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Skylanders Official Annual 2016
| Skylanders Official Annual 2016 | |
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| Author: | *Onk Beakman (Mad Hatters)
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| Publisher: | Puffin Books |
| Release Date: | October 14, 2015 |
| Pages: | 64 |
| Art: | Dani Geremia |
| Category: | Annual |
| Based on: | Skylanders: Trap Team |
The Skylanders Official Annual 2016 is the fourth and final 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.
Summary
The heroes of Skylands are back to battle Kaos once more in this fun-filled Official Annual. Crammed with stories, activities, comics, features and trivia, this is the number one stocking-filler for the budding young Portal Master in your life.
Contents
Activities
Attack Force! - A quiz where the reader can determine whether they are most like Wallop, Countdown or Stealth Elf.
Skylanders Battle Bingo – A game of bingo that is designed to be played concurrently with Skylanders: Trap Team.
Word Portal - A word search where the reader must unscramble the words in the word bank and then locate them in the word search.
Cali’s Code – The reader must crack a secret code written by Cali by utilizing a mirror, and can also write a code for their friends in a similar fashion.
Zoo Lou’s Scavenger Hunt - A scavenger hunt in which the reader must cut out and craft the die craft included with the page, then roll the die and try to find as many things that begin with the first letter of the Skylander that is shown’s name.
Join Skylanders Academy! - A quiz where the reader can determine whether they are fit to join Skylanders Academy as a cadet, or if they’re more fit to sit on the sidelines, jam with the Skale-Tones, or serve as a supervillain.
Food Frenzy – A series of mazes where the reader must draw paths between four Skylanders to determine who get what kind of food, or a bomb instead.
Blastermind’s Memory Trap – The reader must examine a page of objects for a minute, then answer questions regarding the images on another page.
Escape from Gold Mountain – A board game in which the reader must make a great escape from Gold Mountain while avoiding various obstacles along the way.
What’s Your Skylander Name? – The reader can determine what name they would have as a Skylander based on the initials of their first name, surname and school name.
Minion Melee – The reader must determine what Skylander fought what villain at what location using a series of clues.
Mini Madness – The reader must determine which Mini is missing from three rows of Minis.
Spot the Difference – The reader must determine the differences between two screenshots.
Skylanders Story-Tronic – The reader generates a random Skylanders-themed story by rolling a die to determine parts of the story itself.
Monster Mash – A small crossword puzzle where the reader must determine what common enemies in Skylands do not fit into the puzzle grid.
Smashed! – The reader must use a set of clues to figure out which Skylander broke Pop Fizz’s favorite potion bottle.
Enemy Assembly – A crossword puzzle featuring various villains throughout the series.
The Gate Escape – The reader must work their way through four round mazes in order to help the Skylanders defeat Brawl & Chain.
Pie Puzzlers! - A series of puzzles that the reader must solve to determine the filling of a pie Chef Pepper Jack has baked Kaos.
Eon’s Great Skylander Challenge – A series of questions that test the reader’s knowledge of the Skylanders games.
Bonus Activity: Trinket Trail – The reader must locate several trinkets scattered throughout the annual’s pages.
Stories
Mad Hatters
This story is divided into two parts.
The first part, Get Ahead, Get a Hat!, begins with Fling Kong accidentally crashing into Torch on his way to the Academy Hat Competition, with Torch being dismayed as she did not prepare a hat for the Competition due to being too busy training with her Firespout. She goes to Hatterson to buy a hat, but finds that Trigger Happy bought the last of his stock just minutes ago.
As she passes by Food Fight and Funny Bone, all three Skylanders are suddenly presented with green hat boxes that appeared out of thin air. They all try on their new hats and go to the Competition, but Torch is stopped short when the Candle Hat she received from the box melts from the heat of her fiery hair. So, she ditches the ruined hat in favor of the Viking Helmet Funny Bone traded off in favor of his new hat. When she arrives at the Competition, however, she finds that all the Skylanders’ new hats have stuck tight to their heads, with the hats soon transforming into mind-controlling Chompy Capes. As they stand brainwashed, the Chompy Mage appears and reveals that this was all part of his plan to mind-control the Skylanders.
In the second part, Chompy Charge!, Torch attempts to break her fellow Skylanders free of the Chompy Mage’s mind control, but is unable to snap them out of their trances or remove the Chompy Capes. Before she can free them, she is noticed by the Chompy Mage and pretends to be mind-controlled as well. The Chompy Mage falls for her trick, and she further tricks him into revealing that he wants the brainwashed Skylanders to destroy Skylanders Academy, then turns the actually brainwashed Skylanders into a group of giant Sky-Chompies that he sends to destroy the Academy.
It is then that Torch reveals that her brainwashing was just a farce, and uses her hair to snatch the Chompy Mage’s staff and toss it in the way of the Sky-Chompies, who then smash it underfoot. With the staff destroyed, the Skylanders revert back to normal and trap the Chompy Mage in a giant hatbox. The Skylanders then have a laugh about the story’s events while the Chompy Mage and his puppet argue over whose fault the loss is.
Small Wonders
The sole comic in the annual begins with Buzz, Chopper and Shroomboom taking the Minis on a field trip to the Custard Ocean to practice battle formations. In the middle of their practice session, they are suddenly ambushed by Candy Geargolems, and Chopper and Shroomboom immedyately rush into the fray. They hold the Candy Geargolems back at first, but are foiled when the Geargolems merge into a giant Geargolem and get stuck in the Custard Ocean. As the giant Candy Geargolem prepares to crush Chopper and Shroomboom underfoot, the Minis band together and pretend to be a giant custard monster, which scares the giant Candy Geargolem to pieces. The comic ends with Buzz, Chopper and Shroomboom celebrating the Minis’ victory.
Others
10 Things You Need to Know About Skylands – A list of the top ten things those new to Skylands must know, written by none other than Onk Beakman.
Grosslands – An article covering some of the grossest things Skylands has to offer.
Trigger Happy’s Tongue Twisters – A set of Skylanders-themed tongue twisters.
Five Minutes With Flynn – A interview with Flynn in which he shares several of his likes and dislikes.
Rocking Robots – A set of character biographies for the robot Skylanders which consist of their origins, special abilities, personalities, and fun facts about them.
Monster Survival Guide – A guide written by Snap Shot that details various creatures one can find in Skylands, their habitats, and survival tips for encountering them. Each creature can also be ranked by how scary they are using a Scare-O-Meter next to their info file.
Potion Maker – A tutorial on how to make baking soda potions.
Fantastic Flying Machines – Tessa teaches the reader about some of the many ways one can fly in Skylands.
Make a Fortune-teller! – A tutorial on how to make your own Skylanders-themed fortune-teller.
Cobra Cadabra’s Magic Tricks – A set of tutorials on how to perform some simple magic tricks.
Trivia
- Though he is credited under the Onk Beakman alias in Mad Hatters, the book as a whole is attributed to Cavan Scott.
