Skylanders: Swap Force Dark Edition Starter Pack

Skylanders figured out the toys-to-life formula, and then the Dark Edition went and made every figure in the box look twice as menacing. The Skylanders Swap Force Dark Edition Starter Pack for Nintendo Wii delivers five exclusive Dark Edition figures: Wash Buckler, Blast Zone, Slobber Tooth, Spyro, and Stealth Elf, all rocking the shadowy redesigns that regular starter packs never touched. These aren't repaints.

They're full dark variants with the kind of shelf presence that makes a standard Skylander look like it showed up underdressed. The character poster, five sticker sheets with secret codes, and five trading cards fill out the package with collectible extras that hit especially hard for completionists. Swap Force's gimmick of mixing and matching figure halves means these Dark Edition sculpts offer double the display combinations, and every single one looks better in black.

The Wii version of this starter pack sits in an interesting collector's space, arriving late in the console's lifecycle when the install base was massive but attention was already shifting to the next generation. For Skylanders collectors, Dark Edition variants remain some of the most sought-after figures in the entire toys-to-life genre. Five of them in one box is the kind of value that speaks for itself.