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

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

Well, You've just unearthed a hidden memory.

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*

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

Wow, I genuinely did not know that.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

I spent WAYYYY too much money on these

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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!

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!

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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.

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

WAIT I JUST REALIZED THESE THINGS ARE THE DEVIANTART MASCOT

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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!

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

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...)

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

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

OMG THE NOSTALGIA IS HITTING SO HARD RN

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bro when this showed up i immediately thought of deviantarts fella

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!!!

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

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 :)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 😂

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.

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

You made me go out of my way to create an Ebay account, search "UB Funkeys Speed Racer", and purchase the starter kit with Speed Racer and Chimp, thank you so much for this Billiam

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

I'm not the only one who remembers this?

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!

It's funny because not too long ago i was trying to remember what the toy was called but i stopped looking because i knew billiam would cover it at some point

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

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

It's really cool to see people acknowledge a game I played as a kid. I've never met anyone who had also played this game.

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

I had this as a kid and I thought when I remembered these that they were just a dream I had as a kid but now I realize they actually did exist and now I miss them. They had Sensor issues where it would fail to scan the Funky Pop and I had the Speed Racer ones

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

Even if I never grew up with the game and only have memeories of seeing the ads on tv, I still wanna collect them. I love how they look, they remind me a bit of the old DeviantArt mascot Fella, and just being a huge fan of cool vinyl figures and there unique designs.

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.