Gimmick Skylanders

In every game after Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Activision introduced new gimmick skylanders showing off the gimmick of the game. So lets take a look at these gimmick landers.

[@taromyx4479]

Ah yes, my favorite game, Skonders

[@donavenduncan]

Is this in inside thing?

[@BungoLungo]

@@donavenduncan Its just the way he pronounced the word "Skylanders" lol nothing more

[@Da_cool_chef]

​@BungoLungo we know that idiot

[@gmmgrey1852]

SKONDERS hahahahahahaahah

[@McBioBones]

Same, same

[@Elgi72]

The objectively best Gimmick is Swap Force, with Trap Team it's the Gimmick that stands out the most, compared to the other Toys to Life Games.

[@Paul-wh7ev]

Part of why SF is the best

[@gcmeme]

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[@triggeredemoji298]

Here before the sf haters raid. SF is my favorite for this reason alone.

[@madsceptictrooper6803]

Swap Force is love, Swap Force is life.

[@s_cabbage]

Well look who it is

[@MisterBoat]

I think my favorite part of this video is how he says "skylanders", it sounds like he's saying "skonders"

[@ikeokeke1759]

Fr

[@MusicForMyDemons]

"Skander" "Skalnders" "Skandlers"

[@Sarah12471]

Adam Skandlers

[@ThatBluDude]

It's such a missed opportunity that the Trap Masters aren't lightcores. Could you imagine if their crystal weapons glowed both in-game AND on the figure at the same time? That would've been sick!

[@switchman8053]

this is what i always think when i look at my trap team skylanders, trap team is my favorite skylanders game but it sucks only they can open elemental gates

[@Golemoid]

I think that would require too much power for the portal to handle, those crystal weapons tend to be really big

[@Locketlover]

IKR?

[@babyghast4379]

Imagine if they glow on the portal only when they glow in game. Oh, a villain fight starts? Well now the weapons are glowing, yearning for capture.

[@Goblin_With_A_Fungus]

For some reason, my Jawbreaker's fists light up on the portal. Not sure why this happens and no one else does.

[@rileynoonan1355]

I can’t get over this guy saying “sconders” every time

[@Saucetin.]

After the 10th time I heard him say “skaunders” I was convinced I was experiencing a stroke

[@janrautmann7179]

How sick would it have been if they brought chop chop back for super chargers, and instead of wielding a sword, he used a multi ended whip made of the brambles he summons, and his vehicle is a chariot pulled by skeleton horses.

[@aracharsley7357]

People say he already had enough variants as if gill grunt or spyro didn't already-

[@mcteen5198]

That would’ve been cool.

[@janrautmann7179]

@Ara Charsley he's such a classic. I think he could even have his own game about him being an Arkeyan soldier.

[@raydiiradius]

@@aracharsley7357 He technically only had two, the single sword variants were pretty much the same thing, and twin blade barely changes it at all, just one new ability alsoheonlygotoneappearancechangewhichwasjustalegendaryversionwhichalreadyhappenedtothemajorityofskylanders

[@hellariousriapt]

Or maybe a chopper.

[@Raindrop_2401]

Ah yes. My favourite franchise. Skonders

[@RandomCommentMakerPerson]

The pronunciation of skylanders made me overly furious

[@groundedshikami6990]

I honestly loved Trap Team, it was funny hearing the villains fall from the game into the trap.

[@IdentifiantE.S]

Yes that’s really cool !

[@darkxcaliber]

I really loved how Kaos would yell his name and then spell it out when you used him. Times were much simpler back then.

[@alexandersean4708]

I love it too, but they should have told you that portal volume is a setting. Unless you know about it, you cannot play the game at night or when your family is sleeping in.

[@Gamer_Lizard_68]

CHILL BILL

[@jakeutage374]

Ah, that game was dope and the bosses were awesome especially Wolf gang

[@user-lj3xm9gy5r]

“Say Skylanders” This guy: Scanders

[@adambarnes49]

Skylanders was kind of created by accident,I don't remember every detail but I know the first Skylanders game was meant to be a sort of reboot for spyro the dragon as some of the previous spyro games didn't do too well. Skylanders very quickly became its own thing and I know a lot of people were mad that spyro had kind of been forgotten about in the Skylanders franchise

[@pierricklaveron1134]

Yeah like Rayman and the rabbits.

[@taelin-rh3wi]

I didn't even know Spyro existed as a kid tbh

[@theTadpolshrimpl3425]

Skylanders wasn’t just a game about toys coming to life. It was more of a experimental franchise trying out ideas, themes, or gameplay changes. Which is why I like Skylanders as a game not just because of nostalgia but more because there good games with later game spicing it up.

[@madsceptictrooper6803]

Very true

[@thhdmu646]

bro they were made to steal parents money 💀

[@theTadpolshrimpl3425]

@@thhdmu646 late but yeah in retrospect it was a bit of a cash grab. But having a collectible, and using it for a game is very cool so it gets a pass for me.

[@thehale_]

@@thhdmu646The 4th, 5th and 6th games yes, but the first three were genuine.

[@CharlesDubs]

@@thhdmu646you’re right but you could say that about literally every toy ever, it has no inherent value except entertaining your kid

[@helixsol7171]

The way he says "Skylanders" sounds like he's saying "Skaunders" or something.

[@frogmouth2]

I think trap team took the gimmick a little too far where kids didn’t want the cores anymore because of how much cooler the trap masters were. Trap masters open up elemental gates, deal bonus damage to villains, break traptanium shards, and have much bigger figures. I can totally see why kids wouldn’t buy the cores at all that year and I don’t think I did either. Which is why I think superchargers stripping back both the size of the roster as well as removing the difference between new cores and gimmicklanders all together was a great choice.

[@kaptain-quake]

This is probably why the trap team cores are considered some of the more forgettable skylanders

[@janrautmann7179]

Superchargers only having gimmick landers was also a reason for them to raise the price for new skylanders, which I dislike. Especially because the vehicles could've been considered the gimmick skylanders. But they wanted to make more money. I do agree it was a good idea to only have gimmick landers, but they should have been the regular price and figure size of core skylanders.

[@frogmouth2]

@@janrautmann7179it might be because VV just had better character designers or something but I feel like the designs and details of the superchargers are definitely a step up from cores even if they are only a little bigger.

[@janrautmann7179]

@FrogMouth I didn't like superchargers, but something I did really like about it was the skylanders themselves. All the new skylanders had really good designs and made me wish I could play them in previous games. The figurines were higher quality, and the rift engines on the platforms were a nice touch.

[@phorchybug3286]

Yeah, that is stupid.

[@rexanderson4585]

Take a shot every time he says "Skonders"

[@alicesmith2384]

I love the Superchargers since their vehicles are like extensions of their personalities. On top of that since there's only 10 of them there just feels like so much care was put into each one.

[@thesplatooanima8231]

There exists a Vehicle for Each Skylander....

[@plotylty]

There are 20 superchargers counting bowser and dk what are you talking about only 10

[@extestential6638]

He literally says there are 18 in the video wdym

[@alicesmith2384]

@@plotylty I meant to say 10 new characters

[@Countcomfortable]

If only Traptainium can break Traptainium, then how did they make the weapons?

[@daforkgaming3320]

My theory is maybe they dug the ground under a piece of traptanium so they now had this boulder with a large cluster of traptanium on it. They then used that to make some sort of impractical weapon that destroyed other traptanium clusters, and refined those into more practical ones

[@Luke_SkywaIker]

Eon broke through Traptanium in Superchargers, so I’m inclined to believe that the Portal Masters have a way of destroying it, meaning they possibly forged the weapons in the first place. It’s likely that Eon himself made the Trap Masters’ weapons, at least that’s my headcanon

[@phorchybug3286]

Perhaps with traptanium.

[@Countcomfortable]

@@phorchybug3286 but how’d they get that Traptainium?

[@killerbean6254]

Kaos used a weapon that cause the traptanium in cloud cracker prison to destroy itself. They probably used something like that

[@smolbirb4]

It’s so weird hearing hearing you say it like that, “skanders”

[@jamiwer85]

A fun fact about giants. Each of the giants have their elemental logo on them somewhere

[@jimmymdjjdnd7338]

I love Skonders

[@JanDino24]

man called them skanders

[@RedEyesSV]

Gotta love those Gimmick Skanders

[@mileswilledwcoulson8180]

bro said "Skannders" not "sky-landers"

[@krakdlotus2134]

He said Skylanders correctly one time. Only once.

[@theguywiththethings]

bro seriously…

[@Golden_potato185]

Why does it song like he’s saying “skonders”

[@Legend151]

I am genuinely surprised that people are still making Skylanders content, even after the series died a long time ago, this just gives me a bunch of nostalgia!

[@iamthestormthatisapproaching69]

I think this game series is still so cool at the age of 22 today. It was ahead of its time when I was about 10/12! The swap gimmick was the last time I've ever heard from them. Family was poor back then and we had to move a couple years later so they couldn't buy me a set. Ngl, kinda broke my heart, but it is what it was. I still look back at it and all the fun conversations I had with my friends. Gosh, I wonder how much the gold figures cost now...? I had a couple of those and felt like flexing my rich tastes of shiny and rare figures

[@an-animal-lover]

I remember Giants, I miss Giants I got Swap Force later because I saw the commercial and the gimmick looked neat, but I didn't enjoy it much I actually didn't bother to ask about Swap Force for that reason. Yeah, the gimmick *looked* cool, but so did the last one

[@kazmiller7820]

God I just love skonders

[@mrmango7159]

I can't unhear him saying Skonders

[@AlecPhipps]

The way you say sky Landers just makes my ears crawl

[@som3one284]

It’s just quick

[@handsomebard6488]

If pumpkin eye brawl were to appear like the figure in game it would not work properly with his laser attack. It would be more difficult because pumpkin eye brawl isn't just a recolor

[@janrautmann7179]

True. However, kid me was very sad.

[@CosmicNebula444]

All these years later, and the Swap Force are still my favorite gimmick. Imaginators take a VERY close second, but man little me's mind was BLOWN when I saw I could mix and match these guys and make the perfect power set for each character. It's probably the most customizable a Skylander has ever been, power wise at least. To this day, it's the only set of Skylanders I have every normal version and variant for (not counting chase figures, cause those were hell to come across) and I love them all to bits

[@elibridgers2781]

Going back to Bowser and Donkey Kong, they could also qualify as an extra gimmick variant of Skylanders as Skylander/Amiibo hybrids.

[@vaehtay]

Mostly watching this for the nostalgia, and it’s making me realize that I basically played Skylanders on hard mode… I had no clue that the gimmick landers for each game usually did more damage than core ones, I just chose who I played based on who’s abilities I liked the most LMFAO

[@waterslime9506]

why does he keep saying skylanders as skonders

[@metakirby]

I think it’s always good for the first game in a series to not have some fancy gimmick, so then it can be the template for later games to place gimmicks on.

[@roberthaggerty8887]

I think both Sensei and Imaginator are both the gimmicks, which work well together

[@flashton30]

Broo the nostalgia from buying all the skylanders from the store, if they were still there i would still buy them

[@fulcrum2867]

I think it could be argued that SSA's gimmick was dragon Skylanders since each element had one and Spyro is the titular character.

[@Golemoid]

but they don't do anything unique and aren't exclusive to just that one game, so they can't count.

[@axelnilsson5124]

Air didn’t have dragons

[@zablnc]

@@axelnilsson5124 whirlwind counts! because she's half unicorn and half dragon

[@axelnilsson5124]

@@zablnc you sure she wasn’t just a unicorn with wings?

[@zablnc]

@@axelnilsson5124 yea she's not even the creator says that she's half unicorn and half dragon

[@plazmurr]

I wish there were areas that rewarded you for having the old game's gimmicks

[@Ethanp5412]

You forgot to mention that the guest stars in superchargers were also amibo compatible and the only ones to be amibo compatible (You could switch the bases on the bottom to skylanders to amibo).

[@jonasholm-mw5bn]

Trap team was probably my favorite. It was also cool that you could see who you had trapped on the Wii U pad when you played. Imaginations was the worst one. I liked to have the figure and see the characters in the game, so when the characters became these crystals, they just lost me

[@soulcalibur4685]

When I was checking this out when I thought of gimmick skylanders of thought you meant skylanders with certain gimmicks to them to make them abit different in battle then others like fiesta for supercharges being a more distance character who can also swarm the enemies with multiple little Skellies for example

[@9tills]

You're wrong, the first game. Excitement was actually in the first game. Because each element had a different gimmick such as swimming, F flying, or even unlocking elemental gates.

[@sirpentplayz8732]

"Skanders" Great video btw

[@vynerx1590]

Love your videos, always nice to have a nice 15-60 minutes of entertainment. Take your time and keep the quality up

[@creepzy9582]

Why dose he not say sky landers?

[@Spanner14]

I’m glad I found your channel, I fell in love with sky landers almost ten years ago when I got Spyro’s adventure for Christmas. It was the first truly story driven game I played at the time and was absolutely mesmerized. The way the player was referred to as Portal Master really made me feel as though I was truly interacting with the world. Absolutely love these games!

[@iannations2543]

"I mean, you also can just use two Skylanders with the elements you needed too, but that's no fun" I was guilty of doing this when i had the Wii version of swap force, but i only had Blast Zone and Wash Buckler, so i worked with what i got.

[@InkayWeiss]

Id argue that the trapped villains are more like the imaginators, with the sensei's being like the gimick skylanders, considering that 3/5 gimick skylanders are GIANT

[@phantombuchu]

If you were to count Senseis as "Gimmicklanders", what score would you give them?

[@SkylanderGamerTV]

Honestly 9/10 they are some of the best skylanders out there

[@alexslusher16]

@@SkylanderGamerTV I'll be honest. I LOVE Skylanders. I'm bummed it isn't being made or sold anymore. I loved going to stores like Walmart, Gamestop, Target or Toys R Us and browsing through their Skylanders Isle to see if they had any I still needed for my collection. Sometimes when I go shopping, I sometimes run to the Videogame section where the Skylanders used to be just to see if maybe they had old Skylanders in the back in stock and want them sold out. Sadly, not the case. I think even though it's sad that Skylanders is over, maybe it's for the best that it ended. Look at Imaginators. It wasn't as good with fans as the other games and it was too short and heck, it barley had Flynn, Cali, Hugo, etc. They replaced them with the Core Skylanders like Spyro and Stealth Elf. Personally, I feel like Skylanders Peaked at Trap Team. Should've ended there IMO, especially with it's ending and how we trap Kaos at the end and thus make him good. Even though there is a comic in between Trap Team and Superchargers that explains how Kaos escaped, but still.

[@jjohnson2445]

​@@SkylanderGamerTV tuff luck reminds me of cali for some reason

[@manuelcuevas7045]

"Skanders" yeah that's a no for me chief I can't even finish this video

[@ashbowyer7792]

Idk I feel like the imaginators took away one of the biggest things that appealed to me about skylanders, which is how different each skylander was. All skylanders of a battle class sharing a moveset with the customizations being primarily cosmetic just doesn't do it for me

[@thhdmu646]

you’re so corny 💀

[@firstwaddledee9182]

I originally thought that this video was going to be around Skylanders whose main game-plan revolves around a gimmick. While that is not what this was, it was still an interesting watch. Though, I’d still love to see a sort of analysis on those more gimmicky Skylanders like Star Strike, Fist Bump, or Pop Fizz.

[@HungryWarden]

I adore Fist Bump and Pop Fizz, I used to have Star Strike but haven’t tried her out and unfortunately when moving to a new house we left her behind unintentionally.

[@B2wasTaken]

The last Skylanders game I played was Trap Masters. I had a decent collection of Skylanders from all the previous games and from Trap Masters itself. If I looked around I could probably find them and it makes me want to pick it back up and live the good old days. Skylanders sends me down a nostalgia trip like nothing else and this video makes me want to play through some of it again. Thank you

[@juke9674]

I will never forget when my little brothers friend thought my Bouncer (giant) was a swap force skylander... and pulled him apart 😂

[@BraveFrontierRemeberer]

Being a “core” sky lander didn’t stop me from using my legendary bash in everyone of the games

[@Azreal_Art]

The death of Skylanders was truly tragic. R.I.P skylanders

[@niccomccormick651]

Wish I had adult money at the time of skylanders man. I love and cherish the fact that I can look back at it through nostalgia glasses and all the memories but like damn still to this day one of the things I wanted to do was complete my collection, not possible as a 8 year old kid

[@tiliainakau802]

Is anyone gonna mention how he says skylanders?

[@LewdestLiz]

You made me remember so much. Played Superchargers, Trap Team, and Imaginators. A joy to play.

[@josephroot2367]

Nobody gonna mention the way bro says Skylanders

[@Christian1999DK]

i like your Brawler Imaginator, as he just looks like a total bruiser so it is rather fun. cause those tiny legs are funny and then the hulking upper body and how quickly you have your guy dash about punching them to bits

[@crislunaverellen6563]

I love every gimmick of the Skylanders games! However, if I were to personally say my MOST favorite gimmick, I'd go with Swap Force, because I had loads of fun continuously swapping out the top and bottom halves a lot as a kid, was really enjoyable to make endless combos in Swap Force!!!!! I do also love Imaginators the most because I love the idea of making my imagination a reality, and believe me I have a really BIG imagination!!!!!!

[@Kalfuyama]

i love thumpback's lights 😭😭 But nothing tops eye brawl's eye

[@eldergod69]

Gotta agree

[@KraylebStudios]

Would be cool to see a Skylanders game where the main gimmick was that every previous mechanic (Giant, Swap Force, racing, trappable villains) was featured

[@dr.crackfish4371]

okay I really want to watch this video but it kills me every single time he says "skonders"

[@obnoxas]

Man, these videos make me so nostalgic. Used to love Skylanders so much, I played Giants on my 3DS all the time when I was a kid. I think I had the legendary Bouncer, and he was one of my favorites! Wish I could get back into the series, but I just don't have the storage space lol Edit: I wonder if I could emulate Imaginators on pc...I did buy it when it came out, I just don't have the hardware for it anymore but now I wanna play it again lol

[@TheDrow_Bard]

I actually still have the pumpkin eyebrawl and I'm glad it was mentioned

[@PearlSnce]

Bro unlocked several of my core memories by just describing the mechanics

[@joethegamer1000]

Literally just looking at money fall makes me nostalgic ahaha

[@BigBoatSwim]

pronounce sky landers correctly it’s driving me insane

[@cooliuswizard4034]

Ever heard of a accent he probably can't

[@mochatoast887]

Sconders? What's that game?

[@syborgcat3830]

It’s now 12 years ago skylanders giants came out Yet I still quote „feat of strength“ and that music plays in my head every time I lift something heavy

[@Nerdtendo6366]

Happy to see someone else understand the power of Magna-Shift

[@StarWalker-si4nm]

Biggest gimmick is turning Bowser Donkey Kong and Crash Bandicoot into sky landers 😂😂😂

[@dracogamer2671]

My favorite skylander is Bouncer, which is the tech giant. My Bouncer is actually a legendary edition where he's black instead of gold.

[@reinacraneo]

for giants i love the water and mechanical ones in their design and i looooved playing and leveling the magma one, he was such a delight

[@Mob-tq7gv]

I remember playing Swap Force and Trap Masters as kid but then I stopped. I was obsessed with getting Gear Shift from Trap Masters and when I did I only played her.

[@Shaynehoward21]

Never played skylanders but I thoroughly enjoyed this video!!

[@aduckwalkeduptoalemonadestand]

My brother in Christ do you know how many figures chop chop already had? Roller brawl only had ONE before Superchargers

[@tapmelglover4695]

Did you know that the Crash Team Rumble q&a hinted at more Skylanders games

[@philledzone]

Man this video made me nostalgic. I wish I didn't sell all my Skylanders stuff because now I wanna play again ;-;

[@Mikeinoid]

"Skyanders"

[@eliasnether4644]

my heart hurts evrytime i think about skylanders since its my favorite childhood game

[@monke7919]

i like to use magna charges top half when leveling bottom half's of swappers cause the magnet abilities combined with the coin room in the main hubs well means you get a bunch of coins so just log in go to the room with magnet on leave back to main menu rinse and repeat

[@KGATOR]

sconder?

[@vroomvroom3858]

“Skanders”

[@MonkySeason]

a whole skylanders channel??? i know what im about to binge

[@lemonosis]

Giants actually has a second type of gimmick lander, these being the mini ones

[@joemama-kc7ez]

i have never seen that middle skylander in the thumbnail in my life

[@Lailolimoutus]

Every time he says “skanders” I die inside a little

[@WickedGlitch]

Dude I have 1 eyebrawl and it's the pumpkin one. I was so excited and happy to use him and now every time I use it I get sad again knowing they will never change this since the stopped making skylanders games

[@joshuatgfgamer1]

My complain about trap team and the imaginator crystals is that you cant reset them unless you use certain methods :(

[@Qorvid20]

Tbh I still wish the elements would've been balanced. 12 elements (4 for each of the 3 vehicle elements), and each element having an equal amount of cores, giants, swappers, trap masters, superchargers, vehicles, villains, and senseis.

[@Goblin_With_A_Fungus]

I realized something: If only Traptanium can break Traptanium... Then how did someone make the original Traptanium weapons that can break the Traptanium?

[@NewoOwens]

The banged to traptabium togetther

[@brodyrussell9521]

This video is the first time i have found out that skylanders giants ISNT the first in the series

[@fin3662]

"Skyanders" Edit: ok nope can't do it, im not even a minute in and hes said it 50 times, physically cannot watch this video.

[@Mikeinoid]

Dog it ain't even that bad 💀💀

[@joaquinzelaya7]

Awesome video but also can you explain voice actors for every skylanders