If you haven't heard about this yet, you're in for a big surprise.
This year, in addition to the normal starter packs, Activision is releasing a special Collector's Edition Starter Pack. This pack not only includes an additional two characters to get you started, but all the figures are a rare dark variant.
Previously we've only seen Dark Spyro. He was originally released with the 3DS Starter Pack for Spyro's Adventure. Later he was also released as a single pack in the UK. Other than that, no other dark Skylanders have ever been made.
Now in this brand new Dark Starter Pack we find a whole team of dark characters. These figures include:
Dark Wash Buckler
Dark Blast Zone
Dark Spyro
Dark Stealth Elf
Dark Slobber Tooth
Personally I think this is my favorite starter pack. Not only does it contain five characters, but I think they look awesome.
So far I'm on board with the Skylanders SWAP Force Dark Edition. The only downside is that this Dark Edition seems to be a GameStop Exclusive Starter Pack. It's not my favorite place to shop and it might make this pack a little harder to get, but you can pre-order it now
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I did not anticipate a surprise of this magnitude with SWAP Force. It makes me wonder what else Activision might have in store for us down the road. What do you think?
Blah a hundred bucks?! I would be interested in this except the TRU deal with the pre-order gets you Wash Buckler, Blast Zone, Ninja Stealth Elf, Lightcore Hex, and another figure, for $75. Also, I don’t care for the Slobber Tooth figure all that much. Assuming all the dark figures are exclusive to this pack, I could see myself getting it in a year or two when the price is cut in half or more.
To be clear though, the Dark Wash Buckler in particular looks amazing!
It is a place holder as a date. When it has a date like 12/31/2013 it usually means it will be out before the end of the year. Also, I don’t know if these will still be around in a year or two. My guess is that they are a very limited set.
Like Josh said, that’s just a place holder date. That’s very common with online pre-orders (Amazon does it too.). I have seen other reports “from GameStop employees” that claim it will be released on Oct 13th as well.
While you may be able to find some of the figures a year or two down the road, chances are they will be heavily marked up. I doubt these Dark Starter Packs will be found in stores any more. Honestly, if you want these figures in your collection I think now is the best time to buy.
Yeah, you guys could be right, they do say pre-order before supplies run out.
If you look on the website now for the Wii version it says the release date of 10/13/2013. Anyone pre-order yet? I did today. Have a question about what it says on the receipt.
Well one good thing I heard is that Gamestop is still doing the Lightcore Hex freebie as part of pre-orders, so you can get six figures altogether. This deal would be a lot more tempting if they’d added a third swappable figure though.
i am not complaining about anything this pack covers 5 of 8 types of skylander and i am gonna be getting tower of time and firey forge plus stink bomb and night shift all on same day so i will be instantly set because of this
i am buying this pack on pre-order tomorrow although i have heard rumors of neon skylanders that are dully colored and glow in the dark the owner of this website should look into it
One thing that Ezra does he doesn’t jump and post things until we have actual proof of something. Which I think is good because of people putting crap out all the time.
I’m sure you all know this by now, but the dark force preorder still gets you lightcore hex. I also, like torchie said, don’t care about Slobber Tooth, so I hope to leverage his dark and collectible status to trade home for two other series 3 characters from other collectors.
It’s true. The LightCore Hex promotion is still valid with the Dark Edition Starter Pack.
I think you have a good plan for the Dark Slobber Tooth. Personally, I kinda like him so I don’t have to come up with plans, but it sounds like you’re all set.
Ezra… Do you know if you can pre-order the Terrafin and the Adventure pack in Gamestops or any stores that you can actually pick up on launch day? I want to pre-order but don’t want to wait for them to come in the mail.
The only thing per-orderabe at GameStop are the two versions of swap force.
Hopefully they will be out in full force on launch day. As for infinity I am not sure if I am going to pick it up on Sunday or not. Still not decided.
My wife has decided I’m picking them up on Sunday.
I am going to give it ago. I am going to go to one of the two gamestops that I will visit and check it out. Going to see if the wife wants to go so she can curtail my spending^^
I hope you don’t have a wii or PS3. PS3 is completely unplayable and wii version doesn’t recognize player 2 all the time. Hopefully GameStop will refund this P.O.S.
Yeah, I have a PS3 and I can say I am not a big fan of it. I am currently thinking about putting my stuff up for sale on Ebay as all of my stuff is opened. Think I will use my funds towards Giants.
Just to let people know…. Gamestop does have the two packs that have been announced for per-order in stores.