Crash Bandicoot is Joining the Skylanders Imaginators Cast for October Release!

Growing up with video games, I knew who Crash Bandicoot was – and now a whole new generation will as well! Crash Bandicoot is twenty years old today, and it was announced he’s continuing his video game career by joining the cast of the Skylanders Imaginators game to be released on October 16th.  Check out the video about the newest Skylander Imaginators cast member as well as more information about the game below!

About Crash Bandicoot joining Skylanders Imaginators:

Portal Masters can unleash their imaginations like never before when Skylanders® Imaginators launches on October 16 in North America! Skylanders Imaginators gives kids the power to create Skylanders and bring them to life for the first time in an all-new adventure with a compelling storyline, puzzles, battles, and a new lineup of heroes and villains.

Since the inception of Skylanders®, kids around the world have imagined their own Skylanders characters. Toys for Bob, the originators of Skylanders and pioneers of Toys-to-Life, is back as the lead development team. Skylanders Imaginators will offer fans more choices than ever before with infinite possibilities to create! Now fans can create their own Skylanders with endless combinations of powers, abilities, catchphrases and much more that deliver hours of replayable fun.

Leading efforts to defeat the Skylanders is Skylands’ most notorious villain Kaos, who is now joining the lineup of Skylanders Sensei characters as a fully-playable toy in Skylanders Imaginators. With Kaos having discovered the power of Mind Magic to create Doomlanders, one of his first creations was none other than a clone of himself! Figuring that no one in the universe, including the Skylanders, could ever stand up to more than one Kaos, he unleashed his clone in his quest to take over Skylands. But to Kaos’ surprise, the clone – also being Kaos – wanted victory for himself! As a result, he fights against his creator, in turn helping the Skylanders in their endeavor to defeat the real Kaos!

Adding to the fun is the return of videogame icons, Crash Bandicoot® and his archnemesis Dr. Neo Cortex – who appear as Senseis guest stars in Skylanders Imaginators! Activision and Vicarious Visions, in collaboration with Toys for Bob is honoring the 20th anniversary of Crash with an all-new Crash Bandicoot inspired level, Thumpin’ Wumpa Islands, that’s steeped in nostalgic Crash gameplay. In Skylanders Imaginators, both Crash Bandicoot (voiced by Jess Harnell) and Dr. Neo Cortex (voiced by Lex Lang) maintain their unique and quirky personalities, as fully playable toys.

In Skylanders Imaginators, a wormhole has opened in Skylands and the great Aku Aku appears! He comes to announce the once in two decades Synchronization Celebration. It is the time when all of the worlds align perfectly. They are having a huge celebration event in the Wumpa Islands and want to invite the Skylanders. Upon arriving, Spyro and Mags discover that Dr. Neo Cortex has created a terrible machine to harness the rhythmic power of the island’s celebration for his newest evil scheme! When the machine goes awry, something occurs that throws the whole party out of sync. Crash must team up with the Skylanders and his old enemy Neo Cortex to restore the celebration before the Wumpa Islands are syncopated right out of existence!

Skylanders Imaginators supports the 300+ character toys from all previous Skylanders games — including Skylanders® SuperChargers, Skylanders® Trap Team, Skylanders® SWAP Force^TM, Skylanders® Giants and Skylanders® Spyro’s Adventure — that kids can enjoy in the real-world and in the virtual game world. As players add new Skylanders to their collection, they expand their in-game experiences.