Skylands Trap Team comes to fans nationwide with this year’s GameTruck Marketing Campaign

Eperiential Partnership Brings One of the World’s Most Successful Video Game Franchises of All Time to Major Markets Nationwide for 4th Consecutive Year

Tempe,  AZ  (07/25/2014)  – GameTruck  Licensing,  LCC  announced  today that it will  bring Skylanders Trap Team™ the newest installment to the Skylanders® franchise to fans this summer  through  a nationwide  tour with  Activision  Publishing,  Inc.,  a  wholly  owned subsidiary of Activision Blizzard, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATVI).  The Skylanders Trap Team First- to-Play Tour is  a three-month,  five  market  mobile  marketing  campaign that kicks off on July 24 at San Diego Comic-Con and will end in late October. For each leg of the tour, a Skylanders-branded trailer will be converted in to a mobile theater, providing fans one of  the first consumer  hands-on  gameplay  opportunities  before  the  official  launch  of Skylanders Trap Team on October 5 in North America. Other stops on the tour include Los Angeles, San Francisco, Dallas, Chicago, and New York.

“We  truly  believe  that  we’re  an  ideal  partner  for  such  a  promotion  as  we  provide  a turnkey  solution,”  said  GameTruck  CEO  and  Founder  Scott  Novis.  “We’re  not  only responsible  for managing  the budget of a large program like  this, but we also oversee the production of wraps, negotiate deals with all venues and fairs, staff the events and much more.”

GameTruck has partnered with Skylanders for the last three years for the launch of each game in the franchise, including Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure® and Skylanders Giants™. For  launch  of Skylanders  SWAP  Force™,  every  GameTruck location featured hands-on gameplay and giveaways.

The  consecutive  partnership  with  Activision  and  other  national  brands  is  the  result  of GameTruck’s  National  Marketing  Team’s  dedication  to  creating  immersive  integrated marketing  campaigns  that  capitalize  on  its  franchise  system  to  promote  products, brands,  and  experiences  through  one-of-a-kind  partnerships  that  include  product demonstrations  with  hands  on  trials,  product  sampling,  featured  videos,  in-event signage and mobile billboards.

Skylanders Trap Team brings a ground-breaking innovation  to  the Skylanders franchise by reversing the magic of its signature Toys-To-Life™ play pattern to let kids bring life-to- toys for the first time. With Skylanders Trap Team, Portal Masters seek out and defeat the most wanted villains in all of Skylands, pulling them out of the game and into living rooms by capturing them in magical Traps. Players can then send villains back into the game where they play as them to fight for good.

ABOUT GAMETRUCK

GameTruck offers a premier party experience for both children and adults in a mobile, interactive, multiplayer environment. The original and longest-running mobile video game theater concept, GameTruck expanded to include mobile laser tag adventure in 2013. Since it was founded in 2006, GameTruck has grown to 70 franchisees operating 100 GameTruck rigs and serving 150 territories across 30 states and Lagos, Nigeria. Headquartered in Tempe, AZ; GameTruck aims for the continuous improvement of theircurrent franchises, the expansion into new territories, and the extended opportunities of their National Marketing Team in 2014. www.gametruckparty.com.

©  2014  Activision  Publishing,  Inc.,  SKYLANDERS,  SKYLANDERS  TRAP  TEAM,  SKYLANDERS  SWAP  FORCE,  SKYLANDERS  GIANTS,  SKYLANDERS  SPYRO’S ADVENTURE, TOYS TO LIFE and ACTIVISION are trademarks of Activision Publishing, Inc.

1 According to The NPD Group, GfK Chart-Track and Activision Blizzard internal estimates, including toys and accessories. All time since NPD and GfK Chart-track began recording