Share your "first" Skylanders story!

[Spyro Paul]

Ironically when I first saw the Skylanders game, I thought my 11 year old would like it so I asked him if he wanted it for Christmas. He didn't seem that interested so we passed on it. My birthday was first week of January and I had mentioned how neat I thought the game was from several trips to Walmart. My girlfriend bought me the game and we were both instantly hooked! - Logging 40+ hours on it the first week we had it! By now we have bought a second game for the 11 year old as well and have collected the 3 Adventure Packs, and all the Skylanders that have been released. I hate hearing how hard it is for so many others to find them. Stores here in the Atlanta area are out regularly, but continue to get shipments in quite frequently. I bought Cynder this past Monday and that completed my set to date. We don't have Dark Spyro or the Legendary Figures, and that is fine with us. We will wait to get Ignitor when he is released outside of the 3DS pack.

All in all, I love the game and hope that it spawns sequels. I think the figures are really cool and would have probably enjoyed collecting them just as much even if they hadn't been part of the game.

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[f5shooter]

Our first adventure with Skylanders was Christmas morning. Santa brought it for my son on the 360 along with 7 or 8 Skylanders.

He had seen it at Gamestop a few weeks earlier and they only had it for the Wii and Playstation so he was worried that they didn't make it for the 360, but Santa came through!

It made for a great Christmas as we co-op'd through the game! (It also sealed where his Christmas money from relatives would be spent as we scoured the city for next 3-4 weeks getting all the available guys. ;D )

[vascomi]

Let's see... my history...

Well I first knowed about Skylanders when I was in Fnac ( a store in Portugal ) and wherever I passed by I just was seeing toys and toys and them I saw a game with the name of the toys and I was like:
Toys in a game???
I asked the game for Christmas and more 8 toys, I was super excited when I received the game and I was like:

" THIS IS SKYLANDS " every day!

I finished the game four days after, since them I'm a skylanderhomic

[thierrytng]

With games like Pokémon and such, I've always wondered what it'd be like if they were real. Not in the animé way, but rather, what would happen if designers actually made a game with holograms and the like. Playing with carboard cards is fun and all but I figured we were too far away from real stuff like holograms and such.

Then I learned about this game. Instantly I knew it was something special, whith the potential to change the way we look at video gaming. That's a rare thing, happening only once every decade or so. The last time it happened was the Wii, so I knew I wanted to be part of this. My spouse's a game enthousiast too and a dragon lover to boot, so I thought that it might be something for us to do together.

I was right. The game's easy enough to allow for casual gaming, but with the PvP element added, gives the neccesary challenge. But I also noticed how well made it was. The figures, the portal, the games themselves (yeah, we even got the 3DS version) are all aimed at quality, not an easy profit. It tries to combine the best aspects of games (like the duelling in Smash Brothers style or the questing/social gaming in the web version) to provide a game experience like you see in those japanese animé shows. It's really built to last, and as such it's hard to imagine that they didn't saw the hype coming.

It really is the next step in gaming to me, and exactly what the pokémon style genre needed. Spyro can be proud that he's on the forefront of it.

P.S. I normally don't enter contests, but with the Wave 3 characters being impossible to find in my country, I figured I'd give it a shot. :-)

[Yaggleberry Finn]

Thanks for sharing all of your stories! You've been entered in our drawing that will take place in 31 hours. For those of you that haven't registered yet, jump in before it's too late! Entries after 5pm CST tomorrow will not count - but folks can still share their stories for fun after the contest ends if they so desire.

[themorpheus]

Jan 30, 2012 10:01:07 GMT -6 Yaggleberry Finn said:

Thanks for sharing all of your stories! You've been entered in our drawing that will take place in 31 hours. For those of you that haven't registered yet, jump in before it's too late! Entries after 5pm CST tomorrow will not count - but folks can still share their stories for fun after the contest ends if they so desire.

Whaaa? There is a contest? What do I need to do?

[Yaggleberry Finn]

I probably shouldn't use the word contest, since that's not exactly what it is. Anyway, I'm assuming you've read about the drawing we're going to have tomorrow regarding the giveaway of a free Double Trouble. If not, go back and read this thread:

skylanders.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=contestone&action=display&thread=69

[haigen]

My story is just about me searching for any signs of figurines. I have a Wal-Mart in my area that has significantly slow business. That is where I go to get my figures.

[Yaggleberry Finn]

Just over three hours left before we have our drawing! I will temporarily lock this thread at that time so I can make sure no one is accidentally left out.

[*~V~*]

So exciting!

[themorpheus]

Jan 31, 2012 13:57:34 GMT -6 Yaggleberry Finn said:

Just over three hours left before we have our drawing! I will temporarily lock this thread at that time so I can make sure no one is accidentally left out.

Just be sure to make the randomizer choose me mkay?

[chaosworrier]

I think the randomiser should give less chance to those with less karma.

Oh bugger, I just exatled you before and increased your chances.

Quick, exalt me to even it out again...

[Yaggleberry Finn]

Ok, this thread is temporarily closed while I get everyone's name in a hat and draw out a winner!