Activision announces Skylanders Giants, featuring giant Skylanders [update: Trailer, screens and figures]
Last month, domains for “Skylanders Giants” appeared, followed by a lot of cryptic teases from a “SkylandersGiant” Twitter account. Today, Activision and developer Toys for Bob have revealed that Skylanders: Giants is actually a full sequel to the game released last year. Alongside the new game come brand new figures to collect and, as the name implies, they are much larger than the toys released so far.
Specifically, eight new characters will be released, all of them “more than twice the size” of normal Skylanders both out of the box and inside the game world itself. New figures will also feature integrated lights that illuminate when a character is placed on or near the Portal of Power. Finally, Skylanders Giants will be compatible with previous Skylanders figures and, what’s more, figures will retain all the stats earned in Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure.
Skylanders Giants will officially debut at the American International Toy Fair later this month. Presumably, we’ll have more details, including a price and release date, by then. A Skylanders event is about to take place in New York, we should have more details and media shortly.
Update: We’ve added a new trailer and galleries of screenshots and the new figures. Also, according to the trailer, Skylanders Giants is coming this fall.
Gallery: Skylanders: Giants
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