How would you rate this compared to the Skylander series?

Based on my experience with both games:

With Skylanders, the concept seems to be smash destroy, open door, repeat. I don't have a problem with that, but it gets VERY repetitive FAST, and the multiplayer is pretty much just battle arenas.

With DI, the concept seems to be, smash, collect unlock, with the multiplayer aspect being build an awesome world where you're essentially creating your own game in a sense.

This being said, Both games are cool for different reasons.
Skylanders lets you play ANY character in ANY level/playset, and in addition to the "unlockable" character specific permanent buffs you can buy for each you can find hats which are interchangeable among all your owned characters. With Skylanders Activision can pretty much can do anything with their characters just by imagining random new ones with each expansion, whereas DI has a certain set (albeit HUGE) "pool" of characters to draw from. Seriously we're never going to get a completely original "created for DI" character to use in game.

DI lets you think about what you're building, or strategize to complete a collectible mission, and it has the most awesome characters available (in theory, due to the licenses Disney holds). I love the Power Discs as both a collectible medium, and as an easily swappable buff set. I'm a huge fan of games that spare the mindless action for something even a little more innovative to break up the monotony. For every "Portal" type game out there there are 10,000,000 Call of Duty sequels or imitators.

Either way, both games have me going broke happily.

The main downside to DI is it suffers from bad dlc lol disc locked content instead of downloadable content. Whats in the game is pretty much all we'll ever see. No mini figures or any surprises in its future. But either way you go you have to buy a new starter pack (old portals wont work on swap forces new tech). But theyre both a blast imo so cant go wrong with eithet, but DI is a bit more family oriented. Herman summed it up pretty well

Love the ideas, I just fear it's not kid friendly enough

I was thinking about that earlier in the car. And I thought of that exact point. I get not adding a campaign the development cost woulda been high and thegame is focused all around the toybox. Toybox would be great with a better online component ala little big planet. Building toy boxes is fun but I have no one to share it withso it gets boring. Also can't imagine how many great levels I'm missing out on because of this infuriating game design. Far as skill trees go my 7 yr old grasps it just fine on skylanders and gets really excited when he reaches a filled out tree and has a bamf skylander.

My only other complaint is where is jack jack i want me some jack jack from incredibles or hell frozone even

As fun as DI is, I actually prefer Skylanders a bit more.

I like Skylanders action/adventure gameplay and how the skills actually evolve for each Skylander both cosmetically (Sometimes changing their in-game model) and gameplay-wise (You can see skills actually change and get more powerful). It also reminds me of the original Spyro games, which were some of my favorite PS1 games,

Also, i prefer how you unlock everything in Skylanders where you only need one figure of each element (They give you 3, you need 5 more) as opposed to DI where you need all the figures :\

As much as I adore Disney/Pixar and am looking forward to their future characters (Rapunzel, Jack, and Ralph in particular) I like how imaginative some of the Skylanders are

I am having a bunch of fun with both though