Skylanders Trap Team
Play as an artichoke that shoots tomatoes in Skylanders Trap Team
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Another toy-collecting addiction relapse
There are already over 100 total Skylanders in the current collection of Skylanders games, including the standard characters, massive Giants, and the Swap Force mix and match toys. But developer Toys for Bob isn't stopping there and has come up with some brand new concepts to change up the series gameplay. First, in Skylanders Trap Team, you can now collect Skyland's version of prison guards. Yeah, that's right. But not the sit-on-your-ass, eat-doughnuts-all-day kinds of guards, more like prism weapon-wielding, badass monster guards.
The new Trap Masters each have their own crystal weapons and have upgradable movesets and abilities like every other character in the series. The physical Trap Team figures themselves are about the size of the Giants toys (double the height of the standard Skylanders) and will most likely be along the same price point as the other premium Skylanders toys.
Series villain Kaos is running amok once again and has set all of the criminals of Skylands free in a massive jail break--and you'll encounter them along your journey. Each villain has wacky personalities and interesting abilities, like the chompy summoning Chompy Master or the Dreadnought boss that drives around a massive chainsaw machine. Along with the new characters (which will total about 30-ish) players will be able to collect 40 villains in the game (whether the villains will actually become figures is still in flux). Once you defeat a villain in battle you can trap them in a physical prism called a Traptanium trap that inserts into the Trap Team portal. When they are captured, you can switch between the active villain and your Skylander at any time, making for a complex mix of abilities you'll have at your disposal.
Check out the following slides for more information and images.
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When you trap a villain in a prism they talk to you through the new Trap Team portal speaker.
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Each trap piece can hold one villain at a time, but you can swap out the villain it holds.
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Traps are element based, so only a specific elemental trap can capture a villain of the same element type.
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There will also be plenty of standard Skylanders to collect.
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Food Fight is an artichoke that shoots tomatoes, and he's awesome.
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Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 6:36 a.m.
"Food Fight is an artichoke that shoots tomatoes, and he's awesome." He reminds me of some of Neopet's Chia characters (including Asparagus Chia and Mutant Chia), and ironically, Neopets also uses numerous vegetables as weapons. This doesn't make him a rip-off, though; it just makes him even more awesome. Looking forward to this, but hoping I can actually afford it! -
Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 6:34 a.m.
"There will also be plenty of standard Skylanders to collect." Well, that goes without saying. I'll have to do my research on which ones are better/worse, but in all truthfulness, I'll likely just be buying whichever ones I like more from whatever stock the cheapest local retailer has when my budget permits it. Presuming it ever does. -
Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 6:32 a.m.
"Traps are element based, so only a specific elemental trap can capture a villain of the same element type." ...aaaaaand there goes my budget. -
Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 6:31 a.m.
"Each trap piece can hold one villain at a time, but you can swap out the villain it holds." ...and the screenshot of Chompie sock-puppet man has only increased my want for this game. -
Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 6:31 a.m.
"When you trap a villain in a prism they talk to you through the new Trap Team portal speaker." This. So much this. Now THAT'S meta. I always wanted to catch an NPC in a physical toy and have it speak to me from inside the toy in real life. I just didn't know it yet. I've been putting off buying Skylanders for quite a while now due to budget and time constraints, but this might possibly be the one that makes me crack... assuming it has a 3DS version that's worth the price dump. What I want to know is, will the prisoner insult my mother? -
GR_LorenzoVeloria - April 24, 2014 9:30 a.m.
The game is coming out on 3DS! Not sure if the prisoners will insult your mother, though. -
Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 9:53 a.m.
Oh, well. Not that there's anything to insult, mind you. I wish I had a job writing funny articles for this website... I already have an idea for "the most disturbing Skylanders origin stories of all time"... -
GR_SophiaTong - April 24, 2014 10:47 a.m.
You don't need to work at this site to write fanfic ;) -
Trollkitten - April 24, 2014 11:45 a.m.
I know that; that's why I have a blog. www.eurekatrollcat.com And I guess it's even cooler having an entire website to myself, actually. It's just that with most of the comments I'm getting being either spam or in another language (and possibly spam as well, but I can't tell), it's not the same.
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ryanjohnson - April 24, 2014 7:05 a.m.