I had the same experience when I bought a used legendary lightcore Grim Creeper because it wasn’t in a box, looked so cool with the blue and gold combined with light 😂
I like lightcore just because they light up and it looks cool, and the best part about lightcore and also series 2,3 is that they are an extra Skylander and it make it easier to find and collect, for example I really wanted Wham Shell for SSA but I sadly couldn’t find any because it’s so rare, but luckily I found the common lightcore wham shell and I use him so often in SSA, that’s the reason why it helps for us players who don’t want to collect every Skylander and variant
I know late answer lol. I see your point but ... to release a Grim Creeper and Lightcore Grim Creeper or Star Strike and Lightcore Starstrike in the same Generation doesnt make sense in any way
It’s also a great alternative to the normal version of a core because they don’t have wow pows in the game they debuted in so you get a cool lightcore and the skylander you need for your collection
Why did they even paint Lightcore Legendary Grim Creeper's head dark blue when it was the same color as the regular Grim Creeper in game? it barely lit up because of it, i hated that.
tbh i really wish that the trap masters' weapons would glow up when you got near a traptanium cluster, the technology was there and is even shown with the traps being able to respond to in game actions but they definitely didn't do enough with the lightcore technology
Ranking light cores (Based mostly on quality and context) #16 bumble blast #15 shroom boom #14 jet-vac #13 warnado #12 hex #11 drobot #10 flashwing #9 chill #8 eruptor #7 whamshell #6 star strike #5 countdown #4 pop-fizz #3 grim creeper #2 smolderdash #1 prism break The light cores should have been the gimmick of giants instead of the giants I feel. In the trap team conference they said “our goal is to make kids say wow!” And showed toys to life for SSA, swapping for swapforce, and lightcore for giants. Then again this is right before he tried to convince people that traps were any form of new technology but still. Maybe at least only resell old series 2s as light cores with WOW POWs and call it a day.
I have to agree, in my experience they rarely fulfilled on what you had in mind for them to light up, and a lot of the times the parts that were supposed to light up didn’t even function properly
Ok here's a idea i had for the light cores you know that explosion of light they have when entering the game what if there was a light meter the skylander fills up by collecting exp when the meter fills up you can do the light explosion again also fills up when hitting enemies.
i think they’re obviously a cash grab BUT they do look cool if you’re into collecting them,especially in box. plus you can mess with giants by crashing it with lightcores lol
@@notouchy31i have like 50 and it feels like nothing, i started collecting last year after watching a krypt crusher vid since i wanted to relive thise childhood memories
@@notouchy31 thx m8, im still a just a kid so i dont hqve too much money but i buy em if i find them in second hands where they usually dont cost much in comparison to online
2 of my lightcores actually broke. The first one was my favourite skylander, as well as FIRST (before I even had a skylanders game), lightcore eruptore. One day I accidentally dropped him and the orange piece at the bottom fell off and wasn’t working anymore, but he still slightly lit up. The second is my lightcore drobot, only one of his wings broke off.
Man, that must’ve sucked. I know a lot about breaking my Skylanders and I can say it is not a good feeling when your Nightfall loses the entirety of its body or when your Astroblast gets its computer chip bent.
I liked when the Lightcore re-pose matched one of a Skylander's two paths, and (if you really like that particular Skylander) you could buy both and have their respective poses matching their corresponding paths. Flashwing and Shroomboom are the best examples of this -- also because their Lightcore versions aren't missing out on a Series 2 Wow Pow. And also also, not being Series 2, you can't change their paths without resetting them, so you'd need to buy two anyway.
What I think would have been cool would be articulated figures Edit: Also yes, I agree with you, LC Drobot sucks, and if his eyes and maybe his wings glowed also and he was in a pose where you could see everything lighting up from the front would be cool
While I don't hateThem, I could do without the Lightcore figures. My biggest problem with them is the Lightcore and the base figure looked too similar to each other. At first glance could your average Portal Master tell the difference between Series 1 Jet-Vac and Lightcore Jet-Vac? Or Series 1 Chill and Lightcore Chill? The best Lightcore figures were the ones that had a unique look compared to the base figures, like Countdown and Hex.
Here's an idea for lightcores to make them better: Make them have special, almost wow pow like abilities unique to that version involving light in some way and make said abilities do a LOT of damage.
@@kryptkrusher Sorry lol, I was watching this while walking home from School. I agree as well that they should've just made all skylanders glow, Great vid tho!
I wish that they made it so that every part of the skylander that would make sense to glow should, Like Prism Breaks hand crystals are the only things that light up, I think it would’ve felt a little bit justified if they made Prism Breaks back crystals and even the stand that all skylanders stand on glow
I have a Lightcore Smolderdash. I can’t exactly remember how I got it (probably for christmas when I was young) but when I put it on the portal, I was surprised to see it light up!
What always confused me was that they would have for example light core grim creeper and regular grim creeper out at the same time its not like he ever got a series 2 so why would you get regular grim creeper
Light cores are the second most useless toys to collect of the useless three groups But the most useless in my opinion are the chase variants I hate them Oh and the only Repose that should exist is Zap Series 2
I think the Lightcores should’ve had massively buffed elemental power. It wouldn’t make it too different from the normal Skylander, but it’d make you really glad to hear the “Skylanders of the [Insert Skylander Element] are stronger in this zone” cue and having your attack power be massively buffed.
I only have light core eruptor, flashwing and countdown, I don’t have there original forms though, and the only mini’s I have are eye-small and jinx, both kinda suck but I can tell it’s gonna be a bit of a rant on the mini’s next video
There's a good reason why the weapons can't glow: if it was then if it broke it could cause fire or the wires for the led to start sparks. The weapons, arms and sometimes heads usually break in most skylanders
Wait WHAT!? I never knew the light cores didn’t have the series 2 abilities! Makes sense seeing as the only light cores I own are Shroom-Boom and Legendary Chill.
I cant say much since I only ever had 2 lightcores, and only started collecting skylanders again a month ago, but yeah, lightcores are cash grabs. Accept prismbreak, out of the 2 I have, prism break is way better then eruptor, and lightcore made a meh skylander decent.
It’d be really cool if the light cores were like alternate B-side of the chosen skylander o: Like how prism break has great area control, the light core version of prism break could either lean HEAVILY into that idea, or go the opposite route of setting up prisms to deal huge single target damage :>
I know where the whole money problem comes from with reposes, it Activision what do you expect. But to be honest I enjoy have multiple figures of my favourite characters
I don't hate the concept and this was how they made money so my ideas on how to improve them 1. They do more damage in game- saying the idea of skylanders goes with the simple idea of light good dark bad it only makes sense the skylanders with a body that lights up would be more effective. 2. They have more thought put into the design- i don't think I need to explain this one as the video addressed this but ya some of the designs are terrible I will give the caveat that some redesigns he talked about might be literally impossible based on how the light cores work but there are definitely ones where a slight tweak that appears on others would massively improve the design 3. A in world reason to exist- this is more for hard core fans who actually care about the lore but we do get explanations for the gimmick skylanders and I think explaining these ones wouldn't be hard.
One thing I will say though about the lightcores and series 2 is although it was very much for more money, it allowed those with less money at one time or less selection to come back to future games and get characters they had missed for past games. This is especially notable with wham-shell, which was the last spyros adventure skylanders to come out but did come out later as a lightcore in swapforce
I think the traptainium weapons glowing for trap masters like they do in-game would’ve been a cool feature. I haven’t played trap team in a while so sorry if I’m wrong
The only lightcore skylander I own is Grim Creeper. Grim Creeper has special honor of being my only lightcore skylander. I'm not a huge fan of lightcores myself. Basically just only one lightcore skylander is worth owning.
Swap force lightcores were objectively the worst because instead of using it to bring in new characters or bring back old ones they went for slight reposed models of BASIC characters IN THE SAME ROSTER. Why would I want to buy a character that risks either being a boring piece of cheap plastic or a blindingly gaudy lightcore gimmick depending on which one you actually wanted?! Since I actually much prefer the look of the lightcore gimmick, I love the fact that all the elite Giants characters have built-in lightcore functionality: and the fact that they didn't bring it back for the COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT TRAPTANIUM WEAPONS of Skylanders Trap Team will NEVER make sense to me.
The lightcores should've had something else alongside just their glow and the explosion, the obvious is to give them the wow pows, but maybe their attacks could've been made stronger or give them more HP like what they did with the Eon Elite's
They could’ve given them a huge buff in Elemental Power so switching to a Skylander of an element that is stronger in the area you are in has more of an effect.
I found Lightcores to be a bit of a rip-off when first using them on Giants; my first was Drobot, who barely lights up at all, and soon found out that even though he was a returning character, being a Lightcore prevented him from getting a Wow-Pow ability or being able to change his upgrade path. Then I changed my mind after getting Lightcore Prism Break, for the reasons you stated, plus I didn't care about not having his Wow Pow as I thought his Soul Gem was really good anyway. Overall, pretty mid, especially when many other Skylanders can light up, i.e. Giants.
WARNING: In the event of a power outage do not use lightcore skylanders for a substitute light source
Wouldn’t even work though because the portal requires electricity
@@bubbaphett8501 exactly exactly
@@bubbaphett8501 unless you use the 3Ds portals
@@ender01o66 true
@@ender01o66 what about the ipad portals
I bought a Grim Creeper not knowing he was a Lightcore and was surprised to see him light up! Probably my best memory with a Lightcore.
I had the same experience when I bought a used legendary lightcore Grim Creeper because it wasn’t in a box, looked so cool with the blue and gold combined with light 😂
@@AdisPlays :0
lucky
Had the Same Experience , I eventually Got his regular version , you ever do that.
@@AdisPlays I also got a legendary lightcore grim creeper, and idk if these are rare, but i got an eon's elite chop chop.
@@AdisPlays I now have him >:)
I like lightcore just because they light up and it looks cool, and the best part about lightcore and also series 2,3 is that they are an extra Skylander and it make it easier to find and collect, for example I really wanted Wham Shell for SSA but I sadly couldn’t find any because it’s so rare, but luckily I found the common lightcore wham shell and I use him so often in SSA, that’s the reason why it helps for us players who don’t want to collect every Skylander and variant
I know late answer lol. I see your point but ... to release a Grim Creeper and Lightcore Grim Creeper or Star Strike and Lightcore Starstrike in the same Generation doesnt make sense in any way
It’s also a great alternative to the normal version of a core because they don’t have wow pows in the game they debuted in so you get a cool lightcore and the skylander you need for your collection
Why did they even paint Lightcore Legendary Grim Creeper's head dark blue when it was the same color as the regular Grim Creeper in game? it barely lit up because of it, i hated that.
tbh i really wish that the trap masters' weapons would glow up when you got near a traptanium cluster, the technology was there and is even shown with the traps being able to respond to in game actions but they definitely didn't do enough with the lightcore technology
Ranking light cores
(Based mostly on quality and context)
#16 bumble blast
#15 shroom boom
#14 jet-vac
#13 warnado
#12 hex
#11 drobot
#10 flashwing
#9 chill
#8 eruptor
#7 whamshell
#6 star strike
#5 countdown
#4 pop-fizz
#3 grim creeper
#2 smolderdash
#1 prism break
The light cores should have been the gimmick of giants instead of the giants I feel. In the trap team conference they said “our goal is to make kids say wow!” And showed toys to life for SSA, swapping for swapforce, and lightcore for giants. Then again this is right before he tried to convince people that traps were any form of new technology but still. Maybe at least only resell old series 2s as light cores with WOW POWs and call it a day.
My first lightcore skylander I ever got was Drobot and I personally love the figure because of that (just like that I lost my social credit score)
Mine was the countdown but my favorite is warnado
The only light core I have is shroom boom
I accidentally got a light core warnado instead of normal
He is my favourite skylander figure, even though I have S2 Drobot, I still use him because he was my childhood figure.
I have both drobot and shroom boom, didnt know they lack wow-pows i think its called, i always called them bonus soul gems
I liked them. The lights were kinda wack tho but I still liked the idea overall
I have to agree, in my experience they rarely fulfilled on what you had in mind for them to light up, and a lot of the times the parts that were supposed to light up didn’t even function properly
I don’t mind them, and actually really like lightcore Warnado, Eruptor, and Star Strike.
I am trying to get lightcore star strike. I love her lightcore more than her normal figure
@@smasher3261 what a coincidence, i just got lightcore star strike today
Ok here's a idea i had for the light cores you know that explosion of light they have when entering the game what if there was a light meter the skylander fills up by collecting exp when the meter fills up you can do the light explosion again also fills up when hitting enemies.
i think they’re obviously a cash grab BUT they do look cool if you’re into collecting them,especially in box. plus you can mess with giants by crashing it with lightcores lol
I WANT MORE SKYLANDERS ... i have 280 skylanders ... bruh help me
@@notouchy31i have like 50 and it feels like nothing, i started collecting last year after watching a krypt crusher vid since i wanted to relive thise childhood memories
@@Roman_the_black_cat don't stop and keep going, in one years i go pretty far , i have now 356 .
Good luck with your collection !
@@notouchy31 thx m8, im still a just a kid so i dont hqve too much money but i buy em if i find them in second hands where they usually dont cost much in comparison to online
@@Roman_the_black_cat good ! It's à good strategy , i'm only 16 years old so i'm not rich 😅
I remember when I got Lightcore Eruptor as a kid thinking he had the Wow Pow. I was a little disappointed not gonna lie.
So glad you took a break and still managed to get this video so quickly
the only good thing about lightcores to me is that they look cool on the portal
THE RETURN OF THE KING......basically
Yep
You can say that again
Glad to see you back, also really appreciate the Kaos’ Kastle music in the background!
some of the best skylanders content on the internet
keep up the good stuff!
I only liked them when they were in a pose of an attack, or an upgrade, like count down
awesome video and i loved how you teased the next "kinda suck" in the end it was very cool
I once bought a light core drobot not knowing it was light core and i didn’t realize it lit up until months after even after I played as him a bunch.
8:22 “that never became a reality”
You mean reposes or another game?
The thing is in the Giants beta the lightcores actually had the wow pows
but if lightcores had wow pows, series 2 would have been 100% useless :c
@@Kalfuyama maybe a different wow pow
Imagine if the trap masters weapon would light up but only at the times when they are glowing in game, how cool would that be
I appreciate you still make vids on this
2 of my lightcores actually broke.
The first one was my favourite skylander, as well as FIRST (before I even had a skylanders game), lightcore eruptore. One day I accidentally dropped him and the orange piece at the bottom fell off and wasn’t working anymore, but he still slightly lit up.
The second is my lightcore drobot, only one of his wings broke off.
Man, that must’ve sucked. I know a lot about breaking my Skylanders and I can say it is not a good feeling when your Nightfall loses the entirety of its body or when your Astroblast gets its computer chip bent.
I liked when the Lightcore re-pose matched one of a Skylander's two paths, and (if you really like that particular Skylander) you could buy both and have their respective poses matching their corresponding paths. Flashwing and Shroomboom are the best examples of this -- also because their Lightcore versions aren't missing out on a Series 2 Wow Pow. And also also, not being Series 2, you can't change their paths without resetting them, so you'd need to buy two anyway.
This applies to the SF lightcores, including Warnado and Wham Shell
Finally, a new video.
What I think would have been cool would be articulated figures
Edit: Also yes, I agree with you, LC Drobot sucks, and if his eyes and maybe his wings glowed also and he was in a pose where you could see everything lighting up from the front would be cool
hey krypt i was wondering how did you get into the old skylanders website for that video you made on it?
why is that barbella lightcore on a swap force portal?
While I don't hateThem, I could do without the Lightcore figures. My biggest problem with them is the Lightcore and the base figure looked too similar to each other. At first glance could your average Portal Master tell the difference between Series 1 Jet-Vac and Lightcore Jet-Vac? Or Series 1 Chill and Lightcore Chill?
The best Lightcore figures were the ones that had a unique look compared to the base figures, like Countdown and Hex.
I'm curious to see your Imaginators. Wanna do a showcase?
Legendary lightcores: * sweat profusely *
Here's an idea for lightcores to make them better: Make them have special, almost wow pow like abilities unique to that version involving light in some way and make said abilities do a LOT of damage.
What portal is that?
I absolutely lost it when you showed the mini at the end
Krypt Krusher could you please do a skylanders guide on Zap, Camo, or Echo please? Thanks
Do you think you will ever remake your ranking all chapters in spyro's adventure so it is the same quality as trap team and giant?
So is Mini's kinda suck gonna be the next video?
I miss him..
Technically there's actually 24 light cores, if you count the giants though because they do have Parts of their Body light up.
I do go on to talk about that if you watch more of the video...
@@kryptkrusher Sorry lol, I was watching this while walking home from School. I agree as well that they should've just made all skylanders glow, Great vid tho!
@Krypt Krusher have you ever done a tierlist once?
I wish that they made it so that every part of the skylander that would make sense to glow should, Like Prism Breaks hand crystals are the only things that light up, I think it would’ve felt a little bit justified if they made Prism Breaks back crystals and even the stand that all skylanders stand on glow
This is random, but what portal were you using? I haven't seen a Traptanium portal that looked like that.
fun fact: the devs actually wanted to make the trap masters’ weapons light up but they couldnt cuz budget
I would love to see a lightcore jawbreaker 🥲
What color would the Dark and Undead ones light up?
Does the Lightcore Warnado work on Spyro's Adventure and Giants?
You can use him but he doesn't appear as a lightcore sadly
Hey Krypt Krusher can you do a video talking about Eon's Elite skylanders.
I have been waiting for this
My only real upside to LCs is different poses and being able to get them cheaper in some cases (also some of them just look better like Jet Vac)
Can we get a video that shows your imaginators?
I have a Lightcore Smolderdash. I can’t exactly remember how I got it (probably for christmas when I was young) but when I put it on the portal, I was surprised to see it light up!
What always confused me was that they would have for example light core grim creeper and regular grim creeper out at the same time its not like he ever got a series 2 so why would you get regular grim creeper
Hi yesterday I got Skylanders Spyro's Adventure can you make a Spyro basically
Light cores are the second most useless toys to collect of the useless three groups
But the most useless in my opinion are the chase variants I hate them
Oh and the only Repose that should exist is Zap Series 2
chase variants look cool af tho
And sunburn series 2
Awesome video man!!!!!!! Great job!
I think the Lightcores should’ve had massively buffed elemental power. It wouldn’t make it too different from the normal Skylander, but it’d make you really glad to hear the “Skylanders of the [Insert Skylander Element] are stronger in this zone” cue and having your attack power be massively buffed.
When will you review the peter griffin skylander?
I only have light core eruptor, flashwing and countdown, I don’t have there original forms though, and the only mini’s I have are eye-small and jinx, both kinda suck but I can tell it’s gonna be a bit of a rant on the mini’s next video
My Lightcore Eruptor is dead. Won't glow, won't register - as for the rest of my lightcores - they go fine
Hmm looks like Minis are next in line
There's a good reason why the weapons can't glow: if it was then if it broke it could cause fire or the wires for the led to start sparks. The weapons, arms and sometimes heads usually break in most skylanders
What's Worse: Reposes, Light Cores, or Minis?
I mean if you want a cheaper wham-she’ll you could always buy the lightcore variant?
Wait WHAT!? I never knew the light cores didn’t have the series 2 abilities! Makes sense seeing as the only light cores I own are Shroom-Boom and Legendary Chill.
If toy light up= money- activison 2012
I cant say much since I only ever had 2 lightcores, and only started collecting skylanders again a month ago, but yeah, lightcores are cash grabs. Accept prismbreak, out of the 2 I have, prism break is way better then eruptor, and lightcore made a meh skylander decent.
Were ar the now videos
It’d be really cool if the light cores were like alternate B-side of the chosen skylander o: Like how prism break has great area control, the light core version of prism break could either lean HEAVILY into that idea, or go the opposite route of setting up prisms to deal huge single target damage :>
We need a krypt Christmas
How dare you insult T-posing Smolderdash!
I know where the whole money problem comes from with reposes, it Activision what do you expect. But to be honest I enjoy have multiple figures of my favourite characters
When will you make a new video?
When we're all in our 80s 💀
idc what anyone says, i will always be grateful for my lightcore prism break and popfizz
I don't hate the concept and this was how they made money so my ideas on how to improve them
1. They do more damage in game- saying the idea of skylanders goes with the simple idea of light good dark bad it only makes sense the skylanders with a body that lights up would be more effective.
2. They have more thought put into the design- i don't think I need to explain this one as the video addressed this but ya some of the designs are terrible I will give the caveat that some redesigns he talked about might be literally impossible based on how the light cores work but there are definitely ones where a slight tweak that appears on others would massively improve the design
3. A in world reason to exist- this is more for hard core fans who actually care about the lore but we do get explanations for the gimmick skylanders and I think explaining these ones wouldn't be hard.
Y haven't u uploaded in a long time
One thing I will say though about the lightcores and series 2 is although it was very much for more money, it allowed those with less money at one time or less selection to come back to future games and get characters they had missed for past games. This is especially notable with wham-shell, which was the last spyros adventure skylanders to come out but did come out later as a lightcore in swapforce
LMAO how do you have so many topics to talk about in a stagnant series? much respect for covering skylanders in 2021
What could possibly be next? Variants kinda suck? Minis kinda suck?
I think the traptainium weapons glowing for trap masters like they do in-game would’ve been a cool feature. I haven’t played trap team in a while so sorry if I’m wrong
Ugh Krypt, at this point, what doesn't suck?... lol
krypt king xD
Alright see yall next month/year when he uploads again
i had no idea my drobot and prism break figures were lightcore until this video 💀💀💀
The only lightcore skylander I own is Grim Creeper. Grim Creeper has special honor of being my only lightcore skylander.
I'm not a huge fan of lightcores myself. Basically just only one lightcore skylander is worth owning.
the reasons are that the parts that glow required wires from the base to make them light up and some parts couldnt get those
I hope he makes a Skylanders 10th anniversary video.
Swap force lightcores were objectively the worst because instead of using it to bring in new characters or bring back old ones they went for slight reposed models of BASIC characters IN THE SAME ROSTER. Why would I want to buy a character that risks either being a boring piece of cheap plastic or a blindingly gaudy lightcore gimmick depending on which one you actually wanted?!
Since I actually much prefer the look of the lightcore gimmick, I love the fact that all the elite Giants characters have built-in lightcore functionality: and the fact that they didn't bring it back for the COMPLETELY TRANSPARENT TRAPTANIUM WEAPONS of Skylanders Trap Team will NEVER make sense to me.
The lightcores should've had something else alongside just their glow and the explosion, the obvious is to give them the wow pows, but maybe their attacks could've been made stronger or give them more HP like what they did with the Eon Elite's
They could’ve given them a huge buff in Elemental Power so switching to a Skylander of an element that is stronger in the area you are in has more of an effect.
Radioactive tomatoes, my favorite!!😋
I found Lightcores to be a bit of a rip-off when first using them on Giants; my first was Drobot, who barely lights up at all, and soon found out that even though he was a returning character, being a Lightcore prevented him from getting a Wow-Pow ability or being able to change his upgrade path. Then I changed my mind after getting Lightcore Prism Break, for the reasons you stated, plus I didn't care about not having his Wow Pow as I thought his Soul Gem was really good anyway.
Overall, pretty mid, especially when many other Skylanders can light up, i.e. Giants.
Long time no see
Yeppers
Useful for those nights spent 100%ing swap force
Great vid...
please upload again
Fun fact my wamshell and hex are lightcore and I didn't know that until I put them on the portal of power
So when is the “mini’s kinda suck” coming out?
Edit 8 mo later: stil waiting :)
Prism Break was my only lightcore I ever got, but I really wanted lightcore Hex as a kid
Oh and Pop Fizz
Hmmm mini Skylanders video?
I'm just gonna say my light core dro bot is saved me several times plus it's kinda cool they light up
were are you its been 5 months pls unless you have exams but you cant have exams that take 5 months
I pretty much had Grim Creeper and Countdown in hand.