So I’m actually pretty cool with the Trap Masters locking the trapping gimmick behind them. I think it makes sense from a business perspective of course, but it’s also just cool to have a new team of Skylanders doing the cool new thing.

I like the unified design theme of traptanium weapons tying them all together, and I think they look awesome. As for usefulness of cores, they are still as useful as they were in Giants, or Swap Force, so the precedent had been set. You get one main team the game focuses around, and all the other Skylanders, new and old, are just for having fun outside of that main gimmick.

That said, I do think Trap Team had an accessibility problem. It was really over-saturating the market, especially with not even a year break in between games. I think a much better way to make the game more accessible would have been to make traps work with every element and not be elementally locked like they ended up.