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Pro and Con of the Collectors.

Pros

At http://youtu.be/vz9Jh9myKQY?t=12m51s you can see the bottoms are the what the Quest Upgrades do for Villains. (I wish it had the exact stat number for those but that would seem picky as the other ones haven't for just regular Skylanders.)
Also the right side on that part it shows a pic of the Evolution's of the Villains.

Cons

It doesn't seem to mention Alt Deco's Stats for in game, Nitro Krypt King etc.

The other thing was it's not a 100% CE. The it's a secret to everyone thing that I can't get into here.

Just an FYI for all interested in the Collectors Strategy Guide:
I picked up the SWAP FORCE Collectors Strategy Guide on CYBER MONDAY thru the BRADYGAMES website directly. They offered a huge discount and WITH shipping I believe I paid @$19.50. That was less than they were charging for the standard strategy guide. This was only available on CyberMonday. I can only imagine that they will have a similar sale this year. Good Luck....I'll be trying it again this year for Trap Team!

Cool...that is a good deal. Places list it for $23ish, but Amazon still shows 1-3 Week Delivery times??!!

The CE is just a better deal than the standard imo...especially if you like wall stickers, lol.

My favorite part thus far is just that the Elements are arranged Alphabetically this year...The SF Strat Guide was just an odd order.

I did prefer the character bios and upgrade charts from the SF Guide.

I haven't really used anything yet other than the bio pages...

I very much enjoyed the CE for SSF. I always play blind a couple times through the game and then crack open the guide to pick up the stuff I missed. I've done this for all the games so far and plan to continue for STT. Nice tip about the Cyber Monday deal though, Orion's Islands. I will have to keep an eye out for that

The cover is premo imo, lol.

As I've used it lately for the Character Introductions I really don't like the vertically stacked bios as they are hard to read AND the upgrade path layout really sucks compared to the previous version.

In SSF you had artwork for each and they were stacked

Stock and Soul Gem
Base
Path 1
Path 2

It was so easy to read and get a feel for each upgrade etc. The vertical orientation this year just doesn't flow like the precise divisions with Left to Right coverage. Some may like it better, but for me it was better last year. I haven't really used it past that, but the Chapter layout looks about the same.

Nonetheless, I would still recommend it!

I like how this one (at least the hardcover version) has a code in the back to view the guide online.

Wow!!
So this collectors edition has a link to an electronic copy..?!? I missed that.....
That would be a big plus for me....Is that confirmed or did I get it wrong?

I was wondering if the level maps looked pretty much the same as the swap force edition?

The code is on one of the last couple days of the guide.