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Additionally, all discs at NexWave Games are carefully inspected and assessed for quality. When discs arrive, we do not accept any that are so badly damaged that they are unlikely to work. We only accept discs with light scratches at most. Discs with scratches are then treated in our professional disc repair machine. By warming the disc and polishing it with soft brushes, these machines can remove a very thin layer from the disc. This removes the layer containing surface scratches and improves the disc’s readability. This ensures the disc works properly, even on consoles with ageing lasers that have difficulty reading games! Great news for the player.
Eruptor — Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure
Eruptor from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure has a red lava-like body, yellow fists and a broad mouth. The photograph shows the regular version with one raised arm above a fire-themed base. This is not a later LightCore figure or differently coloured collectible variant. This original Series 1 figure stands on a green base. It is a fully playable character, not a Sidekick or separate support item. Its physical form remains as pictured; movements and attacks happen in the game. Control the digital hero using your console's normal inputs.
You use the figure with separate game software, a controller and a Portal of Power compatible with your console and game. The base contains the chip that identifies the character and can store game data. The figure needs no batteries or power cable of its own. Place it on the portal and control the digital hero with your ordinary controller. A Nintendo amiibo reader or Disney Infinity Base does not replace this Skylanders portal.
This offer concerns only the pictured loose figure. A game, Portal of Power, trading card, activation card or original packaging is not automatically included. The original version can be used in Spyro's Adventure and supported sequels. The five examples below are console adventures; Nintendo 3DS and the Switch release of Imaginators have different setups. Software and portal must match each other and your console. A playable older character includes no vehicles, traps or new special toy functions.
History
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure appeared in 2011 and connected physical characters with an on-screen adventure. Activision presented the portal as the link between toys and video games. A figure on the reading surface became a hero you could control. It was not an ornament beside the console: the chosen figure determined which character you played. The first range brought together different forms, from dragons and knights to small fantasy creatures with their own recognisable equipment.
The chip in the base made the figure more than a recognisable ornament. It could store experience, gold and unlocked abilities, among other data. A character could therefore take its development to another supported setup. This differs from a complete saved adventure: story progress remains the responsibility of the game and console. Nor should you assume particular prior training or a clean starting state for a used figure.
After Giants came SWAP Force, Trap Team, SuperChargers and Imaginators, each adding figures and gameplay ideas. Activision retained older characters in later games, but new toy functions were not automatically added to old figures. An ordinary Skylander did not become a swappable SWAP Force character, Trap Master or Sensei. This continuity lets an older collection work within the correct sequels. Software, portal type and any additional pieces remain separate requirements; a loose figure is never a complete setup.
Five Skylanders Games
Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure is this figure's original adventure. Place the character on the Portal of Power and guide it through levels with combat, collectibles and simple puzzles. Keeping your hero or placing another figure gives a different choice of attacks and properties. The figure contains no complete game: software, console and compatible portal setup remain necessary. The old web world in historical advertising is not an included current service. This example concerns the ordinary console version, not the differently structured Nintendo 3DS game.
Skylanders Giants lets you reuse this original figure in a sequel with new environments and enemies. You retain the existing character rather than being required to buy a new version of the same hero. This does not make it a Giant: the large new figures have their own special abilities. A later Series 2 variant is also a different physical version from this original example. You can continue playing without expecting every extra feature of newer toys to be added automatically.
Skylanders Trap Team lets you use this figure in ordinary combat and exploration. The game also revolves around capturing defeated villains and temporarily playing as them. Correct traps and a compatible Traptanium Portal are required; this figure does not replace them. Nor does the character become a Trap Master. The original manual reserves Traptanium crystals and associated elemental gates for that special group. You can keep playing an older hero without expecting every new toy function to come with the purchase.
Skylanders SuperChargers brings this older hero into an adventure also centred on vehicles. You can retain the character, but the figure is not itself a vehicle and does not make it a SuperCharger. Vehicle sections require the necessary separate equipment. The full adventure on platforms including Wii U, PlayStation and Xbox also differs from SuperChargers Racing for Wii and Nintendo 3DS. Do not expect that campaign in every edition. This offer includes no car, boat or aircraft.
Skylanders Imaginators supports older figures alongside new Senseis and created heroes. You play the existing character with its familiar abilities. This figure is not a Creation Crystal and therefore does not provide the item used to store your own Imaginator. Sensei-specific benefits do not follow from compatibility alone either. The ordinary console setup combines game, portal and controller. Nintendo Switch uses a different figure-reading method. Online matches or downloads are not promised as functioning extras with this loose figure.
