‘Skylanders’ Holiday Shopping Warning: How To Tell ‘Trap Team’ from ‘Swap Force’ and What Every Parent Should Know Before Black Friday [VIDEO GAMES] [TOYS TO LIFE]

You have heard your kids talk about them non stop all year but you still don’t know what a Skylander is, much less how to tell your Swap Force from your Trap Team. Well luckily for you, we are here to guide you through your shopping list before Black Friday gets here. We can help you understand just figures work with what games, how to tell your Giants from Spyro’s Adventure figures and just in the world those Trap Crystals are for.

So you know your loved one wants some Skylanders for Christmas, but you don’t the first thing about them. Is it a video game? Are they toys? Well the answers is yes, to both.

Lets start with the basics.

Skylanders is a "Toys to Life" video game series, meaning that you use toys to add new content to the games.

Skylanders figures are placed on a portal that transports the character into the game. However, not every Skylander figure will work every Skylanders game.

If you are buying your loved one a Skylanders Starter Set it will come will come with everything you need to play (minus the gaming console).

Important note: All Skylanders figures will work for all systems (so long as there game is supported ), but Skylander games are Console specific. A X Box 360 game will not work on a X Box One console and so on. So check the box on those star sets carefully.

*Wii Starter Set includes an Wii U download.

So long as you remember the order that the games were released and that the newer games work with all the older figures you will be fine.

We hope this helps with your holiday shopping.

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