Traps are crystal Figures used to capture Villains in Skylanders: Trap Team. They are made of Traptanium and are shattered fragments of Cloudcracker Prison. Each Trap is associated with an Element needed to capture Elemental Villains. Traps are placed in a slot on the Traptanium Portal when a Villain is defeated to capture the Villain.

Usage

In Skylanders: SuperChargers, when placed in the Portal, your Vehicle will receive an elemental power based on the Trap's element and a special Skystone for Skystones Overdrive depending on which Villain is trapped inside. In the Wii version of Skylanders: SuperChargers Racing, when placed in the Portal, your Vehicle will receive a stat boost depending on the Trap's Element.

In Skylanders: Battlecast, Jawbreaker, Snap Shot and Krypt King carry Traps that act as Relics, being able to temporarily summon Dr. Krankcase, Chill Bill and Masker Mind respectively.

In Skylanders: Imaginators, the Traps function the same way as in Skylanders: SuperChargers during the raceway part of the game. In the normal part of the game, they only give you 500 gold. They cannot be used in the Nintendo Switch version of Imaginators.^[1]

List of Traps

Traps		Element
	Air Traps Breezy Bird (Toucan) Cloudy Cobra (Snake) Cyclone Sabre (Sword) Drafty Decanter (Jughead) Storm Warning (Screamer) Tempest Timer (Hourglass)
	Dark Traps Dark Dagger (Sword) Ghastly Grimace (Handstand) Shadow Spider (Spider)
	Earth Traps Banded Boulder (Orb) Dust of Time (Hourglass) Rock Hawk (Toucan) Rubble Trouble (Handstand) Slag Hammer (Hammer) Spinning Sandstorm (Totem) Exclusive: Red Hot Tussle Sprout
	Fire Traps Blazing Belch (Yawn) Eternal Flame (Torch) Fire Flower (Scepter) Scorching Stopper (Screamer) Searing Spinner (Totem) Spark Spear (Captain's Hat)
	Kaos Traps The Kaos Trap Ultimate Kaos Trap
	Life Traps Emerald Energy (Torch) Exclusive: Riot Shield Shredder Jade Blade (Sword) Oak Eagle (Toucan) Exclusive: Steamed Broccoli Guy Seed Serpent (Snake) Shrub Shrieker (Yawn) Weed Whacker (Hammer)
	Light Traps Beam Scream (Yawn) Heavenly Hawk (Hawk) Shining Ship (Rocket) Exclusive: Rebel Lob Goblin
	Magic Traps Arcane Hourglass (Hourglass) Axe of Illusion (Axe) Biter's Bane (Log Holder) Rune Rocket (Rocket) Sorcerous Skull (Skull) Spell Slapper (Totem)
	Tech Traps Automatic Angel (Angel) Factory Flower (Scepter) Grabbing Gadget (Hand) Makers Mana (Flying Helmet) Exclusive: Steampunk Shrednaught Tech Totem (Tiki) Topsy Techy (Handstand)
	Undead Traps Dream Piercer (Captain's Hat) Grim Gripper (Hand) Haunted Hatchet (Axe) Spectral Skull (Skull) Spirit Sphere (Orb) Spooky Snake (Snake)
	Water Traps Aqua Axe (Axe) Flood Flask (Jughead) Frost Helm (Flying Helmet) Soaking Staff (Angel) Tidal Tiki (Tiki) Wet Walter (Log Holder) Exclusive: Outlaw Brawl & Chain

Legendary Traps
	Legendary Trap Legendary Flood Flask (Water Jughead) Legendary Spirit Sphere (Undead Orb) Legendary Spectral Skull (Undead Skull)

List of Skylanders: SuperChargers Racing Stat Boosts

• Kaos Trap: All 5 stats
• Light or Air Trap: Top Speed
• Magic or Undead Trap: Acceleration
• Tech or Water Trap: Handling
• Dark or Fire Trap: Firepower
• Earth or Life Trap: Armor

Gallery

Traps seen in "The Discovery" trailer

Unused Life Tiki Trap

Production Notes of the Snake Crystal Trap by Jeff Murchie

Unused Undead Angel

Unused Earth Log Holder

Unused Tech Hammer

Unused Life Hand

Unused Tech Rocket

Unused Kaos Trap

Old version of the Fire Torch, notably missing the decorations on the sides

Tidal Tiki

Weed Wacker

Spectral Skull

Axe of Illusion

Eternal Flame

Drafty Decanter

Rocky Hawk

Grabby Gadget

Seed Snake

Scorching Stopper

Sorcerous Skull

Cloudy Cobra

Makers Mana

Banded Boulder

Grim Gripper

Fire Flower

Emerald Energy

Biters Bane

Storm Warning

Tech Totem

Breezy Bird

Aqua Axe

Spell Slapper

Factory Flower

Slag Hammer

Spirit Sphere

Wet Walter

Haunted Hatchet

Flood Mask

Heavenly Hawk

Shadow Spider

Shining Ship

Ghastly Grimace

Kaos Trap

Ultimate Kaos Trap

Legendary Spirit Sphere

Legendary Flood Mask

Air Hourglass

Earth Handstand

Captains Hat

Air Sword

Trivia

• Apparently, the inside of the Traps smells like mustard according to some Villains.
  • Villains that mention this are Tussle Sprout, Chompy Mage, Blaster-Tron and Chef Pepper Jack.
  • The reason for this smell may be because like The Ultimate Weapon, Traps need a level of Stinkocity to function, which in this case, is the slight smell of mustard.
• The Rune Rocket and the Shining Ship resemble the rocket on the Toys For Bob logo.
• While most of the Traps are translucent, the Kaos Traps are the only ones that are opaque.
  • The inside of Tech and Light Traps are slightly dense.
• The difference between the original and Ultimate versions of the Kaos Traps are as followed:
  • The original is available in single packs. Kaos' forehead markings are slightly hollowed in.
  • The Ultimate Kaos Trap available exclusively from the Skylanders: Trap Team Dark Edition Starter Packs. Kaos' eyes, forehead and face markings are printed in silver. Also, Kaos' head is bigger than the original's.
• The Flood Flask, Spirit Sphere and Spectral Skull have Legendary versions that come in Micro Comic Fun Packs.
• Rubble Trouble has an Easter Bunny version. However, instead of appearing as a differently-colored variant in the game, it only appears as a normal Earth Handstand Trap.
• In Skylanders: Trap Team "The Discovery Trailer", the Ultimate Kaos Trap prototype appeared to have no silver printed markings and Kaos element icon, and has a slightly hollowed-in forehead symbol.
  • Several traps in the trailer, such as the Undead Angel, Fire Rocket, Tech Hammer, Life Hand, Tech Rocket, and Earth Logholder were concept traps and never made it to the final stage.
• The Shrub Shrieker, Blazing Belch, and Beam Scream were only commercially released in regions of Australia. They did not see an North American, nor a European release, making them incredibly difficult to get a hold of and are now some of the most expensive Skylander figures on the aftermarket to date.
• During the racing parts in Story Mode and Racing, all Traps that are placed in the portal slot only show the same shape of the Undead Orb (Spirit Sphere) or Earth Orb (Banded Boulder) while in all different colors.
• While most of the Traps shoot one shot of ammo at a time, Magic Traps shoot double homing ammos, Tech can blast three ammos in different directions.
• As shown in Rift into Overdrive and Battlecast, the Traps are larger to Skylander characters than to players, big enough to be held like a scepter.
• Due to a production fault, Water and Air traps will sometimes lose their color causing them to resemble "Crystal Clear" variants.
• The Fire Flower trap bears the same name as an item from the Mario series.
• The Arcane Hourglass makes a cameo in the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, a game also developed by Toys For Bob, used as an actual hourglass by the Dream Weaver dragon Zikomo in the first game.^[2]
• Prototype Traps were designed by shaving off parts of Prism Break figures.^[3]
• The Ultimate Kaos Trap bears a striking resemblance to the Image Comics anti-hero, Spawn.
• The only trap shapes which belong to only one element are the Light and Dark traps from the Expansion Packs, the Heavenly Hawk and Shadow Spider.
• The Banded Boulder, Eternal Flame, Kaos Trap, Weed Whacker, Biter's Bane, Grabbing Gadget, Haunted Hatchet and Tidal Tiki are the only traps to appear in the Meet the Villans trailers.

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