E3 2012 – Skylanders: Giants Will Have Your Wallet Crying All Over Again

Having all but 2 Skylanders figures left to collect, Activision and Toys for Bob decided that people like me need to have more things to collect. My poor wallet.

Wishing I was on the show floor at E3 2012, I have to settle for the press kit and Game Informer’s detailed preview. Coming in October, Skylanders: Giants will give the fans more to love. First thing, obviously, is more characters to collect.

There will be 8 Giant figures to collect that will have certain puzzles that only they can complete. Toys for Bob is also adding a new elemental power to the mix,  Light Core. Nothing is said yet as to what their powers will be like but hey, the figures will light up when put on the Portal of Power! Now I can have a desk lamp while playing Skylanders: Giants at night.

We will also see 8 new characters in the elemental power groups we are already use to be introduced. If that wasn’t enough, 24 Series 2 figures from all the loveable Skylanders you have collected already are coming. To make it worth picking up the same characters again, Toys for Bob made the Series 2 figures with new poses and all will have new upgrade paths to differ from their Series 1 counterparts.

Let’s not forget actual gameplay now. Toys for Bob is adding even more collectables and secret areas for the completionists. It won’t be easy this time around either, if you don’t want it to be, since the option for difficulty levels will be added as well.

So let’s count. 8 + 8 + 24 = 40 new Skylanders that we will all have to camp out at Toys R Us to wrestle out of some poor kids hands. At least we will still be able to use the original figures and level them up even further with the level cap being raised from 10 to 15. That should ease the pain of the insane prices you will see for the new Skylanders: Giants figures on eBay when the game comes out this October.