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Has anyone else found anything except the OP?

May be regional. Nothing at the kroger I checked in middle TN as in no Skylanders and no faint glimmer of recognition from the employees. I remember a crazy DVD or bluray deal from a few years ago that was regional and TN missed out on it.

Originally Posted by Docsamson Has anyone else found anything except the OP?

yes, I found them at 3 different king soopers here in Colorado Springs. That may be the thing (king soopers only) since that's where the op found them also.

Originally Posted by Brother Daz yes, I found them at 3 different king soopers here in Colorado Springs. That may be the thing (king soopers only) since that's where the op found them also.

What is a king sooper? Is that the mega Kroger with furniture and stuff?

Friend of mine is an assistant manager at a Starbucks in a Kroger in IL. He just got Skylanders Giants from Wal-Mart on BF and has had Skylanders for a few months now. This sale is great for him due to his employee discount stacking.

Thanks OP.

Originally Posted by prayformojo What is a king sooper? Is that the mega Kroger with furniture and stuff?

No, King Soopers is just a name of one of their chains of grocery stores.

Originally Posted by Tiako What is the big deal about these?

I was literally just thinking the same thing. My wife is a Kindergarten teacher and says that her classroom boys are obssessed with these little things.

Kind of like their Pokemon?

What are all these little guys exactly?

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skylanders:_Giants

No go in southern Mississippi. Scanned with my membership and its all regular price.

Guys this is very YMV, I live in the OH WV area and they are only marked to 9.99. I was able to talk the manager into giving me the price after showing him the OP pics. Good luck to all.

I wonder if this is the case with Smith's or Ralph's, which is what the chain is called out West. I'll check on my way home tonight.

No luck for me. I had to drive from Michigan to Chicago today, and I checked 2 Kroger stores along the way, and a Food 4 Less in Chicago. Only 1 of them had the figures, and they were regularly priced. Grabbed a few anyway in case I decide to try and get them to price match, otherwise I'll probably return them.

What type of game is skylanders i dont think its anything like an rpg game where you level up people is it

Originally Posted by slidecage What type of game is skylanders i dont think its anything like an rpg game where you level up people is it

It is, pretty much think of it as a kids first RPG. Fun for adults though also. IDK if I would have ever played it if I didn't have a kid.

Originally Posted by Brother Daz It is, pretty much think of it as a kids first ROG

rog?


so is it worth buying if your older then 30

RPG sorry.

It's fun for adults, not full msrp fun though

Originally Posted by Brother Daz RPG sorry. It's fun for adults, not full msrp fun though

thanks .... was thinking about getting it for the 3ds just 4 days after they had many of the freaking figures for 3 each on amazon AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHhhh

I grabbed those LD figures when they were popping up. 2.99 was a great price for them. The I grabbed giants for the boy at bby on BF and used a $20 cert. on it, getting it for $30. That was about all I was willing to pay for it.

Each little figure has its own chip, and saves it's own level data, upgrades, and so forth. They've got different upgrade lines as well. You can swap characters in the game on the fly, instantly by simply replacing the figure you have on the portal, which is a usb device you hook to the console which reads the chip inside the figure via RFID, and translates the data into the game.

It is very akin to pokemon, in fact, if Nintendo is capable of doing this with the pokemon franchise they wil lnever have to release another game again, they'll have bags of money the size of texas. Kids love it, I'm pretty hardcore about my games and I even enjoy it. Scalpers love it most, I think.

Originally Posted by DrummerX Each little figure has its own chip, and saves it's own level data, upgrades, and so forth. They've got different upgrade lines as well. You can swap characters in the game on the fly, instantly by simply replacing the figure you have on the portal, which is a usb device you hook to the console which reads the chip inside the figure via RFID, and translates the data into the game. It is very akin to pokemon, in fact, if Nintendo is capable of doing this with the pokemon franchise they wil lnever have to release another game again, they'll have bags of money the size of texas. Kids love it, I'm pretty hardcore about my games and I even enjoy it. Scalpers love it most, I think.

they go around cutting the little monsters head off that would be freaking insane if they did this with pokemon