Beaming

What's more interesting is the game's "Beam" function where you can use your device's camera to "Scan" a real Sick Brick character block or vehicle and generate it's digital in-game counterpart for you to use. This is the same method the Skylanders game uses to bring real toys from the same game to be brought to the game. The difference is that players can swap the heads and bodies of their Sick Bricks then Beam them to create more interesting characters. These toys are sold separately or in packs.

You have to beam a character you're using to level it up and also, you have to stack them up to create a Totem, a stack of three different characters which can be used to reach flying chests and to interact with specific Totem pads in Sick City. They can also be used to clear a crowd of enemies quickly since it will have the combined special attacks of the three characters you used to form the totem. Totems are powerful so they can only be used in a brief amount of time.