Why Skylanders Died

[@robokast]

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[@sveinhongset4725]

only had skylanders and a few infinity ones but want more 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!

[@paolofinocchiaro1698]

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”

[@SourRobo8364]

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

[@Elsinnombre-ez5dn]

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

[@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

[@BuildersGuy]

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

[@Lakeside80]

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.

[@guilhermevalente708]

Damn, unlocked some joyful memories

[@raymondleung6522]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@lenompasbanal2478]

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

[@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

[@pupitar3329]

We’re getting a new YouTooz in early 2025 hopefully of skylanders

[@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.

[@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.

[@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).

[@amberapollyon]

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

[@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.

[@mr.glitchy1681]

Skylanders died because we all grew up

[@ElijahP-vk6ix]

Don't say skylanders is dead I have hope it will come back and I saw it will come back early next

[@Gamica]

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

[@SagittariusAyy]

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

[@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

[@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

[@rafaelrafaelromero337]

Please don't die, skylanders. Skylanders Forever!!!!!!!😭😭😭

[@Rugglby]

What made people lose interest in the series specifically wasn’t having to buy new toys but that the new toys weren’t worth buying. Trap Team and Superchargers didn’t have any new Skylander gimmicks and instead had players purchase separate non-character toys and was an obvious ploy to get customers to buy more uninteresting mass produced toys instead of creating new character gimmicks like Swap Force.

[@paulwilliams5949]

I think skylanders should have took a break when swap-force released

[@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.

[@ARAMAV45]

Perfect timing

[@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

[@BigPoobis]

RoboKast covering one of my favorite franchises of all time we are so BACK

[@Salvo_0019]

as a person who played every game, and never beat trap team because I forgot. I genuinely think these games are so nostalgic, but tbh the puzzles were repetitive and annoying. I think all those pushing block puzzles i did with my brother drove me INSANE

[@ThebigTijn]

I believe the skylander franchise began to drop because Skylanders Superchargers title wasn't completely available on the wii and most people still played skylanders on the wii at the time

[@thedoubledoor2055]

I love early Skylanders. Collecting and leveling my dudes, bartering with locals to get ones I missed out on after the fact. I've been tempted to sell what I have now but wondering if its just worth getting a nice display and slowly building to the full collection sake just for the display aspect.

[@tmbcyberman]

Keep em

[@AshBlossomWorshiper]

Bro got sponsored by Dying Light. How do you even do that😂

[@I_am_a_cat_]

By being cheap

[@civilbeast165]

I got all the toys to life games and I loved them. I got a new PS3 a while back so I could play my ps3 games after years of letting them sit around. The first game I played was Skylanders Spyro’s adventure and it was more fun than I remembered. I’m actually about to quit these games that have season passes because they make you spend all your free time playing them to get stuff, especially if you only spend your money to open the full season pass. I’m done focusing my time on Disney Speedstorm, Multiverses, and Overwatch 2. I want to play my old games and new ones I got but haven’t played and I want to do something besides playing video games. Like I want to get back into creating characters and writing because I enjoy that. I’ll still play DST, Multiverses, and OW2 but I won’t let them consume my time anymore. Tomorrow I’ll start skylanders giants. Skylanders needs to make a comeback but not as a game, especially under Activision. The game era of skylanders is over. It’s been too long since Netflix cancelled the show so it can’t pick up where it left off. The only option is for Skylanders to get a movie franchise which is perfect because the world of Skylanders would make a hit in cinema and video game movies are because a major success thanks to Mario and Sonic. And for those of you who still have your figures and games, use them. Because I heard that the tech in the figures doesn’t last forever. So eventually all of our skylanders will become lifeless and we’ll never be able to play the games again. I wonder if we could sue Activision for that

[@crazybark101]

Despite skylanders being the most expensive game to 100% it was still amazing in my eyes. Definitely did need a tone down and rework because a lot of it shouldn’t have been lost. If it was all playable in any part it would have been much better cause I would have loved playing as a giant in any and every game. And I’m still sad they removed PVP cause I wanted an imaginator battle with my brother (I had a earth ninja which is extremely OP)

[@JonIceInternational]

Wish someone would make a Sim Racing with that same idea, so we could collect cars and all the upgrades to the cars would be on the models.

[@stormerjc9493]

I remember me and my family loving the original skylanders and playing it all the time on our family wii and we also loved giants but it kind fell off for us after swap force, I personally felt like it took away from thr identity of each character and it made them easier to loose in my experience, but the first 2 entry will always have a place in my heart, even if was one hell of a money making scheme

[@GaiasRebirth]

nothing said in this video is news... it is well knowen making this video unnessessary...

[@Bam5000000]

It was a really cool concept, but just like guitar hero to many other companies wanted hands in the cookie jar

[@MyDogisEvil]

im surprised you didnt bring up the netflix TV show that actually did really well

[@oliver1820]

I always thought Lego dimensions was the cooler game out of the bunch, but I played sky landers giants when it came out and Disney infinity. They were fun- I was in elementary school at the time and it was crazy seeing everyone talk abt it

[@dylanmahmud7083]

I always questioned what happened to this genre

[@MVB0606]

I had every skylander (not including special variants) for games 2-4 and a decent number for the first game. I loved swap force so much and it was my favorite game for a loooooooong time. Eventually I got bullied out of it and I gave all of my toys and games away

[@kolonarulez5222]

I had my first job when it started and I might as well have been paid in Skylanders figures that's where my paychecks went. I kept all the dragons to this day

[@cop154]

I played and still own my Skylanders up to Imagination. When I herd back then that the game did have any figures and was more or less digital I never got it. Im still looking for some of the Skylander toys to this day to finish off my collection. Never touched teh Disney one OR Lego as it was just not a good game and never cough my attention.

[@eliteghost1001]

I remember skylanders years ago I wanted to play but I never played it

[@ChompityChest]

As a representative of skylanders fans I gonna say you did get a few things wrong, but overall yeah this how it went and although it was a fad it was a great one at that

[@helixmoss9957]

early nft concept

[@davidhurcombe6505]

The way you were using the term "pay to play" is what would really be termed as "pay to win" as you need to get 1 of each element Skylander to beat the game. Pay to play on the other hand doesn't always get you everything a game has to offer. The best kind of example of this is free to download MMORPGS that can have a great experience when you first set out but the amount of shortcuts they usually have for gaining power fast is the pay to win aspect. Skylanders P2W was as I already said, needing 1 of each element. I'll happily pay £60+ for a complete game. Is there something wrong with that?

[@drakath5727]

My experience with the series was honestly kinda bland. I always enjoyed the initial playthroughs, but the post-game was way too empty for me to stick around. After a third empty post-game in Swap Force, I just lost interest altogether. I still have my Dark Spyro figure though, since its too cool to just let go of. It sits as the odd child among the small set of Amiibo I've slowly accumulated over the years and the NFC device.

[@venimx]

Ahh yes Activision making studios put out a new game every year crushing the devs and crushing creativity in the pursuit of profit just like COD.

[@thelocaldinopimp165]

Dying light 1 is still better

[@doomslayer_spyrofan3943]

Simply put it was fun while it lasted

[@christophernewhouse5832]

i hope that amiibo bullshit goes away i do not ever want 2 purchase 300 pokeballs with plastic pokemon to play 1 game

[@Mojaveknight17]

It was a Fad

[@ArmageddonEvil]

Bobby Kotick killed Skylanders...

[@nabri-nfg3262]

Skylanders would have worked better as a freeto play live Service game

[@avinzombie]

never had skylanders but always saw it as a kid but didnt know what it was. and never got to play lego dimensions again because i thought it was just legos but for a playstation. but disney infinity i had a short experience with 1.0 because a school i went to had it on the ipads in like 3rd grade and i was like i got nothing else to do and checked it out and i believe mr.incredible was the only free option at the time so i couldn't really do much or atleast my dumb child brain figured out. i didnt even know so many games came out for skylanders tbh i knew the first one and the vehicle launch but i honestly thought they were all dlc the biggest turn off was the "toys" are just figurines and you cant do much without the game so i never looked at it. also being a call of duty kid since birth that stuff didnt intrest me i was still happily playing mario galaxy or mario kart if i wasnt on black ops 1 or i think black ops 2 depending on the year.

[@DctrBread]

real life merchendise and making money off of kids always leads to some of the stinkiest business in the industry.

[@mangaas]

I laughed when you went back to 1989.

[@juliusjohansson-cl3gk]

I have played all of the skylanders games and have alot of nostalgia for them and i miss them. And the worst game in my opinion is imaginators👎

[@0atslaughter]

Oversaturation of the franchise, like pokemon over exposure but on crack on the span of year after year.

[@yoturaliaz6205]

Thinmkng about it again. Ambios r just skylanders. I never made the connection till now prob cuz i forgot all about them

[@bro5756]

the first 16 seconds are total lies

[@karthikeyangk3085]

Please day before failed

[@Медведь-ж3с]

cuz it was a scam. mid video game that needed to have every character purchased seperatly.

[@jpuc5568]

it will be back in 20 more years lol

[@christiant3729]

Skylander died because of micro transactions

[@shade6735]

This is THE dumbest take I've heard this week

[@reed3863]

Never heard of the game

[@I_am_a_cat_]

.... skylanders has fans?

[@samcats123]

“He would later create what would become the Power Portal” *clicks off*

[@matthewchestney4289]

It’s like a gacha game

[@youngbloodizzac]

First

[@Nakisey]

skibidi

[@crazybark101]

Despite skylanders being the most expensive game to 100% it was still amazing in my eyes. Definitely did need a tone down and rework because a lot of it shouldn’t have been lost. If it was all playable in any part it would have been much better cause I would have loved playing as a giant in any and every game. And I’m still sad they removed PVP cause I wanted an imaginator battle with my brother (I had a earth ninja which is extremely OP)