I have played them all actually and I can tell you several facts that you got a little wrong with. Sky landers didn't just require different elements but many puzzles required characters that were exact elements and multi elements and types. In order to actually beat the game you literally needed all characters other wise the game could not be 100% completed or if you were missing 1 character of many you couldn't beat the base game at all. Hell one level in one sky lander game required 32 different exact combinations in order to beat the level and me and a friend could not beat that level because he was missing 9 of the toys making it impossible to beat the level and the stores were out of that sky lander so we couldn't beat it. Now fun fact with Lego Dimensions and Disney Infinity is you don't actually need the characters to play the games. You can unlock the characters in game but to do that you needed to grind a lot. For starters you actually didn't need the characters at all which is an interesting function but it does make the games extremely challenging. That being said however in order to actually play the game properly you did need the world maps pieces for Disney's Infinity but you needed to plug in 1 Lego Dimensions character from each map to go threw the portals to unlock the maps but you didn't need the characters after that because there are spots where using in game currency you could unlock the characters but it took a lot of the in game currency to unlock some of them. For starters to unlock Darth Vader in a Star Wars map it required nearly 100,000,000 in game currency which meant about 5 solid days of grinding for in game money. Now getting the characters used would mean you wouldn't have a new account but would be using someone else's save and you couldn't deleted their character save file to level the character and upgrade the stats that you wanted same with Lego Dimensions you couldn't level the character the way you waned the character to be which meant if you put a stat point in the wrong space you were screwed. Now with the quality of Disney Infinity I am going to have to call bullshit on the high quality. Anything with a well kind of anything that was sticking out would easily break. Also every single light saber was absolute garbage quality and well 80% would just fall apart on their own. The quality was kind of shit actually. Also the only Stitch I ever found needed me reattaching his arm by using gorilla glue and pushing a sewing needle threw the saft cheap plastic that was almost like Jello and not quality. Now with the Amibo well that originally pissed a lot of people off and the reality is why I never bought the game played it once and holly shit there were 2 different versions of the characters. 1 version was in game character which didn't have specials, and its stats were blatantly dog shit, and controls were garbage and the game was nearly unplayable but then version 2 was put the character on the board and you could actually play the character and with the real action figure hooked up it was like playing a regular fighting game. The Nintendo characters were $30 to $100 a pop and the limited in store supply meant you had to buy the characters online which I actually looked up for a friend at the time to try and get him a character online and I found out the place that was selling then that felt like a scalper which they were selling I think it was Samus well they were asking $380 and the location that it would be shipping from was the Nintendo Distributer Office in Tokyo Japan meaning Nintendo was straight up on purpose not sending out shipments of characters so that they could sell the items themselves for massive mark up. My friend only had what the game came with and he then took the game back to the store and got his money back and he bought some X Box 360 games instead. Nintendo is an absolute scum bag company. We play the game on his system with the Amibos and funny fact is he had the super smash brothers on Wii U but we were playing i on the Wii because fun fact the Wii U was a complete scam. It was just a smaller wii without the ability to back play Game Cube games and it had the Wii software on it. Also really stupid fact about how badly programmed the Wii system was you can use a PS2 controller on it without any issues because the console had no security on it almost at all. I am surprised so few hacks happened or in reality I am surprised Nintendo hid the lack of security of the system so well. I bet many if not all consoles may have had their information leaked threw massive hacks and Nintendo just never reported it and Japan never called Nintendo out on the their vulnerabilities. Well when me and that guy played the starting characters without the physical toys on the board the game played like dog shit and you would struggle to do any damage to bots but when you put the actual toys on the board you could one shot bots. Its night and fucking day on how much having the characters changes the usability of the game. Lego Dimensions was annoying with putting the stuff together because turns out you didn't get the proper instructions on how to put the characters together in the books and you had to put the item on the board and flip threw to make sure you did thing correctly and you had to keep pressing back and forth because the pages didn't have you controlling them they auto played what to do which was fucking annoying as hell. Also the instructions on putting the starting board itself together Lego literally messed up on the instructions 7 times meaning there were 7 mistakes in the instructions for the board you were putting together. All but super smash was fun but over priced and the fun got old and turned to really stupid pretty quickly and really really annoying. Also unlocking the characters without the piece was doable but after you spent the in game money to unlock them you then had to pay another fee to actually use them and you had a time limit on how long you could use them which generally meant you had to keep paying that fee constantly and it not only got old real fast but that getting old turned to me wanted to to not play the games ever again which in turn I didn't and the games died off. I stopped playing them all because they were no longer fun.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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).
For those wanting to see some of the beta versions of the skylanders at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester NY. I got the chance to see it when I was passing through and it nearly made me cry seeing a piece of my childhood in a museum
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.
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.
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
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.
Me and a group of kids at school had formed an impromptu skylanders club, where we would share and trade the figures. Between the 4 of us, we had nearly every character, which made getting through certain areas a lot easier. I honestly hope the genre can make a comeback, but any attempt would eventually turn into a soulless cash grab.
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 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
Every Skylander has backwards compatibility. But I will agree on the nerfs sucking ass. Look at what they did to my boy Slam Bam…..his ice prisons don’t even work anymore😢
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 was all in on pretty much every toys to life game, and ended up really like Starlink to the point of buying the full digital version on switch despite having many of the toys simply because it was easier than swapping physically. The toys looked really cool, but the game probably would have done better without the toy mechanic holding it back.
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.
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.
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 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.
This unlocked great memories of my childhood, there was no better feeling then collecting your pocket money and going to the store after school to buy more Skylanders, i miss it to be honest.
I loved the Spyro games as a kid so I was all over Skylanders, I played Spyro's Adventure, Giants, and Superchargers. I'm 20 now, I dont know where my skylanders and portal ended up, but I always kept my Spyro one, he's on a shelf in my room to this day
I loved skylanders as a kid and can confirm that superchargers ruined it for me. I never even beat it. I heard they dropped a new game after but dident know anything abt it till after this video. Personal fav games were trap force and giants
Damn skylanders 1 was the first video game I ever played. I loved the original skylanders, and they’ll always hold a special place in my heart. RIP skylanders, you defined my childhood.
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.
My childhood was going to daycare excited to play skylanders on the Wii. I wouldn’t play it again, but I will never forget it being such a huge part of my childhood.
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).
I remember watching Skylander ads all the time on DisneyXD. I always begged and begged my parents to buy it for me but bc of circumstances(very little money) I wasn’t ever able to get the game. I am twenty now, I hold hope that the game will come back and revive that passion I once had to obtain the game lol
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.
Me and my little brother were the only ones to play sky landers and I remember my mom let us 1 once every weekend we could go to Walmart and buy 1 skylander each. I really miss those days
2018 going to my friend's house on a Friday booting up Skylanders Giants on the Xbox 360 and playing it until dinner time. The times hit different back then😢
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.😂
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
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.
As a child, I stopped playing when they removed the option to split screen PvP. I’d spent my entire 12th birthday party sleepover playing sky landers giants with my friends all night long, but I never played the trap team with any friends because you couldn’t battle each other and test the sky landers against each other.
There was another Game that used this "Toys to Life" Mechanic from Ubisoft. Something with small Space Fighters were you could swap out the Weapon Pods on the sides and the Pilots I think. Nintendo got it on it's WII U with a Special Star fox Fighter (only Useable on the Console)... Ah yes, Name was Starlink - Battle for Atlas. It also died some Years ago. You still can play it, but without the Toys, you miss something there. Thanks for your Video. It is sad that so many good Products got "Lost in Time" because of the greed of it's Publishers.
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
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’ve always enjoyed the series as a kid. Even as a child playing the later games, I did notice that the games didn’t have the same magic as the past entries, mostly because they were noticeably shorter. But other than that, I just enjoyed it because it was Skylanders. The games are still fun and excluding some aspects of the later games… stories, it’s still an enjoyable experience to look back on and surely one I’ll miss
tbh this whole concept sounds amazing for a live service game, i mean imagine you get real life figurines not just digital goods and can use them in an ever expanding game, if they made an MMO and Activision does have experience with that, this could have been an amazing businuess opportunity, i mean even if they dont do an MMO with it, just multiplayer compatibility with general new content that comes over time would prb have worked better then releasing it as a series, obviously that was different at the time but nowadays this would work really good and the whole toy to life aspect wouldnt be that bad since the game itself gets bigger over time so you never lose out on the old figurines
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
Favorite game as a kid, and loved the genre and was super stoked for Superchargers, even though I couldn't get it, man, feels so weird looking back now.
My biggest regret was selling all, my skylanders. I want them back so I can play the games again, the nostalgia really hits hard sometimes and it makes me cry.
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 :)
Over the years I had the privilege of playing 3 of the Skylanders, Disney infinity 2 and 3, and Lego dimensions. Lego dimensions was my favorite because of all the IP that existed there including portal, at least 2 batmen, gremlins, among others. The one issue was how predatory it was because the figures were $14.99 a piece and you couldn't access a world if you didn't have a character from it.
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 since the series has being absent for eight years.
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.
the thing is, if the developers make a remastered game allowing all of the skylanders. the game would blow up, all of us young adults that grew up with skylanders would really appreciate going back to our child hoods.
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
**Glances behind him at his bookshelf that has dozens and dozens and dozens of skylanders toys on it, coated in dust.** Yep... that was a fun few years.
Shoulda made it so all the collectable toys can be used to show off in a Online Skylanders with unlimited multiverse with all sorts of up-to-date missions and creative islands
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.
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!
Random question but say if Skylanders were to come to Xbox Gamepass could I just plug in a portal from a Wii Skylanders game into an Xbox and have it work? Or does the portal have to be specifically for Xbox.
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
Same with lots of people, these games hold a special place in my heart, i even remember play testing the first 3 cause my uncle was one of the design leads at Toys for Bob. I definitely noticed the drop-off in quality though, I can confidently say that the first 4 were solid, but they got VERY rushed and lazy with superchargers and imaginators, didnt even finish imaginators really. Was still fun while it lasted though, great memories from those games.
1:31 WHAT GAME IS THAT I ONLY VAGUELY REMEMBER THIS FROM MY CHILDHOOD iirc there was a level select screen that had the levels in a long line of circles and if you went to the very start you could switch out your current character PLEASE WHAT IS THIS GAME
One of the other casualties of the toys to life genre was Starlink, which was also a pretty good game with cool looking toys and gimmicks that simply came too late to ever be successful.
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.
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only had skylanders and a few infinity ones but want more skylanders:(
please make a video about titanfall 2 the rise and fall of that masterpiece
I don't think I played Disney infinity nor Disney infinity 2.0 0:28
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I have played them all actually and I can tell you several facts that you got a little wrong with. Sky landers didn't just require different elements but many puzzles required characters that were exact elements and multi elements and types. In order to actually beat the game you literally needed all characters other wise the game could not be 100% completed or if you were missing 1 character of many you couldn't beat the base game at all. Hell one level in one sky lander game required 32 different exact combinations in order to beat the level and me and a friend could not beat that level because he was missing 9 of the toys making it impossible to beat the level and the stores were out of that sky lander so we couldn't beat it. Now fun fact with Lego Dimensions and Disney Infinity is you don't actually need the characters to play the games. You can unlock the characters in game but to do that you needed to grind a lot. For starters you actually didn't need the characters at all which is an interesting function but it does make the games extremely challenging. That being said however in order to actually play the game properly you did need the world maps pieces for Disney's Infinity but you needed to plug in 1 Lego Dimensions character from each map to go threw the portals to unlock the maps but you didn't need the characters after that because there are spots where using in game currency you could unlock the characters but it took a lot of the in game currency to unlock some of them. For starters to unlock Darth Vader in a Star Wars map it required nearly 100,000,000 in game currency which meant about 5 solid days of grinding for in game money. Now getting the characters used would mean you wouldn't have a new account but would be using someone else's save and you couldn't deleted their character save file to level the character and upgrade the stats that you wanted same with Lego Dimensions you couldn't level the character the way you waned the character to be which meant if you put a stat point in the wrong space you were screwed. Now with the quality of Disney Infinity I am going to have to call bullshit on the high quality. Anything with a well kind of anything that was sticking out would easily break. Also every single light saber was absolute garbage quality and well 80% would just fall apart on their own. The quality was kind of shit actually. Also the only Stitch I ever found needed me reattaching his arm by using gorilla glue and pushing a sewing needle threw the saft cheap plastic that was almost like Jello and not quality. Now with the Amibo well that originally pissed a lot of people off and the reality is why I never bought the game played it once and holly shit there were 2 different versions of the characters. 1 version was in game character which didn't have specials, and its stats were blatantly dog shit, and controls were garbage and the game was nearly unplayable but then version 2 was put the character on the board and you could actually play the character and with the real action figure hooked up it was like playing a regular fighting game. The Nintendo characters were $30 to $100 a pop and the limited in store supply meant you had to buy the characters online which I actually looked up for a friend at the time to try and get him a character online and I found out the place that was selling then that felt like a scalper which they were selling I think it was Samus well they were asking $380 and the location that it would be shipping from was the Nintendo Distributer Office in Tokyo Japan meaning Nintendo was straight up on purpose not sending out shipments of characters so that they could sell the items themselves for massive mark up. My friend only had what the game came with and he then took the game back to the store and got his money back and he bought some X Box 360 games instead. Nintendo is an absolute scum bag company. We play the game on his system with the Amibos and funny fact is he had the super smash brothers on Wii U but we were playing i on the Wii because fun fact the Wii U was a complete scam. It was just a smaller wii without the ability to back play Game Cube games and it had the Wii software on it. Also really stupid fact about how badly programmed the Wii system was you can use a PS2 controller on it without any issues because the console had no security on it almost at all. I am surprised so few hacks happened or in reality I am surprised Nintendo hid the lack of security of the system so well. I bet many if not all consoles may have had their information leaked threw massive hacks and Nintendo just never reported it and Japan never called Nintendo out on the their vulnerabilities. Well when me and that guy played the starting characters without the physical toys on the board the game played like dog shit and you would struggle to do any damage to bots but when you put the actual toys on the board you could one shot bots. Its night and fucking day on how much having the characters changes the usability of the game. Lego Dimensions was annoying with putting the stuff together because turns out you didn't get the proper instructions on how to put the characters together in the books and you had to put the item on the board and flip threw to make sure you did thing correctly and you had to keep pressing back and forth because the pages didn't have you controlling them they auto played what to do which was fucking annoying as hell. Also the instructions on putting the starting board itself together Lego literally messed up on the instructions 7 times meaning there were 7 mistakes in the instructions for the board you were putting together. All but super smash was fun but over priced and the fun got old and turned to really stupid pretty quickly and really really annoying. Also unlocking the characters without the piece was doable but after you spent the in game money to unlock them you then had to pay another fee to actually use them and you had a time limit on how long you could use them which generally meant you had to keep paying that fee constantly and it not only got old real fast but that getting old turned to me wanted to to not play the games ever again which in turn I didn't and the games died off. I stopped playing them all because they were no longer fun.
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
@@Pedalnyphitisi remember I had this rare glow in the dark dragon
Skylanders died because Activision did an Activision, and it still hurts
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
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..
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
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.
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
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.
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).
For those wanting to see some of the beta versions of the skylanders at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester NY. I got the chance to see it when I was passing through and it nearly made me cry seeing a piece of my childhood in a museum
Don’t forget, they also made your Netflix show of Skylander
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.
So basically it died cause it was owned by Activision.
Who else really hated that string thing when you would play 2 player I always hated that.
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.
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
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)
Me and a group of kids at school had formed an impromptu skylanders club, where we would share and trade the figures. Between the 4 of us, we had nearly every character, which made getting through certain areas a lot easier.
I honestly hope the genre can make a comeback, but any attempt would eventually turn into a soulless cash grab.
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 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
Every Skylander has backwards compatibility. But I will agree on the nerfs sucking ass. Look at what they did to my boy Slam Bam…..his ice prisons don’t even work anymore😢
i hate how hard replayability and breaking into the scene as a new interested player is.
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 was all in on pretty much every toys to life game, and ended up really like Starlink to the point of buying the full digital version on switch despite having many of the toys simply because it was easier than swapping physically. The toys looked really cool, but the game probably would have done better without the toy mechanic holding it back.
When I heard the name Skylanders after a long time, a tear ran down my eye.
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.
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
I used to play it but I think I played both Skylanders and Skylanders Giants and that's it. 0:28
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.
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
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.
Love the editing on the intro my god, what a talented editing team you have! 🤩
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.
This unlocked great memories of my childhood, there was no better feeling then collecting your pocket money and going to the store after school to buy more Skylanders, i miss it to be honest.
I loved the Spyro games as a kid so I was all over Skylanders, I played Spyro's Adventure, Giants, and Superchargers. I'm 20 now, I dont know where my skylanders and portal ended up, but I always kept my Spyro one, he's on a shelf in my room to this day
We’re getting a new YouTooz in early 2025 hopefully of skylanders
A static vinyl figure of a Skylanders character seems entirely unnecessary lol.
dude skylander's was my whole childhood
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
I was absolutely obsessed with skylanders giants, thank you for this incredibly nostalgic video.
I loved skylanders as a kid and can confirm that superchargers ruined it for me. I never even beat it. I heard they dropped a new game after but dident know anything abt it till after this video. Personal fav games were trap force and giants
Damn skylanders 1 was the first video game I ever played. I loved the original skylanders, and they’ll always hold a special place in my heart. RIP skylanders, you defined my childhood.
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.
My childhood was going to daycare excited to play skylanders on the Wii. I wouldn’t play it again, but I will never forget it being such a huge part of my childhood.
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).
loved these as a kid. long time coming to posting this from ur humble Unturned starting's when i found you
I guess the last game in toyline would have to be Starlink: Battle for Atlas.
I remember watching Skylander ads all the time on DisneyXD. I always begged and begged my parents to buy it for me but bc of circumstances(very little money) I wasn’t ever able to get the game. I am twenty now, I hold hope that the game will come back and revive that passion I once had to obtain the game lol
Hear me out… a full remaster of the first game with a new design to the starter pack and portal
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.
Ah, memories. I absolutely loved this series as a kid.
Me and my little brother were the only ones to play sky landers and I remember my mom let us 1 once every weekend we could go to Walmart and buy 1 skylander each. I really miss those days
2018 going to my friend's house on a Friday booting up Skylanders Giants on the Xbox 360 and playing it until dinner time. The times hit different back then😢
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.😂
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.
Also, NFTs are way too expensive. At least with Skylanders, you don't need to sell a kidney to be able to afford just one.
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
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.
As a child, I stopped playing when they removed the option to split screen PvP.
I’d spent my entire 12th birthday party sleepover playing sky landers giants with my friends all night long, but I never played the trap team with any friends because you couldn’t battle each other and test the sky landers against each other.
Please don't die, skylanders. Skylanders Forever!!!!!!!😭😭😭
I wish I had never gotten rid of all my figures a couple years ago 😕
I basically grew up on Disney infinity. Me and my brother loved it. It pains me to see it forgotten. 😢
Skylanders was literally my childhood, I think I still have everything to play it somewhere in my house!
There was another Game that used this "Toys to Life" Mechanic from Ubisoft. Something with small Space Fighters were you could swap out the Weapon Pods on the sides and the Pilots I think. Nintendo got it on it's WII U with a Special Star fox Fighter (only Useable on the Console)... Ah yes, Name was Starlink - Battle for Atlas.
It also died some Years ago. You still can play it, but without the Toys, you miss something there.
Thanks for your Video. It is sad that so many good Products got "Lost in Time" because of the greed of it's Publishers.
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
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
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'm so glad they stuck with spyro's original design when recreating the 3 spyro games for the reignited trilogy.
RoboKast covering one of my favorite franchises of all time we are so BACK
I’ve always enjoyed the series as a kid. Even as a child playing the later games, I did notice that the games didn’t have the same magic as the past entries, mostly because they were noticeably shorter. But other than that, I just enjoyed it because it was Skylanders. The games are still fun and excluding some aspects of the later games… stories, it’s still an enjoyable experience to look back on and surely one I’ll miss
tbh this whole concept sounds amazing for a live service game, i mean imagine you get real life figurines not just digital goods and can use them in an ever expanding game, if they made an MMO and Activision does have experience with that, this could have been an amazing businuess opportunity, i mean even if they dont do an MMO with it, just multiplayer compatibility with general new content that comes over time would prb have worked better then releasing it as a series, obviously that was different at the time but nowadays this would work really good and the whole toy to life aspect wouldnt be that bad since the game itself gets bigger over time so you never lose out on the old figurines
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
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 😢
Favorite game as a kid, and loved the genre and was super stoked for Superchargers, even though I couldn't get it, man, feels so weird looking back now.
My biggest regret was selling all, my skylanders. I want them back so I can play the games again, the nostalgia really hits hard sometimes and it makes me cry.
"license to drill beebopbop" i still remember this game and the memories...
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 :)
Over the years I had the privilege of playing 3 of the Skylanders, Disney infinity 2 and 3, and Lego dimensions. Lego dimensions was my favorite because of all the IP that existed there including portal, at least 2 batmen, gremlins, among others. The one issue was how predatory it was because the figures were $14.99 a piece and you couldn't access a world if you didn't have a character from it.
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 since the series has being absent for eight years.
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.
the thing is, if the developers make a remastered game allowing all of the skylanders. the game would blow up, all of us young adults that grew up with skylanders would really appreciate going back to our child hoods.
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
**Glances behind him at his bookshelf that has dozens and dozens and dozens of skylanders toys on it, coated in dust.** Yep... that was a fun few years.
Shoulda made it so all the collectable toys can be used to show off in a Online Skylanders with unlimited multiverse with all sorts of up-to-date missions and creative islands
I miss skylanders
im surprised you didnt bring up the netflix TV show that actually did really well
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.
Spyros Adventure was the only game I played as a kid, and I'm glad I knew nothing about the fate of the series till now since I'm older
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!
Random question but say if Skylanders were to come to Xbox Gamepass could I just plug in a portal from a Wii Skylanders game into an Xbox and have it work? Or does the portal have to be specifically for Xbox.
For some reason, Xbox wanted their portals to be seperate. That also means a 360 portal won't work on an Xbox One/Series X and vice versa.
@AccurateDiscoFever45 oh bummer. Thanks.
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
Same with lots of people, these games hold a special place in my heart, i even remember play testing the first 3 cause my uncle was one of the design leads at Toys for Bob. I definitely noticed the drop-off in quality though, I can confidently say that the first 4 were solid, but they got VERY rushed and lazy with superchargers and imaginators, didnt even finish imaginators really. Was still fun while it lasted though, great memories from those games.
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.
1:31 WHAT GAME IS THAT
I ONLY VAGUELY REMEMBER THIS FROM MY CHILDHOOD
iirc there was a level select screen that had the levels in a long line of circles and if you went to the very start you could switch out your current character
PLEASE WHAT IS THIS GAME
One of the other casualties of the toys to life genre was Starlink, which was also a pretty good game with cool looking toys and gimmicks that simply came too late to ever be successful.
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.
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.
Best thing about Skylanders: Richard Horvitz voicework!