I only have one figure/vehicle for this element, Smash Hit and his vehicle Thump Truck. They're great though - some of my favorites.
I'm missing Shark Shooter Terrafin and his vehicle Shark Tank.
Those wheels move very freely on Thump Truck. It's totally a playable toy outside of the game, as are all the vehicles for SuperChargers. I used Thump Truck quite a bit in the game. I even "rumm, rumm" on the desk from time to time. Don't tell anyone.
As I said before, that's what I like about Skylanders is the toys just scream "Play with me."
They all exude emotion and action. They're kind of like what you might have drawn on the back of a school book and wished they could be made real.
you gotta get that Shark Shooter one man. very cool.
Terrafin is a pretty cool character. I want all of them. He's also kind of key in one of the games for beating the final boss. I think it was in Giants maybe or the first game.
I wa thinking yesterday while I was looking at your toy blogs what kind of job it is to design those things. a lot of creativity and style seems to go into them. I think back to my own youth with gi joe and transformers... and sure, that stuff was meant to sell toys, but art still gets through, whether the company likes it or not.
Yea, I like the style of them. I know one guy is responsible for the designs, at least at first, but maybe there's a team working on them now. His artistic touch is what makes them great though. I'm always amazed at how these get mass produced, the equipment and methods used to stamp these 3D things out. It astounding. Take one of these things back a couple hundred years, and it would be assumed to be hand made. No one would believe you cranked these things out in a factory. And how do they paint them? Is that done by machine too, or are there these armies of low payed workers in China doing them by hand? I can imagine people cranking out so many of them. It's got to be automated. I should research it.