The Skylanders are the main playable characters in the Skylanders series. They are legendary heroes; champions in the world of Skylands. Their ancient mission is to protect Skylands and its magical Core of Light that kept the ultimate force behind all evil, The Darkness, at bay. Using their magical powers and machinery, the Skylanders defended their world for generations with the help of the Portal Masters. Skylanders 10 Year Anniversary - A Conversation with the Developers (Developer Stories!). (Date Posted - Oct. 12, 2021). YouTube. Sometime during production of either Spyro's Adventure and Giants, Toys for Bob did think about an idea for a Skylanders game which involved the players creating their own levels. However, this was scrapped due to the announcement of Disney Infinity. [5] Portal Casters 10th Anniversary Celebration Pt. 2 - Paul Reiche, (Date Posted - Oct. 16, 2021). YouTube.

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The fifth entry in the popular toys-to-life franchise adds dozens of land, air, and sea vehicles to pilot and race through a variety of colorful lands. Ring of Heroes, developed by Com2us, is the first Skylanders mobile game developed by a company not owned by Activision. According to Software Engineer, Robert Leyland, they did plan a sequel or Year 2 for Imaginators which would have been about making quadruped Imaginators, including dragons. [3]

When 3DS counterparts of the games were still released, they were the only versions to have world names succeeding the levels in that world; while the console only had Chapters around various themes (and, in SuperChargers' case, normal levels divided by said Chapters). Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure DEVELOPER COMMENTARY - Episode 4: Software Engineer, Robert Leyland. (Date Posted - Jan 28, 2020). YouTube. Spyro the Dragon is implied to take the leader role of the Skylanders when a Portal Master isn't available.

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In 2012, Paul Reiche thought about the possibility of GPS functionality, laser and motion and light sensitivity to figures. [7] After Skylanders: Imaginators, Toys For Bob proposed a concept pitch to Activision for a Skylanders mobile game with GPS mechanics reminiscent to Pokémon GO. Every Skylander can be placed in the real world as an avatar, and you can locate other players' Skylanders with an AR system and see where they put their collection in the real world. However Activsion turned down the pitch twice. [8] The mobile games use two different colors for their logos - a blueish green and orange with a yellow gradient, though Battlegrounds has their positions inverted. An idea involving a mutation virus infecting Skylanders was considered but was never finished. It would've acted similar to Pokémon's Pokerus, infecting a small number of characters that would spread to others that were on the same Portal as the infected Skylander. Being afflicted with this virus would give the Skylanders different possibilities, like a permament buff. A mass infection scenario would've had people come together to infect their characters to get the different possibilities of the mutation virus. [6] Lasers, Voice, Photo-Sensors, GPS and Boomer, Ready for Skylanders 3? (Date Posted - Nov 22, 2012). WIRED. was the first year that did not receive a main Skylanders title, receiving new content for Imaginators instead. In 2018, only the mobile game Ring of Heroes was released.

For various reasons, the main game that was supposed to succeed Imaginators was cancelled, with only remnants found in Crash Bandicoot N.Sane Trilogy's code: the unfinished Skylanders WranglerFire, BlasterTech and BruiserUndead. Each Skylander wields a single element: Air, Dark, Earth, Fire, Life, Light, Magic, Tech, Undead, and Water. So far, there are a total of 175 main Skylanders in the series.