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[[File:Cwc skylanders 9.jpeg|thumb|right|Chris' TRUE and HONEST Skylander figure.]]
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Chris' TRUE and HONEST Skylander figure.

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 (a similar toys-to-life game, but with the added function of building the playable figures out of LEGO bricks).