Skylanders: Trap Team for Nintendo 3DS and Skylanders Imaginators came with different portals depending on where they were sold. Ramsay, Randolph (October 12, 2016). "Skylanders Imaginators Review". GameSpot . Retrieved March 29, 2022. Phillips, Tom (February 10, 2017). "Skylanders franchise kept alive, but no new game this year". Eurogamer . Retrieved May 11, 2019.

However, the 3DS version of Trap Team is able to scan SWAP Force Skylanders using the older portals as the game came with the older portal in some regions. Similar to its predecessors, the core gameplay revolves around solving puzzles, platforming, and fighting enemies. [1] As the title is a toys-to-life game, players can put Skylanders toy figurine onto a Portal of Power, which will then allow players to control the figurine-represented character in-game. [2] Creation Clash, a remake of Skystones which was introduced in Giants is featured in the game. [3] The game supports local multiplayer. Robertson, Andy (January 3, 2017). "Skylanders Imaginators Review (Wii U)". Nintendo Life . Retrieved March 29, 2022. Ronaghan, Neal (March 4, 2017). "Skylanders Imaginators (Switch) Review". Nintendo World Report . Retrieved March 29, 2022. Reiner, Andrew (October 17, 2016). "Skylanders Imaginators Review". Game Informer. GameStop Corp. Retrieved March 29, 2022.Figures that were released for the Swap Force game will work in Swap Force and later games, but not necessarily in Spyro's Adventure or Giants, which both came before Swap Force. In the past, the ancients used powerful Mind Magic to conjure and create anything they could think of. However, one of the Ancients, known as Brain, tried to use Mind Magic to brainwash all of Skylands, so the ancients sealed him away, and sealed away the power of Mind Magic so evil could not use it. Despite the trap slot of the SuperChargers portal being inaccessible in the modified version, the trap-loading components are still included inside the portal's rift engine. SuperChargers was the first to break this rule, with its figures only being compatible with SuperChargers (and the later game Imaginators) despite having figures of some of the same characters from earlier games. This is because even though the characters themselves were familiar faces from previous games, their SuperChargers figures actually had redesigned skill trees, and in some cases completely different play styles than their earlier games' versions. It is also implied that the Earth Portal Master can travel freely with their own portal at the end of Ring of Heroes with no ill effects.

The 3DS portal may have trouble reading multiple figures simultaneously when played on the console games, particularly Swap Force characters, which technically consists of 2 pieces. However, when played on 3DS games, Swap Force Skylanders can be scanned with no issues. Although modified, the Imaginators portal still has the Trap slot components inside, which means trap can be used by disassembling the portal. a b Stuart, Keith (June 1, 2016). "Skylanders Imaginators: Activision pins its hopes on player creativity". The Guardian . Retrieved August 18, 2016. Goldfarb, Andrew (June 13, 2016). "E3 2016: Crash Bandicoot Comes To Skylanders: Imaginators". IGN . Retrieved August 18, 2016.It is sometimes difficult to find at first glance what part of a vehicle figure is the bottom, but search for the words and symbols etched into the plastic on the figure somewhere, and that will help assist you in determining this. The older 3DS portal can connect to on any platform through USB connection with the exception of Xbox and mobile. The console SWAP Force Portal of Power has the symbol of each element. Also, if you look at the edge of the windows on the sides, you could see the symbols from the first portal. There are 3 additional figures from Skylanders Imaginators that do not have these octagonal platforms. Both Crash Bandicoot and Doctor Neo Cortex appear as guest characters with their own level, Thumpin' Wumpa Islands. This level has iconic gameplay features present in previous Crash Bandicoot games. [6] Development [ edit ]

After the shut down, any subsequent Skylanders games with newer wireless portals no longer has a USB port on them. Only exception being Trap Team 3DS which sometimes came with the older portal instead.The older 3DS portals has a USB port which can be used to connect to the console versions of Spyro's Adventure, Giants, Superchargers and Imaginators.** The shape of the platform may be easiest to discern by looking at the figure from underneath. They are larger platforms than the average Skylanders figure has from earlier entries in the franchise. On 3DS, the older portal will work on all games except for Swap Force, which requires the newer Swap Force 3DS portal. You can change almost any of your customization options for your Skylander at any time, with two major exceptions. Firstly, you obviously can't change your Skylander's element so that it's different from the Imaginite Creation Crystal element it's stored in. Secondly, and more troubling, you can't change your Skylander's combat class. Once you choose how your Skylander fights, it's permanent. It can look and sound any way you want, but it will only fight using that specific weapon type. You can't reset your Crystal, or at least not officially; some users have reported success using a Nintendo 3DS Skylanders game and a glitch to effectively wipe the Crystal, but it isn't officially supported.