unless there is a variant (Gnarly Tree Rex). The only way would be to purchase a regular set also, or hope you can find them used.

Edison

According to Best Buy's 10/5 ad you get Volcanic Eruptor free when you buy 2 or more Skylanders: Trap Team products.

and the Walmart Buddy pack.

Decker

I went to Target yesterday and they've cleaned away all the Swap Force figures from the main area in anticipation of the new game (there are still some figures on the end cap). I wonder where they all went. I would be delighted to see them on Clearance or in Big Lots some day soon.

Decker

Joystiq's review

Edison

I read that review a couple of days ago.

I don't get why he is disappointed that "you'll need at least eight Trap Masters of different elemental affinities to unlock all of Trap Team's optional content." Did he not play SwapForce where you had multi-element gates, and ability gates that needed to be unlocked? I guess you could have completed Giants with just the starter pack (1 giant, 3 elements), and the other 5 elements from Spyro's Adventure.

My gripe with SwapForce was you didn't get an Earth SwapForce character, or one with the sneak ability until 3 months later. I hope Trap Team isn't like that, but it looks like there isn't Trap masters for Life, and Magic (in wave 1).

dsa_shea

I heard the second wave will be out about a week later. Now, I am not sure which figures are supposed to be in Wave 2. Also, unless Best Buy gets them I will wait so I can use my GCU to save a few bucks per figure. I plan on saving around 40 dollars or so this weekend when picking up the game and a few figure packs and trap packs.

dsa_shea

Looks like some Toys R Us will be open at midnight and the rest at 8 in the morning. This was posted on darkspyro in regards to Toys R Us sales prices for a few hours.

Not sure about stores who open at midnight but if 8 AM...

From 8 am to 10 am
Rewards Members Only.get...
Buy 1 Get 1 $1 trap single packs
Buy 1 Get 1 50% off All Starter kits, accessories and figures.

If not rewards members and after 10 Am
Sales the same with traps
Buy 1 get 1 40% off starters kits, accessories and figures!!!

dsa_shea

Anyone in the Tulsa area getting a starter pack and wanting to split a buy 1 get 1 50% off on the starter packs to save a few bucks? I am really considering the Dark Starter Pack and by doing it this way they would be 75 plus tax apiece rather than 99 plus tax.

Edison

Just got back from Toys R Us midnight launch. There were 10 of us in line when they opened the doors @ 12am, and 4-6 more showed up shortly after.

We bought some of the Trap crystals plus ended up getting Legendary Jawbreaker, Wallop, Krypt King, and Bushwack (who wasn't on the wave 1 list I had). They had no Dark editions of the game out at all, even all of the pre-orders behind the register were regular editions. They also had no legendary adventure packs out just the regular one. It was funny that out of the groups that went in with us only 1 bought the game, everyone else was buying just figures and traps.

BobO'Link

Considering the very low prices on the previously released Skylanders games during BF week I'd be surprised if many sets are sold before then. Waiting for Swap Force paid off big time for me as I got it for ~$28 that week. I'll do the same for this one as well.

Gizmo

I'll probaly grab the Wii U version soon. I hope someone sells the Wii U download code cheap at some point. I really hate swapping the disks.

dsa_shea

My daughter will be pumped when she gets home in a bit after my early morning shopping spree. I was able to get the Dark Starter set for PS4 for 80 and several traps, all of the Trap Masters, all 3 of the packs of figures and the collectors box for the traps. I'll post a couple of pics in a bit. Saving 20% off each and every item at Best Buy made this round much easier to swallow.

Goldberg74

Can't wait to see the pics.

dsa_shea

Here are the Trap Masters


Here are the Cores and 3-Packs


Here are the Traps and Case


Enjoy! We are skipping out on the minis and will likely skip out on some of the traps but we'll see. Supposedly, Wave 2 will be released on Tuesday and there are supposedly some stores that already have it out. Lob Star looks especially cool.

dsa_shea

We finally got around to opening everything including the traps. I have to say that they are nice and sturdy and cool looking. They are also not very big so they will not hog up a lot of space. Here is our collectors box with all 16 traps that we have including Kaos large trap for the Dark Edition. Check it out!

BobO'Link

I picked up a few things (mainly to get the Legandary figures) on the TRU B1G40% off sale and saw the case. What is its construction? In your photo it appears to be a thicker paperboard affair.

dsa_shea

It is a very sturdy, thick like board you would get in a good boxed set. It is also nicely covered with pics of the baddies that you can trap. It holds 46 traps. I have heard that there will be more than 46 of them you can get.

Goldberg74

Wow dsa_shea... I'd like to see your receipt and the total (or amount) that you saved.

Decker

I thought teachers were supposed to be underpaid!

dsa_shea

Underpaid but not dead broke. If I had to guess how much I saved today off of what I would have paid without sales and my GCU discount then it would be around 80-100 bucks. That is just a guess but it has to be somewhere close.