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'''''[[Wikipedia:Skylanders|Skylanders]]''''' was a toys-to-life action-adventure video game franchise published by Activision. 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 even console) with all its saved stats. | '''''[[Wikipedia:Skylanders|Skylanders]]''''' was a toys-to-life action-adventure video game franchise published by Activision. 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 even console) with all its saved stats. The games started a fad with the "toys-to-life" genre that lasted until [[2017]]. The main reason for this falloff was that most people realized that spending all of that money on plastic was a waste of their time and hard-earned pay. [[Christian Weston Chandler|Chris]] was not most people. | ||
==History== | ==History== | ||
While the first game was simply a reboot for [[Playstation|Sony's]] Spyro the Dragon series, it did not pique Chris' curiosity, likely since he initially saw it as an [[Liquid Chris|"impostor"]] series to [[Pokemon]]. The first we see of Chris mentioning Skylanders was in a [[November 2012 Facebook posts|November 2012 Facebook post]] where he liked two of their commercials. | |||
Chris has [[Chris and Money|spent hundreds of dollars]] on Skylanders merchandise, with a whopping $945 spent on Skylanders merch alone during the [[Financhu Crisis]], with a further $238 going towards [[LEGO]] Dimensions sets. | |||
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Skylanders was a toys-to-life action-adventure video game franchise published by Activision. 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 even console) with all its saved stats. The games started a fad with the "toys-to-life" genre that lasted until 2017. The main reason for this falloff was that most people realized that spending all of that money on plastic was a waste of their time and hard-earned pay. Chris was not most people.
History
While the first game was simply a reboot for Sony's Spyro the Dragon series, it did not pique Chris' curiosity, likely since he initially saw it as an "impostor" series to Pokemon. The first we see of Chris mentioning Skylanders was in a November 2012 Facebook post where he liked two of their commercials.
Chris has spent hundreds of dollars on Skylanders merchandise, with a whopping $945 spent on Skylanders merch alone during the Financhu Crisis, with a further $238 going towards LEGO Dimensions sets.