Kaos is back (again), wreaking havoc in the Skylands (again)! It's up to you and your gigantic Rubbermaid bin of figures from the last five years of Skylanders games to stop him! Oh, who am I kidding. You're going to shell out a couple hundred bucks on the new hotness that is Skylanders Imaginators. Perhaps you'll also invest in a nice ...]]>
The app features the same creation tools that will be featured in Skylanders Imaginators so you can choose a base class and select their features (such as head, torso, weapon, arms, legs), and then give your Skylander a name. If you love your new creation, you can then order a 3d printed figure of them for $49.99, or order a high-quality trading card with a full color image of your custom-made Skylander on it for $14.99. Both the figure and the card can be used with the Imaginators game to bring your creation into the game. It's worth noting, though, that this is the only way to do so.
Sounds pretty enticing, yeah? Well, check this out. All you gotta do is pick up one of them "Creation Crystals" and blammo - you can create Skylanders in your own image. You'll be like some sorta divine entity, just creatin' things left and right. How's about it? You wanna know more? Go on and watch the video below.
The Creation Crystals allow you to pick your own Battle Class, appearance, and catchphrases in order to build your very own Skylander in-game. Each Crystal is associated with a particular element, e.g., fire or water, so you'll be able to make a water-based Bowslinger or a light-based Sorcerer depending on the Crystal you use. In addition to these "Imaginators," there are over 30 Sensei characters that vary by Battle Class and element. If you pair up an Imaginator and a Sensei of the same Battle Class, new weapons and abilities will open up for the Imaginator allowing you to explore new areas in the game.
When you place the new "Creation Crystal" toy onto the new Portal of Power, you'll be taken into a series of character creation menus that let you pick you Skylander's Battle Class (e.g., Knight, Sorcerer, Bowslinger) that affect the character's abilities, its appearance and catchphrases, and its powers. All of this gets saved to the crystal so you can use that creation over and over again. Each crystal is single-use only, however, and is also of a particular element type, i.e., fire, water. So if you want to make a Fire Knight and a Fire Sorcerer, you'll have to buy two Fire-type Creation Crystals.