darkSpyro

I really can't wait to play with my skylander boats and subs in the bathtub, they better work after. Has anyone else ever used their skylanders during baths?

Playing with Skylanders figures in bathtubs is a terrible idea. What if the water leaks through the slightest crevices between the elemental pedestals and the translucent color bases? The water would short out the microchips that hold the memories of the Skylanders' upgrades and level.

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I really can't wait to play with my skylander boats and subs in the bathtub, they better work after. Has anyone else ever used their skylanders during baths?

I'm surprised you haven't tried doing that to your Water Skylanders.

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I really can't wait to play with my skylander boats and subs in the bathtub, they better work after. Has anyone else ever used their skylanders during baths?

I'm surprised you haven't tried doing that to your Water Skylanders.

I dunked Gill Grunt in a pool and he was fine. I'd assume these vehicles will work as well, especially since their Chip isn't near the outside.

Has anyone ever called activision and asked if skylanders are waterproof or does it say anything like that on the boxes?

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Has anyone ever called activision and asked if skylanders are waterproof or does it say anything like that on the boxes?

As I said, I soaked Gill Grunt and he still works. Heck Sky Dad froze Eye Brawl and he is fine.

Im 17 and I still like to take baths I also place some my skylanders and a amiibo in water before and they still work fine.

They work fine because the chip is INSIDE the figure! They're protected!

I just dunked Tree Rex and Wash Buckler in the water. Tree Rex actually took in some water in the figure but still worked fine. Wash Buckler on the other hand, had water seep in through the magnetic part and some got in the base. I thought for sure it was dead, but I tested it whole the water was in the base of the figure and it worked just fine. I'm currently trying to figure out how to dry the inside out.

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Quote: shadowfox

Has anyone ever called activision and asked if skylanders are waterproof or does it say anything like that on the boxes?

As I said, I soaked Gill Grunt and he still works. Heck Sky Dad froze Eye Brawl and he is fine.

He also took terrain into a fricken pool and that worked okay

I am not game to try it

One time I froze my gilll grunt in orange juice for 3 weeks...

I once made a snow globe with a stealth elf. It worked for a few days then died.

My gill grunt still works though!

One time I took my Blizzard Chill to the Himalayas, because I like playing wit them everywhere I go, ya know?

She still works, though

In the Skykids Q&A video, Lou talks about how they built these as toys in addition to just being toys to life, how they wanted kids to be able to play with them outside of the game as well. That is the reason the land vehicles have actual wheels, and the reason the vehicles don't have bases. With that said, I do find it reasonable to think the water vehicles might be sealed in such a manner to make them water resistant, if not completely waterproof. There are also several Google results for people submerging current Skylanders, and they still work after. At the very least, you can definitely really throw the sky vehicles across the room. Realism.

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I just dunked Tree Rex and Wash Buckler in the water. Tree Rex actually took in some water in the figure but still worked fine. Wash Buckler on the other hand, had water seep in through the magnetic part and some got in the base. I thought for sure it was dead, but I tested it whole the water was in the base of the figure and it worked just fine. I'm currently trying to figure out how to dry the inside out.

If you put the figures around the top (not on top, that could potentially melt them!) of a heater, the water should evaporate out of there. I remember that because there was one forum member who was in a flood, and a lot of his Skylanders were ruined by water. When he set one Skylander on a shelf next to a heater, he played with it several hours later, and voila it worked!

My younger cousin soaked his second Tree Rex in water for a long time, then it wouldn't work for a bit since there was so much water inside it. Then once all the water poured out of the base, it started working again...

Oh, and most of the dark shading washed off too.

I'd rather keep my figures dry as a bone.

so is someone here gonna do a youtube bathtub test of the next landers or what?

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so is someone here gonna do a youtube bathtub test of the next landers or what?

Maybe TheSkylanderBoyAndGirl and Skylander Dad might.

It would be a bad idea to play with a normal Skylanders figure in water, the seal between the base and the rest of it is not good enough to stop water from getting in, and I imagine the rfid tag is not sealed. That being said if you do get water in one make sure to put it in some rice overnight, rice is very good at drawing water out of things.

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It would be a bad idea to play with a normal Skylanders figure in water, the seal between the base and the rest of it is not good enough to stop water from getting in, and I imagine the rfid tag is not sealed. That being said if you do get water in one make sure to put it in some rice overnight, rice is very good at drawing water out of things.

That's exactly what I implied before.

SkylandersBoyandGirl played with skylanders in the water YEARS ago and they survived just fine. I would definitely not recommend it though, but with comments from Activision that they say "they want you to play with the toys" it would seem totally appropriate to play with water vehicles...in the water--so I hope they've nailed it--because consumers are going to do it.

All these stories about people completely soaking a Skylander, and it still works.
Meanwhile, I had my Darklight Crypt fall over into a small puddle of spilled water...boom...completely unusable now...

on the e3 hot streak the package says vehicles are not waterproof

Maybe that's just the land ones.

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on the e3 hot streak the package says vehicles are not waterproof

Where?

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Quote: shadowfox

on the e3 hot streak the package says vehicles are not waterproof

Where?

It was a listing on EBay.

Lol people still take baths

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Lol people still take baths

What I Said. I could understand someone taking it in their pool, but who takes baths anymore?

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Lol people still take baths

What I Said. I could understand someone taking it in their pool, but who takes baths anymore?

Maybe the little kids this game was aimed for?Just a thought...

Although I do want the water vehicles to be waterproof bc even though I don't take baths i would just go to the beach or a pool like you said

no vehicles are water proof

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no vehicles are water proof

when they call it a toy for kids, then people expect it to be handled by a kid. if not its not a toy but a statuette just for a game to sell dlc.

A lot of normal toy cars aren't waterproof either, so they're DLC for nothing by your logic,CMB.

these are toys that can lose a part of their functionality.... normal toy cars dont.

Can't wait to make Sky Slicer & Jet Stream really fly by throwing them off my roof.

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Can't wait to make Sky Slicer & Jet Stream really fly by throwing them off my roof.

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these are toys that can lose a part of their functionality.... normal toy cars dont.

Their functionality is being articulated or having wheels. Never they said that their gimmick is being able to be thrown around with no ill effects or dumped into water with no issue. They're there just to be played with your imagination and a bit of mobility.

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They're there just to be played with your imagination and a bit of mobility.

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Can't wait to make Sky Slicer & Jet Stream really fly by throwing them off my roof.

i rest my case....

That you're wrong? Because if they made figures sturdy enough for that and somehow marketed them as such they'd cost an arm and a leg.

well they already marked them as toys for kid more than ever now... if it cost an arm and a leg the kid dont care, they just want to play. so if the toys is not sturdy enough they will have a problem. its false advertising and there is laws against that.

Wow, you're grasping at all the possible straws. Toys for kids are not required to withstand all the elements possible because kids will eventually do something silly. You're not going to sue a company because their cheap toy car rust after being left in the water for a week or because their toy plane smashed against the ground after being thrown off a building. Skylanders figures are no different - they shouldn't be super weak because they're toys and not for display, but they shouldn't be made of Nintendium to be accepted.

These aren't being advertised like they're meant to be used in the tub. When I was a kid, I had a mermaid Barbie figure that had a light-up tail. My cousin had the same toy, but it broke because she used it in the bathtub and it wasn't waterproof. Just because it looks like it should be used in the water, and is advertised to kids, doesn't mean it actually should.

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Wow, you're grasping at all the possible straws. Toys for kids are not required to withstand all the elements possible because kids will eventually do something silly. You're not going to sue a company because their cheap toy car rust after being left in the water for a week or because their toy plane smashed against the ground after being thrown off a building. Skylanders figures are no different - they shouldn't be super weak because they're toys and not for display, but they shouldn't be made of Nintendium to be accepted.

these kids parents may see things differently than you... and i am not grasping at any possible straws. in usa people have sued companies because their coffee was to hot and other silly things.

Well, they're the silly ones in thinking toys should be invincible. And you're the one saying they're in the right.
Point is, toys are doing their purpose for being played with like toys,not how big the extent of said toy's abilities are. As Skylanders has always been about.

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these are toys that can lose a part of their functionality.... normal toy cars dont.

Normal toy cars don't... except when they're electrical.

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Quote: CountMoneyBone

these are toys that can lose a part of their functionality.... normal toy cars dont.

Normal toy cars don't... except when they're electrical.

i have read people reporting about the chip in the figurines of earlier games. that was loose and then the figurine have stopped working in the game. if the chip break because of movement then its fragile.