Surely the Skylanders series has burnt up the creative momentum it accumulated when Toys for Bob started the series two years ago. This third iteration must be resting on its laurels, appealing to the age 6 and up captive audience by now..
For anyone else interested, I'm going to pick this up for my Skylander addicted son, but he'll have to wait for the holidays.
I'm getting it for the PS4 and I was able to get 'confirmation' from Activision via Twitter that they'll be offering the Skylanders Dark Edition for the PS4. It's a Gamespot exclusive starter kit. $99 but w/ 5 'Dark' edition figures instead of the usual 3.
I did love sneaking in the Gauntlet reference. To this day it is still verbal short-hand amongst my gamer friends for everything from peril in a video game to an announced dire need of some junk food goodness.