My Spyro figurine
Now, I’m a huge fan of the Spyro video games, moreover, the original PS1 set of games that to this day see plenty of use. Recently I cracked, and joined the Skylanders hype. What is Skylanders? It’s the new Spyro game which integrates toys with video games – you basically take this plastic figurine of Spyro or friend, stick it on this ‘portal’ thing plugged into the console and voilà, the character is introduced into the gameplay. So far, my brother and I have found this of great use for when we’ve almost killed Spyro as we can quickly swap to another figurine with full health.
There are 30 of these figurines which are all called Skylanders, and I thought I’d shared with you some of their names:
Boomer – a troll character, of the tech elemental
Camo – a plant/dragon hybird, of the life elemental
Cynder – a once dark dragon, of the undead elemental
Dino (-Rang) – a dinosaur, of the earth elemental
Gill – a gill-man, of the water elemental
Hex – a female dark elf, of the undead elemental (hey, if people love Rex)
Terra(fin) – a shark, of the earth elemental
A couple of other names of characters which appear in the Skylanders game:
Arbo – a talking-tree-creature-thingie who guides you through some of the levels
Auric – a bear, who appears to be based off Moneybags from the original games
Cali – a cat you rescue early on in the game
Fargus – a Mabu character
Flynn – the hot-air balloon-piloting character from the earlier levels
Hugo – the assistant who guides you through the game
Mabu – the name of a race of bear-like creatures from the first level
Persephone – the fairy, who seems to be based off Zoe from the original games
Rasmes – a dragon character
Wendel – son of Fargus
Mer de Noms 