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I showed your new pictures to my boy tonight (he hasn't seen the new figures yet) and he asked "Is that the guy who takes all the Skylanders pictures?" I told him "Yes. Yes it is,".

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Sweet! We added some more to our collection today. 4 Trap Masters and 2 new core figures. We also added about 15 more varied traps to our trap box. I'll post some new pics as soon as I get a chance to take them. I already ripped everything out of the packaging without taking pics so I will likely do one big group pic of all the new figures.

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He looks forward to seeing it!

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Are you guys going to get into this one? It is a cool concept and it is neat to hear the baddies talk to you or make noises from time to time through the trap's speaker. My biggest issue with the game is that it installed rather weird on one of my two PS4's. The graphics are nice and the Trap Masters are essentially Giants with Traptanium weapons. We already have 10 of the 16 different Trap Masters and 6 or 7 of the new core figures. There will also be 2 new mystery elements introduced later on. The information as to what they are is already out there and can be found. Overall, I am satisfied with it after having seriously considered not even bothering with it. It is the one thing that I go all out for each year with my daughter, myself and my new baby boy in mind. One day he will inherit our Skylander earth.

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I don't know if we will. Not before Christmas at least. My wife said emphatically that we're done with those - she's sick of them taking up all this space and honestly he never plays the game any more. However he wants the new one and if he asks Santa for the game and some figures, I can't imagine she won't relent.

If we do go for the game, I don't know if I should get it for the 360 (he has a 360 he plays in the family room) or for a next gen system (which is in my Man Cave and is pretty much off-limits for him). I think I'd lean towards keeping the 360 unless there's a really significant difference in graphics or gameplay.

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I would say that the graphics are an improvement as well as the smoothness of gameplay. The newer systems don't get as overwhelmed with enemies as the older ones. I would consider getting it for the new system and use the game as a father and son time in the Man-Boy Cave. :)

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I took the grandkids to Target today to pick up a copy of Nitro Krypt King. That's a pretty cool looking figure! IMHO superior looking to the regular version.

Both kids wanted me to pick up the game today but I said "No - I'm waiting for Black Friday." Target didn't have any "Dark" versions on display - neither did WM when I was there on Monday.

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So no deals on the starter kit this week, right? I know TRU has a sale on the figures. I might do the reverse this year, pick up some figures early to get the kids excited and then get the game for Christmas (on sale, hopefully).

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That's what I did for Disney Infinity last year. It makes sense -- the figures might get scarce, but the starter packs won't and they're much more likely to be targeted for a BF sale item.

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Well, I think the problem I ran into, mainly because of the release schedule, is that we played through most of the game, got new characters, and then I had to level them to even have them playable. That should be mitigated somewhat since I'm not going to "catch them all" this time, especially some of the variants.

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TRU 40% off this week includes sets, if you want two (buy 1 get 1 40% off).

I was pleasantly surprised when I confirmed that the frito-lay/GameStop mini figures are playable in the game. You can level them, wear hats, trinkets, and upgrade their abilities.

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Wait... these things can now *fight* and do real stuff other than follow a character around and generally get in the way?

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Here you guys go! Enjoy!

Here is an overhead picture of all the new figures we have.


Here is a picture of our trap box and the traps we have collected so far.


Here is a picture of the Kaos traps.


And finally, here is a picture of the inside of the trap box with most of the baddies that you can capture. There are some secret ones not pictured here.

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That box gives the impression you can have only 1 "bad guy" per trap. I thought each trap could store several at once.

What's with the Kaos Trap in a retail package? I thought that one only came with the Dark Edition. Or is it as it looks - the Dark Edition version has a slightly different paint job?

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Yeah, the mini's are fully playable characters now.
And traps can hold multiple enemies, but only 1 is active at a time. You can change the active villain in the trap back in the town, or when you capture a new one. So only reason to have multiple of a given trap type is if you'd always want a specific villain available without having to go back to town first to swap him into your trap.

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Yep! The traps are just more collectibles that are unnecessary but are cool to us. It's nice they made that storage box and once I fill it up I will be done collecting the traps.

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We picked this up earlier today.

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I went to the Walmart by my house this morning to get something else and just wandered by the video games and all they had out were Swap Force games and figures... no sign of Trap Team anywhere.

Weird.

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Walmart has been terrible with this release.

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Does Walmart have any exclusives other than the fig+mini combos?

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Walmart's here at least put out a shipper/display or filled the aisle, but the two Kmarts on the other hand as of Saturday still hadn't put anything on the shelf. Target seems to be pushing it quite a bit all of the stores have had the main shelf full, and a check out endcap filled.

There was speculation the Target would get wave 2 Sunday (because Bushwack, Tread Head, and the Undead Hand Trap are pictured in the ad), but checking Sunday, and Monday I didn't see any signs of wave 2.

I was able to grab the Mirror of Mystery (Saturday) from Best Buy, although I had to have someone go in back to get it as it wasn't on the shelf.

Not yet that I've seen. They have a 8 pack trap set with "Steamed Broccoli Guy" up for pre-order, but it doesn't say Walmart Exclusive on it.





My friend that manages a GameStop gave me the life trap with "Riot Shield Shredder" that he got from conference, plus I picked up the water trap with "Outlaw Brawl & Chain" from Target as most stores placed it on the shelf (I'm guessing they got way more than pre-orders).
http://i453.photobucket.com/albums/q...ps482a9a19.jpg

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Looks like they are doing another Frito Lay promotion where you scan this image using the blippar app to win High Five. Just scan this webpage with the blippar app.

http://www.fritolaygiveaway.com/

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Or you can call like before - from the rules:
I also had to enter my zip code after the phone number. Didn't win this time. :( But there's always tomorrow! :)

They're giving away 7,680 - 1 every 15 minutes (like before).

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That pre-order doesn't ship until 12/31/14! While it's a better price than individually, I'd like to see a *bit* more of a discount to purchase 8 at once. That price per trap is no different than the 3 packs, just a bigger package.

One of the WM here had lots of figures on the game isle and a smallish (~4' high with a 3'x2' top) cardboard display by the game isle end cap. They had *no* copies of the Dark version of the starter and only 3 or 4 of their "exclusive" (which IMHO is kind of lame).

Target had *lots* of figures, and almost a end cap full of their current exclusive. They, too, had no copies of the Dark version starter on the shelf.

Best Buy has all the wave 2 stuff showing to be available for pickup today but I rarely got by there as it's in the middle of "The Mall" and a royal pain to get to.

K-Mart here *never* has anything, advertised or not, so I never bother going there.

Disney's Infinity, at both WM and Target, had a space about 1/3 the size of the Skylanders display. Based on that I'd say it's not selling that well here.

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I stopped by Best Buy this afternoon and they had wave 2 characters out. There were no wave 2 traps as far as I could tell, and they still hadn't put Mirror of Mystery packs on the floor.