Activision revealed today at the American International Toy Fair 2012 that their popular new franchise Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure would indeed be receiving follow-up treatment to the game. Skylanders Giants is thus far being called the “Next Chapter in the Franchise Introduces More Than 20 New Figures Including Super-Sized Giants and Characters Featuring Light Technology” (from Activision press release) and not so much a direct sequel. We know they’ll be new Skylanders released (more then 20 including 8 giant-sized figures) and from the reveal trailer it looks like Flynn and his balloon show up – giving gamers familiar Skylands to explore.
Activision has confirmed that all previously released Skylanders (and their power-ups) will be 100% compatable with Skylanders Giants – basically making a combination of two vast games to play with all the figures and expansions. Parents who are keeping track of their wallets will be shelling out more then they had hoped for as the Skylanders franchise is currently the ‘gotta have them all’ generation that was formally exclusive to Pokemon.
Suggested Retail Price for the Skylanders Giants Starter Pack is $69.99 which means we should expect another 30-40 hour experience of gigantic proportions. We hope retailers double their orders this time around for the 2012 holidays as Skylanders figures were in short supply once word got out how fun it was being a ‘Portal Master’.
COIN-OP TV has been covering Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure since day one and has over 40 gameplay videos and tutorials on the YouTube channel – you can watch them all conveniently by clicking on this playlist button:
http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL095B7F21A5D45857
Related:
Skylanders Announcement Interview from E3 2011
https://coin-op.tv/?p=3652
Skylanders Nintendo 3DS Interview:
https://coin-op.tv/?p=3850
[..YouTube..] Wrecking Ball and Trigger Happy sound like that?!
[..YouTube..] what are there names
[..YouTube..] what are there names
[..YouTube..] it better works on the old game, seriously jus bought mine!
[..YouTube..] @lachlan7807 Actually the old figures are designed to work on Giants but I don’t think the new ones will work on Spyro’s Adventure. The new figures have an orange bottom making them only designed for Giants, where as the current ones have a green base and will work for both. I could be wrong though.
[..YouTube..] Actually the old figures are designed to work on Giants but I don’t think the new ones will work on Spyro’s Adventure. The new figures have an orange bottom making them only designed for Giants, where as the current ones have a green base and will work for both. I could be wrong though.
[..YouTube..] @lachlan7807 No. They would have to update the game.
[..YouTube..] No. They would have to update the game.
[..YouTube..] Awsome
[..YouTube..] Now we know that flame slinger can only see red
[..YouTube..] I mean yellow
[..YouTube..] can you use the old
[..YouTube..] can you use the old
[..YouTube..] Skylanders Giants is going to make number 1 game of 2012 too
[..YouTube..] im pretty sure you can use the giants on the spryos adventure
[..YouTube..] yey thats good
[..YouTube..] yey thats good
[..YouTube..] Wahoo
[..YouTube..] wath the heal
[..YouTube..] This game looks awsome
[..YouTube..] This game looks awsome
[..YouTube..] This is the kind of stuff that makes me wish I had a time machine to go to the future…..
[..YouTube..] Epic sky landers need more sky landers and more games when I 1st heard about sky landers I new they will be a 2nd game
[..YouTube..] Its been confirmed to support it
[..YouTube..] i came to this video because it said giants
[..YouTube..] how big will the toys be?(:
[..YouTube..] Maybe 2x bigger
[..YouTube..] no because Spyro’s Adventure has no data for the new ones or giants
[..YouTube..] HOLY CRAAAAP GIANT SKYLANDERS!!!!!!!!!!!
[..YouTube..] no
[..YouTube..] This shit sucks. Make it like first 3 spyro games idiots.
[..YouTube..] I can’t wait to get this game it’s released! There’s a new normal sized skylander named alchemist and he’s magic. I think his abilities are growing and shrinking. He’s sort of based off of dr Jekyll and mr Hyde.
[..YouTube..] ya
[..YouTube..] i fuking want it so dam bad
[..YouTube..] i hears about six inches
[..YouTube..] good thing my birthday is in the fall
[..YouTube..] No
[..YouTube..] wtf skylanders giants comes out a few weeks after my bday
[..YouTube..] Flameslinger your bow is not a guitar. xD
[..YouTube..] no they won’t but the old ones will work on the new one
[..YouTube..] No, he is a Giant. He doesn’t look like it, but believe me. He is!
[..YouTube..] No… They won’t. That SUCKS!!
[..YouTube..] I hope Activision isn’t going to overflow the market like Guitar Hero…
[..YouTube..] @JDLZSV No he’s not. Check the skylanders wiki.
[..YouTube..] PLay movie. right click. click stop download. thank me later
[..YouTube..] Well, the new Skylanders are not programmed in the old Skylander game, so I don’t think so.
[..YouTube..] I dont think so, Because The Spyro’s Adventure game wasnt Programmed to work with the new ones, while the Old ones will work with the new ones.
[..YouTube..] Its called system updates dumd asses
[..YouTube..] nintendo 64??? SNES??? is this a fucking joke ofcourse you can’t play skylanders on that consoles. they canceld working with those consoles years ago you fucking rethard.
[..YouTube..] Don’t use a screen cap of something not in your video