Skylanders - Wii

[Bold Seagull]

Anyone bought this for their kids or themselves? Thinking about it for my 8 & 6 year old for Xmas. Sounds expensive, not only do you buy the game for about £50, you then need new figures to unlock other parts of the game??

Can anybody recommend or not? Thanks.

 

[Knightsworld]

It keeps my lad amused for hours on end, he loves it. Does get a little bit expensive having to buy all the different charachters though.

 

[tinx]

I've refused to buy it as I think its ridiculously expensive for a computer game. Much to the displeasure of my son.

 

[kingcole]

It's the cleverest game in the world.

My son begged for it and got it for Christmas, however, every week, to get to the next level, you need to buy a new one. Lots of money, but if I came up with the idea I would be very proud of myself.

Eventually, he completed the game a couple of months back - hooray - no more Skylanders to buy.

Ut Oh! Then Skylander Giants were released and guess what he got for his birthday last week??!!

 

[Bozza]

My sister's boys are mad for it. Last time we were visiting them they got it out to show me. I couldn't believe how many figures they had, and I don't think they had them all. Must have been a good £250 worth.

 

[supaseagull]

My youngest has got it on both the PS3 and the DS (you can use the figures across all platforms) and both are different games.

Figures cost £7.99 - £8.99 which isn't bad considering most normal action figures cost the same. However, not only do you get the figures, you get an additional minigame on top of it.

You buy as many or as little as you want to buy your kids...Mine saves his money up and buys a couple of used figures from ebay once a month.

 

[n1 gull]

My 7 year old loves loves loves it!!! He has asked for Skylander Giants for Xmas

 

[upthealbion1970]

My 9yr old son is hooked on skylanders big time, him an a couple of his mates frequently trade/swap/borrow the figures between themselves keeping the costs bit lower

 

[Fignon's Ponytail]

My 2 boys (9 & 6) were desperate for this last Christmas, so "Santa" duly put it under the tree for them. Cue massive excitement the following morning & quite a few hours over the Christmas holidays playing on it....and then that was it.
They've not looked at it, let alone played it, since mid January I reckon. Santa wont be making that mistake again......