A post on Reddit that was made a few months ago, a man with a steam deck was trying to get skylanders compatible with the hardware. Long story short, he got ahold of one of the original creators; and he handed him over code to get the steam deck rigged to play skylanders. It’s actually still on the subreddit, making it possible for anyone to do this
@@sleepyboy9247 not sure why my comment keeps getting deleted, I’ve posted it twice now. But the subreddit is “steam deck” and the post is called “true portable skylanders”
They knew from the start it was a fad They made more money with smaller yearly release and burning the license rather than developing it more and letting it stagnate, just look at what happened with starlink, even at 5$ you can still find it rotting on shelves years later I wouldn't be surprised if Activision oversaturated the market of toys to life on purpose to just make sure other can't profit from it, especially disney who would have printed money if infinity kept going
I LOVED Skylanders and have all six of the main games in the series and still own several Skylanders for each game. With that said, if the series had gone one more year I would have had to stop since my wallet couldn't handle it anymore. Activision got SUPER greedy starting with the fourth game (Trap Team). The first three games were reasonably priced. Starting with the fourth game, they started getting absurdly greedy with all the multiple trap accessories and the such. It got far worse with the fifth game (Super Chargers) with those trophies. I didn't mind the vehicles (they were pricey, but most were cool) but the multiple trophies were an issue. The sixth and final game (Imaginators) got really greedy with those crystals. At that point I was like "My wallet can't handle this anymore!!" I would have skipped the seventh game if they had released a seventh game in the main series because of the greed from Activision. The series would have been better off without the multiple traps, trophies and crystals (I don't mind just ONE trap, ONE trophy and ONE crystal, but not multiples of them, that's insane and just greedy) and the yearly release schedule was a bit much after a while. They would have benefited from a year off. Then again, They had to do the yearly release thing when Disney stepped in and directly challenged them with Disney Infinity. Taking time off under that scenario wasn't an option. Granted, having yearly Skylanders and yearly Disney Infinity burned out everyone's wallets, resulting in both series hitting the wall since most people couldn't afford them anymore after a certain point. Throw in Nintendo's Amibo and Lego Dimensions (and Lego went pretty hard with throwing their stuff out there like crazy in such a short time span for Lego Dimensions) and they added on to the wallet burn. By the time Starlink showed up, most people's wallets were burned out, resulting in Starlink sitting on the shelf (despite it being a really fun game and the Nintendo Switch version even having Star Fox in it)
Did anyone else love toys-to-life videogames as a kid but never actually played with the toys as toys? when i wasn't playing skylanders or disney infinity those mfs were just gathering dust in a box
I had Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions back when I was a kid and I loved it. Now I don’t have them, my mom got rid of both like months after. Could’ve saved em bc my little brother wants to re play those memories
I loved playing with the toys ! I organised tournaments where I threw skylanders into each other to see which one would knock the others out and be the strongest skylander !
They would've been much more appealing as toys if you could remove their stand. Like they click on and off. Then you don't have a big stand getting in the way and breaking the immersion.
I only tried Skylanders for a couple of hours at a friends house back in the day, but I worked at GameStop for the entire lifespan of the series. It was crazy how popular the first two games were. Especially when compared to everything that came after. I even had adults looking for specific Skylander figures for themselves, not just for their kids. I'd say the third title halved the series' popularity at the GameStop I was working at, and the following titles had far more shelf space than demand. I can see why they were phased out, but also it seems like a series that went too hard too fast and burnt all the good will that it got with the first title. I hope something like Skylanders comes along and blows people away again. It was a really fun time to work at GameStop.
I was one of those adults collecting those lmao. I remember going to toys r us (R.I.P) and having friends as employees that would hook me up a few days early for the new releases….I definitely miss toys to life, sky landers especially
@ciphergarden8281 hey, that's awesome! Yeah toys to life wasn't just for kids. I loved that it appealed to all demographics. Hopefully a new Skylanders comes out one day! 🤞
@@ciphergarden8281 I barely played Skylanders, I was more of a fan of Infinity and I wish they kept updating that game or released at least one more game because each game did get better and better, and you could use characters and tokens from the earlier games. Infinity 4 would have likely been a perfect game.
Skylanders was the best game series I played as a kid! It was my childhood throughout my life! I did also play Disney Infinity as well, but it wasn’t my interest. Frankly I love all six Skylanders games because of their unique gimmicks! Sure, now that Toys for Bob has gone indie, and so much time has passed, I still enjoy Skylanders to this day! Plus, I have an idea on bringing it back!
@@michaelhenar okay, I will. Just let you know, it’s gonna be long, but here I go. My spinoff will start like this I call it: *Skylanders Eclipse* It’s a spinoff game that *solely* focuses on the dark and light elements. Why? Let’s rewind a little bit, ever since the two new elements were introduced in Trap Team, then to Superchargers and Imaginators, they overall have the *LEAST* amount of Skylanders! So, not only will my spinoff revive the franchise, but it will also give the dark and light elements more love and the recognition they need! The roster will be 32 (similar to the SSA roster, but also includes the “gimmick”landers) 16 each for the elements and will consist of: Eight core Skylanders One Giant Two Swap Force (new swap abilities will be Gravitate and Rhythm) One Trap Master One Supercharger Two Minis One Sensei (Light Bazooker and Dark Quickshot) The main villainess is: *Empress Eclipta!* she was once a standard drow witch, who once served under Kaos! However, as Kaos failed to take over Skylands (as always), Eclipta would leave off to create her own evil plan. That was when she stumbled upon a spell book that contains “eclipse magic”. First she started mastering solar magic, then lunar magic. After all her training, she started her plan: which is amalgamating the sun and moon together, in creating a total annular eclipse so powerful, it’ll *eradicate* all Skylands! So, the plot is trying to stop Empress Eclipta from using the sun and moon for her evil intentions! Anyway, I am also bringing back the PVP Battle mode, heroic challenges, swap zones (gravitate and rhythm) raceway tracks for Sea and Sky (excluding Land, because it only has Fire, Tech, Earth and Undead), basically *everything* from the last six Skylanders installments, but put in a dark and light standalone game! Lastly, Knight Light, Knight Mare, Spotlight, Blackout, Astroblast, Nightfall, Starcast, Aurora, Hood Sickle, and Blaster Tron will all be playable in the game as well! So, what do you think? Please be honest
@@crislunaverellen6563My idea for a new game title would be "Skylanders, Path To Forever" where most of the original and/or famous lightcore skylanders from spyros adventure to trap team are now majestic adults back to protect skylands from an old forgotten boss; The hydra, but now with every head for each element. Each hydra head starts out leaving the main body (splitting) and creating their own along with an army in order to individually gather the most concentrated source of each element. When achieved they will fuse back into hydra form and become unstoppable. The skylanders have to prevent them from doing this by protecting these great sources of power from onslaughts of their elemental abominations. Every concentrated source of each element is locked away in a garrison that is currently under seige by the elemental army which is a counter offensive to the defensive element (fire defenders vs water attackers). The heros will have to clear hordes of monsters that are passing through gates and breaching walls before confronting the dragon with varying degrees of success and failure. The name of the title is meant to infer that unlike our world, Skylands is meant to stay unchanged as the indefinite paradise, but the hydra wants their universe's resources to become just as limited as ours for its own personal gain because it has insatiable hunger for the essence of every element.
I grew up with skylanders, all the way back when Spyros Adventure first came out, and i still play it to this day as its still a great series to go back to and play from time to time. I still got my old collection with new additions to it, and to this day im still collecting figures i never had like Doom Stone, Zap, Camo, etc.
Honestly it's stuff like this that makes me wish they brought the Skylander series back. The Toys to Life fad may be as good dead but they can still create a new game without it (though they probably find another way to monetize the hell out of it when they do decide to make one).
as someone who grew up with these games, I know exactly why it died; -the general audience grew older and didn't care much for the series after a few years (like me) -too many figurines after a while causing the older fans to go "i have enough characters, I dont need anymore" -the games themselves got worse after each release (the vicarious visions games were boring. They made the levels longer with less variety) -the art direction took a complete nosedive in originality (imaginations could easily be mixed up with league of legends or something) -confusion as to which characters worked on which games would cause confusion towards potential customers -the series mostly sold on nintendo systems as thats where the main target audience was, and when the wiiu failed and the wii versions were terrible ports of those games, it put a big hole in sales. Also which superchargers released a year after mario kart 8 and was basically seen as competition towards it... -superchargers tried to mix vehicle sections with the main gameplay of the older games and both fell short of expectations on both, almost no enemies or anything to do on the main path and the vehicle sections felt hollow and purposeless (sea vehicles had the worst hand) -A yearly release like this works for adult related games like Call of Duty because the audience already has a much wider age range in comparison (16 - 45-ish) while these games general age rating would be (8-12). a MUCH smaller gap would cause older players to be less interested sooner and when its strictly the older players from the start carrying the sales, the idea of a yearly release is basically doomed from the start TLDR: the games got worse over time, the audience got older, and the wiiu being a failure didnt help things much
If I may, Skylanders sums up what can go wrong with the American business ideologies. Rather than biding their time and generating slow but sustainatable growth, they explode at every new opportunity until they run out of steam, making big investments with the hopes of making big investments that, while exciting in the short-term, don't provide staying power when even one investment fails.
It also doesn’t help that after seeing the money they were making, other companies jumped in to take a bite of pie, just like with how so many games are now live service, and absolutely oversaturated, *maybe* they could’ve milked series a little bit more without, but the need for more and continuous profits meant was doomed regardless sadly
My take was always too much too fast. Was hard to keep up with. The games were designed with planned obsolescence in mind. Like a Call of Duty game. And it just didn't work for the format I think if they switched to a free to play model with a game that got consistent updates. Something like Fortnite. It would still be a thing
I played trap team but quickly stopped because I most definitely did not have the money to keep buying characters as a 9 year old. Game was so hard if you didn’t have the right character for an area.
Great video. I never got into Skylanders but i remember it being huge back in the day. The aspect of having to buy toys to enjoy a game turned me off personally.
skylanders never existed for me, because to me it was a disrespect to spyro, so i never picked it up, plus all of the figures looked to be way too expensive for an 11-12 year old.
The story of Skylanders reminds me vaguely of Transformers. They both had large casts designed to sell toys, but then they made a few poor moves and started struggling to sell. Luckily for Transformers, Hasbro is a toy company and the franchise was revived.
i remember the unturned content like 6 years ago, this is crazy to come back too. editing has changed tremendously. I remember when you used to grow the magic berrys in unturned.
According to Wikipedia future of skylanders Following the release of Imaginators, the franchise went into hiatus, with speculations surrounding a seventh console installment. Nevertheless, future projects within the Skylanders universe were limited to the recent mobile game titled Ring of Heroes until its closure in 2022. The studios worked on other unrelated games until Activision Blizzard was acquired by Microsoft in January 2022. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick stated that Microsoft had interest in reviving some of the old studios' hit franchises, including Guitar Hero and Skylanders.
My teenage son was a big fan of this back when this was a thing. I remember getting him the new game every year for a while. From where I saw, it died at Skylanders: Superchargers, because bolting on a racing game to the main game was just too far to go, and it didn't help that the racer that came with the game was woefully underpowered and (of course) to get a decent one you'd have to buy it separately. By the time Imaginators came out the year after that, he'd already burned out on Superchargers. Each new game had new gimmicks and stuff to buy, but the gimmicks got worse and worse, until the kids just checked out.
One thing that always hurt for me was Trap team onwards they removed PvP, which was my favorite part to have different skylanders compete with different abilities. This is a large reason I feel the peak was Swap force. Ofc, other than the lack of PvP trap team was pretty neat and fun.
I played all 6 Skylanders, I played the first year line up for Lego Dimension, and got burned by Ubisoft for Star Link Battle for Atlas (The reason for the Burn was I bought the Physical Toys that launched not knowing that they would just do that way when they killed the game by doing both Physical and Digital).
I only ever played Skylanders during the Roy's to Life era. I looked at all those other games and had little to no interest. Plus collecting Skylanders was expensive so I couldn't really afford to get into any of the competitors lol.
Writer here! Surprisingly, they weren't an inspiration for skylanders (that I saw at least). But I admittedly should've noted their existence with at least a quick "while they weren't the first to do this, as UB Funkeys did, Skylanders was the first mainstream example of the genre" or something. Valid point though
I was just about to comment the same thing! ❤ I still have and treasure all my UB Funkeys, even tried to complete my collection, but unfortunately they weren’t that big in my country… :/
I've played the original Skylanders game along with Skylanders Giants. I didn't have Skylanders Swap Force, Skylanders Trap Team and Skylanders Superchargers because of money problems.
Crazy thing is that I see so much potential with this. They could just do an open world game where you are litterly required to have a specific skylander or type of skylander to continue in certain parts but still being able to play other stuff in general.
I kinda find it funny that the ending of legend of Spyro 3 foreshadowed the original Skylanders with the world being broken apart into all these chunks that started floating into the sky
Toys to life crap shouldve stuck around, then NFTs maybe wouldnt be so prevalent. NFT's are essentially toys to life but done worse. As I recall, NFT's were SUPPOSED to be assets you could buy that you could use in other games. That idea failed miserably. Toys to life games like skylanders or nintendo games that used Amiibo, were exactly that, NFT games before we called them NFT's. And they were NFTs done right. A notable example is Webkins, a toys to life mmo game for kids.
I wish skylanders comes back, since day one of spyros adventure i love it and i want to have that feeling again of putting new skylanders on the portal of power for the first time
At first as a kid, I was a bit scepticle about Skylanders, It was cool yeah, but my mind was like “so many figures to collect 🙄”. And I’m glad I waited. Because later Skylanders Giants dropped and the design and concept of those made me ask it for Christmas. It was a really easy toy to ask for my birthday as well. Cse people could just buy a figure pack from Skylanders in the store as a gift that was affordable. I already prepared my mind, to not go for all Skylanders as that would be hard as a kid and expensive. I still had a blast with it tho. Was one of my top tier Wii games in my past that I played and arguably the best Skylanders game. My brother wanted the new Skylanders (swap force) later, so he got it. And I was not a fan. The levels took waaaay too long. I could say “Imma play a Skylanders level real quick before I have to leave too …”. The previous Skylanders levels where the perfect length in my opinion. They wheren’t too short where you’d breeze through them. But not too long as well. With some levels having even me saying “whew finally over”. (And I’m a patient person.) So yeahI loved Skylanders for giants. And that was it, the rest never got me interested again. (Only trap team for a bit, but never got it.) Disney infinity 3.0 rolled around tho, and it had Star Wars. I as a Star Wars fan went out to collect all infinity Star Wars stuf. And got it all so, that waste end of my toys to life gaming.😂
As a kid I played the standard game (a lot) and bought a new figure as soon as I had saved up enough money to do so (my brother bought a similar amount). I played Giants but my brother was the only one of us to actually buy new figures (he never completed Giants). I played halfway through the third game (I forget the English name as in the Netherlands it was called Swap Force). My brother never touched it and neither of us bothered to buy any toys. After that neither of us really cared much about other sequels but were mildly curious when a few weeks ago we saw the art for the fiery samurai lady on a piece of decoration in a toy store we visited to mostly just have a laugh (we were both surprised Skylanders still existed).
Me and my dad would collect them all, I wouldn’t even use them all in game we just thought they were so cool and it made me so happy as a kid. He’s no longer with me but I still have my collection to remind me of him and all the time I’ve spent in co-op.
I‘m suprised to hear that the spyro game wasn’t doing so well, since I got it myself like last year and expected it to be an old gem I missed out, but I actually didn’t had as much fun as expected, I eventually dropped it after a few play hours and some friends felt the same. But I remember playing with the Skylander figurines with my friends livly! Would be so nice to play this one more time. Maybe one day
my younger brother played the original game about a year after it came out and i still remember how much fun we had. it's a shame it was kind of lackluster in retrospect
I played something called UB Funkeys as a kid, that lead me right into both, skylanders and now amiibos and more and more into warhammer ugh, FIGURINES!
I remember playing trap team I believe, I loved it so much! Got stuck on a level with a pyramid I think.. can’t remember it’s been a while. I don’t think I have any of the figures anymore sadly. Even though it was kinda a cash grab, sky landers will always have a place in my heart :)
I know alot of people have similar nostalgia but ill never forget thening in the console and portal a d playing with my brother and an even sweeter memory of my grandma staying up till 2am with me playing Skylander giants with me cause i was too sick to sleep well i miss my brother and grandma
imaginators came out just as i was growing out of the series i am happy it ended on what i thought was a strong entry with the masters feeling super smooth to play.
Wasn't expecting the devs for skylanders to be the same ones that made star control, much less them making a sequel for 2025. Thanks for letting us know about it.
I liked Spyro, so I guess that was the initial pull - and played the up until swap force with my sister, and a friend of mine, where we just had tournaments with the skylanders. Put together I think me and my sister had around 30 figures at the end. Never played the other franchises.
as a person who played every game, and never beat trap team because I forgot. I genuinely think these games are so nostalgic, but tbh the puzzles were repetitive and annoying. I think all those pushing block puzzles i did with my brother drove me INSANE
I believe the skylander franchise began to drop because Skylanders Superchargers title wasn't completely available on the wii and most people still played skylanders on the wii at the time
Even though it's been eight years since 2016 when Imaginators first came out, I still have hope in me for the Skylanders Franchise to return after the series has being absent for eight years.
I played it constantly when I was young and to this day have my favorite characters perched on my windowsill. I remember the excitement I had to get other elements and giants to help me 100% the game and my parents seemed really happy to indulge in the hobby. I played with the toys outside of the game, too. Being a multiplayer game, I was also actually social playing it with other kids. But I remember one day they were just... gone? Suddenly replaced with the mix and match models, with the others nowhere to be seen. I didn’t like them very much and thought it took away from the character. Like Whirlwind was my GIRL - I didn't want her butchered and meshed with another character. Plus I wanted to play MY game, not a different one. You're right about the players feeling alienated from the changes.
I remember playing this awhile back, I still remember one of my friends bringing over his skylander which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Also, wasn't there a Skylander netflix series at some point?
I still have my collection of skylanders Loved the game growing up, parents hated how i would always ask to see their aisle at Walmart just to look, and then point out skylanders i didnt have😂😂
I remember me and my family loving the original skylanders and playing it all the time on our family wii and we also loved giants but it kind fell off for us after swap force, I personally felt like it took away from thr identity of each character and it made them easier to loose in my experience, but the first 2 entry will always have a place in my heart, even if was one hell of a money making scheme
As a representative of skylanders fans I gonna say you did get a few things wrong, but overall yeah this how it went and although it was a fad it was a great one at that
Yeah, I had gotten all of the skylanders games up to trap team and then stopped, it was fun but didnt like how my RFID for the Leaf hammer trap had gone haywire and not reading, overall had a lot of fun with them
man does anyone remember funkies? if i’m not wrong they did the toy to life with figurines before others did and it was an online mmo too like animal jam. what a good time to be a kid.
I got all the toys to life games and I loved them. I got a new PS3 a while back so I could play my ps3 games after years of letting them sit around. The first game I played was Skylanders Spyro’s adventure and it was more fun than I remembered. I’m actually about to quit these games that have season passes because they make you spend all your free time playing them to get stuff, especially if you only spend your money to open the full season pass. I’m done focusing my time on Disney Speedstorm, Multiverses, and Overwatch 2. I want to play my old games and new ones I got but haven’t played and I want to do something besides playing video games. Like I want to get back into creating characters and writing because I enjoy that. I’ll still play DST, Multiverses, and OW2 but I won’t let them consume my time anymore. Tomorrow I’ll start skylanders giants. Skylanders needs to make a comeback but not as a game, especially under Activision. The game era of skylanders is over. It’s been too long since Netflix cancelled the show so it can’t pick up where it left off. The only option is for Skylanders to get a movie franchise which is perfect because the world of Skylanders would make a hit in cinema and video game movies are because a major success thanks to Mario and Sonic. And for those of you who still have your figures and games, use them. Because I heard that the tech in the figures doesn’t last forever. So eventually all of our skylanders will become lifeless and we’ll never be able to play the games again. I wonder if we could sue Activision for that
Never played any of these personally. I was way into middle age when they came along and my kid was a teenager who wasn't interested. I did buy some Amiibo toys though. I bought the first Kirby because even though the Kirby games are obviously for children, I find them relaxing and fun and so I have a lot of affection for that little pink puff ball. We also picked up a bunch of the Animal Crossing amiibo since my kid and I have been big fans of those games going back to the Gamecube. If I were a boy when these came out though, I would have gone nuts for Skylanders. I may not have been in the target demo for them, but I can recognize the brilliance of the design. One of my best friends had a son who was in the proper age range for these and they had Skylanders all over their house. Good stuff... you know, until it wasn't.
Hoping that Toys for Bob can bring it back since they have separated themselves from activision, and they have stated they have interest in expanding the franchise
When I was like, in fifth grade or something, a kid brought in a huge amount of Skylanders figurines. I stole his Cynder figurine because little me was *obsessed* with how she looked. I don’t think he ever noticed.
I played all the Skylander games as a kid and loved them, I still have all the games, portals and Skylanders in storage but i haven't played them in years. I also played Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions and I liked them but not as much as Skylanders.
except for the first one, i’ve played every skylanders game, and i’d rank them like this: 1. Trap Team 2. Giants 3. Swap Force 4. Superchargers 5. Imaginators Those top 2 are 2 of my favorite games ever lol
When skylanders died a part of my childhood dide too....something just SNAPPED and through youtube i discovered FNAF and god help everything that happened after that (roblox wise/became a horror game person)
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only had skylanders and a few infinity ones but want more skylanders:(
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A post on Reddit that was made a few months ago, a man with a steam deck was trying to get skylanders compatible with the hardware. Long story short, he got ahold of one of the original creators; and he handed him over code to get the steam deck rigged to play skylanders. It’s actually still on the subreddit, making it possible for anyone to do this
Cool info Which sub?
That’s awesome!
Can you give me the link please?
@@sleepyboy9247 look up “true portable skylanders” it’s on the steam deck subreddit. It has a whole how-to guide as well
@@sleepyboy9247 not sure why my comment keeps getting deleted, I’ve posted it twice now. But the subreddit is “steam deck” and the post is called “true portable skylanders”
It never should've been a yearly franchise. Activision just couldn't help themselves and their franchise take a year off.
Agree they should’ve spaced out the releases more
They knew from the start it was a fad
They made more money with smaller yearly release and burning the license rather than developing it more and letting it stagnate, just look at what happened with starlink, even at 5$ you can still find it rotting on shelves years later
I wouldn't be surprised if Activision oversaturated the market of toys to life on purpose to just make sure other can't profit from it, especially disney who would have printed money if infinity kept going
@@JustEpic_Yt and give it more time to polish stuff here and there.
I LOVED Skylanders and have all six of the main games in the series and still own several Skylanders for each game. With that said, if the series had gone one more year I would have had to stop since my wallet couldn't handle it anymore. Activision got SUPER greedy starting with the fourth game (Trap Team). The first three games were reasonably priced. Starting with the fourth game, they started getting absurdly greedy with all the multiple trap accessories and the such. It got far worse with the fifth game (Super Chargers) with those trophies. I didn't mind the vehicles (they were pricey, but most were cool) but the multiple trophies were an issue. The sixth and final game (Imaginators) got really greedy with those crystals.
At that point I was like "My wallet can't handle this anymore!!"
I would have skipped the seventh game if they had released a seventh game in the main series because of the greed from Activision.
The series would have been better off without the multiple traps, trophies and crystals (I don't mind just ONE trap, ONE trophy and ONE crystal, but not multiples of them, that's insane and just greedy) and the yearly release schedule was a bit much after a while. They would have benefited from a year off.
Then again,
They had to do the yearly release thing when Disney stepped in and directly challenged them with Disney Infinity. Taking time off under that scenario wasn't an option. Granted, having yearly Skylanders and yearly Disney Infinity burned out everyone's wallets, resulting in both series hitting the wall since most people couldn't afford them anymore after a certain point. Throw in Nintendo's Amibo and Lego Dimensions (and Lego went pretty hard with throwing their stuff out there like crazy in such a short time span for Lego Dimensions) and they added on to the wallet burn. By the time Starlink showed up, most people's wallets were burned out, resulting in Starlink sitting on the shelf (despite it being a really fun game and the Nintendo Switch version even having Star Fox in it)
@@johnpenguinthe3rd13My grandma threw away all my skylanders
There was no better feeling than finally getting that one rare skylander none of your friends had.
kinda like pokemon cards
Agreed
I remember how rare ninjini was and my mom got it for me at Sam’s club lol. I was so happy.
My friend had pretty much every single one except cynder
Did anyone else love toys-to-life videogames as a kid but never actually played with the toys as toys?
when i wasn't playing skylanders or disney infinity those mfs were just gathering dust in a box
I had Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions back when I was a kid and I loved it. Now I don’t have them, my mom got rid of both like months after. Could’ve saved em bc my little brother wants to re play those memories
I loved playing with the toys ! I organised tournaments where I threw skylanders into each other to see which one would knock the others out and be the strongest skylander !
I never even thought of playing with them as just toys lol
They would've been much more appealing as toys if you could remove their stand. Like they click on and off. Then you don't have a big stand getting in the way and breaking the immersion.
they were statues so can’t really play with them
Skylanders died because Activision did an Activision, and it still hurts
I only tried Skylanders for a couple of hours at a friends house back in the day, but I worked at GameStop for the entire lifespan of the series. It was crazy how popular the first two games were. Especially when compared to everything that came after. I even had adults looking for specific Skylander figures for themselves, not just for their kids. I'd say the third title halved the series' popularity at the GameStop I was working at, and the following titles had far more shelf space than demand. I can see why they were phased out, but also it seems like a series that went too hard too fast and burnt all the good will that it got with the first title.
I hope something like Skylanders comes along and blows people away again. It was a really fun time to work at GameStop.
I was one of those adults collecting those lmao. I remember going to toys r us (R.I.P) and having friends as employees that would hook me up a few days early for the new releases….I definitely miss toys to life, sky landers especially
@ciphergarden8281 hey, that's awesome! Yeah toys to life wasn't just for kids. I loved that it appealed to all demographics. Hopefully a new Skylanders comes out one day! 🤞
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@@ciphergarden8281 I barely played Skylanders, I was more of a fan of Infinity and I wish they kept updating that game or released at least one more game because each game did get better and better, and you could use characters and tokens from the earlier games. Infinity 4 would have likely been a perfect game.
@@EndGameEnt Ayo, I was a Skylanders Adventure Club member
I just got hit with flashbacks of gaming in my friend's basement, bringing my own backpack of Skylanders to coop...
Good times..
Skylanders was the best game series I played as a kid! It was my childhood throughout my life! I did also play Disney Infinity as well, but it wasn’t my interest. Frankly I love all six Skylanders games because of their unique gimmicks! Sure, now that Toys for Bob has gone indie, and so much time has passed, I still enjoy Skylanders to this day!
Plus, I have an idea on bringing it back!
Dont leave us hanging, tell us the idea
@@michaelhenar okay, I will. Just let you know, it’s gonna be long, but here I go. My spinoff will start like this
I call it: *Skylanders Eclipse*
It’s a spinoff game that *solely* focuses on the dark and light elements. Why? Let’s rewind a little bit, ever since the two new elements were introduced in Trap Team, then to Superchargers and Imaginators, they overall have the *LEAST* amount of Skylanders! So, not only will my spinoff revive the franchise, but it will also give the dark and light elements more love and the recognition they need! The roster will be 32 (similar to the SSA roster, but also includes the “gimmick”landers) 16 each for the elements and will consist of:
Eight core Skylanders
One Giant
Two Swap Force (new swap abilities will be Gravitate and Rhythm)
One Trap Master
One Supercharger
Two Minis
One Sensei (Light Bazooker and Dark Quickshot)
The main villainess is: *Empress Eclipta!* she was once a standard drow witch, who once served under Kaos! However, as Kaos failed to take over Skylands (as always), Eclipta would leave off to create her own evil plan. That was when she stumbled upon a spell book that contains “eclipse magic”. First she started mastering solar magic, then lunar magic. After all her training, she started her plan: which is amalgamating the sun and moon together, in creating a total annular eclipse so powerful, it’ll *eradicate* all Skylands!
So, the plot is trying to stop Empress Eclipta from using the sun and moon for her evil intentions!
Anyway, I am also bringing back the PVP Battle mode, heroic challenges, swap zones (gravitate and rhythm) raceway tracks for Sea and Sky (excluding Land, because it only has Fire, Tech, Earth and Undead), basically *everything* from the last six Skylanders installments, but put in a dark and light standalone game!
Lastly, Knight Light, Knight Mare, Spotlight, Blackout, Astroblast, Nightfall, Starcast, Aurora, Hood Sickle, and Blaster Tron will all be playable in the game as well!
So, what do you think? Please be honest
@crislunaverellen6563 sounds amazing, but i would still make all the old skylanders of any element playable, just with debuffs maybe
@@crislunaverellen6563My idea for a new game title would be "Skylanders, Path To Forever" where most of the original and/or famous lightcore skylanders from spyros adventure to trap team are now majestic adults back to protect skylands from an old forgotten boss; The hydra, but now with every head for each element. Each hydra head starts out leaving the main body (splitting) and creating their own along with an army in order to individually gather the most concentrated source of each element. When achieved they will fuse back into hydra form and become unstoppable. The skylanders have to prevent them from doing this by protecting these great sources of power from onslaughts of their elemental abominations. Every concentrated source of each element is locked away in a garrison that is currently under seige by the elemental army which is a counter offensive to the defensive element (fire defenders vs water attackers). The heros will have to clear hordes of monsters that are passing through gates and breaching walls before confronting the dragon with varying degrees of success and failure. The name of the title is meant to infer that unlike our world, Skylands is meant to stay unchanged as the indefinite paradise, but the hydra wants their universe's resources to become just as limited as ours for its own personal gain because it has insatiable hunger for the essence of every element.
Damn, unlocked some joyful memories
Ong my homie had like a dozen and I’d pull up to his place to play 🥲
I grew up with skylanders, all the way back when Spyros Adventure first came out, and i still play it to this day as its still a great series to go back to and play from time to time. I still got my old collection with new additions to it, and to this day im still collecting figures i never had like Doom Stone, Zap, Camo, etc.
Honestly it's stuff like this that makes me wish they brought the Skylander series back. The Toys to Life fad may be as good dead but they can still create a new game without it (though they probably find another way to monetize the hell out of it when they do decide to make one).
as someone who grew up with these games, I know exactly why it died;
-the general audience grew older and didn't care much for the series after a few years (like me)
-too many figurines after a while causing the older fans to go "i have enough characters, I dont need anymore"
-the games themselves got worse after each release (the vicarious visions games were boring. They made the levels longer with less variety)
-the art direction took a complete nosedive in originality (imaginations could easily be mixed up with league of legends or something)
-confusion as to which characters worked on which games would cause confusion towards potential customers
-the series mostly sold on nintendo systems as thats where the main target audience was, and when the wiiu failed and the wii versions were terrible ports of those games, it put a big hole in sales. Also which superchargers released a year after mario kart 8 and was basically seen as competition towards it...
-superchargers tried to mix vehicle sections with the main gameplay of the older games and both fell short of expectations on both, almost no enemies or anything to do on the main path and the vehicle sections felt hollow and purposeless (sea vehicles had the worst hand)
-A yearly release like this works for adult related games like Call of Duty because the audience already has a much wider age range in comparison (16 - 45-ish) while these games general age rating would be (8-12). a MUCH smaller gap would cause older players to be less interested sooner and when its strictly the older players from the start carrying the sales, the idea of a yearly release is basically doomed from the start
TLDR: the games got worse over time, the audience got older, and the wiiu being a failure didnt help things much
ok
So basically it died cause it was owned by Activision.
If I may, Skylanders sums up what can go wrong with the American business ideologies. Rather than biding their time and generating slow but sustainatable growth, they explode at every new opportunity until they run out of steam, making big investments with the hopes of making big investments that, while exciting in the short-term, don't provide staying power when even one investment fails.
It also doesn’t help that after seeing the money they were making, other companies jumped in to take a bite of pie, just like with how so many games are now live service, and absolutely oversaturated, *maybe* they could’ve milked series a little bit more without, but the need for more and continuous profits meant was doomed regardless sadly
Don’t forget, they also made your Netflix show of Skylander
My take was always too much too fast. Was hard to keep up with. The games were designed with planned obsolescence in mind. Like a Call of Duty game. And it just didn't work for the format
I think if they switched to a free to play model with a game that got consistent updates. Something like Fortnite. It would still be a thing
fr most of the figures didnt work between games or were heavily nerfed
I played trap team but quickly stopped because I most definitely did not have the money to keep buying characters as a 9 year old. Game was so hard if you didn’t have the right character for an area.
I played all 5 games with just stealth elf (we dont talk about superchargers)
Great video. I never got into Skylanders but i remember it being huge back in the day. The aspect of having to buy toys to enjoy a game turned me off personally.
Damn I feel old
Skylanders died because we all grew up
For real 😢😢😭😭😭😭
skylanders never existed for me, because to me it was a disrespect to spyro, so i never picked it up, plus all of the figures looked to be way too expensive for an 11-12 year old.
i hate how hard replayability and breaking into the scene as a new interested player is.
The story of Skylanders reminds me vaguely of Transformers. They both had large casts designed to sell toys, but then they made a few poor moves and started struggling to sell. Luckily for Transformers, Hasbro is a toy company and the franchise was revived.
i remember the unturned content like 6 years ago, this is crazy to come back too. editing has changed tremendously. I remember when you used to grow the magic berrys in unturned.
Love the editing on the intro my god, what a talented editing team you have! 🤩
According to Wikipedia future of skylanders Following the release of Imaginators, the franchise went into hiatus, with speculations surrounding a seventh console installment. Nevertheless, future projects within the Skylanders universe were limited to the recent mobile game titled Ring of Heroes until its closure in 2022. The studios worked on other unrelated games until Activision Blizzard was acquired by Microsoft in January 2022. Activision CEO Bobby Kotick stated that Microsoft had interest in reviving some of the old studios' hit franchises, including Guitar Hero and Skylanders.
My teenage son was a big fan of this back when this was a thing.
I remember getting him the new game every year for a while.
From where I saw, it died at Skylanders: Superchargers, because bolting on a racing game to the main game was just too far to go, and it didn't help that the racer that came with the game was woefully underpowered and (of course) to get a decent one you'd have to buy it separately. By the time Imaginators came out the year after that, he'd already burned out on Superchargers.
Each new game had new gimmicks and stuff to buy, but the gimmicks got worse and worse, until the kids just checked out.
The first Skylanders game felt special, everything after felt like a cash grab
Skylanders giants had the best boss (DrillX)
Not imaginators
Giants and trap team were great too imo
Only the first four were great, the last two were cash grabs
@godzillao9312 swap force was not good my guy
We’re getting a new YouTooz in early 2025 hopefully of skylanders
man i remember getting the first one during the holidays and it was so much fun, i specifically struggling with the undead levels and the final boss
Who else really hated that string thing when you would play 2 player I always hated that.
One thing that always hurt for me was Trap team onwards they removed PvP, which was my favorite part to have different skylanders compete with different abilities.
This is a large reason I feel the peak was Swap force.
Ofc, other than the lack of PvP trap team was pretty neat and fun.
I played all 6 Skylanders, I played the first year line up for Lego Dimension, and got burned by Ubisoft for Star Link Battle for Atlas (The reason for the Burn was I bought the Physical Toys that launched not knowing that they would just do that way when they killed the game by doing both Physical and Digital).
I only ever played Skylanders during the Roy's to Life era. I looked at all those other games and had little to no interest. Plus collecting Skylanders was expensive so I couldn't really afford to get into any of the competitors lol.
Ignoring 2007's UB Funkeys misses a big section of the story.
Writer here! Surprisingly, they weren't an inspiration for skylanders (that I saw at least). But I admittedly should've noted their existence with at least a quick "while they weren't the first to do this, as UB Funkeys did, Skylanders was the first mainstream example of the genre" or something. Valid point though
I was just about to comment the same thing! ❤
I still have and treasure all my UB Funkeys, even tried to complete my collection, but unfortunately they weren’t that big in my country… :/
@ I played with them myself, and really liked them haha. So the fact I forgot to note them is even goofier 😅
i was hunting for a comment like this to see if i wasn't the only UB Funkeys fan as a kid lol. I'm a bit disappointed it wasn't mentioned in the vid.
I used to play it but I think I played both Skylanders and Skylanders Giants and that's it. 0:28
loved these as a kid. long time coming to posting this from ur humble Unturned starting's when i found you
I've played the original Skylanders game along with Skylanders Giants. I didn't have Skylanders Swap Force, Skylanders Trap Team and Skylanders Superchargers because of money problems.
Crazy thing is that I see so much potential with this. They could just do an open world game where you are litterly required to have a specific skylander or type of skylander to continue in certain parts but still being able to play other stuff in general.
the concept was one of the coolest things i saw as a kid (gaming wise).it was a wonder to see the toys at the store
I kinda find it funny that the ending of legend of Spyro 3 foreshadowed the original Skylanders with the world being broken apart into all these chunks that started floating into the sky
Toys to life crap shouldve stuck around, then NFTs maybe wouldnt be so prevalent. NFT's are essentially toys to life but done worse. As I recall, NFT's were SUPPOSED to be assets you could buy that you could use in other games. That idea failed miserably. Toys to life games like skylanders or nintendo games that used Amiibo, were exactly that, NFT games before we called them NFT's. And they were NFTs done right. A notable example is Webkins, a toys to life mmo game for kids.
I wish skylanders comes back, since day one of spyros adventure i love it and i want to have that feeling again of putting new skylanders on the portal of power for the first time
At first as a kid, I was a bit scepticle about Skylanders, It was cool yeah, but my mind was like “so many figures to collect 🙄”. And I’m glad I waited. Because later Skylanders Giants dropped and the design and concept of those made me ask it for Christmas. It was a really easy toy to ask for my birthday as well. Cse people could just buy a figure pack from Skylanders in the store as a gift that was affordable.
I already prepared my mind, to not go for all Skylanders as that would be hard as a kid and expensive.
I still had a blast with it tho. Was one of my top tier Wii games in my past that I played and arguably the best Skylanders game.
My brother wanted the new Skylanders (swap force) later, so he got it. And I was not a fan. The levels took waaaay too long. I could say “Imma play a Skylanders level real quick before I have to leave too …”. The previous Skylanders levels where the perfect length in my opinion. They wheren’t too short where you’d breeze through them. But not too long as well. With some levels having even me saying “whew finally over”. (And I’m a patient person.)
So yeahI loved Skylanders for giants. And that was it, the rest never got me interested again. (Only trap team for a bit, but never got it.)
Disney infinity 3.0 rolled around tho, and it had Star Wars. I as a Star Wars fan went out to collect all infinity Star Wars stuf. And got it all so, that waste end of my toys to life gaming.😂
Please don't die, skylanders. Skylanders Forever!!!!!!!😭😭😭
As a kid I played the standard game (a lot) and bought a new figure as soon as I had saved up enough money to do so (my brother bought a similar amount).
I played Giants but my brother was the only one of us to actually buy new figures (he never completed Giants).
I played halfway through the third game (I forget the English name as in the Netherlands it was called Swap Force). My brother never touched it and neither of us bothered to buy any toys.
After that neither of us really cared much about other sequels but were mildly curious when a few weeks ago we saw the art for the fiery samurai lady on a piece of decoration in a toy store we visited to mostly just have a laugh (we were both surprised Skylanders still existed).
Ah, memories. I absolutely loved this series as a kid.
im surprised you didnt bring up the netflix TV show that actually did really well
Me and my dad would collect them all, I wouldn’t even use them all in game we just thought they were so cool and it made me so happy as a kid. He’s no longer with me but I still have my collection to remind me of him and all the time I’ve spent in co-op.
I‘m suprised to hear that the spyro game wasn’t doing so well, since I got it myself like last year and expected it to be an old gem I missed out, but I actually didn’t had as much fun as expected, I eventually dropped it after a few play hours and some friends felt the same. But I remember playing with the Skylander figurines with my friends livly! Would be so nice to play this one more time. Maybe one day
my younger brother played the original game about a year after it came out and i still remember how much fun we had. it's a shame it was kind of lackluster in retrospect
I played SO much of skylanders captures and racing when I was little.
I remember getting off of school and walking over to my friends apartment next door to play sky landers on his console. Man it was good times 😢
I played something called UB Funkeys as a kid, that lead me right into both, skylanders and now amiibos and more and more into warhammer ugh, FIGURINES!
RoboKast covering one of my favorite franchises of all time we are so BACK
I remember playing trap team I believe, I loved it so much! Got stuck on a level with a pyramid I think.. can’t remember it’s been a while. I don’t think I have any of the figures anymore sadly. Even though it was kinda a cash grab, sky landers will always have a place in my heart :)
I have a tear in my eye now thanks for the flashbacks
"license to drill beebopbop" i still remember this game and the memories...
I think skylanders should have took a break when swap-force released
I know alot of people have similar nostalgia but ill never forget thening in the console and portal a d playing with my brother and an even sweeter memory of my grandma staying up till 2am with me playing Skylander giants with me cause i was too sick to sleep well i miss my brother and grandma
When I heard the name Skylanders after a long time, a tear ran down my eye.
imaginators came out just as i was growing out of the series i am happy it ended on what i thought was a strong entry with the masters feeling super smooth to play.
Imagine skylander but its Transformers instead, that would be awesome
Wasn't expecting the devs for skylanders to be the same ones that made star control, much less them making a sequel for 2025. Thanks for letting us know about it.
I liked Spyro, so I guess that was the initial pull - and played the up until swap force with my sister, and a friend of mine, where we just had tournaments with the skylanders. Put together I think me and my sister had around 30 figures at the end. Never played the other franchises.
as a person who played every game, and never beat trap team because I forgot. I genuinely think these games are so nostalgic, but tbh the puzzles were repetitive and annoying.
I think all those pushing block puzzles i did with my brother drove me INSANE
I believe the skylander franchise began to drop because Skylanders Superchargers title wasn't completely available on the wii and most people still played skylanders on the wii at the time
Even though it's been eight years since 2016 when Imaginators first came out, I still have hope in me for the Skylanders Franchise to return after the series has being absent for eight years.
I played it constantly when I was young and to this day have my favorite characters perched on my windowsill. I remember the excitement I had to get other elements and giants to help me 100% the game and my parents seemed really happy to indulge in the hobby. I played with the toys outside of the game, too. Being a multiplayer game, I was also actually social playing it with other kids. But I remember one day they were just... gone? Suddenly replaced with the mix and match models, with the others nowhere to be seen. I didn’t like them very much and thought it took away from the character. Like Whirlwind was my GIRL - I didn't want her butchered and meshed with another character. Plus I wanted to play MY game, not a different one. You're right about the players feeling alienated from the changes.
Wish someone would make a Sim Racing with that same idea, so we could collect cars and all the upgrades to the cars would be on the models.
I remember playing this awhile back, I still remember one of my friends bringing over his skylander which I thought was the coolest thing ever.
Also, wasn't there a Skylander netflix series at some point?
Bro got sponsored by Dying Light. How do you even do that😂
By being cheap
Those arkeyan levels had me outta my seat though. It’s hard to recapture that greatness
I still have my collection of skylanders
Loved the game growing up, parents hated how i would always ask to see their aisle at Walmart just to look, and then point out skylanders i didnt have😂😂
I remember me and my family loving the original skylanders and playing it all the time on our family wii and we also loved giants but it kind fell off for us after swap force, I personally felt like it took away from thr identity of each character and it made them easier to loose in my experience, but the first 2 entry will always have a place in my heart, even if was one hell of a money making scheme
As a representative of skylanders fans I gonna say you did get a few things wrong, but overall yeah this how it went and although it was a fad it was a great one at that
Yeah, I had gotten all of the skylanders games up to trap team and then stopped, it was fun but didnt like how my RFID for the Leaf hammer trap had gone haywire and not reading, overall had a lot of fun with them
man does anyone remember funkies? if i’m not wrong they did the toy to life with figurines before others did and it was an online mmo too like animal jam. what a good time to be a kid.
Hear me out… a full remaster of the first game with a new design to the starter pack and portal
I gave up on Skylanders once they got rid of verses. It was a blast after beating the game to have a vs match with my friends.
I got all the toys to life games and I loved them. I got a new PS3 a while back so I could play my ps3 games after years of letting them sit around. The first game I played was Skylanders Spyro’s adventure and it was more fun than I remembered. I’m actually about to quit these games that have season passes because they make you spend all your free time playing them to get stuff, especially if you only spend your money to open the full season pass. I’m done focusing my time on Disney Speedstorm, Multiverses, and Overwatch 2. I want to play my old games and new ones I got but haven’t played and I want to do something besides playing video games. Like I want to get back into creating characters and writing because I enjoy that. I’ll still play DST, Multiverses, and OW2 but I won’t let them consume my time anymore. Tomorrow I’ll start skylanders giants. Skylanders needs to make a comeback but not as a game, especially under Activision. The game era of skylanders is over. It’s been too long since Netflix cancelled the show so it can’t pick up where it left off. The only option is for Skylanders to get a movie franchise which is perfect because the world of Skylanders would make a hit in cinema and video game movies are because a major success thanks to Mario and Sonic. And for those of you who still have your figures and games, use them. Because I heard that the tech in the figures doesn’t last forever. So eventually all of our skylanders will become lifeless and we’ll never be able to play the games again. I wonder if we could sue Activision for that
Best thing about Skylanders: Richard Horvitz voicework!
Never played any of these personally. I was way into middle age when they came along and my kid was a teenager who wasn't interested. I did buy some Amiibo toys though. I bought the first Kirby because even though the Kirby games are obviously for children, I find them relaxing and fun and so I have a lot of affection for that little pink puff ball. We also picked up a bunch of the Animal Crossing amiibo since my kid and I have been big fans of those games going back to the Gamecube.
If I were a boy when these came out though, I would have gone nuts for Skylanders. I may not have been in the target demo for them, but I can recognize the brilliance of the design. One of my best friends had a son who was in the proper age range for these and they had Skylanders all over their house. Good stuff... you know, until it wasn't.
Imagine if they rereleased the skylanders games with full access to every character with no figures required.
I have played the Skylanders Spyro's Adventure time and Skylanders Giants with my brother.
i played swap force for so many days in a row...tried to boot it up again after a few years, and the ps3 couldn't handle it.
Rest in peace, friend.
I remember I had the sky lands swap force for the Xbox back in 2015/16 omg it was such a good game
Played the first 4 games on my Wii didn’t even know there were more
Hoping that Toys for Bob can bring it back since they have separated themselves from activision, and they have stated they have interest in expanding the franchise
I love Skylanders but I'll never forgive it for preventing the beauty that was the Legend of Spyro series from continuing
When I was like, in fifth grade or something, a kid brought in a huge amount of Skylanders figurines. I stole his Cynder figurine because little me was *obsessed* with how she looked. I don’t think he ever noticed.
I played all the Skylander games as a kid and loved them, I still have all the games, portals and Skylanders in storage but i haven't played them in years. I also played Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions and I liked them but not as much as Skylanders.
except for the first one, i’ve played every skylanders game, and i’d rank them like this:
1. Trap Team
2. Giants
3. Swap Force
4. Superchargers
5. Imaginators
Those top 2 are 2 of my favorite games ever lol
holy moly, I forgot i was subbed to you Robokast. Its been years since unturned holy
Perfect timing
When skylanders died a part of my childhood dide too....something just SNAPPED and through youtube i discovered FNAF and god help everything that happened after that (roblox wise/became a horror game person)
pls do gmod prop hunt with finn
I remember I was constantly playing Skylanders giants I was obsessed with it for like eight months and then I never touched it again lol.
Skylanders was a part of my childhood, such a beautiful game.
In 2018 there was a skylanders show put on Netflix that has 5 or 6 seasons
I guess the last game in toyline would have to be Starlink: Battle for Atlas.