I just got back from the EB Expo (Australian games expo) and they had a preplay of Skylanders Imaginators so I had a go. They gave everyone 1 free creation crystal (one guy asked to give me $5 for mine to give his son because of the limit) to create a character. I created an undead bowslinger, though I wanted to do swashbuckler but they wouldn't let me. I loved the range of possibilities, colours, various options for body parts and especially body proportions and size, but a lot was locked to be gotten upon level up or from chests.
I did get to play with some characters (Ambush, Wolfgang and Starcast, Golden Queen was there but I was told to leave before I could play) Starcast was unexpectedly good, he has an ability to leave behind a fake image of himself and walk around invisible, like Stealth Elf. Ambush has sword attacks, bamboo dash and a bamboo blast. Wolfgang was as good as expected, box stock he shoots arrows and dashes forward while strumming his guitar.
Something cool with the creation crystal was that it lot up while on the portal, though this wasn't easy to see as it was still in packaging.
All together I like the creation feature and all the new characters I played.