Why Skylanders Died

[@robokast]

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[@SourRobo8364]

It never should've been a yearly franchise. Activision just couldn't help themselves and their franchise take a year off.

[@JustEpic_Yt]

Agree they should’ve spaced out the releases more

[@Merkantoine]

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

[@Woobuggy848]

@@JustEpic_Yt and give it more time to polish stuff here and there.

[@johnpenguinthe3rd13]

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)

[@kirishimaredriot7264]

​@@johnpenguinthe3rd13My grandma threw away all my skylanders

[@youngkhronic2243]

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]

Cool info Which sub?

[@megancao5988]

That’s awesome!

[@Paolo_Effe]

Can you give me the link please?

[@youngkhronic2243]

@@sleepyboy9247 look up “true portable skylanders” it’s on the steam deck subreddit. It has a whole how-to guide as well

[@youngkhronic2243]

@@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”

[@Elsinnombre-ez5dn]

There was no better feeling than finally getting that one rare skylander none of your friends had.

[@weirdochristoffel5285]

kinda like pokemon cards

[@2DMinecraft-s9f]

Agreed

[@Pedalnyphitis]

I remember how rare ninjini was and my mom got it for me at Sam’s club lol. I was so happy.

[@A-dub-51]

My friend had pretty much every single one except cynder

[@AidenHoultAllen]

@@Pedalnyphitisi remember I had this rare glow in the dark dragon

[@SagittariusAyy]

Skylanders died because Activision did an Activision, and it still hurts

[@lenompasbanal2478]

I just got hit with flashbacks of gaming in my friend's basement, bringing my own backpack of Skylanders to coop... Good times..

[@swaggerdagger8976]

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

[@DankerShip]

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

[@remink3092]

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 !

[@EjayT06]

I never even thought of playing with them as just toys lol

[@Ponderpine]

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.

[@davidv2002]

they were statues so can’t really play with them

[@EndGameEnt]

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.

[@ciphergarden8281]

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

[@EndGameEnt]

@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! 🤞

[@pandorin2348]

WARHAMMER 40k

[@user-gj3yl6tr7o]

@@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.

[@SagittariusAyy]

@@EndGameEnt Ayo, I was a Skylanders Adventure Club member

[@Obsidian8R]

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

[@ninlaw9810]

ok

[@grappling.enthusiast]

swap force=giants superchargers>trap team

[@eliotedward2113]

Yea me and my brother were obsessed with the first 2 games wanting to get every guy and then the swap force toys concept was so cool we wanted to get those special ones for the 3rd game and nothing else. We were able to find a funny infinite coin glitch w the treasure chest item (made every hit give gold) and using it at the home base w the training dummy. But still after those first 3 games most the fanbase was exhausted w the games and toys fast release schedules. They probably shouldve released toys throughout the yr to keep interest and make the games on a 2 or 3 yr cycle

[@Placeholder_DER]

Okay... But you gotta be honest, Spitfire and the blue varient were sick af

[@twentypandora96]

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.

[@kingbonezai4925]

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.

[@Gunther69420]

Swap force had a very boring campaign

[@crislunaverellen6563]

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]

Dont leave us hanging, tell us the idea

[@crislunaverellen6563]

@@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

[@michaelhenar]

@crislunaverellen6563 sounds amazing, but i would still make all the old skylanders of any element playable, just with debuffs maybe

[@dominicormiston2755]

​​​@@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.

[@NovaXXX7]

So basically it died cause it was owned by Activision.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

A tale as old as Activision

[@Gunther69420]

It also lived because of them.

[@PhoenicopterusR]

@@Gunther69420wow...that's so deep it almost makes you forget that Acti is historically one of the worst companies out there, responsible for ruining many games and dev companies just to soullessly squeezing money out of anything they can get their hands on.

[@guilhermevalente708]

Damn, unlocked some joyful memories

[@raymondleung6522]

Ong my homie had like a dozen and I’d pull up to his place to play 🥲

[@hypershadix1]

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

[@calebadam2576]

You shut your mouth, don't compare my dear boy to that gargoyle. (No offense meant to you, but there's a reason people didnt go from TLoS to Skylanders.)

[@gaidencastro9706]

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.

[@bluegem8582]

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

[@Nitro15]

As opposed to what business ideologies

[@meduzarbuz7605]

it worked...

[@2BoogerFace]

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.

[@TNTspaz]

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

[@ninlaw9810]

fr most of the figures didnt work between games or were heavily nerfed

[@HeavyWalrus2]

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😢

[@damonlam9145]

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).

[@okspidermant8828]

Don’t forget, they also made your Netflix show of Skylander

[@SenjuRBLX]

but sadly it was discontinued too

[@okspidermant8828]

@ yes it was and it was left on the cliffhanger, which was annoying

[@SirAlexanderr]

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.

[@michaelhenar]

I played all 5 games with just stealth elf (we dont talk about superchargers)

[@coin3720]

​@@michaelhenar lol what's wrong with superchargers

[@michaelhenar]

@@coin3720 nothing but i needed to use vehicles so not only stealth elf

[@cynical_chai8922]

@@michaelhenar stealth elf goated asf

[@jacksonhollingsworth3958]

Skylanders was my childhood. I had over 100 of them. My first game was Giants. Then i got Swap Force and Trap Team. I only grazed Superchargers since i slowly lost interest, and i never got Imaginators. Despite that, I still wish to revisit the games to relive that childhood nostalgia someday.

[@amberapollyon]

i hate how hard replayability and breaking into the scene as a new interested player is.

[@Fushichou1978]

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.

[@superhenrybrother7359]

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.

[@aleksanderborowczak3830]

I honestly had no Idea there were more skylanders games after trap team, the franchise faded that badly

[@Sl-a-d-e]

Who else really hated that string thing when you would play 2 player I always hated that.

[@Gamica]

Love the editing on the intro my god, what a talented editing team you have! 🤩

[@Gaming_Nerd1993]

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).

[@keeleon]

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.

[@freakco1388]

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

[@kolkagaming1234]

When I heard the name Skylanders after a long time, a tear ran down my eye.

[@imluctor5997]

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.

[@Makoto03]

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.

[@kirishimaredriot7264]

Damn I feel old

[@playerback7722]

Same

[@ElectricBlaze164]

Man, I miss these games. My two aces (and my rarest) were Ninjini and Enchanted Lightcore Star Strike. I have such fond memories of these games, and was sad to watch them fade away. I started with Giants, and slowly acquired all the games and most of the figures. To add salt to the wound, my local Walmart still had the sign for Skylanders up in in electronics for years afterward. A Silent Monument, if you will. I knew why they had faded out, but it still left a hole in my soul for gaming that has never quite been filled again. In a large part, this game series was responsible for my childhood.

[@CrusaderTheFirst]

Imagine if they rereleased the skylanders games with full access to every character with no figures required.

[@Jay_DM]

Hear me out… a full remaster of the first game with a new design to the starter pack and portal

[@OfficialDiRT]

Ignoring 2007's UB Funkeys misses a big section of the story.

[@_connorsseur]

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

[@epablom1]

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… :/

[@_connorsseur]

@ I played with them myself, and really liked them haha. So the fact I forgot to note them is even goofier 😅

[@surhollow6836]

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.

[@world4068]

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.

[@CheetoDust63]

I was absolutely obsessed with skylanders giants, thank you for this incredibly nostalgic video.

[@OhItsFraz]

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.

[@Michael-ww9zt]

I mean the original games were soulless cash grabs half through and hated by the Spyro fandom

[@OhItsFraz]

@Michael-ww9zt I don't really care? I had fun playing the games and they were a big part of my childhood. I couldn't care less what the intention behind them was. The originals were fun.

[@unironicallydel7527]

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.

[@AccurateDiscoFever45]

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.

[@theteeve]

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

[@viktorholm3386]

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

[@aaronyeager6778]

I worked at GameStop doing this whole craze. The Amibos were especially popular. Because of the limited releases costumers were only allowed to purchase one

[@Devil-sj9xg]

loved these as a kid. long time coming to posting this from ur humble Unturned starting's when i found you

[@phillipkintner3595]

I remember i had dark spyro he was so op last skylanders game i played was the trap one and i trapped chaos and he was op and fun to play with got all the giants on my birthday and played with a new one everyday my fav was def the giants or trap team so many memories

[@WilliamHites]

I used to play it but I think I played both Skylanders and Skylanders Giants and that's it. 0:28

[@duckduckgoose8049]

Skylanders marketing was so good that it made me feel like I was missing out as a kid. I remember being super excited when I got Skylanders Giants for Christmas lol

[@matthewwesthoff-j4e]

I think U.B. Funkeys we’re the first to do it, not Skylanders. I remember seeing a Skylanders commercial for the first time and thinking how they we’re copying U.B. Funkeys.

[@clockworkcrucible]

This was the only toy to game i ever tried. It is such a relic of the past tho since their def wasn't as much of a game to play there

[@maxleroux]

Technically, Skylanders wasn't the "first" toys-to-life video game. That honor goes to U.B. Funkeys created by Mattel. 🧐

[@omegadragonRandom]

I played Imaginators for like 2 hours at a friends house around when it released and loved it when I did. But me and my brother played the heck out of Disney Infinity so that was our pick for those genre, really took over Christmas for a few years. We still got all the figures on a shelf in the living room to this day.

[@gagemullis313]

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

[@thomasbennett0]

Microsoft has said they are interested in bringing some franchises back including Guitar Hero and Skylanders.

[@christianlorre]

This is why Pokemon works. Main series games only come out every few years, each game adds a bit more, and you don't need extra content. You might need two copies of the game to trade between but that's still better.

[@donaldjgumpofficial5754]

Pokemon is arguably more scummy than this with the two games that have few differences. One save file so you'd have to buy another game or reset your one.

[@JuanGonzalez-nl4wv]

I played all three, I loved all three, infinity was definitely the worse one imo but I loved getting new characters to play as, skylanders was my favorite, it was always the most fun one, id never get tired of it, I played swap force, trap team and imaginators, and loved all three of them, lego dimensions I also loved, but didnt play as much because the others I would always play with my big brother, I loved lego dimension, I loved building the sets and everything, but my big brother didnt really like it as much as the other two, so I didnt play it as much, but I loved all of them, sad that they are gone😢

[@secondperspective6554]

I never owned the games, but my friend had either Swap Force or Trap Team and I have fond memories of going over to her house and begging her to let me use the blue lizard guy with the water bow. I thought he was the coolest. I also have really fond memories of Infinity because my friend (different to the one who had Skylanders) had a lot of the figures, and I remember we'd usually goof around in the hub world with the weird dark cloudy thing that would chase you if you got too close, or we'd just go to that one farming world and just farm for hours. Good times. Side note: I also remember really liking the Skylanders series too. Stealth Elf was my favorite lol

[@Fiolix_yay]

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.

[@theanaking5207]

This video honestly made me sad. Skylanders was such a big part of my childhood. I always wanted new characters for christmas or my birthday and me and my friends even collected the cards. To this day I still keep thinking of how cool a new skylanders game for the switch could potentialy be and I wish we would get one.

[@Faversaver]

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!

[@CT-3743_DeadEye]

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).

[@Fortnightman-je4xw]

Fun fact, I’m pretty sure swap force was my first Skylanders game played. Let’s just say Skylanders has played a giant role in my childhood.

[@Dokdiamant]

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.

[@yatagarasu7157]

I liked Spyro, so I guess that was the initial pull - and played the up until swap force with my sister, and a friend of mine, where we just had tournaments with the skylanders. Put together I think me and my sister had around 30 figures at the end. Never played the other franchises.

[@ry-zq1ng]

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.

[@brianhenderson-mv8np]

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.

[@DragonVR4491]

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😢

[@sewardfriend1094]

I loved Skylanders Giants as a kid. My cousin used to come over with his action figures and we’d spend as much time as we were allowed on the game.

[@TheRealPenguinPotatmoe]

Man, this game was my childhood! I remember i played so much that once, on the wii, i completely maxed out a character in ONE DAY!

[@Tibias999]

I still have like twenty of these little guys in my garage

[@calibribody6776]

I loved Skylanders back in the day. I remember playing particularly Giants for many hours. I think by the time swap-force rolled around, I think maybe I grew out of it. And needing to buy new figurines just to enjoy the gimmick was a contributing factor as well.

[@thatdaveguy8895]

I remember playing this awhile back, I still remember one of my friends bringing over his skylander which I thought was the coolest thing ever. Also, wasn't there a Skylander netflix series at some point?

[@chronos756]

Just found this video. Skylanders and Disney infinity were my childhood and I have every entry of both series of games. I also beat all skylanders except the last two. I passed down infinity, skylanders, and all associated figurines to my younger sibling so that they could finish the characters I never used or leveled up and she loves the game. Sad to see it go but a deserved ending nontheless. Great video.

[@StrayyIX]

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

[@DDROfficial]

dude skylander's was my whole childhood

[@TS5MI]

Skylanders trap team was peak

[@blur_f1re]

I used to play this game every day on the ps4. I used to play Skylanders: Trap Team, Skylanders Imaginators, and Skylanders Swap Force. I loved playing it, and 100% the story lines and Kaos trials for every game (that had them that I played). I only had water and leaf traps, but you best believe that I trapped all the possible people in trap team. It’s sad to see that this game is truly over, as in my opinion, it was one of the greatest games back then. If Activision somehow sees this; even though I know you won’t, I have one message for you. Please make one last Skylanders game, that incorporates every Skylanders mechanic. The traps, the playable villains, the full range of swap force characters, the old characters. The Skystones game, the tilting puzzles, the double path upgrades on some characters, maybe even make some rare characters that either have a long, overpowered path, or three paths! Make the Kaos trials longer, do anything to make one last sequel. One last game that is better than them all, that makes them all be put to shame. You have the money, the tools and the ideas and script makers to do this. So do this.

[@Nobody.exe50]

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

[@archwolf3835]

The other issue is the figures costed a fortune and the resell depreciation was insane high.

[@strasburgrailfan90]

I think whatever the skylanders race one was didn’t let you past a certain level at all without the right character

[@itsohkayee]

Real ones remember UB Funkeys as the og toys to life

[@JordanMarquezLive]

Hahahahaa ong

[@GNVS300]

TFW you beat your high score in Deuce's Record Rampage and then you exit the diner and hear the Henchman's klaxon of doom

[@murdagang4kt]

as a kid I played 4 out of the 6 I played everyone except giants & imaginators which I never knew it even existed I still have all my skylanders to this day😭

[@LilSleepDoctor]

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.

[@starmovies5523]

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.😂

[@Nerfyboy800]

The first Skylanders game felt special, everything after felt like a cash grab

[@joshuacouture479]

Skylanders giants had the best boss (DrillX)

[@Jacksz5868]

Not imaginators

[@michaelhenar]

Giants and trap team were great too imo

[@godzillao9312]

Only the first four were great, the last two were cash grabs

[@michaelhenar]

@godzillao9312 swap force was not good my guy

[@Wellpeckyoutoo]

I will always miss skylanders. I still have most figures that I owned, but if I'm not mistaken, I lost mini Jini, Pop Fizz, my dog ate Pop Thorn, and worst of all, I lost my favorite skylander, Chopper :(

[@ravenrgb9781]

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.

[@Reathimus]

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

[@huzaifamian2330]

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.

[@pvzgardenwarfarepeashooter2179]

18:36 no wonder i never heard about this game until today

[@ethangnasher3848]

A toys to life game could work as some sort of MMO that did big expansions (selling new toys) every year or so, the whole game would be free, even the skins for your toys while in game, but the real deal is getting the toys, of course one could get all the content with first gen ones, point being creating new toys with different niches or new dumb gimmicks to add to your selection of switches. Imagine a game that let you switch between characters like if you had the Omnitrix on top of being on a party with your friends, clearing a dungeon and about to fight some raid boss.

[@nekopath2879]

Skylanders giants was my first console game and I own the entire series I loved these games and I'm sad that the series is over Thank you for that nostalgia trip

[@dawsynlarson696]

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

[@MrSoAsian225]

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.

[@Enanan95]

Since i was a child back when skylanders first released, they have always been a massive part of my childhood and i will never forget them, (or the hundreds of euros i forced my parents to spend on them) so since toys for bob is now an Indien studio and still in business, i have this faint bit of hope that one day, maybe this year, maybe in 5 years, we will get some sort of remaster or in a Dream like scenario, maybe some new content. Its unlikely, but i will still keep praying, despite how futile it is

[@RELIN-Q]

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

[@captaincole4511]

Instead of a slow burning campfire, activision opted for a fiercely hot burning fuse, it didn’t last long but boy did it create them some money

[@cleli_cartoons]

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

[@guitaristegaucherrandom5261]

Infinity and skylanders giant was definitely my jam when i was a kid, it was a great idea

[@wavyyoboybrabro7168]

I remember enjoying imaginators as a kid.

[@AnimatronicBadgerlord]

**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.