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Skylanders Trap Team™ Dark Edition Featuring Ultimate Kaos Trap Debuts
Activations Include Consumer Hands-on Gameplay, First-Ever Skylanders Comic Book Unveiling
Attendees at Comic-Con will be the first consumers to check out the new Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition Starter Pack toys and will be able to pre-order the Starter Pack at the Skylanders booth. North American fans who can’t wait for the convention to start can pre-order the Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition Starter Pack beginning today at major retailers while supplies last.
The Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition is a true collector’s starter pack that includes the special Ultimate Kaos Trap, which allows Portal Masters to trap and play as Kaos when the game launches in North America on October 5. The Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition Starter Pack features the Ultimate Kaos Trap, a special, larger-sized Trap to capture Skylands’ #1 villain. It will also include two Traps; exclusive black and silver variant designs of new characters Snap Shot, Wildfire and Food Fight; a two-sided ultimate collector poster; sticker sheets and trading cards. The Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition Starter Pack will be available on Xbox 360™ games and entertainment system from Microsoft; Xbox One, the all-in-one games and entertainment system from Microsoft; PlayStation® 3 computer entertainment system; PlayStation® 4 and Nintendo’s Wii™ and Wii U™ systems for a suggested retail price of $99.
“In just 33 months, the Skylanders franchise has grown into a pop-culture phenomenon,” said Josh Taub, senior vice president of product management at Activision Publishing, Inc. “What better way to honor our fans, many of whom attend San Diego Comic-Con, than to give them new ways to experience the game firsthand? With the Skylanders Trap Team Dark Edition, #0 issue of the official Skylanders comic and additional surprises to come, we have more to offer fans than ever before.”
About Skylanders Trap Team
Launching in October, Skylanders
Trap Team brings a ground-breaking innovation to the Skylanders franchise by reversing the
magic of its signature Toys-To-Life
play pattern to let kids bring life-to-toys for the first time. With Skylanders
Trap Team, Portal Masters seek out and defeat the most wanted villains
in all of Skylands, pulling them out of the game and into living rooms by
capturing them in magical Traps. Players can then send villains back into the
game where they play as them to fight for good. The game will include the
Traptanium PortalTM, a new ring of magical energy that enables kids
to not only bring their Skylanders to life, but also magically capture villains
using the new Traps. Once they’ve defeated the villains, kids will be able to
place a Trap into the new portal to capture them. They will also be able to
hear the villains inside the Traps, an innovation that truly brings life to
toys.
About the Skylanders® Franchise
The award-winning, $2 billion Skylanders franchise pioneered the Toys-to-Life category in 2011 with the
debut of Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure®. The
game originated a new play pattern that seamlessly bridged physical and virtual
worlds across multiple platforms. In October 2012, Skylanders Giants™ further evolved the genre and added the
mega-sized Giant Skylanders and LightCore®
characters to the collection of interaction figures. Skylanders SWAP Force launched in October 2013 and introduced an
all-new play pattern – swapability. The Skylanders franchise was the top selling
kids’ videogame of 20132, and is now one of the top 20 videogame
franchises of all time3. Skylanders Trap Team, the newest
installment due out in North America on October 5, 2014, reverses the magic of
bringing toys to life – incredibly letting kids pull characters out of the
digital world into the physical world.
For more information, please visit: www.skylanders.com and
Activision.com/presscenter.
For media inquires:
Martina Zetterkvist
PR Manager, Activision Nordics
Phone: +46 (0)70 674 38 13
Email: martina.zetterkvist@activision.com
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- skylanders
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