The Confusing State of Skylander Variants

[@Mikeonut]

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[@codeexze3713]

How's that mortgage doing for you

[@sam4gaming135]

11:00 fun fact, there is an EVEN rarer version of Flocked Springtime Trigger Happy, It comes inside an extra box, a note advertising Trap Team and a Thank you for attending the Red Carpet The unofficial name seems to be "Red Carpet Trigger Happy" Other than some extra goodies, the Figure is identical and comes in the normal egg-shaped packaging (I'm also proud to say I'm lucky enough to own one)

[@WOAAgent47]

Dang

[@Roman_the_black_cat]

The collector ninjas are after you, be warned

[@360KnowSoap]

I think my favorite part about owning both a normal & a variant Skylander is having each one on the different upgrade paths. My favorite variants were definitely the Dark, Legendary & holiday versions.

[@The_Metriacanthosaurus]

Same I did that with my Spyro & Dark Spyro

[@ravenpowell9312]

Dark Spyro's special treatment likely has to do with the fact that it is not just a color variant, its an actual canon form spyro can take (kinda like Super Saiyan) that originates in Spyro: The Eternal Night. his more physical playstyle on 3DS is probably also a reference to this, given that The Eternal Night was a beat-em-up game.

[@noodleh945]

As someone who missed the Toys to Life era in gaming I find this stuff fascinating. Not that I'm young per-say, I just didn't get any of this stuff. Probably won't get any of this stuff myself, but I'm glad I could learn about this stuff.

[@BlueEevee]

i just found your comment by accident lol

[@eetueella]

​@@BlueEeveeLike everyone else?

[@BlueEevee]

@@eetueella you wouldn't get it😎

[@Microsave2]

I relate

[@argnoxragnarok6652]

My family never bought games because we were broke so it was something I would look up sometimes but now as an adult I iust bought skylanders giants and I'm watching these videos

[@Jake76667]

the only chase variant skylander i managed to get back in the day was crystal shortcut and i felt so lucky when i found him at my local toys r us back in the spring of 2015. unfortunately i sold all of my skylanders on ebay including my crystal shortcut. and even to this day, i really wish i didn’t do that

[@rellaist]

Wait a damn minute my mom bought me a Skylanders battground starter pack when I was four YOUR TELLING ME I HAD A CHASE VARIANT OF DOUBLE TROUBLE THIS WHOLE TIME??? #justiceforwatermelonpopthorn

[@heroichitsuji]

I haven’t even gotten past the intro, but the Blue Bash one absolutely killed me! May as well have narrated what happened to me all those years ago! 😂

[@masterpig5s]

4:07 just got reminded of my dad driving round to every store and we would look for skylanders. An evening and night out for my younger self. Oddly great times. Just nice. Not sure how we’d do the same thing now without it being a panic for finding a present or something. Maybe make a game out of it? Hmmm.

[@SorielHDTBers]

“Dark Spyro was the only alt deco Skylanders to be made during Spyro’s Adventure.” Legendary Spyro, Bash, Chop Chop, and Trigger Happy: Are we jokes to you?

[@s_cabbage]

2:17 The SuperChargers don't count as reposes since they all have different movesets.

[@CalebCarmichael14]

I’d say they still count, they have very similar movesets and they kind of remind me of the same characters on the opposite path, same idea, different powers

[@s_cabbage]

​@@CalebCarmichael14 Yeah no, different moveset means different Skylander They may be the same character but most function completely differently

[@Tofu_Kiki]

​@@s_cabbageso 3ds SSA dark Spyro is a brand new Skylander

[@s_cabbage]

@ignightors Not really... The two are mostly identical, with Dark Spyro having a different color, effects, and catchphrase. I see him as half new

[@elementalgaming517]

well if you use a superchargers character in an earlier game they act as the normal versions of them, if i put sharkshooter terrafin in Giants he'd count as a regular terrafin

[@supersoniccajun]

To be far, Dark Spyro is also a character in the Spyro series, specifically the “Legends of” series. This may be the resign, but the design of SL Dark Spyro and Legends Dark Spyro are different so maybe not? Also DS isn't a different character, it's Spyro when he uses too much of the Dark energy stiff in the game, basically like him going to the dark side for a moment lol

[@captain_duelist_cat4324]

Basically season 2 of "Skylanders Academy" on Netflix?

[@supersoniccajun]

Never watched SLA, so maybe?

[@theshapeshifter6145]

@@captain_duelist_cat4324 he was best in S3E11 Split

[@agentblackbird9435]

Purple metallic Wrecking Ball I feel like encapsulates him being magic really well

[@Nuzzling]

I never played Skylander and I never knew it was all this complex :0

[@YourGuyThatMainsGogeta]

It truly isn't complex reposes do not qualify as a variant, superchargers are not variants because they have completely new moveset and considered their own Skylander, and I wouldn't call lightcore Skylanders a variant but all they do is light up and they are in a different pose

[@MysteryGuradian]

​@@YourGuyThatMainsGogetait is complex in Terms of the world Bilding Back Story of the Characters and for it's time the gameplay was complex too

[@aduckwalkeduptoalemonadestand]

When I first started collecting I didn’t know the SCL shop existed, and I thought Amazon would be a good place to buy Skylanders. I was very wrong

[@Rukusoru]

i had legendary bash as a kid, didn't even know it was a special version of him, was the only version of him i ever saw.

[@AstroTom]

Dark Spyro was the first variant my family found, we found him in Tesco as a single pack. I remember thinking that we struck gold

[@Roodle_18]

I’m happy another KZbinr I know that knows Skylanders, this is fun to learn all the variations of every Skylander, as I’d love Skylanders and my recent one was a variant. My favourite is Pop Fizz, and yes my recent variant is Red Pop Fizz. Also I’ve seen your previous Skylanders that was also interesting and intriguing as well

[@greeblethe3rd385]

I wouldn’t really call reposes variants, but this video is very good and it looks like you spent a lot of time on it

[@MrsSpyro01]

That’s because they’re not.

[@nefarioustechsupport1243]

Technically speaking, the games class them as variants

[@bark743]

I had a chase variant but I gave it to a friend. Also, even if I live in Europe, I' ve never seen any of the "Europe exclusive" things. Like dark spyro in a separate box, never seen that.

[@Joob_Toob]

5:49 me and my friends always used to call 'spring time trigger happy' 'gay pride trigger happy' because we were dumb kids who thought that was funny.

[@SnoFitzroy]

ah yes, shiny pokemon but not quite

[@poisonoussnake2022]

Agreed, and dark Skylanders are the Skylanders version of Shadow Pokémon

[@TheBestChaseVariant]

FINALLY ANOTHER SKYLANDERS VIDEO YEEEEEEEAH

[@Chixel]

I went to a car boot a while back and actually picked up an unboxed purple metallic wrecking ball for £5.. This was AFTER imaginators too.

[@BabyGhast4]

1:35 “Why are you blue?” -Mikeoberg to Bashe Pinkman.

[@uxw05]

Me: loves and wants any and all Skylanders in existence Also my poor arse: can only afford Lightcore Hex as the only special variant (and it is cool as hell but still rip)

[@Sonic-gy7kq]

Reposes should not be considered variants.

[@cofagrigusfan24]

the in-game variants that i own are Dark Spyro, Punch Pop Fizz, Scarlet Ninjini, Enchanted Hoot Loop, Nitro Freeze Blade, Dark Snap Shot, Jade Flashwing & Legendary Trigger Happy (though technically also Outlaw Brawl & Chain) and i have 1 Chase Variant the Easter Bunny Earth Trap

[@reallycool956]

i liked the new comedy that's kind of like scott the woz

[@elibenmocha6780]

I got an out of box E3 hot streak, and I plan to sell it when I reach senior year.

[@ronaldroy252]

Have you already sold it?

[@MatsYoo]

I love the bb reference with the blue bash bit ;D

[@ユーレカ]

I got a dark spyro from my cousin but he didn’t have a head so I got a legendary spyro to replace him and I realy want the purple fireballs on the legendary one bc it feels weird now

[@mattinscratch]

One time when I was younger My dad and I went out Skylander hunting and I found a Dark Swashbuckler and I asked him for it since I always wanted to get a dark variant, but he denied since we already had Swashbuckler. Also, do you think that maybe the chase variants were named after light core Chase from Skylander boy and girl?

[@sagittariusrat4959]

I got the chase variant of Wash Buckler at 6:36 (aparently called Colorshift Wash Buckler) when I was young, definitely before Trap Team came out, and I did NOT play Swap Force past the first stage because I didn't like having him. I'm pretty sure it was because I thought it was a dud that wasn't colored at "The Skylanders Factory", but I'm more sure I would have hated & not used anything that wasn't the standard version (minus the reposes. I'd need to play the dudes in the new games somehow)

[@blueiblis250]

I'll tell you what. The one chase varient i actively searched out and bought once i found out about it was a metallic blue series 2 chop chop. It was ABSOLUTELY gorgeous and i had to get it. The bonus is there were so few of them that they were all IN BOX and the cheapest was actually just under $300.

[@casual100gamer7]

Imagine seeing but skiping the chase variant in a store because it looked different

[@nam3unkn0wn20]

I remember buying pumpkin eye-brawl with my own money growing up, taking it home all excited only to be upset when he was just normal eye-brawl, but with a pumpkin head irl. Needless to say it was my first introduction to chase variants

[@Sonic-gy7kq]

Dark spyro was the first alternative anything they made and programed. The idea is that they'd all have a different effect like the purple fire, but they got lazy and time crunch for something that most people wouldn't notice/care. Most general fans. 3DS version may be an earlier or later idea with the new moveset. I think earlier even though I think it was released later.

[@mrminemachine8]

I have a love hate relationship with blue bash, i love him because my mom was just out and about one day and she knew blue was my favorite color and bash was one of my favorite skylanders, i was so exited to play as bash but he was blue because i had dark spyro and the legendarys so i knew some looked different in game than usual i ran down the stairs placed him on the portal........and then i found out what getting catfished was like. And then i fell for it again with pumpkin eyebrawl

[@reynazzo7151]

Hold up, where is this man finding skylanders in 2023?!?!

[@PikachuGamerSMT]

4:43 no he wasn't there were 4 legendary in-game variants:Spyro, Chop Chop, Bash, and Trigger Happy

[@Muffin-animates]

I remember I had the holloween sensei axechop I also the dark golden queen king pen and Wolfgang for my birthday a long time ago sadly my dad sold them a couple years ago

[@gamingpinguin1425]

Finally someone that likes wrecking ball

[@ThomatoSauce]

“Dark Spyro is the only alt-deco in Spyro’s Adventure.” No he isn’t. There were 4 others. You even show one of them later in the video.

[@MrPaws54]

DARK SPYRO GOES HARD AS HELL

[@Fusednebula]

the blood boiling rage i felt after seeing every single rare variant i lost to my family ; _ ; (i had easter miniruptor, dark spyro, jacko eyebrawl, some other darks, legendary robo gun finger man, blue bash, and punch pop fizz)

[@PikachuGamerSMT]

3:26 STAT CHANGES? WHICH CHARACTER?

[@dinklefr]

Legendarys and nitros I think

[@luneyejin]

ITS A SHINY

[@KairiKeyz]

I actually own an E3 Hot Streak. I don't know how I got my hands on it let alone buy it for my collection, but it's pretty cool.

[@ShadowMonarch258]

I sadly got out of skylanders halfway through swap force and now I regret it. Now I wish I had all these cool Skylanders and variants that had released in the later games as well. I know it probably won't but I do hope that Skylanders comes back and maybe I can get some characters I missed through reposes. Do miss some of the swap force figures I never got though as they were my favorite gimmick

[@yves1594]

I bought some nfcs now i can play as knight mare and knight light yippeee

[@1218cody]

Never cared for the chase variants. But I do like the dark and legendary variants a lot. But I always felt like they ruined my collection in a weird way like "oh now I have 2 but ones a weird color"

[@CalebCarmichael14]

I don’t get why people don’t like the variants. I don’t own too many Skylanders, but a lot of characters that I have are variant only

[@CalebCarmichael14]

Example being that I have Dark Wildfire but I don’t have Wildfire, I have Legendary Night Shift and Legendary Free Ranger but not the original of either, and I have Jade Fire Kraken but not Fire Kraken. It has never bothered me, and I like them more than the original

[@-Vob-]

My favorite variant is probably Legendary Lightcore Chill and my first ever stand alone skylander so there might be some bias there

[@camstileprogram]

I want crystal wham shell soo badly since he's my favorite skylander ever 😭

[@Famine2021]

My fav skylander is sunburn

[@Spartan-bl4pq]

I wish we knew exactly how rare each 1 is, like how many gold chop chop exist

[@DomiBlueShellz]

I actually got a single pack dark spyro and he was my first skylander even before i got the game

[@kristenA0513]

What about template template the 17th swapper

[@xyno2112]

As one of the lucky few who snagged series one dark spyro on a single pack, I love me some variants

[@mowskul]

I have 601 hot streak from my ps4 starter pack, must have been a mistake 🤷 Il take it

[@Grand_Kaiserin_Elysium]

my favourite type of varient is definitely legendary, mainly because i have legendary jawbreaker and when i use him in superchargers he just looks amazing

[@mo642.0l]

Yes another skylanders video

[@AwesomeDrawer2017]

Video about a figure with a paint pigment a bit brighter lore:

[@lanesansom9209]

Did not expect Matt to be here lol

[@Einzig21]

I was surprised. I actualy got this little blue treetrex and I got it on a sale. So I have the special variant of a special variant and and and 😂😂😂😂😂

[@adambawaaneh4333]

I never knew figures had to be that complicated

[@machincort]

for me sidekiks are magic item

[@sunkytherabbit]

landskyers

[@piotrgracz47]

I wouldn't count reposes as variants

[@VoiceActingDude24]

They are tho. The definition for variant is "a form or version of something that differs in some respect from other forms of the same thing or from a standard."

[@frankwilliams9309]

Bro how can I cop the mikonaut skylander?

[@-Vob-]

Im still tryna collect all the skylanders variants

[@superawsomecyrusgamingtv]

I got enchanted HootLoop and the Xmas Lobstar

[@JoshsLeftToe]

This guy is underrated

[@aidandecavitte4758]

I don't know how, but the dark spyro drawing in the thumbnail being so cool. Does anyone have a link to this??

[@Lunarfly_streams]

21:15 so chaos?

[@LittleLexi24]

True fans know that Dark Spyro is from The Legend of Spyro series, hence the special treatment.

[@diamonddiver5922]

Dark spitfire is my favorite skylander

[@obsidian_citadel437]

Good video man, I’m a couple months late lol I actually have a Crystal Clear stealth elf going for at most 425.00 rn. Found it at a Walmart just out of the blue with a Red Drill Sergeant as well. The box is a little damaged from moving outa state so that’ll affect the price a bit but idc I really like the figure

[@tumage8592]

5:38 I got the alt Ninjini and I didnt knew until a few years ago, when I researched this Topic, and Boy does the standard looks bad

[@ChooknGaming]

Ik they aren’t really a variant but no mention of the yawn traps is weird

[@dinklefr]

bro skylanders are so cool and I collect them but IT'S SUCH A EXPENSIVE HOBBY😅

[@francesstrong9152]

I own that exact same green apple Jolly rancher coloured xbox exclusive gillgrunt

[@PikachuGamerSMT]

7:34 really? Show proof PLEASE!

[@TheJacoliexp]

What's your opinion on item figure chase variants/in game decos like the platinum treasure chest or the golden dragonfire canon? What about the chase variant of traps? I know it would have been hard but I would have loved if they made the villains you trapped into that in game deco like Legendary bone chompy or something like that.

[@alessandroditerlizzi569]

Thank goodness I really don't care to collect chase variants, I would have become crazy as heck Well... There's only one I want of chase variant, and it's stone Whirlwind

[@joshthehammerheadshark7350]

1:08

[@Axos_Abode]

Omg more skeleton funny Skyler white video!?!??

[@PronominalTerra439]

I have a few legendaries and a nitro

[@theguy5855]

the nostalga?

[@alexgilsenan9141]

how much ??????

[@AstroNomical-Spidey]

les go skylanders

[@mushroom4466]

hell yea

[@HenryZhangisHappy]

Okay but what about Disney infinity lol

[@Drac057o]

Cheesebunger

[@Grinnade15]

Hmm.

[@MrsSpyro01]

It’s pronounced deck o, not deek o.

[@jaxsonwelsh6478]

What about Jet Vac, his series 2 and 3 are considered reposes but they look different in game with the black armour in the series 2 and the red armour in the series 3. Could they also be considered alt decal skylanders. Also the same goes for ninja stealth elf.

[@Bluesharky38]

Cool :)

[@ViperineHero]

wooo

[@Disrespect-rn2bj]

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