Troll Home Security

Troll Home Security
World:	Skylands
Residents:	Trolls
Hats:	2
Story Scrolls:	1
Chests:	4
Legendary Treasure(s):	1
Soul Gems:	Crusher
Enemies:	*Chompies Chompy Bot 9000s Red Chompies D. Riveters Enfuego Chompies Grenade Generals Inhuman Shields Mace Majors Battlement Cannons
Appears in:	Skylanders: Giants (Console)
Previous:	Wilikin Village
Next:	Kaos' Kastle

Troll Home Security is the eighth Chapter in Skylanders: Giants. In it, the Skylanders invade the Troll Home Security Castle in order to destroy the Shield Gun (also called the Generator) which is generating a shield around Kaos' Kastle.

Description

Troll Home Security is a black-and-white-checkered Troll castle, featuring several tall towers, red flags, and rows of defensive cannons. Grassy islands surround the base of the castle, which is comprised of a battlefield area littered with explosive shells. This level has a dramatic sky in shades of pale purple, pink, lavender, and blue; gray clouds cluster at the base of the castle, as well as in the sky above it.

Objectives

• Trigger the Explosives
• Take Out the Big Cannons
• Destroy the Shield Gun

Elemental Gates

• Water

Areas To Find

• Crumbling Edge (Life)
• Circle Run House
• Coal Stack
• Shell Shock Bastion (Fire)
• Failing Fields (Earth)
• Anchored Island
• Puzzling Cavern
• Cheese Cavern
• Frightful Filtration Pools (Water)
• Secret Cave
• Tilting Tower (Tech)
• The Battlements (Air)
• Cloudy Corner
• Chaotic Courtyard

New Enemies

• D. Riveter
• Chompy Bot 9000
• Inhuman Shield
• Battlement Cannon

Characters

• Auric (briefly)
• Cali (briefly)
• Fangs
• Flynn (briefly)
• Gurglefin
• Otoro

Legendary Treasure

• Fire Sail Paint Job

Soul Gem

• Crusher - Rocksliding Out

Hats

• Sombrero
• Pants Hat

Story Scroll

• Those Wacky Arkeyans

The Store

• Sudsy Soap Charm - 5,000 gold
• This Bomb's For You Heroic Challenge - 10,000 gold
• Moose Hat - 850 gold
• Trojan Helmet - 750 gold
• Chompy Bot 9000 Skystone - 150 gold
• Damage Power Up - 250 gold
• Fairy Dust - 50 gold

Trivia

• Troll Home Security is meant to be kept secret, so the Generator emits an invisible, silent beam that can't be touched, or tasted. The beam does, however, smell like cinnamon.
• In The Battlements, Flynn and Cali will not follow the Skylander until the first two big cannons are destroyed. If the player attempts to advance without them, they will remind the player that they must destroy the cannons first.
• Troll Home Security was originally called The Battlements.
• Troll Home Security is the only level in Giant's earliest alpha build to have its own loading screen (complete with a screenshot and themed sky background) and introductory cutscene. As such, it stands to reason that this level was developed earlier than any other chapter in the game.
• The early builds of Troll Home Security contain notable differences from its finalized counterpart:
  • The level originally had a longer main theme. The level's indoor and battle themes were originally extended as well, including a dramatic musical climax, which was probably cut for being too intense for regular level music.
  • Giants could originally blow up the Lock Puzzles in Failing Fields using artillery shells, which caused the puzzle's Lockmaster Imp to fly out and lowered the corresponding gate.
  • In an early version of Giants, the Water Elemental Gate in this level used to have a short pillar that Skylanders could stand on. (This can be seen in footage from Soul Gem cutscenes such as Trigger Happy's and Bash's.) However, in the final game, this pillar was heightened to become too tall for Skylanders to access.
  • Similarly, early Soul Gem footage reveals that the tower at the end of the level used to have much larger red flags, which were likely shrunk for the final game in order to obscure less of the screen during the final battle.
  • A seadog NPC originally appeared inside the Secret Cave, replacing Gurglefin as a Skystones challenger.
  • In the second half of the level, Cali originally challenged Flynn's claim to have activated the artillery dispensers, implying that he claimed credit for a feature that was already active. Her skeptical dialogue, however, was replaced by more straightforward directions to the player in the final game. She also originally declared, "I'm just going to ignore him from now on" after the first cannon section, a comment that was later changed to a more patronizing, "That's amazing, Flynn."
  • In the earliest alpha version of the level, the shield generator was entirely absent from the final tower.

• If, during the final battle, the player runs all the way across the bridge to the rightmost tower, the battle music will end as if they had defeated all of the enemies.
• During the Tilting Tower and The Battlements segments, remixes of Arkeyan Armory's theme replace Troll Home Security's normal music. The cannon run sections and later stages of The Battlements remix Kaos's theme, combined with some portions of Troll Factory's music.
• Early versions of Troll Home Security borrowed Sky Schooner Docks's theme for The Battlements.
• Additionally, the level originally included a remix of Crystal Eye Castle's theme during one of its block puzzles.
• The majority of The Battlements section can be skipped by using Bouncer's guided missiles. By aiming missiles at the final breakable wall and destroying it, a cutscene is triggered that places the player there as if they had destroyed it with a Bomb as usual. Flynn and Cali also appear as usual.
  • If the player performs this trick while leaving Flynn and Cali behind as stated above, the player can backtrack and destroy the cannons to let Flynn and Cali through. This results in a strange case where two instances of Flynn can be seen at once: Flynn from before the cannons, and Flynn after destroying the final wall.
• According to one of the Wilikin at the end of Wilikin Village, Troll Home Security has been operating for 35 years.