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Skylanders Official Annual 2015
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| Author: | Onk Beakman (Head Games) Cavan Scott (Book as a whole) |
| Publisher: | Ladybird Books (United Kingdom) Grosset & Dunlap (United States) |
| Release Date: | September 30, 2014 (United Kingdom) October 13, 2015 (United States) |
| Pages: | 64 |
| Art: | Dani Geremia (Head Games) Diego Diaz (On With the Show) |
| Category: | Annual |
| Based on: | Skylanders: Swap Force |
The Skylanders Official Annual 2015 is the third annual made for the Skylanders franchise. It is an activity book filled with various activities for the reader to try, short stories, and other fun tidbits for young fans.
This book was published in the United States a year later, under the title Skylands’ Most Mysterious Conundrums.
Summary
(Skylanders Official Annual 2015)
The must-have Official Annual for all fans of the ground-breaking Skylanders video games. Crammed with stories, activities, comics, features and trivia, this is the number one stocking-filler for the budding young Portal Master in your life.
(Skylands’ Most Mysterious Conundrums)
Long, long, long ago, the peaceful world of Skylands was disturbed by the forces of Darkness. Since then, Skylanders have fought to defend their home from evil. But what does the future hold for Skylands? Get to know the Skylanders universe even better in this collection of games, puzzles, activities, comics, and original stories, including stickers, punch-out cards, and a fold-out poster.
Contents
Activities
Who’s Your Skylander? - A quiz where the reader can determine whether they are most like Bumble Blast, Star Strike, Eruptor or Scratch.
Chompy Spotting – The reader must spot ten Chompies who are hidden among a crowd of Skylanders.
Battle Cry Bonanza! - A word search where the reader must find the missing words in various Skylanders’ catchphrases.
Memory Masters – The reader must look at a collection of images for one minute, then answer questions related to said images on a different page.
Crossword of DOOOM! - A crossword puzzle themed around various evil minions throughout the series.
What Kind of Minion are You? - A quiz where the reader can determine whether they are most like a Chompy, a Cyclops, a Greeble, a Troll, a Drow, a Spell Punk, a Fire Geargolem, or an Arkeyan.
Design a Minion – The reader is given a blank space to design their ideal evil minion.
The Perfect Match – The reader must match up Skylanders with their correct descriptions.
Water Load of Questions – The reader must answer a set of true or false questions themed around the Water Skylanders.
Zoo Lou’s Wordquest – The readers must help Zoo Lou navigate through a maze of letters by finding the words that lead them to the right path.
Head to Head: Chop Chop vs. Grim Creeper – The reader must determine whether Chop Chop or Grim Creeper should be crowned champion of a match based on various descriptions of the two Undead Skylanders’ powers, backstories and other traits.
Mesmeralda’s Theatre of Terror – A board game in which the reader must make a great escape from Mesmeralda’s theater while avoiding various obstacles along the way.
Hide and Sneak – The reader must guide Stealth Elf to the right exit in a maze.
Spy Rise’s Spy School – The reader must conquer a variety of activities in order to help Spy Rise retrieve the Heart of Horrendous Horrors from Kaos.
Slobber the Difference – The reader must spot the difference between two screenshots of Slobber Tooth.
Terrafin’s Knockout Challenge – The reader must answer a variety of questions themed around the Skylanders games.
Bonus Activity: Hat Hunt – The reader must locate several hats scattered throughout the annual’s pages.
Stories
Head Games
This short story is split into two parts.
The first part, The Petrified Forest, opens on Flynn ferrying Spyro, Scorp, and Wind-Up to the Weird Woods on the Dread-Yacht in response to a distress call from several Ent explorers targeted by forces of The Darkness and Baron Von Shellshock. The Dread-Yacht crash-lands into the Woods, and the trio of Skylanders are ledto Baron Von Shellshock by Worrywood, one of the explorers who sent out the distress call.
As they make their way to the Baron, Worrywood explains that his team found an underground forest where Petrified Darkness grows during their exploration, and attracted Kaos’s attention. Baron Von Shellshock shows his face as the Skylanders arrive at the forest, where Greebles are harvesting the crystals. Baron Von Shellshock sends the Greebles to attack the Skylanders, who fight back while Flynn leads the explorers to safety. During the fight, Spyro taunts Baron Von Shellshock, and the Baron responses by evilizing Spyro, much to everyone’s shock and horror.
In the second part, Faces of Evil, Spyro is transformed into Dark Spyro by the evilization process. He then begins destroying the Petrified Darkness trees, much to Baron Von Shellshock’s shock. With his Greebles too preoccupied with Wind-Up and Scorp to defeat him, Baron Von Shellshock resorts to evilizing Flynn, who grows extremely large as a result of the process. Flynn immediately blows away Dark Spyro and turns him back to normal, while Evilized Flynn continues to shake the room with his blows. This gives the Skylanders the idea to continually praise Evilized Flynn. This causes him to grow bigger and bigger until he shatters the underground forest’s ceiling, and with it, the last of the Petrified Darkness crystals. Flynn returns to normal, and he and the Skylanders fly off as the Skylanders proclaim that for once, Flynn was the one to save the day (with some help from his friends, of course).
On With the Show
The sole comic in the annual begins with Roller Brawl and Bumble Blast waking up in a web of strings. As the two try to figure out how they got here, Roller Brawl is suddenly attacked by Slobber Tooth and Bumble Blast, who are not in control of their own actions. As the two fight among each other, Roller Brawl hears a familiar laugh, and finds that the three of them are on stage with Kaos and Glumshanks as part of the audience.
It is then that the three Skylanders recall that they arrived here after being knocked unconscious while investigating incidents of exploding snowmen in the Bone Desert at Master Eon’s bequest. They were captured by Mesmeralda, who turned them into her puppets. While Mesmeralda continues to control them, Bumble Blast shoots out his bees. This distracts Mesmeralda long enough for the Skylanders to break free. and tie up Kaos, Glumshanks and Mesmeralda, much to the villains’ disdain.
Other
A Brief History of Skylands – An overview of the Skylanders games’ timeline up to the present day.
The Skylanders’ Top 10 Friends – A ranking of ten of the Skylanders’ finest allies.
Minion Monthly – The cover to a sampler of the Minion Monthly magazine.
Listen to Mother – An interview with Kaos’s Mom conducted by Glumshanks.
Minion Monthly’s A-Z of Evil – A list of the some of the most important things a villain needs to know, with a subject for each letter of the alphabet.
A Day in the Life of Cynder – The reader gets a look at a typical day in Cynder’s life.
Wacky Weapons – A series of information on the famous weapons wielded by several Skylanders that includes who uses them, where they came from, and what they can do. It also includes a section where readers can rank their top five Skylander weapons and an activity where they match up Skylanders with their weapons.
Make a Chompy Hat – A tutorial on how to make your own Chompy-themed hat.
Five Minutes With Fryno – A interview with Fryno in which he shares several of his likes and dislikes.
Trivia
- Though he is credited under the Onk Beakman alias in Head Games, the book as a whole is attributed to Cavan Scott.
- Hektore is referenced in Listen to Mother as the forgotten overlord, perhaps as a reference to him not reappearing following his debut in Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.
- Skylands’ Most Mysterious Conundrums, the American release of the book, is mostly identical to the original annual save for changing all instances of British English to American English, as well as different back contents. The annual contains an ad for Topps’ Skylanders: Trap Team Collector Cards, while Skylands’ Most Mysterious Conundrums contains stickers, Skylanders: Trap Team-themed postcards, a poster, and an ad for Skylanders: Superchargers.
