173: Popular YouTuber
@dantdm
voiced the Imaginator character Cy in Skylanders academy, and Stealth Elf shares a voice actor with Candace from Phineas and Ferb.
247: A well known feature of the level Glacier Gully is that flying characters are not affected by the ice floor, but a lesser known fact is that Ninjini is also unaffected because she does not have legs.
244: By far, the most common pose for any given skylander is with one arm outstretched and another held backwards at an upward angle. This is the most prominent in Spyro’s Adventure, where 14 out of the original 32 have a similar pose.
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156:According to Toys for Bob, Kaos was originally born Chaos but refuses to spell his name that way because he believes the letter C is completely useless and should be removed from the alphabet entirely.
213: The Eruptor balloon was flown at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade from 2014 to 2016. It is 36 feet tall, 50 feet long, and 36 feet wide, and it had 77 people holding it.
220: In the files of swap force and Imaginators, there is a 17th swapper skylander, simply called "template template". His attacks don't do damage at all, but he is playable and he can still swap with other swap force members given you have an RFID chip with his data.
231: Recently, the villain Chill Bill (and more so his theme song) have been blowing up as a trend on tiktok. While the song is most notable for being Chill Bill’s theme, it’s actually not originally for Skylanders, and is instead a separate song called Golden Swagger.
246: 6x NBA All-Star Amar’e Stoudemire (
@Amareisreal
) was a fan of Skylanders, appearing at the launch party for Spyro’s Adventure and talking in an interview about playing Giants with his kids.
203: the in-world timeline is unclear due to errors at the end of each game. In Trap Team, you trap Kaos, which means he is good now, but he is evil again in superchargers. At the end of the game, you defeat the Darkness which gives Kaos his powers, but they return in Imaginators
218: An odd design quirk when it comes to Skylander figure design is if the Skylander has a mouth, it’s almost always open or at least showing teeth. One example of an exception to this rule is series 1 Gill Grunt.
189: Trigger Happy was originally supposed to use the actual gold you collected as ammo, but the developers thought that it would make the character less enjoyable, so they scrapped it. (Credit:
@CrashRowsell
)
193: the RFID tags used in Skylanders that store the data on the figures have a battery in them. Those batteries last about 10 years, which means that some skylanders from Spyro’s Adventure and Giants are going to stop working if they haven’t already.
138: Spyro in Imaginators, Jotaro in the English dub of JoJo’s bizarre adventure, and Midas from fortnite all share the same voice actor: Matthew Mercer.
236: Along with being the first skylander to ever wield a sword (only technically because ignitor and chop chop released in the same wave), Chop Chop was also the first skylander to wield two swords at once in his series 3, AND he is the first skylander to attack with a shield.
225: There are many Easter variants from Skylanders: Lost Islands that never saw appearances beyond Lost Islands, such as Hoppity Pop Fizz and Rocky Egg Roll.
213: Recently, another counterfeit skylanders auction set at an outrageous price has surfaced. It is a photoshopped image of an undead base with a skeleton on it, simply titled “skelton”.
243: Disney Infinity is a 2013 toys-to-life action-adventure game published by Disney Interactive Studios. It was announced on January 15, 2013. The game used collectible figurines that were then synchronized with the game, unlocking characters from Disney and Pixar properties.
221: Since pizza exists in Skylands, that implies there was at one point a Roman Empire because a precursor to pizza was a flatbread invented in the Roman Empire.
217: Most of the music for Skylanders is composed specifically for the game, the one outlier being the song that plays when using Chill Bill in Trap Team, being the song linked below.
174: Crash Bandicoot’s English pronunciation is inconsistent throughout his appearances In Skylanders media. In Imaginators, you can barely understand his voice lines, but in Skylanders Academy, he speaks fluently in an Australian accent.
151: Basket-Brawl was a custom skylander that surfaced around late 2020-2021, and was put up for auction for around $2500 USD. It was a big joke on the r/skylanders subreddit for a while.
175: Spyro’s Adventure was originally planned to be a Wii exclusive game, but nintendo didn’t think it would make enough money, which is why there are differences between versions.
168: stump Smash’s soul gem states that he can heal while he is in water. However, since you can’t swim in any game beyond Spyro’s adventure, they tweaked it slightly so that he heals while in a Water elemental gate.
176: In Trap Team, Mags says that she holds 87 million patents. Assuming that number is correct and she got one patent a day, she was inventing things for 238,356 years and 60 days.
229: Even though the infamous Double Trouble 1.5 variant comes in the Skylanders Battlegrounds starter pack, it shows series 2 Double Trouble on the back of the box. (Credit
@Matt76403194
)
128: The CEO of Activision did actually want to make another Skylanders game, but the company no longer had the resources, being one of the main reasons they sold out to Microsoft.
144: In Spyro’s Adventure, in the Wii version, if you tell the Weapons Master no after his first mission, he may go back into his sleep mode and the story mode will have to be restarted in order to continue.
131: The creation crystal names, being lantern, angel, claw, pyramid, rocket, acorn, fanged, rune, reactor, and armor, were decided through a fan vote held by
@sclmatt
.
197: in the Vault of the Ancients level in Superchargers, the magnet gimmick is assigned colors, with blue being pull and pink being push. However, in the Lost Imaginite Mines level in Imaginators, it is swapped, with pink being pull and blue being push.
184: Currently, Superchargers is the only digitally available skylanders game. The rest were either wiped from the App Store or simply were never digitally released.
233: the PlayStation Platinum Trophy for Skylanders Swap Force is unobtainable, as the “newsworthy” trophy requires you to read the message of the day, which isn’t possible anymore.
154: Aurora‘s backstory states that she had to train with her swords under a pseudonym (that being Boss Blades McSlashinator) and wear a disguise, because Eon wouldn’t allow her to train to be a skylander.
137: Because blue is the least common color in nature, the only three Life skylanders to ever use blue in their original figure are High Five, Food Fight, and Stealth Elf.(crash bandicoot does not count)
198: One of the greatest mysteries that the developers have kept secret is Trigger Happy’s backstory. Almost every skylander has a canon backstory, but for his, it simply says, “Nobody knows from where he came” and where he was first seen.
150:Skylanders collaborated with Crayola, and made coloring books featuring some characters from that year’s game, as well as a special Starter Pack for Trap Team.
201: Skylanders Cloud Patrol was a mobile game that was published around the time Spyro’s Adventure came out, and was taken off the App Store in 2016. The game features a skylander of your choosing on a turret shooting enemies and trying not to hit the bombs.
190: Trap Team was the first game to give things that weren’t Skylanders holiday variants, with the Easter Handstand trap. This trend continued into Superchargers with the Spring Ahead Dive Bomber.
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216: In an early prototype of Skylanders Imaginators, the Sentinel class was called “Dervish”, the Bowslinger was called “Archer”, the Swashbuckler was called “Djinni”, and the Smasher was called “Barbarian”.
170 replacement: In a cutscene for Trap Team, Wolfgang almost breaks his teeth on a gold turkey leg. This is actually scientifically incorrect since gold is a very soft metal.
146: Since the Wii’s processing power is so low, and the levels in Swap Force are so long, they had to be broken up into two sections, traveling through a portal where a normal door would usually be to reach the second half of the level.
170: Double Trouble’s soul gem is almost completely useless because every game beyond SSA doesn’t have swimming, and you get a water skylander in the starter pack anyway.
114: Although Skylanders: Imaginators for Nintendo Switch is the only skylanders game to not use a portal, it was never released digitally on the Nintendo eShop.
141: In the Rainfish Riviera level in Trap Team, you can only find oranges to regain health because Vitamin C is effective against sea sickness. (Credit:
@vizzozer
)
135: Fundamentally, the dark edition starter packs for Imaginators and trap team have the same things: three dark characters and three crystals, although the crystals are for different things.