U.B. Funkeys Was Weird: The FUNKIEST Web Game! | Billiam

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UB Funkeys is a defunct web MMORPG developed by Mattel and subsidiary, RADICA Games! UB Funkeys starred the funkeys, a collection of vinyl toys who inhabited the world of Terripinia, SOUNDS FUNKY!
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[@Rookie643]

Honestly I'm just glad that this whole thing was actually real and not a figment of my imagination

[@deathwoomy6749]

That’s how I feel about this whole channel

[@AstralPhnx]

Fucking same

[@jayd1415]

These dead ass felt like a fever dream

[@LonicTH]

For some reason in my grandma house there's a Panda Funkey over the fridge

[@DigitalPand3mic]

Damn this is sad, our childhood was awesome and they really dont got cool shit like we use to get..let alone dope memories

[@e3psilon]

So it wasn't a fever-dream, it was just something from the early 2000's. Yet again.

[@powerthunfischdesdonners3086]

honestly, 2003- 2007 was just one long fever dream

[@HelloHamburger]

@@powerthunfischdesdonners3086 I was born during a fever dream and probably conceived then too.

[@gabbersaus]

I remember seeing this at the toy store, mom wouldn't let me buy it. Only vaguely remembered that white character and a screenshot of the game. Super strange to now see what it actually all was.

[@metazoxan2]

aren't they the same thing?

[@rosecatuwu]

U.B Funkeys: We can't have violence as a mechanic, this is a children's game! Also U.B Funkeys: *Lets the Flesh World™ be a thing*

[@tintop8520]

im gonna avoid the flesh zone lol

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

Also the sprocket/ hidden realm fighting mini games:

[@thepixelatedsoul]

im here after resurfacing my memories of this, and honestly i think the flesh zone was what created my interest in horror and weird genres of games, film and art lmao

[@zaizoa]

Racer x had boxing mini games

[@hoykfnvnnesnxnnensncjforkx1616]

I remember asking for this for Christmas and dying from happiness. My parents even kept acting like I wasn't going to get it and I kept saying "that's okay I understand." While being really sad but didn't want my parents to have hurt feelings if they couldn't buy it. Crazy how much fun this was as a kid. Wonder if mine still works, I have them somewhere I'm sure of it

[@yurnero5353]

Damn u a good man with your parents

[@DarkSharkBark]

Man this game was best fun I had. I setup my old pc again to see if still worked and bought figures from other sellers. I always was like... if only I had the figure for this portal

[@nhalexhale3876]

i still have mine somewhere too. Might bust them out for a session

[@chibiiiwerewolf]

Well, You've just unearthed a hidden memory.

[@gracehammond8484]

He's unearthed my hidden childhood

[@voidaspects9173]

that was my exact reaction! watching this was so bizarre, because I genuinely feel like I've had every single even remote memory of this game erased from my mind. I genuinely feel weird looking at this, not even joking.

[@mielhehe]

I got one from Wendys when I was 5 and I wondered what they were called for YEARS

[@starnight8819]

Same! I remember almost being addicted to this lmao

[@thepinkestpigglet7529]

You know how when you remember something you're more likely to just be remembering the last time you remembered it? This is not one of those times

[@DidYouKnowGamin]

Wow, I genuinely did not know that.

[@xXSpongeBroBrownPantzXx]

*d I d y o u k n o w*

[@VictoryfortheFreeman]

Did you?

[@jeremyaster7470]

me either. lookin out for that U.B. Funkeys episode

[@MEBOEFEBOE]

How, You genuinely did not know gaming.

[@yaboieddi155]

He did it..

[@maxthefrog4484]

I had these when I was young....like, I didn't have access to the internet when I had them. I remember how these fuckers TASTE dude wtf.

[@Gatorade69]

How they taste ? I bet they taste funky.

[@wheelspiel]

@@Gatorade69 lick pop figure

[@mareeeedensos6348]

You ate them?

[@generalmukmuk]

i can imagine how they taste...

[@ethanwood5700]

I too remember the taste and am very glad to see other people had these guys because I thought I was making this shit up for a while since no one I know had these.

[@bk_flash]

i genuinely haven't thought about u.b. funkeys in almost a decade, despite loving them to death as a kid, so seeing this video was like a nostalgic slap in the face. thank you for making this video, if it weren't for you i probably would've forgotten about these little dudes forever

[@megamegapop12]

I think about UB Funkies more often than I’d like to admit.

[@user-np2xl4qk4w]

Same

[@lapaba1236]

I legit waited for this video for months. So dont worry, you arent alone.

[@lindsaydale307]

I think of what my webkinz are up to

[@pragon1173]

Same here

[@isaacabrams1663]

SAME

[@scrapyarddragon]

ok real talk for a game targeted at stupid 10 year olds, knightmare rift had some pretty existential stuff like how the soldier guys were there because "There's no knightmare worse than war" and how the sprockets were there because the junkyard was an area made of dead and abandoned dreams.

[@flarestorm9417]

Yeah, lore wise the Dream States were pretty cool, even with the limits the development team had on how dark they could get with the story. Particularly speaking about the Nightmare Rift, you had... - *Snipe:* personifications of the horrors of war - *Sprocket:* old robots that represented old, broken, dying, and dead dreams. - *Ptep:* mummies that guard what little secrets they have left. If memory serves, Marshall says "they guard the secrets that are no longer secret. Or maybe the secret is that there are no more secrets left to guard." - *Vlurp:* vampires that are ironically peaceful and just misunderstood. The Daydream Oasis had interesting stuff too, but I think the stark contrast between the Nightmare Rift and everything else made them really stick out.

[@GhostRat__]

I know I played doom back then and for some reason this rift still haunts me to this day.

[@user-np2xl4qk4w]

@@flarestorm9417 Daydream Oasis literally had hippies who did shrooms and smelled like pot. In a kid's game.

[@flarestorm9417]

@@user-np2xl4qk4w Yeah, I'll admit that flew over my head when I was younger.

[@aj4waffles]

@@user-np2xl4qk4w Damn, i never even got to that part of the game or saw it for it to influence me, but yet that place still perfectly represented my future. damn. Even the part where their whole world is just a spencers gifts. literally more than half of the decorations in ,my room are from there. Blacklight posters about weed and shrooms, a lava lamp shaped like a bong, another lava lamp with the characters from the beatles yellow submarine on it. My life just became daydream oasis from a game i played for like 2 hours of as a kid. crazy shit.

[@c.l.m.c.3328]

amazing how the toys are so insanely neat and appealing in their aesthetics while the game itself... uses Comic Sans. different design teams?

[@DanMizu]

what are you insinuating about comic sans?

[@aubreyh1930]

It’s supposed to be easier for people with dyslexia to read so that might be why…

[@jellycore1316]

@@aubreyh1930 Oh, that's cool, then! Thanks for the info!

[@KaleidosXXI]

@@aubreyh1930 Except that's not actually true, it helps some people with dyslexia read but that also applies to a number of fonts and there's little overlap between their cases, not to mention there's fonts designed explicitly for dyslexia that work much better and for a wider variety of cases. Comic Sans is used in older websites because it's designed to be easily readable for CRT monitors specifically.

[@theactualbluguy1957]

the use of comic sans created a whole aesthetic in itself

[@lavs8761]

I HAVE TRIED TO FIND THIS TOY FOR THE LONGEST TIME, AND THEN OUT OF THE BLUE IT GET RECOMMENDED..... never have i been so lit in my life

[@louisekennedy3231]

I’m here after googling it trying to find out what they were called I’m so gassed 😭

[@JebSvS]

When I had these, I would put my Funkies on the HUB thing and wiggle them around to glitch it a bit and unlock Funkies I didn't have.

[@antonioetv]

Holy shit you could do that?

[@guacamole97arte]

Antonio Trejo yeah it was fun, it also worked for mte w some magnets

[@slurpwis]

I've heard you could also lick the bottom of them to unlock different skins.

[@JebSvS]

@@slurpwis Interesting

[@boomboomluke1]

I completely forgot that I used to do this 😂

[@Vailskibum]

I spent WAYYYY too much money on these

[@edp0123]

Same here

[@jaywilliams8730]

Please do a video on this I want to know your experience

[@DavidDumbedDown]

Oh no it's vailskibutt

[@knucklesskinner253]

I had to have everyone. Literally all

[@turtlenator6249]

I can relate. One of the many toy collections I used to have as a kid.

[@Temzy]

YOOOOOOOO I THOUGHT I IMAGINED THIS, YOU'VE UNLOCKED A LOST PART OF MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

[@connerharney8665]

I love the fact that Cube World cubes are purchasable as “crib” decoration. Cool detail.

[@Itachigan22]

Kinda funny how these toys in the early 2000s predate Skylanders.

[@TheDreadedJuggernaut]

This was one of the first to implement that. There had been zero innovation in games since before the early 2000s beyond graphics and pricetag.

[@TheDreadedJuggernaut]

@@electricfishfan7159 That's true. It'll be interesting to see what comes out with noneuclidean games making a big rise too. It's just a strange era where you have the last people before technology having kids. Strange thinking people will grow up hearing about video games before they were even born.

[@Slakkeneter]

i remember licking the bottom of the funkeys made them read as different characters. great game 10/10

[@daxamillion9896]

Wha-

[@atlascove1810]

wait what

[@allloren7277]

Was this by accident or...

[@josiebianchi3481]

@𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 as somebody who did that back in the day i can confirm it just changed the skin, however there were ways to properly switch them around i think

[@Psych0boost]

Huh?

[@Spewa-em8cm]

I remember taking the base thing apart so i could wiggle the figures around on the metal pins and unlock funkeys i didn't actually own, good times.

[@dextercyanide8912]

*you wouldn’t Hotwire a ub funkey*

[@aubreyh1930]

Apparently licking the bottom could do that too

[@jamiethiele460]

You could also put unrelated metal objects on it as long as it had something magnetic near it. I remember I only had like 7 funkies but I hotwired at least a dozen more into the game using all the above described methods. I was convinced I flesh zone was from my imagination …

[@acehealer4212]

The "flesh zone" isn't the most creepy thing I've seen, but it's definitely creepier than I would expect from a game like this. Don't remember the coin-hugging spitworm in the TV commercials...

[@ApolloDawn85]

These 2000s toys really make me think about Aqua Pets. Does anyone remember those from the 2000s?

[@BBC600]

I think I know what you mean... I had a Spongebob one!

[@valalava1]

Biiitch! I have lived frustrated with that since like 4th grade cuz I had one. I took it to school (cuz I've always been a fucking show off) and I went to the bathroom with it (I guess I was scared someone would steal it if I left it in the classroom lol) and it just banished. I was alone in the bathroom and when I turned to pick it up it wasn't there, it didn't fall into the trash can, it wasn't behind the toilet or in it :(

[@juliaboon9741]

I do. I has one. It went off lol

[@crazyhippo93]

I still have a few Aquapets. The earlier "unintended" shaped ones have sadly got algae in them so it's just a watery brown dome with the pet inside.

[@JuanGomez-ke5py]

Oh yeah that thing recall

[@spankymcanus999]

Forgot about these but damn that kid going “HUHH my god” at that twist ending no one saw coming cracked me up

[@valicefenris325]

I used to collect them adamantly and also had some of the variant colors. It was my favorite thing to play as a kid until some of the newer funkies (one with a jet pack I remember) would not scan in no matter how hard I tried for some reason that made me quit. I even had NPC ones and I think my parents even have my old tote full of them

[@snakesonaframe2668]

I think the art style is awesome and way more detailed than I would expect for this kind of game. Like it’s literally art. It’s not even the type of art style I’m usually drawn too, but the attention to detail and colors make me really like it.

[@ProjectSNT]

Oh my god, these came out around the time I started babysitting my cousins, and they were OBSESSED with these! Such a blast from the past!

[@SheaStyles]

Hi Courtney, I love your sonic designs

[@maxtheleopard]

Its you

[@LunaMinuna]

That is very precious

[@alizardhotel]

wowow bowow

[@FlowerCatta]

Oh hey, it’s Courtney.

[@erin4204]

When I was a kid I thought the F word was “Funk” so when these toys came out I was highly offended lmao

[@sk34life56]

Funk off

[@roboticjanitor3332]

What the Funk did you just funky say about me you little britches?

[@daxamillion9896]

That's funking funny

[@dali3839]

Dang what the Funk?

[@BrokeBot]

i had to say “Fun Keys” bc when i was a kid it sounded like i was saying “U B Fucking”

[@rusticgiraffe4262]

I remember having this. I also remember that half the funkies I owned didn’t fucking work, and I never actually got any new ones, so I was condemned to the same few areas of the game forever.

[@circumferenced]

Funking*

[@wowiezowie837]

I remember having these, I barely played the actual game to instead play with the figures. At the time I was way too scared to play the game because of the enemies lmao

[@jellycore1316]

Aww, I getcha! XD My sister and I played with them, too, pretty sure. She loved Twinx, I think was the name, and I loved Scratch! The enemies always terrified me, too XD Like, if I saw one of them, I'd just try my absolute best to run away from them as quickly and best as I could

[@shekiidevils6060]

I remember the enemies, they used to make that freaky noise whenever they showed up. Such a fun game, if only they kept it. They were so cute, and the whole USB thing was such a neat idea! Today, they could be upgraded into the PC. And i totally remember that just could not understand what to do! ^^" XD

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

I always just ran to the closest building possible (that and just not spend much time outside)

[@fernicandia]

the enemies were the WORST part of the game, I remember pretty well being scared bc of them and they were more faster than you and there was no way out!

[@ryanmullins8836]

Holy crap I had sooo many of these when I was younger and could almost never get them to work. This is a major nostalgia hit. Again.

[@julienmauguin3214]

Honestly, i just tought that i was the only one playing it 😂

[@HYP3M0D368]

Same i couldnt never work them

[@thefury770able]

I still have the fish one in my shelf, I would probably have bought more but they mostly didn’t work and it didn’t want to save my progress so I abandoned it

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

I never had problems with getting them to work. But I absolutely loved these so much.

[@overlordchemm3705]

This game was my shit as a kid. Nobody I’ve talked to remembered/had heard of it though. Glad to see it wasn’t a fever dream, lmao.

[@darknesscelv]

dont worry bro you 100% ain't alone

[@Mfenton10]

I still have mine.

[@saulouwerkerk2195]

i had this game as child Sweet Memories

[@tortlebard]

i think i still have mine in a drawer in my parents house

[@BurberryBlue]

@@tortlebard Mine got lost

[@samibear55]

Man this video revived what I thought to be lost childhood memories of these lil dudes. I remember finding the Funky Hub figure very cute and having it next to me at bedtime like a plush. Thank you for the nostalgia kick and reassurance that Funkeys weren’t just my imagination!

[@ate7026]

THANK YOU FOR SHOWING GAMEPLAY. I played this game so much as a child i to this day remember many parts of the map vividly. I hope i find some of my old funkeys one day but i have moved several times sense then and may have lost the funkeys. One thing i remember about the game was that after i had got about 10 funkeys only about 5 of them worked, the others simply didnt spawn or refused to work unless i unlocked a different area prior. Also fun fact Speed Racer was in the game as a figure and a special speed way zone in the top right of the city by a wishing well i think.

[@JamesLawner]

The Flesh Zone looks like something David Lynch made up during a nap.

[@jaketaller8567]

Nice

[@joeyg.6818]

THAT’S what these were called. Christ, I remembered everything about this except the name lmao

[@Scoobzz]

ha, same...

[@r.r815]

Same

[@slap_my_hand]

I had a starter set of htese, and there was literally *nothing* you could do without buying more of them. It also made me have nightmares of getting mugged in hell. 10/10.

[@sbanwe247fan1234]

There was a funkey where you could steal a coin from players, it was a tribal one with a spear

[@jellycore1316]

@@sbanwe247fan1234 WHAAAT XD EVIL

[@ilovechika1]

I loved these things! But my mom took it over thanks to the panda and flower looking funkeys. She never let me play anymore cause she enjoyed the mini game too much and didn’t want to pay for the full versions of pop games

[@PyroJiro]

Before cancelation there was supposed to be another tie in expansion, a set based on DC Comics. There was going to be Funkeys based on Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and the Joker. Also the last expansion, Paradox Green went through some sort of development hell or something. It took forever to finally release, most players thinking the game was unofficially dead until the figures started popping up in stores. The only problem being that only the Very Rare variants of the figures could be found for some reason. Common ans Uncommon versions of the Paradox Green Funkeys just dont exist, or if they do then they never left the warehouse. Aside from that, other things that were canceled were Adventure Packs for the Speed Racer, Dream State, and Hidden Realm expansions. Adventure Packs being bundled (usually store exclusive if memory serves) with NPC characters such as that expansion's respective guide character (Marshall for example), the expansion's antagonist, along with their henchmen and a random Funkey from that set. We know they existed at some point and were intended to be sold to the public is because there exists pictures taken at toy conventions of those figures along with some files in the game that suggest those figures were playable

[@dondon4720]

I have a complete speed racer set

[@PyroJiro]

@@dondon4720 As do I lol. Minus That other version of Speed Racer and Taejo that were never released I actually completed the set thanks to a 99c store of all things. The Speed Racer funkeys were just dumped there, I guess there were really trying to get rid of em haha

[@RoseShrimp]

i would legit kill someone for that Marshall prototype

[@ju9ernaut573]

thanku for this bit of trivia, still upset this got thrown to the curb. Would be so cool if someone could get a server running for this (similar to Toontown rewritten and club penguin rewritten), unlikely though.

[@mattwo7]

@@ju9ernaut573 Apparently you can play offline with a mod as I found on Reddit via Google.

[@Fourkintheroad]

I was OBSESSED with these things as a kid, so seeing them again is really giving me whiplash

[@greggomovierants]

This channel gives me nostalgia for stuff that barely entered my 12 year old self's sphere of awareness. Fantastic stuff!

[@Cyber5layer]

This dug up some deep memories, another web game series I played as a kid was called Nanovor. It was turn based battles with weird little computer bugs and it had a web series.

[@corvus6865]

Why do you always manage to talk about the most specific, obscure parts of my childhood. Are you stalking me?

[@b2air1921]

It wasn't weird... it was FUN-KY In all seriousness, this was my childhood. My nan would spend her free time playing the minigames because she genuinely enjoyed them. Plus I got me money in game that I could use yo decorate my home

[@thomasdevlin5825]

Dude you are taking me back to a happy place, something about U.B. funkeys was just so incredibly pleasant, I loved decorating my little house and playing the different mini games, the only one I remember in detail was that fishing mini game with the skeleton funkey

[@bexly96]

I still have my Funkeys and a black Hub Funkey in a box currently sitting about 12 feet away from me. Loved that game as a kid. Honestly doing stuff like this makes toy lines more worth buying in my opinion, especially if you're mostly just interested in collecting the models anyway like Funko Pop figures. You'll always have a collection to put up on your shelf (which I'm pretty sure is the only thing people buy Funko Pop figures for anyway) and showcase it to people or just do it for your own personal viewing but then you also have a little game on the side as a bonus to it all. It's perfect, one of the few money-making schemes I'm actually ok with xD

[@soniasquishy]

OH HELL YES SOMEONE IS FINALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS- I still have some laying around. Hell yeah for 2000s nostalgia bs.

[@fernandomurilloVEVO]

Same haha

[@Fruityfruitcat]

Samee, I literally have some in my drawer right now

[@TheoZaHero]

SAME! I have some in a box right next to my computer.

[@redlily2893]

I still have a shoebox full of these in storage because my mom thinks they'll be worth something someday.

[@kadebrockhausen]

WAIT I JUST REALIZED THESE THINGS ARE THE DEVIANTART MASCOT

[@ColeCoibiBFDIObject]

I love DeviantArt now and I really loved UB Funkeys when I was 6 in 2008 :3

[@mareeeedensos6348]

DeviantArt? U.B. Funkeys?

[@BroomPusher2024]

Funkies originally: allegory of drugs Funkies now: Symbol if bizzare smoot... most likely inspired by drugs.

[@V8chump]

@@BroomPusher2024 most likely the result of damage done from far too many drugs* 😂

[@Eldrisaur]

“It (Speed Racer) was the only brand to tie in” Also Billiam: They had a Wendy’s tie in!

[@mamodokod4613]

OH MY GOD THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS I ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED OVER BUT NEVER GOT. I LOVED THE COMERCIALS FOR THESE!

[@Rat_the_Renegade]

You missed out.

[@BugsyFoga]

"You can't be anything less than a 10 out of 10 if you have mini golf" - Billiam

[@legojigga]

I remember having tons of these and i remember getting hooked in by this Demo disc i got in a wendys meal. By that time most of the funkies were lining 99 cent store shelves so it was easy to gather a huge group of them

[@shirokumaotaku]

I remember seeing adverts for them & seeing them at Toys R' Us, They kinda look Gogo Crazy Bones but with everyone the exact same mold rather than different like their individual paint jobs

[@TheWrathAbove]

YES, I've been waiting for this one. I remember these vividly from when I was a kid.

[@Siecyl]

I still have some of mine, they were some of the toys i played the most with both in-game and with the figures

[@sagetheassassin3192]

I have some stashed in my room

[@redsquirrelstudio6018]

Is it me or does the design of the funkies look cool? I don't know why, they're like little vinyl figs you'd collect but instead costing $40, they cost like $5 each. I like them!

[@VexAcer]

Yea because they are supposed to be vinyl figs. They actually do look legit cool. I'd imagine tying it to a game was a way to try to popularize vinyls more.

[@Classic_Kadance]

every now and then, I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. I'll have dreams about ub flunkeys and I WISH I still had my hub and funkeys, I had easily 600 dollars worth of characters. my mom and I both loved playing this game. the flower power character was my mom's favorite

[@Cordyceps_Canine]

That actually was one of my favorite games as a kid!😂 Then it got discontinued and both me and my mom were left wondering were the freaking figures went... I honestly still miss it sometimes.😅 (And you just made me realize that we never got the full version of the game in Germany. Only the first 4 worlds and the funkeys for that...)

[@bambasalad]

This, Webkinz, Build-Bear-Ville, and Neopets hold a strong hold on my parents credit cards 😂

[@TotallyStormy]

bambasalad oh my god I forgot all about Build a Bearville! Those were good times...

[@crypticcorvid]

@@TotallyStormy I was so distraught when Bearville went down. R.I.P.

[@bambasalad]

Cryptic Corvid I still haven’t recovered

[@Brax.]

Club penguin too 😭

[@frostproductions]

The only one I played/heard of was Neopets on this list 🤣 UB funkey and Club Penguin were my other favorite childhood online games lol

[@connorbeith3232]

5:01 It's kinda cute that they threw in a Cube World reference.

[@kyle0114_from_roblox]

Ok

[@noodle6852]

I’m so glad someone else knows about this I’ve been searching for years because I forgot what it was called, I found two of my old ones the otherday

[@peetonswitch]

This is the best youtube channel of all time ! Every video I see reminds me so much of when I was growing up . I am thankful I had a great childhood. I hope you guys all had a great childhood as well :)

[@SeasicTaters]

Warms up my heart whenever someone else remembers Funkeys. Still heartbroken that I gave away my whole collection years ago. I loved everything about them.

[@tylervanpeursem7627]

*war of the monsters pfp and loves funkeys* i see you are a man of culture

[@simplesimply3753]

I feel the same way. I’m sad I gave mine away but I’m not sure they work any more.

[@sam4gaming135]

Can relate, I gave away my entire skylanders collection

[@BOBINDUN]

Same, although I still have one that my brother didn't take with him. So it lives on in my room

[@BOBINDUN]

@@tylervanpeursem7627 war of the monsters is amazing

[@j4zzrabotSSS]

Does anyone remember this? It was an online world created by Mcdonals with an island, you could play games alone or with people, if I remember you could choose some characters, I think two of them were a robot and another a monkey (the last one I'm doubting it) . Edit: forget it, I found it, It's Mcworld

[@tidepodpadthai2633]

McWorld, yes!! I remember in the happy meals they'd have pieces of paper with codes that you could enter to get furniture

[@ailanita2481]

We need a video on this

[@nikkinunyabusiness7962]

This gave me nostalgic flashbacks that I did not know I needed

[@saulouwerkerk2195]

I play this when i was young thats was super fun

[@thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307]

Well it was a shame i never got interested in it but i remember the Codes would unlock gear and stuff for your character. That was like Micro transactions before they even existed.

[@mewmewbuttonholes]

Thank you so much for covering this!!! I love UB Funkeys so much and I've been really missing them lately

[@NaomiMorrall]

your videos keep coming up in my recommended and they all bring back repressed childhood memories of the games i used to play

[@Yami_Soryu]

so this is like a early 2000's toys to life game? just... in a very primitive form

[@Silent_611]

I've been trying to remember what these were called for months now and I could never find anything when I tried describing it in google so thank you for making this, as a side note, I remember buying the starter set as a kid but I don't think I ever actually played the game despite having wanted it for months so I just kinda had the figures sitting on my desk

[@goob8040]

Months? I been trying to imagine it for literally years

[@isabelapiva5096]

I also had them just in display, and after all these years I still have the Hub

[@candy_ribbons]

You should’ve mentioned how Marshall had a Onceler-esque fanbase Yes people found these things attractive

[@Levi_The_One_The_Only]

My sexuality is Funkey

[@LadyJaggerX3]

Ohlordt

[@lieutenant_lucky_rocks]

Now hear me out. I didn’t play this game as a kid (and I assume that the somewhat icky element of childhood nostalgia would complicate things), but…I totally get it? He’s got a cool, vague, semi-monstrous design with sharp teeth, a mysterious personality, and a verrry deep voice. That’s high octane Tumblr-bait before Tumblr was even really a thing.

[@lieutenant_lucky_rocks]

@sibillas THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING.

[@kiricappuchin]

Agree with everything Lieutenant Lucky said. Marshall’s design is super cute, looking like a little monster guy in a mysterious lil hat. Dare I say he was ahead of his time for the “Tumblr Sexyman” label.

[@sonnystar6227]

u.b funkeys was the only gender neutral thing i was interested in that wasn’t ‘girly’ or feminine as a young boy, so my of course my father let me actually dive into it... it was pretty fun to say nonetheless..

[@squidyrotmg]

based

[@sonnystar6227]

@@squidyrotmg i see that a lot, what does that mean?

[@squidyrotmg]

@@sonnystar6227 good and or badass

[@sonnystar6227]

@@squidyrotmg oh ok lol, thank you

[@haruhirogrimgar6047]

@@sonnystar6227 More specifically it means the statement you made got to the crux of the issue in a cool way. I normally see it as a universally positive version of calling something "woke."

[@lordvaust5830]

This stuff was my jam back in the day. Everyone thought Skylanders did it first, but they were wrong.

[@RaccoonRevolution]

You can only say "funk" so many times before you accidentally leave off the N.

[@angry_zergling]

hey Hey HEY! Watch your mouth mister or Marshall will wash it out with funksoap.

[@user-np2xl4qk4w]

@@angry_zergling *fuksoap

[@vivimannequin]

Me and my brother couldn't stop laughing after he accidentally said u.b. fuckeys

[@charcoal6017]

There was one game I remember from the 2000's, Freaky Creatures I barely remember much besides it doing something similar to UB Funkeys, with the toys. But what they did was kinda different, where they sold figures that also had these cards alongside them. Those cards had codes that let you use the species of creature the figure was supposed to be as an avatar

[@sajithpragash5487]

OMG THE NOSTALGIA IS HITTING SO HARD RN

[@twilliamspro]

The main villain is called Master Locks? Send for Lock picking Lawyer he'll sort this out in an afternoon

[@moonmuffins]

Brilliant reference. 🤣

[@dragondonk8595]

I remember getting mugged in this game when i was 6/7. Scared the hell out of me, so I tossed all of my coins down a well. I then got scared again because I thought the mugger would just kill me because I had no coins. Good times

[@WiggumsWopez]

The band is actually called Lipps Inc. Its a play on the word "lip sync"

[@ayakashibot4760]

I forgot this existed... This channel is one big pile of NOSTALGIA

[@bloxyjola6040]

oh my GOD i love this game so much, i think the main reason i still love it so much over something like club penguin or webkinz is just like, the creativity of this game, and the art style of the worlds and the figures is all so pretty, and especially that weird flesh body horror zone, that is daring to put into a kids game. I honestly think ub funkeys, even though its kinda lackluster in gameplay, is still probably one of my favorite games ever, it has stuck around with my life for so long and inspired my art so much man. It's bordering obsession probably. I absolutely hate how it was just cancelled one day even though there was a TV show, merchandise, and more worlds and figures on their way. Good video dude, keep up the good work!!!

[@vicefaun2316]

i love this comment!!! it resonates w me

[@beaniebean4885]

I've had one of these things in my room for the longest time and I never knew what it was.

[@sagetheassassin3192]

I got some from a thrift store when I was 6, I would just sit them by my TV next to my army men.

[@ironicdivinemandatestan4262]

Same

[@ashimochi]

Getting mugged in UB Funkeys prepared me for the real world in ways school never could

[@the13throse]

I'm glad you talked about the story because it's been years since I played this and I'd completely forgotten it even had a story! I wound up deciding to keep a few of the Funkies I had when I was sorting through my toy collection for things to donate/sell. I might not be planning on ever playing this game again, but I really liked the designs of the four I decided to keep -- The skeleton, mummy, ninja, and snowflake-face ones

[@TheTrueUltimateDX]

Bro when this showed up i immediately thought of deviantarts fella

[@GuestZer0]

I liked Fella. I'm sad I never got a plushie.

[@JackieKog]

@@GuestZer0 Also sad I never got a plush and no one resells them online.

[@TheTrueUltimateDX]

Ryan Wieber im aware of what they are called I can see the resemblance

[@L0rdOfThePies]

I thought it was fella too lol

[@sheller153]

11:24 sounds like you discovered SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates

[@TealAstronaut]

I love this channel it reminds me of toys I loved and entirely forgot about

[@LouisAndPillz]

I can't believe every time I come to this channel you dredge up some MORE shit from my childhood. Like honestly, every single thing you've covered so far.

[@Myr642]

I thought I had these for a second but I don’t remember any of the gameplay. I think I just saw the commercial so damn much that the figure shape stuck in my head to the point I thought I had them. I do remember that the commercial was everywhere so that must be it 🤔 Seeing that gameplay does make me glad I stuck with things like webkins and neopets; the nightmare rift would have given me some nightmares for sure 😂

[@aceofpentacles2k]

Lol I had these but no computer at the time so my brother and I just collected them and put them in my old doll house

[@blackhawk3975]

Please cover FreeRealms, that game was where I spent a majority of my childhood. I'd like it to get some coverage, if you would.

[@oddlygreenly]

Agreed! That game still means so much to me.

[@keysjams4leo965]

I completely forgot about these! Thank you for reminding of these!

[@codiixp]

Your channel just brings back memories that were deeply tucked away.

[@OGPepsiman]

Holy hell I miss this game, I remember buying the Funkeys after Walgreens when I was about 6, and then when they stopped selling I legit was so disappointed! My brain was so small I never knew how to pass the tutorial, and I would always get these game overs so fast

[@essdeecard]

Same.

[@Phloxix]

I have the vaguest memories of these things I didn’t know they had a game to go with the toys.

[@expendableindigo9639]

What a tragedy.

[@aubreyh1930]

Me too so weird

[@GalaxyStar99]

You weren’t exactly missing much if you just bought the toys

[@lillianfletchall9805]

You unlocked a lost childhood memory of mine 😭💙 god I remember loving this game so freaking much

[@MiloBish]

I randomly remembered these, playing with em at a friend's after school type memory, after digging to find out what they were called I come to youtube to have a look for some gameplay or a good video essay type thing, and ofc billiam has a video on them 😂 love how he always has a video about that weird memory you forgot about

[@moviegeek5361]

I saw that tech deck dude I would love to hear you talk about them in another video some day

[@DaDualityofMan]

I was about to comment he should do tech deck

[@JT5555]

We Found The Easter Egg.XD

[@HandmadeGoose97]

Saw it too, never had that one:(

[@Pirategod23]

Yess

[@seafoamserpent8002]

@Flexecutive But tech deck dudes that was awesome!!!

[@ashleyrose6438]

i LOVED this shit, even made a stop motion show about my figures called "the funkeys" although i got really embarrassed by it in 9th grade and deleted it like an idiot

[@ju9ernaut573]

Hell yeah

[@babyfromiceage2404]

i made a stop motion "movie" in windows movie maker using my funkeys too!!

[@adamnebula4474]

This game was my childhood but nobody else I talk to seems to know anything about it. So its nice to see a video actually talking about it!

[@zacharymccue14]

New Subscribers and all week I've been bingeing your stuff, You should make a video on cooking toys Easy Bake Oven, Bug Maker, Gummy Snack Maker and so on

[@wendymccoy1093]

They really made a rainbow ubfunkeys and described them as "fierce". We see you, Mattel. We see you.

[@ferretappreciator]

I played ub funkeys when I was younger and now I'm 💅fierce💅. Doesn't seem like a coincidence

[@joystix7857]

“I do my decorating at Spencer’s gifts”

[@kahliltellini6866]

Thanks, I was looking for these I remember getting someone one for a birthday and I thought their design was so cool

[@uhRoss]

I all of a sudden remember these. Thank you for this video