Michael McNutt 
Lias and I take on our fifth Arena Battle in Skylanders Swap Force called Sand-Pit-Fall. We must battle enemies while avoiding a large pit in the center of the arena. Watch as I use Zoo Lou and Lias uses Legendary Night Shift. See how we do on our quest to earn three stars!
Let us know what you think of the Sand-Pit-Fall Arena.
Could you use some help finding Skylanders? Maybe a specific Skylander you want has disappeared? I know a lot of people out there often can’t find that one last Skylander they need or don’t have the time to constantly visit the stores. Well, I find myself at the stores often, so I’d like to offer my services to anyone who is interested. If you are looking for a Skylander that you just can’t find in your area. Send me an e-mail about what it is you are looking for. It can be a character, trinket, toy, Mega Bloks, or whatever. If you know Skylander toy X is found at Walmart, but you can’t find it. I’ll keep my eyes out. In order to provide this service, I will charge roughly $10 to $15 over retail. It may be more depending on what it is you want shipped. Obviously bigger toys, or large number of items will be more due to shipping. Any questions of specific toys can be discussed over e-mail. I also only accept paypal and will ship upon paypal’s verification receipt of payment. I wouldn’t use my service for early release characters. I mean Wave 4 characters may be limited now, but in a couple weeks should be found everywhere. So I would advise in that case to save your money. Besides by the time I find it and ship it to you, it would most likely be easily found in your stores.
Since characters are what I assume I will be getting for people the most, here is what I will be charging for characters. Price includes, shipping, materials, retail cost, tax, gas money, etc. Shipping is also limited to the continental US.
Core small Skylander $22
Small lightcore/legendary $25
Swappable/Giant $28
I will look for and send any current or past character that might still be in stores. However, I will not look for or send rare chase variants. I’m not looking for Gold, Silver, Crystal or other randomly found characters. I would however, send you the best buy exclusive Silver Sprocket, while my stores still have them in stock since those are easily found for a short time. I would also send any limited store exclusives like Nitro Freeze Blade, Enchanted Star Strike, etc. But of course those won’t be found for long. And obviously there is no guarantee that I will be able to find the items that you request. However, I do want to help anyone I can as we all love Skylanders, and searching for them constantly can be tiresome.
If anyone is interested, just send me an e-mail at Mike@skylandernutts.com. Put “Skylander Request” in the subject line and let me know what character you want me to look for in the body. If it’s not a character then be sure to describe what you are looking for and where it might be found. I know some things seem to be more common to one store over another even if they are not explicitly exclusive. And example would be the Skylanders Kids Cups that I still see only at Walmart.
I know the price isn’t cheap, but that is mostly because we are talking retail prices and I do not have any wholesale suppliers. But let me know if you need help finding something and I’ll do my best.
Thanks,
Mike
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Stink Bomb is a new Swappable Life Skylander with the Sneak ability for Skylanders Swap Force. His sneak ability allows him to unlock certain Sneak zone challenges on some of the main game levels. He is a green ninja skunk armed with throwing stars while wearing some light armor. His arms and legs have some wooden guards covered in spikes. He stands ready to throw one of his throwing stars while he has a couple more attached to his shirt . It seems pretty obvious that he will have a ranged attack in his arsenal. Overall he looks like a ninja ready for battle. Even though we already have a ninja character in Ninja Stealth Elf, Stink Bomb certainly holds his own unique look and feel.
Stink Bomb does start with a throwing star attack that can damage enemies at medium range. He also starts with a skunk cloud attack that allows him to go invisible and to damage enemies with the cloud. His upgrades are pretty much what you would expect. His throwing star attack can be upgraded to do more damage or to throw more stars at once. His Skunk Cloud can be upgraded to grow larger and to leave a trail behind as he moves. He also has the ability to add an attack that will knock back his enemies. His attacks are not too flashy or too unusual. His Skunk Cloud is about the most unique attack he has, but it is similar to Stealth Elf’s invisibility with some added damage bonus.
As a swappable character there are two different upgrade paths to choose, one for his body and one for his legs. The body paths let you focus either on adding a shield to the throwing star attack, or adding a poisoned acorn attack to knock his enemies back. We chose the Art of Skunk-Fu Path which adds the shield ability to the throwing stars attack. The throwing stars attack is our most used attack. It’s quick, it’s easy, and it’s ranged. The leg paths involve adding a second skunk cloud attack or adding an option to leave spike traps behind to damage enemies. Both leg paths seem to do the same thing by passively damaging enemies as they move through the traps. But overall neither leg path is extremely devastating or interesting.
Stink Bomb also has two soul gem abilities. One enhances the throwing stars to do more critical damage, and the other allows Stink Bomb to stay invisible even after attacking enemies from the Skunk Cloud. The “invisible after attacking” ability sounds cool, but he never seems to stay invisible for very long after the attack. So after a while it just feels like a pointless upgrade. These soul gem attacks are slightly useful, but they are not as devastating or over the top as other character’s soul gem abilities.
Overall Stink Bomb is a decent character who is very useful at a distance but I don’t find myself gravitating to use Stink Bomb much outside of completing Sneak Challenges.
| Card Stats | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Attack: | 140 | Max Health | 270 | |
| Defense: | 85 | Speed | 43 | |
| Speed: | 150 | Armor | 12 | |
| Luck: | 15 | Critical Hit | 6 | |
| Elemental Power | 25 | |||
| Body Attacks | |||
| Skunk-Fu Stars | Press Attack 1 to throw small stars that can damage enemies at long range | Free | |
| One-Inch Palm | Press Attack 3 to deliver a powerful palm attack that knocks away enemies. | 300 Gold | |
| Noxious Ninja | Press Attack 1 to throw Skunk-Fu Stars that do increased damage. | 800 Gold | |
| Sweeping Kung-Fu | Hold Attack 1 to charge handfuls of Skunk-Fu Stars, release to damage enemies in all directions. | 1000 Gold | |
| The Art of Skunk-Fu Path | |||
| Skunk-Fu Shield | Sweeping Skunk-Fu creates a whirling shield that damages nearby enemies. | 1500 Gold | |
| Skunk-Fu Master | Skunk-Fu Shield does increased damage | 2000 Gold | |
| The Art of Acorns Path | |||
| Acorn Accuracy | Hold Attack 3 to charge a powerful poisoned acorn, release to shoot it at enemies. | 1500 Gold | |
| Skunk Eye | An ancient aiming technique makes acorn attacks do increased damage. | 2000 Gold | |
| Soul Gem Ability | |||
| Master-Star Technique | Press Attack 1 to throw Master Stars that have a higher chance to critically hit. | 3500 Gold | |
| Leg Attacks | |||
| Skunk Cloud | Press Attack 2 to go invisible and damage enemies with a large obscuring cloud. | Free | |
| Hidden Tail | Press Attack 2 while invisible to perform a tail attack that does a large amount of damage to enemies. | 300 Gold | |
| Sporting Stripes | Speed is increased. | 800 Gold | |
| Skunking Around | Press Attack 2 to go invisible and leave a skunk cloud on the ground that damages enemies. | 1000 Gold | |
| Skunk Cloud Controller Path | |||
| Rolling Fog | Up to two skunk clouds can be active at one time. | 1500 Gold | |
| Cloudy Concoction | Skunk cloud does increased damage. | 2000 Gold | |
| Sneaky Tricks Path | |||
| Sneaky Tactics | Move forward slowly to cause pointy objects to be left behind that slow and damage enemies. | 1500 Gold | |
| Pain in the Foot | Sneaky Tactics does increased damage. | 2000 Gold | |
| Soul Gem Ability | |||
| Stealth Skunk | Remain invisible even after attacking enemies. | 3500 Gold | |
It looks like there will be a Swap Force sale at Best Buy starting this Sunday. Based off an ad scan for Best Buy starting 3/23/2014, they will be having a buy one Swap Force character get one 50% off sale. The scan shows the new swappable characters Freeze Blade and Trap Shadow, though it’s unclear if the sale is just for swappable characters or any character in the Swap Force game. Also the starter packs for all systems will be on sale for $54.99.
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As you know, I recently ran into the two new swapable Skylanders: Freeze Blade, and Trap Shadow at a local Toys R Us. After this I searched the web a little bit and caught wind of a bunch of new possible wave 4 Skylander sitings. Most of these centered around Walmarts in different states. So I took to the stores today to do a little reconnaissance and…no luck. No characters, no information. None of the employees had any idea when new Skylanders would arrive. However, judging by the number of sitings from people on reddit, 
in other parts of the country, it’s obvious that we are just weeks, if not days from a wide spread roll out of wave 4 characters. So here are the Swap Force characters that seem to be headed for Wave 4.
Keep in mind that this is still just speculation. More characters could be added should they start showing up on store shelves, in the next couple of weeks. If anything changes, I will update this article.
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Freeze Blade Unboxing! He is another early Wave 4 character to hit store shelves at Toys R Us. He is the second swappable character with the Speed Movement ability to be released. Watch as Conner consistently thinks that he is a girl and….did he break him? Watch to find out!
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Wave 4 Swap Force Characters are here, and today we have the first one to hit store shelves with our Trap Shadow Unboxing! We found him at Toys R Us and it looks like Toys R Us once again will have the characters a few weeks before anyone else as a search of local retailer’s websites has not yielded any results. Here is Conner’s Unboxing!
Let us know what you think of Trap Shadow!
It looks like Wave 4 Swap Force Skylanders are starting to show up in stores. At least they are starting to show up at Toys R Us. We were at our local Toys R Us this morning and ran into both Trap Shadow and Freeze Blade. These were the only two we could find. A quick look at most of the major retailer websites, does not yield any results for these characters. So for now it looks like these are only at Toys R Us. Like many of the characters before, these tend to show up first at Toys R Us by a couple of weeks, before they make their way to other major retailers. So if you have been patiently waiting for a new Skylander to buy, give your local Toys R Us a call. Stay tuned here for some unboxing videos of these new characters.
Conner is pretty excited for this Spy Rise Unboxing. Spy Rise is a new Tech swappable Skylander for Swap Force. Conner has some initial difficulties but overcomes them well.
Watch and let us know what you think of Spy Rise.
We all knew it was going to happen, but the question has always been – When? Skylanders are coming back to McDonald’s. This time the Swap Force will be invading your Happy Meals with the likes of Rattle Shake, Freeze Blade, and even a Chompy. According to the McDonald’s website happymeal.com, the Skylander Toys will be the “Next” set of toys to come in Happy Meals, once the Mr. Peabody and Sherman promotion is finished. Typically promotions run anywhere from 2 weeks to 4 weeks. I think we are on the first week of Mr. Peabody toys here in the states, so judging by the toys available I would guess they have no more than two more weeks to go. Interestingly enough, that would put the new McDonald’s toys out around 3/23/14 which also coincides with the previously leaked release date for Nitro Freeze Blade at Target. So it looks like the new McDonald’s toys are going hand in hand with the release of Wave 4 characters. I’ll be sure to keep you updated as to when the toys actually start appearing in McDonald’s.
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