The other day I was at Toys R Us looking for Skylanders as I always do. I was also on the lookout for the Toys R Us exclusive set of MEGA Bloks Skylanders Legendary figures. I’ve been sent a ton of MEGA Bloks Skylanders Giants sets but the ones that are exclusive to different stores I buy on my own. Toys R Us had a buy a MEGA Bloks set get one 50% off and so I found this set for a little less than the Skylanders set so I bought it. No, I’m not actually saving any money by doing this but I like to get something for 50% off. Yes, I totally fell for it, but the figure is so cool and detailed.
I’m really enjoying the sets from MEGA Bloks and find myself looking closer at them each time I go to the stores now. I have many building sets and all of them are represented on my desk at work. I have LEGO, MEGA Bloks and K-REO also. I never played World of Warcraft but the sets that MEGA Bloks makes for that game are very cool looking and so occasionally I’ll pick up a small one to display.
Today I picked up two new Skylanders figures which are actually repaints of existing figures, sorta. First I stopped over at Walmart and picked up my pre-ordered Ship to Store Molten Hot Dog which is an exclusive to Walmart. Molten Hot Dog is a bright yellow version of the already released Hot Dog figure that I picked up back in January.
The other figure that I picked up was released today. This is actually a repaint of a figure that hasn’t yet been released. I don’t think I’ve seen a repaint released before the actual figure before but in this case it happened. Toys R Us has exclusives that they call Legendary figures. There were four from the Skylanders: Spyro’s Adventure and for Skylanders Giants there are 4 regular sized figures as Legendary and one giant as legendary plus this brand new legendary figure which is also a Lightcore figure. That one is Chill. I like the figure a lot. I just wish that her powers were better. Maybe I’ll try the other upgrade trail and that might be better.
In all it was a good day hunting for Skylanders. We’ve got 10 left to go in the Giants Series and then time to gear up for Skylanders Swap Force.
