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12:47 PM - Thursday the 20th of December, 2012 - by dark52
Just in time for a last minute dash before Christmas, the release of the third wave of Skylanders: Giants toys is imminent in the United States. Unfortunately it doesn't actually appear to have any brand new characters unless you skipped the first Battle Pack.

What it does have is the LightCore version of Shroomboom, a single pack release of Series 2 Cynder, the regular Series 2 releases of Eruptor and Prism Break (they're not LightCore so they do have their Wow Pows this time), the regular Series 2 Stealth Elf and the debut of a Series 2 Lightning Rod.

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And, according to advertisements, January 9th is when the Scorpion Striker Battle Pack with Hot Dog (and Series 2 Zap) is released. In the US it will be a one month exclusive for GameStop before becoming available at other retailers too.

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#1 gillgrunt987 13:04:38 20/12/2012
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Thank you Dark. I hope to get Lightcore ShroomBoom and the Scorpion Striker battle pack, mainly because of Hot Dog.
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#2 Skybagel 13:21:01 20/12/2012
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Are you going to post these on the "Packs" section of Skylanders Giants?
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#3 dark52 - Spyro the Admin 13:28:29 20/12/2012
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Yes I am.
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#4 zookinator 13:30:49 20/12/2012
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There should be a giant in wave three. Without the giant, it isn't a complete wave. So we will probably know for sure what the new giant is on release day, which has been confirmed as the 23rd.
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#5 DummyZ 15:29:37 20/12/2012
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^This, we can all tell that this is not all of the wave, there are still a lot of characters left which cant be sold in one single wave
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#6 HIR 15:52:13 20/12/2012
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Hmm... interesting. Although the regular releases seem a bit redundant. >.>
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#7 ThePunchPopFizz 17:44:29 20/12/2012
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I believe this is a shelf stocker wave and we'll see 3 packs, at least one giant, and info on at least one of the remaining variants sometime early January. That's my guess tho. No giant on the 23. I would call the predicted mid jan wave, wave 3.5.
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#8 gillgrunt987 18:11:12 20/12/2012
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I am believing Thumpback to be the Wave 3 Giant. It is obvious, because he was the main character in an advert, he is more known about than Eye-Brawl and Ninjini and people are hyped up about him.
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#9 gjswalling 19:26:39 20/12/2012
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I got a TRU flier yesterday that said for Dec 23rd, "New! wave 3 is here! 8 to choose from". So I think there are two more in addition to the 6 shown above, probably one of them is a giant.
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#10 Ace Archdragon 19:32:31 20/12/2012
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EHRSERM.
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#11 DragonCamo 20:15:14 20/12/2012
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Its good though i never thought they would release all of the new characters so quikley :S it dont have a giant but does have a preety cool lightcore...o and..
EEMERHGERD STERTH ERF
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#12 Kevin16 08:50:38 21/12/2012
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Hmmm... no giant? =/
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#13 pennyman 09:41:22 21/12/2012
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gah come on we need another giant!
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#14 SuperSonic3315 19:10:41 21/12/2012
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I'm getting the Series 2 versions of smilie, smilie, and smilie, and the Lightcore versions of smilie and smilie
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#15 ThePunchPopFizz 19:11:49 21/12/2012
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Battle pack has been pushed back to the 9th
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#16 HIR 22:01:06 21/12/2012
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Huh... just realized that there aren't any Giants amongst this wave. That's a bit unusual, considering they're one of the key elements to this sequel. And not having them for the last minute holiday shaping seems like a missed opportunity. <.<
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#17 GameMaster78 23:16:45 21/12/2012
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I checked the Gamestop (US) website after someone posted that the date was listed as the 9th, and they still had it listed as the 1st.

http://www.gamestop.com/toys/s...tle-pack/107129

Yeah, it still shows the first there. I would rather have it on the first than the 9th, haha.
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#18 milton310 02:20:42 22/12/2012
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Interesting.... I had believed that a Giant might be included in the wave. Looks like TFB is just losing revenue
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#19 gjswalling 09:19:55 22/12/2012
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I picked up LC shroom boom at my local TRU on Thursday and they put out a portion of these guys today because they mistakenly advertised the 21st instead of 23rd, so I picked up stealth elf and eruptor, but lightning rod and prism break were sold out. 6am Sunday!
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#21 cynder fan47 13:04:50 22/12/2012
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cynder comes in the staer pake so is not in wave 3 shes in wave 1.right?
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#22 Techelement 16:03:45 22/12/2012
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Quote: ThePunchPopFizz
Battle pack has been pushed back to the 9th


Ad on gamestop was changed to January 9th, but product link still shows available January 1st. Posted pic under Giants discovered info topic
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#23 milton310 16:18:08 22/12/2012
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dark52, do you know anything about whether a Giant will be in the Wave because there is a lot of talk about this on the Giants forums?
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#24 ThePunchPopFizz 17:54:14 22/12/2012
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No offense to dark but as far as I'm aware he knows about as much as we do in the forums. It seems this wave is a shelf stocker and they will use the giants to try to keep interest longer. It won't effect tfb or acti revenue considering a large majority of players are going to just be starting their giants life on Tuesday.
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#25 ThroneOfMalefor 15:19:16 23/12/2012
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omq skylandersz
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#26 spyro and sonic 19:44:05 23/12/2012
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Quote: ThroneOfMalefor
omq skylandersz



OMG THIS POST IS SPAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM

On topic: even without a giant releasing this wave right before Christmas was a good idea....
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#27 PopFizzTM123 22:44:17 23/12/2012
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When does wave 3 come out in the U.K.?
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#28 pennyman 23:09:51 26/12/2012
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so many negative comments about the way Toys R Us handled their 'last minute xmas shopping' advertisements on the Skylanders Facebook page -- people forget how great the game is and how hard it was finding figures last year but this year there are so many -- oh well hope everyone enjoyed whatever Skylanders they got from Santa!
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#29 Voodragon01 02:43:13 27/12/2012
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cant wait to get somemore skylanders!!!
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#30 HIR 03:22:33 27/12/2012
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Quote: pennyman
so many negative comments about the way Toys R Us handled their 'last minute xmas shopping' advertisements on the Skylanders Facebook page -- people forget how great the game is and how hard it was finding figures last year but this year there are so many -- oh well hope everyone enjoyed whatever Skylanders they got from Santa!


When your game is heavily merchandise-based like Skylanders, these type of thinks are actually more common than you think... <.<;
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#31 thumpbackdude 13:28:49 28/12/2012
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Quote: dark52
Just in time for a last minute dash before Christmas, the release of the third wave of Skylanders: Giants toys is imminent in the United States. Unfortunately it doesn't actually appear to have any brand new characters unless you skipped the first Battle Pack.

What it does have is the LightCore version of Shroomboom, a single pack release of Series 2 Cynder, the regular Series 2 releases of Eruptor and Prism Break (they're not LightCore so they do have their Wow Pows this time), the regular Series 2 Stealth Elf and the debut of a Series 2 Lightning Rod.

[User Posted Image]


And, according to advertisements, January 9th is when the Scorpion Striker Battle Pack with Hot Dog (and Series 2 Zap) is released. In the US it will be a one month exclusive for GameStop before becoming available at other retailers too.

[User Posted Image]



My birthday on the day of the battle pack!
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#32 cynder fan47 23:02:00 29/12/2012
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Quote: thumpbackdude
Quote: dark52
Just in time for a last minute dash before Christmas, the release of the third wave of Skylanders: Giants toys is imminent in the United States. Unfortunately it doesn't actually appear to have any brand new characters unless you skipped the first Battle Pack.

What it does have is the LightCore version of Shroomboom, a single pack release of Series 2 Cynder, the regular Series 2 releases of Eruptor and Prism Break (they're not LightCore so they do have their Wow Pows this time), the regular Series 2 Stealth Elf and the debut of a Series 2 Lightning Rod.

[User Posted Image]


And, according to advertisements, January 9th is when the Scorpion Striker Battle Pack with Hot Dog (and Series 2 Zap) is released. In the US it will be a one month exclusive for GameStop before becoming available at other retailers too.

[User Posted Image]



My birthday on the day of the battle pack!



that's cool!
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#33 awesomerockets 22:33:00 30/12/2012
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Wost. Wave. Ever. smilie
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#34 Wakeup 02:12:36 01/01/2013
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I found this at a GameStop...I guess eye brawl should be coming out soon...
http://www.gamestop.com/toys/s...ter-pack/105996
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#35 TheAceOfBreath 09:35:03 01/01/2013
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Is Hot Dog exclusively in that set?
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#36 joseph235 22:23:42 01/01/2013
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Has ne one seen wave 3 in Canada yet?
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#37 Pulverizer 22:48:56 01/01/2013
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I was just at GameStop and I asked them if I should consider pre-ordering the Scorpion Striker Battle Pack and he said no because since it's going to be a GameStop exclusive for a month, and that Skylanders is such a big hit, that they're going to be carrying loads and loads of them.
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#38 iceblade2488 22:30:20 03/01/2013
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Have all but lc shroomboom and s2 prismbreak. pre ordered ss battle pack and have a lightning rod comming from TRUs website.
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#39 SkylanderSchool 20:37:53 05/01/2013
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Who agrees that prism break and lightning rod look constipated?
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#40 voyboy 02:05:37 12/01/2013
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i just bought the scorpion striker
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#41 Ash Starkindle 19:49:00 13/01/2013
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@ TheAceOfBreath: smilie may be sold seperately, unlike s2 smilie
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#42 Ash Starkindle 20:43:15 13/01/2013
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[quote=gillgrunt987 I hope to get the Scorpion Striker battle pack, mainly because of Hot Dog.[/quote]


That's why I preordered it. For smilie mostly, but smilie is cool also.
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#43 cynder fan47 21:17:21 20/01/2013
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Quote: Ash Starkindle
[quote=gillgrunt987 I hope to get the Scorpion Striker battle pack, mainly because of Hot Dog.



That's why I preordered it. For smilie mostly, but smilie is cool also.[/quote]

where did you preorder it?i want smilie so bad and smilie.i love smilie!

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