What RUINED Skylanders? 

Ah, my childhood. My parent's bank accounts almost collapsed.

They released 6 very expensive games in a row with real life products tied to them, and it was becoming a pain for parents to have to keep up with making sure little Timmy has every batch of $15 figures annually. Skylanders could have survived if Activision allowed the game to breathe. At least we got some great things as a result of Skylanders ending, like Crash and Spyro being brought back from the dead, and TFB separating from Activision. Hopefully they can make some more incredible games.

It’s unfortunate skylanders fell into the yearly release trap. Something that has now been catching up with the Pokemon games.

Wow if I had a Nickel for every game Franchise that was ruined thanks to company greed I would have enought nickes to buy a Car

I LOVE how the show had the creative guts to keep Spyro evil THROUGH THE ENTIRE THIRD SEASON, with him ever so slowly regaining his free-will and his love for his friends.

Skylanders was my first introduction to Spyro, and Justin Long will forever be my favourite voice actor for him

17:15 Amiibo uses NFC, which is part of why Skylanders don't normally work as amiibo. These particular crossover figures had to have _both_ tags.

A Spyro game with a darker tone? I'm pretty sure that's what the legend of spyro was.

The thing that got me was that they dropped this without at least trying a game without the figures. I do not know how well the IP it’s elf was doing as Imaginators came out, because it was still doing a decent amount of merch over its life past the games.

I have 3 tote boxes in my closet full of Skylander toys, every single one ever made...it was an obsession

3:54 Gotta love how Cynder keeps being the best part about Spyro

Alternative title: what ruined the idea of Toys to life

I swear companies all run on cargo cult logic, with no concept of saturation. Then get confused that interest and demand don’t exist in perpetuity.

As much as I realise this game was kind of a scam as an adult, (10-20€ for every character). i still treasure the memories I had collecting it, drawing the characters, and learning the lore behind them. I still have yet tonplay the actual Spyro games, but when I do, I will always remember that this was my introduction to Spyro.

When I was a kid, I wasted my money on plastic miniatures that connected to video games. Now, as a responsible adult, I waste my money on plastic miniatures AND video games.

Skylanders was the first introduction to Spyro for many in 2011-2016, much like how Legend of Spyro was for those in 2006-2008. I played the original Spyro games, even through the Legend reboot. Spyro being in Skylanders was confusing to me at first, and it took a bit for me to get used to his redesign, but I was reeled in when I played the first Skylanders game and enjoyed it, even though it's a different genre. It's sad how Skylanders slowly crumbled. Activision didn't expect it to sell as well as it did when the first game was released in 2011, and when it did, they milked Skylandes to death like any other game that gave them big bucks. I think it could've lasted longer if Activision didn't have yearly releases made and gave Toys For Bob and Vicarious Visions time to develop the games. There were even some decisions that the devs didn't agree with, like Imaginators microtransactions, but Toys For Bob had to follow their parent company. A good nostalgic franchise for many with untapped potential ruined by company greed and game oversaturation.

Almost every Skylanders game they released required you to buy a brand-new Portal device just to make your Skylanders compatible with the new game. Seeing as I have most of them, it would have been nice if they had made a final Skylanders game that allowed you to daisy-chain the Portals together to summon and command a Skylanders army.

given that Bionicle was literally on their way out, LEGO really missed an opportunity using Bionicle for the skylanders like imo

Loved the hell outa the first 2 games,but the rest basically became "what if we did less for pushing out more figurines for money" it had a really good story but later the amount of skylanders that got really expensive was scummy and thats what made me not get any game after skylander giants

I had the unique pleasure of working in the ToysRUs R-zone during the heyday of the toys to life craze, I saw the first skylanders come out and got to see the entire thing unfold. At the peak of popularity the R-Zone was HALF toys to life figures, Skylanders, Disney Infinity, Lego Dimensions, and the Amiibos were the famous ones of course, but there were also also-rans and knock offs, like little 8-bit looking games that used like, ninja turtles minifigures, those Marvel electronic action figure things, and a couple others. It got really crowded there. Also, for a personal anecdote, the glue that held the blister bubbles on the cards for skylanders wasn't very strong, and they would often pop off and fall out. I remember every time I went to work I'd run through the skylanders looking for popped blisters and taping them closed to make sure customers wouldn't give into temptation and steal the opened ones (yes, that is a thing, if a box is opened people will be inclined to steal the contents, but almost never actually open packaging to steal things themselves, a weird foible of the populace in my area.)

not a fan of Skylanders but I would not be opposed to a full-fledged Spyro video. the franchise has switched hands so many times and there's a surprising amount of lore behind the scenes

I’m a Skylanders fan but a lot of people know eruptor was put up as a giant balloon in real life and crash 4

i got into this franchise around midway through its lifespan with trap team but i fell in love with it ever since the setting was intresting the lore was intriging and the sheer number of characters and the concepts that they were based on hooked me hard this might be an unpopular take but superchargers was my favorite i loved all the vehicle designs the story was in my opinion the best out of all the games and the fact they gave us DK AND BOWSWER as playable characters was just the cherry on top

Saberspark: "What RUINED Skylanders?" Me: Company greed by releasing very expensive games yearly, with equally expensive micro-transactions, DLC level packs and in game paywalls disguised as toy figures.

Say whatever you want about Skylanders Spyro's old design, but you can't deny that at least Spyro's Academy redesign looks pretty dang good! In fact, I personally find it to be the most visually appealing of all of Spyro's designs. Don't get me wrong, classic Spyro is cute and menorable, but at the same time he always looked kinda wonky and awkward, with his stubby little wings/tail and that big bulbus Barney snout and whatnot. IMO Skylanders Academy Spyro is much more proportionately balanced, and maintains some of those "cute" elements that the classic Spyro had, alongside his more badass elements from Skylanders. But that's just me.

Skylanders ruled

13:59 Correction, the introduction of new "Gimmick" skylanders was NOT the primary gatekeeping tactic used to necessitate extra spending with each game that released, as you can technically beat every game with only 1 Core-series Skylander. Even Skylanders SuperChargers was programmed with a digital-only copy of the Hot Streak vehicle that you could summon if you didn't have a vehicle figure, and the other vehicle types were only needed for optional content. The PORTAL peripherals that came with each game were a LOT more restrictive to the play experience as you needed to spend $25 for a new one to play basically every game, as the compatibility system was stupid and convoluted. So by the time Trap Team finally released with its universal portal, parents had already wasted 50-75 extra dollars for no discernable reason.

I think my favorite part of the Skylanders games were the characters that you didn't even play as. Chaos and Glumshanks. Flynn, Callie, Hugo and Buzz. The Golden Queen, Wolfgang and even the Chompy Mage. The story and these characters were what made me keep coming back to this game.

as someone who has every single character that plays differently from each other, from all 6 games yeah i'm a fan and noticed that your SuperChargers sections was missing some detail as you described SuperChargers but the footage and the consoles you mentioned, are of SuperChargers Racing, a spin-off for the weaker hardware also LEGO Dimensions did do a follow-up, sort off, as LEGO Dimensions would go by the idea of updating the game, year after year with new packs (year 1 has blue toy tags and year 2 has orange toy tags)

I DID RESPECT, and was also Interested in the Character Designs thou!

Im ngl I was eating this era of Toys-To-Life tf up 😭😭😭🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

Hope This thing comes back man would love to even see somebody else attempted in the modern day

Imagine if they had combined Heroes of the Storm and Skylanders in which Skylanders could have pulled from Blizzard's roster for the concept.

12:31 RIP Cynder I guess. Also DK, Diddy, Bowser, Crash and Neo Cortex (and Coco Bandicoot in the animated series).

When I clicked on this video I was literally thinking, I hope it's gonna be Tom this time. Been binging through old PCP episodes and always great seeing you're still active!

Hey look it’s Skylanders, I like those. I thought this was a notif from one of my friends in the community and my jaw dropped when I saw it was actually Saberspark. I’m gonna make this comment and add edits as I go along. 1. From my knowledge, you kind of aren’t wrong on the Spyro not originally being a Spyro design. The original Spyro spinoff that eventually became Skylanders, Spyros Kingdom, had a Spyro design more in line with his later games, with another character simply named Red Dragon being the closest resemblance to Spyro as he appears in the official game. 2. This isn’t a game fun fact it’s been covered very well so far I just want to say that I wish to fight many Activision employees and I don’t think I need an explanation beyond that. 3. I am so sorry to Spyro fans they did you all so dirty. 4. Ah the gimmicks. They were always kind of a doubled edged sword, because yea, they were cool new guys that could interact with the game in a new way, but not only did they often make normal characters more obsolete, but locking a large chunk of your game behind characters that are even more expensive than your other characters when they aren’t even that special in the next game a year after is really scummy. Especially when they became as numerous as they did around 2014. 5. The Giants facts were a bit off so I’d like to just say them. For one, the giants were $15 I believe, rather than 20, but 5 buck difference isn’t crazy enough to blame you. There were 48 new figures released with giants, but 32 were either rereleases of older characters (with a new ability and pose to get you to buy them again), or versions of the figures that would light up for a slightly higher price. Giants only had 16 actually new characters. 6. While Swap Force was VVs first run with a console Skylanders game, they were actually heavily involved in the 3DS spin-offs, which were entirely different games to their console counterparts. They were even working on both versions of Swap Force simultaneously. 7. Trap Teams trap gimmick is still so pricy traps are so annoying. Also fun fact on top of the shiny paint jobs, the Elites were three times as powerful as their normal counterparts, so they were actually just busted. 8. Superchargers actually had a full 20 characters (8 of which were new movesets for older characters) and 20 vehicles, but this was reduced to 18 if you weren’t on Nintendo consoles (I assume that’ll be brought up in a moment). 9. The Wii and 3DS versions did have the Nintendo characters, but it was only the racing mode, as that was the 3DS spinoff for that game and they just also gave it to the Wii so people who couldn’t upgrade could still join (the same reason swap force and trap team have laughable Wii ports). The full game, with Bowser and DK, is playable on the Wii U though. Hey, it’s good for something at least. 10. Imaginators is such a disappointment in many of the communities eyes. It’s a fine game, mechanics wise, but it’s story and the way it’s randomly tied to the Netflix show that didn’t really follow canon at all while also not following the shows canon is annoying at best. Plus, there’s been a lot of content popping up here and there about a second year for Imaginators that would give us even more for the character creator, something I felt was desperately needed, even though I like what we got. Sorry this comment got so long, I’m just really passionate about these dumb plastic guys. These types of videos are always so fun to watch as a longtime fan, and I’m glad this series still gets some recognition, even if it’s just to look back on what once was. Very good video. Looking forward to what’s next.

Honestly I think LEGO got the closest to doing this TtL thing in the most evergreen way. Unlike Skylanders and Disney, at least LEGO Dimensions came with _actual_ collectible minifigures. That was so smart, they don't _have_ to be used just for the game because they can seamlessly be integrated into every existing LEGO set collectors may already have. So even now that the game is long dead, these packs are still in _high_ demand because...they're still just rare minifigs. I never played any of these things, but I bought _tons_ of packs on clearance just to get those sweet, sweet figures. I regret nothing.

Am I the only one who likes all three iterations of Spyro?

Cinder, Stealth Elf, and Hex were some of the top Waifus lol.

4:14 After this, then came a demo called Spyro’s Kingdom. Which has been officially released a few years ago for Skylanders’ 10 year anniversary or whatever.

Skylanders was a big part of my childhood. I was always amazed with how the toys to life concept worked as a whole with transporting the figures into the game.

Rip Skylanders… one of the greatest gaming franchises of all time

Never would've expected SaberSpark to make a Skylanders video

I was definitely shocked when I found out that Spyro had his own game series before Skylanders

Great video, surprised Nitendo's Ammiibo wasn't mentioned though. They don't have they're own standalone game but similar idea I think.

Spyro really needs to make a comeback with a new original game like what happened with Crash Bandicoot.

The thing that i liked about this series is where it was basicly a way to sell u dlc unlike litraly every other game when u payed for your dlc pack u actuly got a real figure. like it wasnt just a downlaod that u could only use in that single game it was a actual thing u could have and even use in all future games in the series. like honestly thats a soo much better way to have dlc cus you arnt just paying for a skin swap or a character unlock that can only be used once its a actual moddle that u can collect and display outside of the game. and hell if u collect all of them it makes for a really fun perma death of the entire series. like what i did once was lv all my skylanders up to max unlocked all there skills then played every game in the series from the start and if a character died then i couldnt use them again for all 6 games. makes for a really tense experience especially when u get to the 3rd game in and u only have a few characters left.

I have to say, If I'm right here, right now, it's because of skylanders. I have to thank them for who I am. I wasn't originally interested I video games. I had a hacked DS, but it wasn't the peak of my interest. But those figures caught my eye. I wanted some, even thought I didn't have the game. And so, for my birthday I had my first figure, the series 2 version of Gill grunt. I started collecting figures even though I didn't had the games. I started watching the promotional trailers of giants and the near-to- realease swap force. And on those Christmas, I was gifted a Wii with skylanders swap force. This was what made me interested in other video games like Mario galaxy and to look deep into the industry. It gave me friends of which I still hold memories and keep in contact with. Most of my birthday and Christmas presents were the figurines, and without them I wouldn't have enjoyed those holidays as much. It has given me lots of joys, a lot of disappointments (ain't that right, Wii version of superchargers?), and I wouldn't have it any other way. So thanks to skylanders, for forming the teen, man, and person I am today.

I’m not gonna lie, the early 2000s and early 2010s era of companies doing weird shit like this with their games was awesome. Is it an absolute money sink? yes. Is it a cool novel idea? Also yes. Would it survive in todays gaming market? Probably not but I’d think it’s cool

I appreciate that you guys did a video on Skylanders, and I just wanted to add a few things. Regarding collecting figures, so my approach with each game was to usually get characters that either A. Unlocked more in-game content like elemental gates, ability zones, sensei shrines, or B. were just characters I found interesting and wanted to have. For example, Spyro was actually my favorite Skylander, and I ended up getting my hands on almost every variant of him that I could, even snagging the Eon's Elite Spyro. However, as several people have pointed out, some of the pricing stuff was a bit off. At least from Spyro's Adventure to Trap Team, core characters were around $10 USD, while gimmick characters (Giants, Trap Masters, Swap Force) were around $15. Also, Lego Dimensions was much worse, as they were priced as much as small Lego set at the time. You also left out how some games like Giants and Imaginators had Portal Owner's Pack, which included just the game and one character. Even then, I recall starter packs costing around $60-90 USD, which is usually as much as the average triple-A game now a days. That being said, Skylanders and other Toys to Life games were still expensive investments, as I admit to not really spending much on other games outside of the occasional Steam purchase due to the amount I invested in unlocking all the collectibles in Skylanders (exception being Wizard101). The same time I stopped buying Skylanders was around the time the Switch was released, so I was able to move on from Skylanders. And for anyone who are still trying to complete their collection, that is even harder because some figures such as Row Bow now going for more than $400. I would like to mention that one issue I had with Lego Dimensions was with the infamous Wii U version of the game, a version that was straight up unplayable and had glitches that barred players from hundred percent (such as one involving the tardis from the Doctor Who Level pack). To make matters worse, the characters were also fairly unbalanced in terms of abilities and powers, which became an even bigger issue with the Series 2 characters (Which had to be updated everytime you obtained one on the Wii U version). As for Disney Infinity, one issue that is fairly noticeable since the 1.0 was the choices of characters made the game feel like a cash grab, and were used as mostly tie ins for upcoming movies. This was mostly fixed in 2.0 and 3.0, but I still don't understand who thought that the Lone Ranger movie deserved it's own level in Disney Infinity. However, I can't really develop much of an opinion on Disney Infinity as I never played it. As for Toys for Bob, they would actually go on to make both the Spyro Reignited Trilogy and Crash 4, and I recall hearing that they've gone indie. So for anyone who had issues with Spyro's design, just know that Toys for Bob was able to redeem themselves in that regard. I still have fond memories of this franchise, despite the financial toll on my allowance. They were my first ever Spyro games, and I still have my collection of figures, including some that belonged my friends. Also, in regards to crushes, I recall some of the female dragon characters including Cynder as well as Ninjini, Tuff Luck (thanks Robot Chicken), Roller Brawl, and a few others being relatively popular. Personally, Star Strike was my one of my first crushes, and later Splat.

2:28 The fate of shareholders never depends on how well a product does. Only the ones who worked on it are at risk and even if it does well they're at risk. Executives don't have to worry about a thing because they have golden parachutes and investors can just pull out.

Wanna know something funny? Ubisoft also tried to jump on the toys-to-life bandwagon when it was already dying, and as a result they had to give up before their 2nd toy wave came out and made those toys digital-only

Man how I missed this series. Swap Force was my first game which I played with my brother a long time ago.

My first job was at toys r us in 2016. We had 2 whole aisles next to the gaming counter filled with nothing but skylanders, being the majority and disney infinity figures. Then one day I notice people are buying alot of them. I wonder what's going on and a customer tells me that the games basically just died. It was so weird, I saw insane deals like buy one $20 skylander toy, get 4 free!! Never seen a store try to get rid of an item so fast. Next day there was like 10 figures left on shelves

The issue was sometimes after week 3 or 4, most stores in certain states or counties didn’t get the figures or have enough of them. I remember seeing Blackout(who I bought thankfully)/Spotlight/Echo at ToysRus once and never again due to how low the supplies. Now they’re like $80-$90 each

My childhood summed up in this one video im so happy

I think that whilst Skylanders didn't invent the Toys to Life genre (as in the gaming style of physical figurines or toys being compatible with a digital game), it certainly gave it something of a rennaissance, and it seems that its final instalment was also the last big title for the golden age of the genre, the only thing to follow being Starlink. And I remember being super excited about each instalment, collecting the figures and finding my favourites, though I sort of lost interest from time to time - I only got the fifth instalment because I won it in a competition to design a Skylander (an tech element, inventor otter named "Ottermatic", just in case anyone was curious), and I didn't pick up the sixth, though I had some figures since Wolfgang was now a fully playable character, but I didn't get the game on any console, and now cannot find it on my console of choice. I really liked the concept of it, and the game wasn't half bad - it was passable, but when it was a turn off was when monetisation became too big a part of it. What I actually found really quite inspiring is how despite it being an original franchise, it still outperformed Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions, even with their rosters of established characters with nostalgic connections. Part of it can be attributed to how restrictive Disney Infinity is in allowing crossovers, as you can only have specific characters play in specific levels (so no Disney characters showing up in Star Wars for instance), where all figures could be played in Skylanders, and also how Lego Dimensions just released one title and various expansions, and then decided to call it a day after Season 2, whereas Skylanders kept coming up with no only new characters, but new gimmicks. The fact you see so many of the figures in second hand shops can be seen as an indictment to how mass produced it was, especially when you consider how some are really cheap now, but then again it could be seen as the franchise having such popularity that everyone played it, and some found their favourite characters.

Yeah dude same the first ever time I saw Spyro was in Skylanders. I never knew that he was from his own series of games, and eventually at one point I learned that he was from his series of games. So anyway, I’m glad that they did that with Spyro because for many people they wouldn’t know who Spyro was. I’m glad because it exposed a whole new generation to that character and I think that’s awesome.

Well I didn’t expect to see this video pop up in my notifications.

Amazing video saber!

Universal to Vivendi to Activision to Microsoft... I think Spyro has grown accustomed to the sensation of being *absorbed* at this point.🙃

As a HUGE fan, I'd say either by competence and concept relevancy decreasing [actually both] (I stood by the end of Imaginators, a year later, POOF, the franchise vanished)

I’ve been waiting for this!!!

I btw did name other Skylanders than just Spyro or Cynder. Sonic Boom, Flashwing, Whirlwind, Drobot, Camo, Sunburn, Zap, Pop Thorn, Chill, Hot Dog, Funny Bone, Trail Blazer, Flip Wreck, Echo and others are still among my favorite playable characters but yeah the yearly release was overkill. It was hard finding certain Skylanders because of that in local stores. They should have gone every 2-3 years instead. Also Kaos and Zim would get along so well

"Who are the waifus?" the giant genie lady for starters XD oh, you didn't actually want to know? Damn, I was making a list lol

Man, I miss Skylanders, its my childhood

How is there not already a What Ruined Angry Birds video? I mean seriously it's like the King of things that were ruined.

Funny how this video came out the same time I’m currently revisiting some of these games

toys for bob just finalized an agreement with microsoft for their first independent game

I knew only one thing about Skylanders beyond the commercials, and that's the fact that Crash Bandicoot shows up in the show, with not just voice acting, but lines.

Imagine if Lego Dimensions let you build your own mismatched minifig and it would register the pieces properly

Can we all agree on this? Kaos and Wolfgang were one of the best villains in the franchise

Wow, interesting. I am invested in this channel now.

I played the first 2 games as a young teen and loved them, but after that, even my younger self realized they were pushing too hard for my money. I still love my collection though. Hot Dog was my favorite!

Skylanders was made to be a reboot (another one) OF Spyro

I remember playing it for hours and still have most of the figures from the first couple of sets. I got to have a physical figure could look out and move around but also play in game.

The thing that killed it for me was no competiive scene. There's the battle thing in the game. I feel like there was a huge missed opportunity to make it like pokemon vidoe game championships around it. Or at least online wifi pvp matches Outside the main story it was a game I'd finish and after have very little reason to play until a new chacter wqs released imo.

Activision. The masters of milking franchises.

Yes. Stealth Elf is the hot one. Thank you for doing your research.

Yea, if you ask someone who didn't get into Skylanders to name a character that isn't Spyro (or Cynder) they'll likely give you nothing. If you ask someone who did get into Skylanders you'll either get whoever was their favorite character/figure (usually from the original game line-up) or you'll get Kaos (cause Zim VA playing Zim 2.0).

This game is my childhood and i still love everything about it, id literally give and do anything to bring this game series back, if i could id buy the i.p and make more games

Tip for creating a fantasy world: Actually create species rather then fill it with random monsters. I never liked how there was no consistency with the SL's species. There were a lot of interesting designs, but it made the whole world feel less real and random. It works in Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions because there toys are famous character.

Skylanders's main gimmick was the toys came to life in the game and you need the toys to play the games.

Missed the opportunity to discuss them releasing powered-up versions of older figures. My favorite in the first game was Prism Break, but since the second game had new abilities for the Skylanders they released new versions of the original Skylanders, and you had to buy those to be able to use the new abilities. So I had a Prism Break with a green base (original) and with an orange base (rerelease), with the rerelease being able to use an additional attack. There was also a third rerelease called Hyper Beam Prism Break but I don't remember if I owned that one.

as an avid spyro fan I HATED skylanders for what they did to spyro, until like 6 years later when i found out about the canceled spyro movie and realized skylanders was actually heaven sent

What ruined Skylanders was saturation and greed. There didn't need to be 6 different versions of the same figure that all basically function the same way but only look a little bit different, there didn't need to be 50 different add on items that are barely useful and there didn't need to be friggin vehicles! Which is a shame because most of the games are pretty fun. Fortunately they are easy to emulate these days

My family was all super into skylanders. We had every Skylander released for Spyro's adventure and Giants (ignoring the special extra ones tho we had a lot of those too). I think we had most of the swapforce ones and we definitely had all the swapping ones but what started killing it for us is trap team and the sudden introduction of light and dark Skylanders. When we were playing, Skylanders was at its height and we couldn't find the light and dark level packs anywhere. So since we didnt have a light or dark skylander we couldn't get into some parts in the game which annoyed my whole family especially my dad. We had been getting everything in every game until this one because of the light and dark and we weren't gonna buy like 50 traps. Then came superchargers where if you wanted to get all the collectables we realised we would've needed a vehicle of every type (land, water, and sky) of every element. That was it for us, we never even finished superchargers. I was really young when the first game came out so when imaginators came out I asked if we could get it and my dad refused. I have fond memories of the series but the coporate greed got to be too much.

i wish i got skylanders imaginatiors on switch long ago because now that version of the game is pricey as hell

I collected all these different Toy's 2 Life during the downfall of Toy's R' Us typically buying these toys at a couple dimes to dollar. I always wanted to do display cases of the different systems and play them all but never had the time. Nice to hear some history on it.

15:42 The Best One in my opinion Also has probably the Hardest Final Boss I've ever fought

I remember I used to play from Giants to trap team. Collecting the rare figures was fun

One dream: a new Skylanders game without using toys to unlock characters.

23:38 Couldn't say for certain but seeing as between being one of the originals, having a frick ton of variants, and being a main character in the TV show where she was basically the 2012 TMNT April o' Neil of the group. Probably.

23:30 BRO, I FEEL CALLED OUT😂😂😂

I'm scared for a Skylanders Reboot. There's like a 70% chance they do NFTs or something like that and I don't want to see that future... (the other 30% is split between doing figures or just having online unlockables)

3:58 I see that my boy Saberspark did his homework....

This design grew on me, at least you can still tell it's Spyro.

This video and my friend are the reasons I understand and love SkyLanders now. I’m getting me a game

Followed this series for a while when it was still the hot newness. Got a metric boat-load of figures, including stupid rare stuff, and did my best to keep the main sets complete up to and including Swap Force. It was discovered a while after the Trap Team release that not every figure or item that was actually coded in the game was even going to be released, and the time sink the later games were producing was such a turn off for myself that I didn't even bother finishing the Superchargers game. I didn't get Imaginators and honestly don't regret it...Those that were keeping an eye on things pretty much knew that the series was on it's last leg as it got to what would later be determined to be the final mainline game. Before I packed everything away for a move a few years back I always had the Bowser figure on my console shelf because that thing was pretty badass. lol

I was so addicted to this franchise that my parents told me that I had to get an A grade on a school test in order to get a new Skylander figure.