Gold
Skylanders are some of the rarest Skylanders figures out there. Such is the
demand for these elusive figures, that prices on Amazon and eBay have
skyrocketed. Gold Skylanders were first introduced in the original Skylanders
game called Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure. There are three gold figure from the
first game, and these are gold Chop Chop, Flameslinger and Drill Sergeant.
These gold figure appeared on store shelves randomly alongside their regular
versions. Due to their popularity, any gold figures that were found on shelve
were snapped up immediately, and many of these figure then started showing up
online, at highly inflated prices. Only one gold Skylander has been produced so
far for the Giants game, and this is another Gold Flameslinger. This series 2
Flameslinger is much more common, as it is sold as an Amazon exclusive, and so
is much more reasonably priced.
Gold
Chop Chop
Gold
Chop Chop is probably the most expensive of all the Gold Skylanders. I have
seen this figure listed for over $200 on Amazon! Hard to believe for a figure
that originally cost less that $10. I have to say the Gold Chop Chop figure does
look awesome, but I'm not sure I could stretch to that amount of money. The
Chop Chop figure is completely painted gold, even the base. The only color on
the figure is the green plastic at the bottom of the base. It is importantly to
know that even though the Gold Chop Chop figure looks very different to the
regular one, it looks and plays exactly the same in the video game.
Gold
Drill Sergeant
The Gold
Drill Sergeant figure does look very impressive. Drill sergeant is supposed to
be some sort of ancient robot, and so suits being painted a metallic gold
color. Gold Drill Sergeant is pretty rare, and so does sell for a lot of money
on Amazon and eBay. In the same was as the Chop Chop figure, gold Drill
Sergeant looks exactly the same as regular Drill sergeant in the game itself.
Gold
Flameslinger
As I
mentioned above, there are two version of Gold Flameslinger. The rarest and
most expensive of these is the original one from Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure.
This figure shoots only one arrow, and has green plastic on the base. The
Series 2 Gold Flameslinger is from the Giants game and this figure is shooting
3 arrows, and has orange plastic on the base.
We do
not know yet if there will be any other gold Skylanders figures. We hope so, as
they do look really cool. We have had no indication from Activision, that there
will be more to come in the Giants game. However, with the news that a third
Skylanders game called Skylanders Swap Force will be released in Fall 2013,
there might be some more Gold Skylanders planned.
