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Skylanders SWAP Force Wii U Start Up Kit

November 27, 2013 by Michelle M

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Michelle of Honest & Truly!, a 5 Minutes for Mom contributor, shares her thoughts on Skylanders SWAP Force in this sponsored post.  She was compensated for this article.

My first video game system was an Atari. The one with a single joystick and just one red button. I am continually amazed at how far video gaming has come – and how fast.  Don’t get me wrong, we loved our Atari and playing it, but the new systems and games like Skylanders SWAP Force takes it to a whole new level of fun and interactivity.

As video games began growing in complexity, our house had a dilemma. We loved playing the game and playing with our friends, but as we beat levels, we were reluctant to start a new game with our friends and preferred to simply keep playing where we’d left off trying to beat a new level, which wasn’t always fun for our friends. When Skylanders was first introduced, one of my favorite parts about it was how it was set up to be played across multiple platforms.  Each character could be taken from the Xbox Kinect at my house and played on the Wii at my friend’s house, and nothing would be lost and it didn’t matter if we had different gaming systems. The game characters were fun with unique personalities, and the wee ones enjoyed playing with them outside the video game, as well.  Skylanders was cemented as a must-have in my mind at that point.

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Now Skylanders has one upped themselves, and the Skylands world is even more amazing.  The 16 new Lightcore™ characters have interchangeable top and bottom halves.  Each character has its own personality and skills, and swapping a top for a bottom creates a whole new character with different abilities.  It opens up all new worlds of creativity and geometrically increases the characters available. The 16 Lightcore™ characters become more than 250 characters through the swapping.  Even better?  If you have previous characters from Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure® or Skylanders Giants™, those still work to play Skylanders SWAP Force, so they haven’t become obsolete.

The new characters have new abilities, which means you can explore even more of Skylands than you could before.  The new characters can fly, climb, dig, bounce, and teleport, which takes you places you could never visit before.  In SWAP Force, a group of Skylanders were caught in a volcano eruption on the Cloudbreak Islands.  They were split in half (which is why you can now swap bottom and top halves) and sent to Earth.  While the Skylanders are out of action, Kaos has returned with a new evil plot, and the Skylanders must get back to Cloudbreak to stop him before all of Skylands is destroyed.

Just like in other Skylanders games, there are various play modes that offer different types of gaming depending on who you’re playing with and how you want to play.  In Skylanders SWAP Force, there’s both solo and team survival mode, a rival mode, a battle arena mode, and a ring out mode.  With the game rated E10+ for cartoon violence, it’s a game that just about everyone will enjoy playing.

Skylanders SWAP Force is available on Nintendo Wii, Wii U, and 3DS, as well as Xbox and Xbox One, and Playstation 3 and 4.  The starter pack for SWAP Force is just $299.99 and includes a Wii U system, new portal, the video game, 3 Skylanders figures, a character collector poster, 3 sticker sheets with secret codes, and 3 trading cards.  You can also buy individual SWAP Force action figures ($14.99) as well as the core Skylanders action figures ($9.99) that will play on any portal.

Michelle may never stop running around Chicagoland, but she always makes time for the important things in her life – her wee ones, cooking, reading, and spending time with friends – and of course, writing. You can see what she’s up to on her blog Honest & Truly! or on Twitter where she tweets as @HonestAndTruly.

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Michelle is a stay at home mom of Mister Man (8) and Little Miss (6). When she's not out volunteering or running children to therapy or practices, you can find her in the kitchen or on her personal blog Honest & Truly where there's always a good story or new recipe or at her review blog Honest And Truly Reviews.

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124 Comments

  1. Glenda Dixon says

    December 2, 2014 at 9:36 pm

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  12. Leslie L Stanziani says

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  22. shirley says

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  23. Pauline M says

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  24. Sharon O. says

    December 1, 2013 at 10:24 pm

    My brothers had that original Atari too! Thought it was the greatest thing ever, although they’d never let me play it. Thank you!

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  25. Laura Unger says

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    December 1, 2013 at 9:25 pm

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  40. Ashley Fryer says

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  41. Allison says

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  47. Cassandra says

    December 1, 2013 at 7:23 pm

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  57. karen medlin says

    December 1, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    This will make a great gift for the family to share. The boys are big fans of the Skylanders and are hoping for a Wii U system for christmas

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  58. Daniel M says

    December 1, 2013 at 6:22 pm

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    December 1, 2013 at 6:21 pm

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  60. melissaandkeith miller says

    December 1, 2013 at 6:15 pm

    Skylanders are great for boys~

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  61. Carissa says

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    December 1, 2013 at 5:32 pm

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  67. Lori Walker says

    December 1, 2013 at 5:31 pm

    love skylanders – would love it for my nephew.

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  68. Samantha F says

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    I’ve never heard of a Wii U.

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    December 1, 2013 at 3:51 pm

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    December 1, 2013 at 3:42 pm

    My daughter and son would both like this. Looks like a fun game!!

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    December 1, 2013 at 3:00 pm

    Me kids wouldn’t know how to act if they got an expensive gift like this for Christmas and with Skylanders too

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  78. Steph says

    December 1, 2013 at 2:58 pm

    My kids love Skylanders. This new game looks really cool.

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    December 1, 2013 at 2:41 pm

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    December 1, 2013 at 2:07 pm

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    my nephew loves Skylander

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    December 1, 2013 at 1:13 pm

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    November 30, 2013 at 6:29 pm

    My daughter would love this

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    November 30, 2013 at 3:22 pm

    I would love to win this for my niece.

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    November 30, 2013 at 1:20 pm

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    November 30, 2013 at 10:59 am

    If I won this, my daughter would go crazy!

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  101. Beth W says

    November 30, 2013 at 10:58 am

    This is on my oldest son’s wishlist! Thank you 🙂

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    November 29, 2013 at 11:30 pm

    My girl friends son would love this

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    November 29, 2013 at 11:03 pm

    Thanks for the opportunity =]

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  104. Patricia Wojnar Crowley says

    November 29, 2013 at 4:33 pm

    My nephew loves Skylanders!

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    November 29, 2013 at 12:51 pm

    my grandsons love skylanders

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  106. Melissa P. says

    November 29, 2013 at 7:52 am

    Skylanders is such a fun game to play. Love it! Thanks!

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  107. Terra Heck says

    November 29, 2013 at 4:32 am

    This would make a great Christmas present for my son. Thanks.
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  108. KATHY says

    November 29, 2013 at 12:52 am

    There are two little boys in my life who would go ballistic were they to get this!

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  109. Cassandra Coleman says

    November 28, 2013 at 8:08 pm

    would love this for my little cousin.. she is such a great student and really deserves it

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  110. shelly says

    November 28, 2013 at 2:42 pm

    My son would go nuts over this! Skylanders is on our wish list.

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    November 28, 2013 at 12:07 pm

    I would like to win this so I can give it to my brother as a Christmas present

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    November 28, 2013 at 1:11 am

    my nephew loves Skylanders.. would love to win!

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  113. Natalie S says

    November 28, 2013 at 1:02 am

    This is great! We currently don’t have any type of gaming systems so this would be awesome!

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  114. Michelle says

    November 28, 2013 at 12:14 am

    I would love to win this for my son!

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  115. latanya says

    November 27, 2013 at 10:43 pm

    I would love to play with the Wii U

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  116. Jenn M says

    November 27, 2013 at 10:16 pm

    Would be a major gift here with these 2 boys. Sounds like a fun game to play

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  117. Lachelle B says

    November 27, 2013 at 8:50 pm

    My husband would love to play this WITH the kids!

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    November 27, 2013 at 7:10 pm

    This would be fun to win!

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    November 27, 2013 at 6:26 pm

    this would be a great gift

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    November 27, 2013 at 12:19 pm

    Wow! This is a cool gift idea.

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  121. Theresa J says

    November 27, 2013 at 11:40 am

    This is on my sons wishlist

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    November 27, 2013 at 9:38 am

    Wonderful gift. Thanks for this chance.

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    November 27, 2013 at 9:13 am

    My son would be so happy to get this for Christmas!

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  124. Sonya Morris says

    November 27, 2013 at 8:26 am

    This would make an amazing gift!

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