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Skylanders is a toys-to-life action-adventure video game franchise published by Activision. [1] [2] Skylanders games are played by placing a character's figure on the "Portal of Power", a device that reads its tag using NFC and "imports" them into the game as a playable character, leveling them up and saving its progress on the figure to potentially be used on a different game or video game ...
Following the events of the first game, Kaos, who was shrunk and put on display in a toy store on Earth, returns to the Skylands after finding a Portal of Power.The first level takes place 10,000 years ago and explains how the Giants became the first Skylanders. 10,000 years ago, the Arkeyans, an evil race of giant robots, ruled over the Skylands and forced its inhabitants to work as slaves ...
While Activision confirmed on May 30, 2013, that there were no plans for a Skylanders movie adaption or a TV series, [46] on November 6, 2015, they announced the opening of Activision Blizzard Studios, who are in the process of developing Skylanders into a film and television series; the latter being called Skylanders Academy, which was ...
2012: Skylanders One way to make a hit toy: Combine two things that little kids already love. Skylanders epitomized the larger fad of toys-to-life, video games that included figurines that could ...
In 2011, Activision Blizzard debuted its Skylanders franchise, [40] which led to the press crediting the company with inventing and popularizing a new toys-to-life category. [40] [41] [42] The first release Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure was nominated for two Toy Industry Association awards in 2011: "Game of the Year" and "Innovative Toy of the ...
Skylanders Battlegrounds manages to maintain a high level of appeal, though, simply because it contains so many different characters, daily bonuses tied into specific elements and a leveling ...
Toys-to-life is a video game feature using physical figurines or action figures to interact within the game. [1] These toys use a near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID), or image recognition data protocol to determine the individual figurine's proximity, and save a player's progress data to a storage medium located within that piece. [2]
Skylanders: Imaginators is a 2016 toys-to-life 3D platform game developed by Toys for Bob and published by Activision. It is the sixth installment of the Skylanders series, a successor to Skylanders: SuperChargers , and was released for Nintendo Switch , PlayStation 3 , PlayStation 4 , Wii U , Xbox 360 and Xbox One .