This is also the first Skylanders game not to be owned by Vivendi.
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People who pre-order Console Starter Pack from Target Corporation receive a free, exclusive, physical magic/trading card that grants an upgrade (UFO Hat) when placed on the new Portal of Power, as well as the Lightcore Hex figure.
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He has also performed a voice sample for an additional character in the 2011 Spyro game, Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.
He also voiced Spider-Man (The Spectacular Spider-Man), Eric Forman in That 70s Show, Troy Bolton (played by Zac Efron from the High School Musical series) and Spyro the Dragon for the Skylanders series, which is the second reboot for the Spyro the Dragon video game franchise.
The game's music was composed by Hans Zimmer, who also composed music for such well-known movies such as the academy award-winning Disney animated film The Lion King, Inception and The Dark Knight trilogy.
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Toys for Bob was given the opportunity to revive a Vivendi franchise, and they chose the Spyro the Dragon franchise.
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Paul Reiche III noted: "attempts to revive broad-audience mascot franchises haven't seen predictable success in the game industry. Just creating a new Spyro game after the traditional fashion was unlikely to work" and reinventing the character as a "really gritty, strange otherworldly Spyro" didn't seem like a promising idea.