Completed the original in co-op with my lad earlier this year and had a great time. Picked up Skylanders: Giants today. £150 gone. Thank you very much.
Just back from work after the biggest CLUSTERFUCKAGEDDON ever prepping this for the launch tomorrow. I fucking hate Skylanders and everything associated with it.
It's a Spyro the dragon game that comes with a plugin stand thing and a few figurines. When you place the figurines on the stand they appear as playable characters in the game.
Additional figurines can be bought, kind of like dlc but with a physical object. Each figurine has a name, character and move set. I believe you can also store the leveling stats on the figurine and take it to a friends house, like a memory card.
It is superb marketing from Activision and tbh a great game idea for kids.
I can only imagine Nintendo are kicking themselves that they didn't come up with a pokemon version first.