I think that if a new Skylanders game releases, they should do the same thing Starlink Battle for Atlas did: You could have the option to buy the characters digitally or physically. This way I believe that both people that aren't interested in buying the figures and people that want to buy them can enjoy the game
@@OnkelSquid Imo, the figures should have a slightly higher price than the digital Skylanders, since you're not only paying for the in-game content, but also for the figure itself (for example, a digital Skylander could be $9, and the figure version of said Skylander could be around $15). Although this could make more people buy the digital Skylanders instead of the figures, I don't know which option could be better honestly.
totally a great idea, all this would need is backwards compatibility with the OG figures so people don’t feel the need they need to rebuy their collection
@@kristofferkudsk723 that's exactly what killed the franchise tho, why would you repeat the exact same mistake? That's like saying we should revive bubsy with no changes to gameplay despite it being unfun to play and nobody asking for it. So like when they brought back bubsy last time before shelving him again, never to be seen again. Is that really what you want for this series? No, of course not, a franchise shouldn't aim to die immediately. So yeah, unfortunately, the figures cannot stay.
Genuinely a quarter of the fun of skylanders is going out to a fleamarket or vintage game store and trying to one of these ancient figures from our childhood, another quarter of the fun collecting these cool figures and watching your collection grow and then physically picking one up and placing them on the portal and watching them transfer to the game. Making everything micro transactions genuinely takes away half of the fun and whimsy of skylanders abd you'd be no long be able to justify paying for both a game and every character in it, we put uo with the purchasing of every character inna game bc we're paying for an experience and we gett a tangible item out of it aswell
Lowkey, doing what Disney infinity did would be the best option. And they can continue the series with a huge bang if they did that. Id much rather pay for an in game character then go searching 10 different stores for the character I want
"But it wouldn't make sense to remaster these games and also have functionality for the original figures. That just wouldn't work." HOW???? HOW DOESN'T THAT WORK?!?!?! HOW DOESN'T THAT MAKE SENSE????!?!?!?!?!??!
Finally someone brings up the disney infinity pc games that would be exactly how i would want them to do skylanders bring a remastered collection and if that does good make a new game in that exact style maybe instead of paying for the characters you level up through the game and you unlock new characters its wishful thinking but idk it could happen
Imagine a legacy sequel where Skylands is divided, with peace and harmony among the races being replaced by fear, and with the magic all gone, a group of aspiring Skylanders must find out what happened to the magic and restore Skylands to its former glory. The twist is that a new villain named Narissa wanted all of the magic belong to herself, but the original Skylanders converted all the magic into ten elemental crystals, breaking the curse, in order to prevent the races from turning against each other in fear, this backfired as the crystals were scattered all over Skylands. The Skylands seen in the six games is called “Ancient Skylands” by the new generation.
I think a good idea would be a remake of the first one but instead of needing the toys, you can start with a built in character: MASTER EON HIMSELF. Call it EON'S ADVENTURE. You can also use any of the figures from Adventure to Imaginators too. (Mostly just the characters) You can still use the first couple of adventure packs and magic items. Everything after that is probably just gonna be a lame bonus like a couple hundred gold.
Here's a great idea they could implement which would keep most happy. Use an ingame store to buy more skylanders (digital route) but the toys that have been collected over the years could be used as a placeholder instead of buying it in the online store. It could make all the toys worth something and useable while they could just launch a one size fits all portal (or just make one of the old portals usable) for those skylanders while also avoiding making more figures (physical versions).
I have read a lot and read various continuations of Skylanders Academy season 4, but only in one story on Fanfiction I found something like the hero from Doom Eternals, Doom Slayer and more, from Crysis 3 and Devil May Cry, their accents also appear in the story titled Skylanders Academy Season 4 Doom Adventure, the story is not only funny but intended for every age group, which should be surprising for someone like Slayer from the Doom games, but it is.
Honestly if they did a skylanders remastered I'd want them to re-print the original figures in SMALL AMOUNTS so that the stores aren't flooded with figures
If another skylanders game is ever made, it would be cool if the series was rebooted with a new plot or something and a new way to get sky landers, like I have an idea, like when Kaos is fighting the skylanders, he does some powerful spell that seals them away before he's beaten, and when you get the game, you're supplied with starter skylanders that avoided getting sealed, and to unlock new skylanders, you go through their memories on how they join the skylanders, you can play as them to get a feel on the abilities and play style, and decide if you want to unlock them or not so there's no financial regret, but you can also get their figurine to unlock a skylanders immediately
in a perfect world its a normal singleplayer game with a bunch of free characters and a bunch of paid ones in a store, not a battlepass, its unrealistic to assume theyll do anything physical
I think toys for bob are debating over wheter to have a way to scan in figures if you have them and unlock them in game by playing or buy them if you want to unlock them faster, or to have a new idea where the old figures are collectibles as an homage
I think the best option for skylanders to return is to have a collection of games in one like Super Mario 3D All Stars. But it’s all the 6 main games plus the five 3ds games too with characters being digital and having to unlock them by doing achievements. Plus I think it would also best for Skylanders to start being able at PC (aka Steam) since now people who play these games are now grown adults playing on PC. And they done this before with SSA so it shouldn’t be a huge problem.
The physical component of this game was the fun part. Unlike what Nintendo does with their plastic figures, these actually do something. I'll buy NFT cards for Nintendo figures all day. But the chunky toy figures of Skylanders? That's part of the charm. I think it would be really cool if they came back!
00:19 the fact that you say all that with full confidence and "excitement" is the funniest part of that video 😂 but seriusly what'd you expect people would say after hearing something like that
In my opinion it would be better to make a few figures and design the game so that it could work without Toys to Life. But the old figures should always be usable.
But having to buy the figures Irl is amazing and actually more fun because rather than having to scroll for one hour just to find one specific skylander, you have most of them in front of you, and if they didn’t have the one you wanted, come back later or try a different store. Plus you actually get to have a chance to go outside for a change. Now I do think a online multiplayer could be possible, like a battle and story mode mp could be cool. For battle mode you choose you your skylander, and you only one chance of winning, and you can’t change mid game. Now for the Story mode mp, you can change mid play or someone could revive you but they have a limited heal count. Also micro transactions are soo annoying and take all fun out of it. No micro transactions, no skins, no cosmetics, except ones you can earn by actually playing the game. Instead of taking mommy’s credit card.
I feel that Toys for Bob should have the NFC chips all stored to where they could support the use of the figures regardless. What I’m saying would require the PlayStation and Xbox cameras, but the switch has the scanner on the bottom of the joycon, and phones have a camera already. But if they could just unlock the functionality to quick scan a figure and load it in than it would be a nice bit of fan service for all the people who gathered them over the years.
Too add to that people already sell NFC chip cards of expensive figures to people who don’t wanna pay 400 for Robow; so Toys for Bob could technically even charge a small fee for people to send in figures to get a new chip.
A new skylanders game should be possible to 100%. I hate it when you have things that appear in a shop for like, a day, and then it’s gone forever. I’m fine with seasonal stuff, but nothing like that.
They should do what Disney infinity on steam did, having all the characters in a menu that you can pick and choose for free, I think a remastered collection of ssa and sg with all the characters in a menu to pick would sell well for like 50-60 bucks, and they could go off that for the other games and make skylanders 7 later down on the road, they just have to find a good audience for that
IMO they should release figures while providing an all-digital option, similar to Ubisoft’s Starlink: Battle for Atlas. That would give everyone an option for what they want.
in my opinion if they bring it back they should either make it a option and still keep the collecting aspect by selling them online instead of in stores.
Well, I think they should probably do is to make the game player so you and three other friends can play together. Another thing could be you can scan the Skylander on the controller and remove these selection from setting icon. That way you have to go to the trouble of picking up Skylander
I want there to be a Skylanders movie. The main characters can be a character from each game. Spyro’s Adventure: Spyro Giants: Swarm Swap Force: Night Shift and Stink Bomb Trap Team: Wildfire SuperChargers: Terrafin and his Shark Tank Imaginators: King Pen and an Imaginator
Even darkstalkers despite not having a game since the 90’s has more support/acknowledgment than skylanders with Morrigan and Lilith being in every capcom crossover game and still having dolls and comics made of them and all the games being in the capcom fighting collection and arcade stadium
I think something you should've mentioned and compared was the Switch Port of Imaginators, which does already contain a digital library of your Skylanders when they're scanned on one of the two analog stick since it acts as an NFC reader. So that way, you don't need to keep swapping especially since the Switch Port never came with a Portal. Plus, Superchargers is also the only game in the franchise that is offered with a digital portal owners pack. And something that should've been brought up is the Series S which has no disc drive and every game except Superchargers requires a disc and it will need to require a downloadable version. But IT NEEDS to keep the functionality of the original portals and thank goodness the Series X and S support the Xbox One portals.
What if… They make a new game, that’s like every other one…BUT…it’s online multiplayer. So u could beat up Kaos with ur friends, and (like ur idea) we could have to grind to collect the Skylanders or there be an item shop
I like the digital idea tbh I started playing on pc with files for the characters I don’t like looking around for a specific game to play a game that’s over 10 years old.
I’d say a remastered collection is the way to go. One thing they could do is to make all the characters digitally playable, but maybe make the figures give some kind of small reward when scanning them on the portal. Like, not selling the figures in stores again, but for the people who decided to keep their old ones.
The toys could honestly be scanned to let you unlock characters in the new game, but either way I feel an open world or semi open world game taking place in the Spyro's Adventure world would be the ultimate fanservice. It could take place in the future or maybe you go back in time. Many ways to do it, and they could have dlc stuff to unlock areas traveled to in Giants, etc. Or you know, maybe it's just another Spyro game that links the original trilogy to Skylands.
They should make digital characters but can be used as a substitute for when you eventually get the real ones. And so if you buy the figure and the digital figure it doubles the stats.
I personally like the idea of having all the skylanders as digital unlocks. For Spyros adventure when you collect an eternal source you get the skylanders of that element. You would start off with Spyro, trigger happy and gill grunt and once you get the eternal air source you get lightning rod, sonic boom, warnado and whirlwind. And if you have the irl toys then you can use those to power up your skylander in the game like a damage boost Or a secret upgrade.
Actually, there were 33 unique skylanders in the first game. Also, there is a fanmade Skylanders game. It also uses figures. So, technically, we already have a new Skylanders game coming out. Skylanders: Dungeon heros.
@@Da_cat1591 the leaked Skylanders include a shark man with a canon, a red spyro looking character (based on the scrapped character from the og game), a sunburn repose, and even sheep creep.
I'd like them to let you unlock a Skylander by finding their soul gem in a new game and make it soul instead they unlock that soul gem ability with some other collectible and there will be more than one soul gem per level with the others hidden behind element gates
I think that for Skylanders 7 instead of making new Skylanders they should have no gimmick and just try to make a good game and the figures should be Skylanders from previous games, like Skylanders like scratch, Spotlight, echo, other trap team cores, double dare trigger happy, thrillapede, wild storm, and chompy mage could go back to retail price
So by looking at this video, I think an idea like StarLink could possibly work…with some minor changes. There would still be physical skylanders at retail stores, variant exclusives, adventure packs & stuff like that for like 9-25 bucks. However, here’s the kicker. You wouldn’t be forced to pay for physical figures! There would be online figures to purchase as well, same as the retail and adventure packs also for way cheaper! I’m thinking 3 for characters, 9 or 10 for adventure levels! The variants however are figure exclusive to keep the rareness in check. So it can work for both sides, both online for completion purposes (no one likes the robow n windstorm situation) and the physical figures for collection purposes, but also both are for the game so this is a very well possibility!
The way you described it makes the second idea terrible ngl. Online MMOs are at their worst when you have to pay real world money in order to be able to compete. It's less egregious with Skylanders because not only do you get the character, but a tangible item to keep. Meaning that these figures have real tangible worth both in the game they're used in, and to the community as a whole due to the amount of collectors. Skylanders died originally not just because of oversaturation of the market, but an oversaturation of a market devoid of any substance and charm outside of the base formula. All skylanders needs to succeed is to entice players on more than a surface level. Create more rarity with products, support the second hand market, have a deeper story for those who care about that kind of stuff to dig into and more complex gameplay for those who only care about that. Push multiplayer modes more. Skylanders can't JUST be a "toys to life" game to succeed.
I think if Skylanders were to come back, it would be cool if they made like interactive chips or trading cards of the characters that would work with the games. I’d be more than happy with digital, but I have that collectors aspect in me.
I feel a PC/Console release with maybe 20 toys over 2.5 years would be Ideal. I feel skins/chase variants would be great in an online store as well. We don't need a rushed game every year for the sake of a cash grab. Once the inventory is gone it's gone. Let's limit production and increase the value of certain releases. The collectors will have to work harder and the everyday player can complete the game via online purchase. My kids like the fact that the toy goes to the TV. So that original 2011 gimmick is what really drives the kids in my opinion.
Spyro’s upgrade tree needs to be completely overhauled to include more elemental abilities than fire breath and the comet dash which was his moveset from the PS1 Spyro trilogy. Maybe reclassify him and Cynder under the aether element (the symbol of aether has been popping up in Reignited and Crash on the Run making a reclassification of Spyro under Aether for a future Skylanders game plausible). For changing his elemental abilities, there would be a toggle using the left and right buttons on the d-pad to cycle between all of the breath weapons he used in the Legend of Spyro trilogy. Fire can still be the default, and subsequent elements can be unlocked through the upgrade tree. And depending on the element he has utilized would function as a secondary element for elemental gates. Unlike the Swap Force, Spyro wouldn’t count for both aether and a secondary element simultaneously for dual element gates. Cynder can also have this mechanic due to her being from LoS. It is stupid that Spyro’s Skylanders bio states that he is a master of all elements when the gameplay for the character is only his moveset from the PS1 trilogy (and Reignited due to being a remake of the PS1 trilogy). For the Dark Variants, they would be toggled between by pressing up on the d-pad. For Spyro specifically, it would turn his aether element into dark aether upon turning into Dark Spyro. Also, NO MMO Skylanders game! I want a game that doesn’t require the internet to play. Also, multi platform is a must. No Xbox exclusivity for Skylanders period.
I just am not a fan of much that is all digital overall, but to be honest, I think I would just like to see how a Skylanders game, no gimics at all, would do. The propity was quite popular if all the other merch I had seen out there, nevermimd the show. I am not sure if there would have been a lot of confusion if it was done shortly after the dropping of the toys, but now would be a good time.
Toys for bob are making spyro 4 first. But i hope they get to make another skylanders game! Id like it if they have digital purchases as well as the ability to order figures from their website so stock issues wont exist
I see what your going for, but I dont. In my personal opinion if toys for bob doesnt wanna bring back the figures then what is the point of making another game? It takes away the excitement of collecting and physically putting them on the portal. But also where you said, "they could just do like 32 figures," that could totally work. Same with some kind of remaster and not making new characters, that would actually be fire
That would be too much of a hassle to gather the toys. Also respect is a choice. If it came back, it would be innovative again. Then what about all the other characters?, what would happen to them? What about making money? I remember that Display toys to life game.
I prefer the digital and being able to download the figures as they release. I don't want to have to stand in line at stores or have to keep dealing with scalper buying up the figures online and then selling them for 3 and 4 times the retail price. You all can keep dealing with scalpers and standing in line if you want to. I am just sick of that just to play a game. Aren't you all sick of scalpers?
Or, hear me out, cards instead of figures, yes, you can still use the figures, but the cards have barcodes on the bottom that are scanned by a new hybrid figure and card portal, and you can do some really unique stuff, like adding a gimmick, for example say they add a armor gimmick, the cards could have so many different armor types, without the need to make molds and stuff
I recon they re master them and make a new one but make it so you buy the characters with in game currency and you can buy an a portal so you can use you’re toys from the old games
My one hope, if they ever remaster the games, is to make additional characters for each element. Take SSA, for example. One new character per element, or even re-introducing the Light and Dark elements, creates new playstyles for new and old players. Plus the addition of remasters introduces the idea of Reposes. Sunburn may finally have the chance to get a series 2 or even a lightcore. The additions for each game doesn't require making new characters; some just need a Series 2, such as Fright Rider. The digital vs physical release of characters is very interesting, however. Starlink had a great format for combing them, and Skylanders could benefit from a similar route. Maybe combine certain characters from the same element, or creating new packs with a Skylander from each? Theres many ways for Activision to go. The question is, will they ever take one?
Good idea, maybe they can just make a new game and allow the old figures but ADDITIONALLY make light core or series 2 versions of the characters that haven't gotten that treatment yet.
I am not thrilled about skylanders getting digital since it would just devalue the figures at least in my opinion. I get that its maybe the call here for skylanders to become a digital game but those who collected the figures like my self would kind of feal like collecting the figures where for nothing.
I like the digital idea only if they also have the figures to because I don’t want to grab a rare figure for $200 when I could get for 5 bucks on the digital store
My opinion is that they should make the game both with in game character that you can buy virtual,and to make figures for the people who want to play the old school Skylanders that we all love and know.Respect!
TL;DR Of the 3, Option C sounds best, but a digital only game wouldnt be the worst, if it was more like Starlink. Where can be the Content is there when you want and always in stock over a Fortnite-esque rolling market where could be months/years/never till the content you want appears again. Digital Skylanders is one thing, like SSA & Giants on 3DS having 2 at all times and SSF to SSR + Imaginators on Switch having Digital libraries. Having a store to buy is also one thing, like Starlink having everything (save 2 ships but said ships being reskins). But cant lie an exclusively MMO game, support may not last as long, like technically each game only got one year of support but if i want to play SSA now, 13 years later, just need to put disc in but if i wanted to play Skylanders Universe, I'm 11 years out of luck (like Skylanders Universe only lasted from October 2011 to April 2013). And if the marketplace content was rolling content then if you get/start the game afterwards, then youve missed out (like how many kids got Skylanders games for Christmas and others for birthdays later but they wouldn't be able to still get the wave 1 content even when wave 3 & 4 was out), but if all there like on Ipad version of STT and SSC and always available then less FOMO plus people who come to the game later would still be able to get stuff they want. like anecdotally last SSA figures got was Prism Break + Boomer + Voodood 3 pack that released October 2011 & would have been July 2012 when I got them, but with a rolling market, no guarantee they'd have come back before Giants figures/new update figures replaced the market). So of the 3, guess option C would suit me most.
