Skylanders - How to Kill a Franchise
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Activision Blizzard Ruined the Skylander Games and the entire Genre of Toys-To-Life.
As a kid, i was a fan of Skylanders and Skylanders Ads and last week i wondered what had happened to the skylanders franchise. So i made this video about the Rise and tragic Downfall of Skylanders. This is the Tragic History of Skylanders.
Sauces: Reddit and Skylander Videos lol (very much professional)
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Eye brawl displaying dominance is not a bug, it’s just a feature that was never integrated to other Characters for the possibility of kids feeling like betas.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
ohhh sry my bad
@narrativeless404
Жыл бұрын
Haha funni T-pose meme
Skylanders (for me at least), was basically that one thing I knew about as a kid and then forgot about it a few years later. Then I just never saw or heard anything about it again until now. I never played skylanders or had any of the toys, but I saw this video and was like "Oh yeah, I remember that. I wonder what happened to the franchise."
@Beef_jerky_official
Жыл бұрын
I played the game but even as a kid I thought it wasn’t that good
@endlessbacontreats9916
2 ай бұрын
@@Beef_jerky_official i was big on spyro so thats how they got me
@Beef_jerky_official
2 ай бұрын
@@endlessbacontreats9916 it was so weird I should have loved it as a kid, but for some reason I just couldn’t get into it I really wanted to too
Swap Force was peak imo. the ability to combine them was just too much fun even tho its ofc a disgusting cash grab
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
it was an insane concept yeaahh
@the_reptilian_researcher_360
4 ай бұрын
Based Opinion Detected 🫵😎👍
As a kid I never realised these "bad" things in Trap team and all the other games, cause I didn't care I was just having fun. My favorite was always trap team cause in my opinion the franchise had it's biggest downfall after that. I didn't need mutch content to be satisfied as a kid, so I could just probably play the skylanders games as mutch as i want, cause I never get bored of them. This is why I still play for instance Plants vs zombies Garden warfare till this day, because I don't need more content to have fun. idk must be just me, but I'm kinda happy that I'm like this. this way I can enjoy everything longer!
@GamerTunic_YT
Жыл бұрын
Same man trap team was one of the best skylanders games in my opinion
@mikem9536
Жыл бұрын
@@GamerTunic_YT Paywalls are never fun.
@fishyboy2140
Жыл бұрын
Garden warfare 1 and 2 are still really good.
Skylanders is probably somewhere in my top 3 video game franchises of all time. The concept alone is just awesome. Seeing my toys come to life in a video game felt like magic back in 2011 and I have so many great memories with this series. It's such a shame Activision had to milk it dry and leave it to die, like they do with all of their successful franchises.
I never played skylanders but I knew about it, its pretty sad how developer companies focus more about the money than the game itself, and try and rush the games as much as possible to obviously, MAKE MORE MONEYYYY
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
as always :(
@Whito_Snakuh
Жыл бұрын
Didn’t except anything else from activision
@flitzkr
Жыл бұрын
@@Whito_Snakuh yeah most developer companies want their game to be profitable, which is understandable but some games take it way way way too far and a once popular game filled with 6000 buyable things for 10$-60$ its quite greedy.
@jaxonanderson7220
Жыл бұрын
Most of the games didn’t have many bugs and worked well but trap team has a lot of bugs in it but unless you are playing the Wii version there isn’t any game crashing bugs.
Funny enough, I could see the greed behind Skylanders since the first game was released. And it wasn't because Activision was behind it, but because the simple idea of selling a game that couldn't be played until you also bought a bunch of toys you'd probably buy otherwise sounded greedy AF.
i played this as a kid and now its sad that its over
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
same
@Jell_DoesStuff
Жыл бұрын
Same here, don't see much Skylander stuff in shops anymore
@jaxonanderson7220
Жыл бұрын
Same
Rapping robot remains one of if not the best skylanders boss
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
FACTSSS
@CoralReaper707
Жыл бұрын
Drill-X is legit one of the best bosses in any game.
Keep up the work dude, been addicted watching your content. May the algorithm bless you. As a fan of skylanders, it's sad to see the franchise go. You bet they got so much money out of my parent's wallets.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
same
@abandonedchannel1010
Жыл бұрын
i couldve played it but i didn't
The greed for the game I will have to say truly started in trap team because you need to trap masters, which were like 20 bucks at the time in stores I believe, and you can get them online for 50 bucks😅
man i feel really blessed to have found your channel
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
i feel blessed to have u as viewer :)
Sad that the franchise is over but I still play and figures and incredibly cheap now a days but some are incredibly expensive
I do wonder, how did you come up with this video idea? Another YTber released a Skylanders video just 3 days before you did, and nothing noteworthy has happened with the Skylanders IP recently
I use to watch so many skylanders videos, i never got to play it but i watched skylanders videos DAILY. i still have a book on it.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
respectable
I actually have played all the games but the first one Spiro adventure I actually kinda enjoyed the last three even if they clearly were going into a deathspiral
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
sad
You make great videos, keep it up! There are much bigger creators who dont put as much effort into their videos as you do!
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanks will do
@fuji8583
Жыл бұрын
facts
I can still remember when i was a kid. It was my birthday i think and it was just before school when i saw this bigass skylander set in front of me. Skylanders was one the first game i ever played through completely.
ur so underrated dude keep it up! i love these videos my favorite was the tanki online video (: dont give up u will achieve succes just keep uploading i love these videos
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanksss
According to sales, swap force sold the most plus the mechanic was actually different compared to just multiplying the aspect ratio of skylanders in photoshop :I
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
truee it was a very good idea!! oh shit it did? my research is lackin sry
youre finally starting to get the subs you deserve waiting for that sweet 10k
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
yeees baby thats what im talking about
My assumption for swap force coming out 2 years after spyros adventure is that in one of the scrolls from SA you could read something about the elemental beings. Meaning: The first three games were planned before skylanders spyros adventure released
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
i think so too
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
No swap force was known as shifters and was first thought of when battle ground game came out
@DreamerFalko
Жыл бұрын
@@coolbone6177 mine was just a theory after all
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
@@DreamerFalko well you were kinda right but not exactly
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
@@DreamerFalko also there weren't only 3 games there were 5 game planned
This video is amazing, I loved it
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanksss
Just a random comment to give this channel the blessings of the algorithm. On a more serious note, really nice stuff you got there, looking forward to your growth.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanksss
I still play Spyro's Adventure every now and again Pretty cute game
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
trueee
when i was younger and i got my wii skylanders came with it and previously i thought that when you put the character on the portal they would disappear and you wouldn't be able to physically touch them again
The!! I literally grew up on this series! Even if it's quite literally the most pay to win game out there (because of the toy gimmick).
Can you talk about the down fall of the game Begone pls 👍
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
kk
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
maybe
How many Skycountrymen did you have? Btw: There are many different reasons why the skylanders franchise died*. Of course some people will love the later games that i pretty much slander in this video. So pls dont be offended by my taste, thanks :) *for example like with ToysToLife competitors that everyone had gotten used to the concept and it was nothing new anymore
@rizkyramadhan1785
Жыл бұрын
Ian👍👍👍👍
@schweigefuchs4658
Жыл бұрын
none lol still a good vid
@PiranPirano
Жыл бұрын
195 [Including reskins, traps, supercharger vehicles.]
@androvsn
Жыл бұрын
I had like 50 of them bro 😭😭😭😭 and my mom sold all of them
@andreashw9671
Жыл бұрын
more than you
i remember this tragedy :(
Bruh I remember how much I loved this franchise my sister and I would both play with the toys when we couldn't play the game. my parents and I agreed that we should stop after the third game (which I beat pretty fast for being in high elementary / starting middle school) and money. But also because we were also interested in Disney Infinty too so after that year we just gave up on toys to life for good. until I started collecting amiibo.
That put the toy in game thing, I remember wanting it so much for angry birds Jenga or something
Well, i didn't even know such thing existed I remember hearing the name "Skylanders" somewhere, but didn't paid much attention, because the only thing i cared about back then were Tanki Online and how to get GTA V
I’m still collecting these guys, but I don’t know if it’s bad that I have like 380 of these guys lined up on my bookshelf lol
Also, they did not give the kids' (or their parents') wallets time to breathe xD "Mom, can I have this new skylanders game and a lot of toys?" "We bought you one last year you can still play, it's the same thing" "Fair enough" No one could keep up with the rate those games were coming out
My favorite Skylander is Drill Sergeant because drill hands and cannon head is awesome.
im going back by emulation- what emulator would be best with portal???
Trap team was the best game i ever played, didnt expirince any Bugs
Omfg those Dino figures fucking brought back so many memories thank you for bringing tears to my eyes thinking about being a kid again😭
Nice video, gj!
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanks
I played the OG skylanders and liked it, I played skylanders Giants and liked it even more, but by the third game i lost interest as i suppose i grew up a bit, and my old skylanders weren’t compatible with the newer games.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
sad
@NightMangleAgain
Жыл бұрын
But all Skylanders are compatible with later games
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
@@NightMangleAgain at least that yeah!
Good shit as always, ian
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanks
Damn ur vids are god af fr ur gona have 1 mil subs in no time
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thanksss
What a great video!
bro the nostalgia
awesome content
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thy
Skylanders was the shit when Spyro’s Adventure dropped when I was like 5 back then
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
i was a bit older but still remember it fondly
@travypine
Жыл бұрын
@@ianNotShort same Dawg, shit was crazy
Trap Team still haunts my closet. But I check my doors and corners.
good video, You've got a new subsriber. Greetings from Germany!
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
ohh thankss :)
man keep on the work
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
yea thy
Hey! What was the name of the song in the tanki online video? In the last minutes Pls answer me
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
which timeframe?
@seemansamuel6569
Жыл бұрын
@@ianNotShort 9:30-10
OHH YEAH BOIS NEW IAN UPLOAD
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
yeaaah im hyped too
I loved this franchise to death. but got on really late. by the time i got giants Trap Team had already come out. i got giants fro christmas back then. played it to death with friends. then got swap force and reluctantly trap team. enjoyed both of those to. sadly i don't own spyro's adventure but, i might change that. I don't know. Maybe i will get it only to finally lay that little child to rest that wanted to play it. But never got that chance.
I’ve always liked skylanders it was such good games and I’ve even played to the mobile game
How would you guys rank the skylander games, because I stoped at giants back in 2012. Id like to go back and try the others.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
yeah im interested too… what do yall say?
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
Play all 5 angain
The skylanders imaginators level called cursed tiki temple is literally a metafore for a fun idea like skylanders getting ruined by money and other stuff. So that level is just Toys for Bob dissing Activision.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
toys for bob sigma moment
Trap Team was my favorite, I never knew it was disliked.
Damn I liked the first 3 games, forgot about the franchise a few years ago
skylanders was my entire lif when I was 9, I was so sad when my Monkey with Gun™ stopped working
what an insane video thanks
bro be growing so fast
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
noice
I....i love Skylanders Superchargers......
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
im sorryyy just my opinion tho nice that u enjoyed it
lol I still have the figures and the portal of power resting on the top of my wardrobe
Flynn was awesome man
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
naaah he was mid
8:19 I knew Fgteev (Skylander Boy and Girl) was going to be here!
" hmmm ... people are willing to pay for our game and its characters separately? Let's sell the same thing again! And again! and again... and again?"
Swap force was actually the best selling skylanders game of all time trap team was the game that had the dip
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
oh fr? should have mentioned that my bad
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
Trap team wasn't when it started dieing supercharger was if you check the revenue giants and trapteam both share the game stats
@ShatteredShqrd
Жыл бұрын
it went up and up until trap team had a small drop in sales and then it went downhill with the last games
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
@@ShatteredShqrd yep
@ShatteredShqrd
Жыл бұрын
@@coolbone6177 trap team still had a dip from about 2 million sales though but superchargers had a larger dip
Urgh i wondered how they Massacred the Design of Spyro... I mean Spyro had a pretty bad time before, with the "Legend of Spyro" Trillogy... They had so many options with Spyro... I feel like there is a huge decline in Gaming... Btw i never played Skylanders because i was sure there is something off.
Are used to have Skylanders but I don’t know what happened I guess we just got with older are used to watch FTGV and their Skylander videos.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
sad
Why did you repost? Btw I very recently saw another video about how skylanders got destroyed by Activision.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
bc i messed up and you couldn´t hear the music in the last one. this time its better
@charakiga
Жыл бұрын
@@ianNotShort Oh okay 👍
Interesting fact: In post-USSR countries, this game never had so much popularity..
Zoned out after he gave hate to my n word Flynn
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
bro fynn is evil what is everybody sayi
Activision is *GREAT* at two things. Maintaining a public view and consistent release quality. (I like word play.)
1:42 you scared the shit out of me
First has nothing to do with Spyro so I don't count this as a Spyro franchise.
Honestly i think skylanders imaginators is the best game of the franchise that characters i made were rlly funny
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
respectable
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
Sorry to say it you have just disrepected and we will not repect that for us in the reddit do not belive that is oen of our game and we only have 5 games
No way you don't like Flynn, he's one of the best NPCs in Skylanders
I would still kill for a new Skylanders game
Wait people hated trap team and imaginators? I loved those games. Oh well
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
hated isnt right i think… but they werent as popular
Crazy how you didnt know the Spyro games. How old is my man? 12?
I had the blue tree giant
Skylanders whole gimmick is the toys they couldnt go back from that But they had to make more for each game And then they added the elemental gates and shiz And the problem is People complain it locks content behind a pay wall But if they had to little content for buying a figure then it would be called a scam But Then if they have to much locked behind a figure then it's called a scam So that itself could never be fixed Either way tho I think it's cool to have figures of in game characters And out of all the games Skylanders trap team was my favorite and honestly it's straight up disgusting that people just say "Oh it's buggy so it's bad" maybe it's because people don't make this stuff themselves but the music models and textures were amazing not to mention kaos had the same boss theme but remixed for each game which was cool and to go along with that the story was nice not the most creative but nice It did have problems like not being able to reset traps or creation crystals but over all It was possible to use a PC or Wii to reset them Along with that you criticized the design of traps but it's not like they could have made a figure of the Villian Then it would be one trap per Villian and then you would claim it's more greedy The real reason it failed was because of how meny clones that popped up I mean think about the amount of people that played Skylanders at the time every time some new version popped up like Disney infinity or Lego dimensions more people split between them as not everyone can play every one of them that would be insanely expensive so normally people would just pick one It's more the greed of other companies trying to cash in on it that killed it And the only reason you find the old games better is simply because you were younger and enjoyed them more they are all glitchy and repetitive but nostalgia blinds anyone
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
oh shit. thanks for ur comment i mean taste is personal but what else should they have done? ur right
@sand5305
Жыл бұрын
@@ianNotShort well they couldn't drop the figure gimmick or the franchise dies cuz that's it's whole thing and they can't stop other companies from doing it as a game on PC years ago did it before Skylanders I forgot the name of so it was kinda trapped I don't think it could have survived
@tankninja97
Жыл бұрын
@@sand5305 you mean UB funkeys right?
@sand5305
Жыл бұрын
@@tankninja97 yeah I own a few of those
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
@@sand5305 They could of easyly done what starfox done
1:42 I jumped lmao
This video cool but swap force, trap team and superchargers are still great games just not as great as the first two
There game's were my childhood
Skylanders Spyro still looks like a fucking Gremlin
In 2011 in Russia they cost about 300 rubles iirc, that's like cheaper than Lego Racers car
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
stonkss
6:30 they spent 2 years actually because they started making them game after giants while swapforce was made by a different team
@coolbone6177
Жыл бұрын
No, your wrong giants Were made at the same time ssa came out then shifter started getting mad when battlegrounds came out, and the trap team was made a couple months after shifters. The supercharger was already getting made when trap team came out and they spent about 8 months on imagination
it wasn't a year, it was twelve months. i... what?
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
uhmm its a joke
@healergirl28
Жыл бұрын
@@ianNotShort Nice.
I want to know how that Spyro model got green lighted Is ugly And that ubisoft No Man's Sky-esque toys to life game with Fox Mcloud And the amiibos....
DON'T LISTEN BROTHERS!!! SKYLANDERS SEVEN IS COMING OUT!!!!
My man dissing on skylanders trap team hurt my soul
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
sry my G
If Skylanders was made every 4-5 years And the first game itself got dlc Like adding new figures every year abd updates Like giants could have been one game wich wouldnt have killed the franchise it would have continued today.
That Spyro design is still hideous.
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
truee
Closed the video after you said that to Flynn
WTF are you so underrated
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
thankss
there are only like 3 bad bugs in trap team and you kept showing the same one over and over 😂
8:53 half a year
I am a guy who dont give a crap about the money that i need to spend CAUSE I DONT SPEND I PLAY TO SUFFER
@ianNotShort
Жыл бұрын
sigma grindset
Chop chop best skylander all 📠 🚫🧢