Unreallystic
Emerald Sparx
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#30031 Posted: 13:27:11 31/08/2017
So I am a grown man with a full time job and two kids. My real passion is music, I try to get it in when I can, and trying to expand across that I've slowly converted my basemennt theatre/video gaming area - into a music studio. In doing that I've displaced where most of my non-Rainbow6 Siege video gaming stuff was done and is stored - including skylanders. I decided to build/put together/cobble together - a "Toys To Life Corner" in the basement., so I moved all my skylandedrs (the kids skylanders are still elsewhere in the house right now), I moved the Disney Infinity down, I'm going to bring the Amiibos down *maybe, we have 2 Switches and working on getting a 3rd, but I've been doing the Amiibo stickers/NFC tags for Zelda and the such, so I dunno), and I will be moving the LEgo Dimensions stuff down 'sometime soon'.
All that exposition most likely isn't required, I'm just in my own thoughts - sorry - but during the moving process of the skylanders, I let me kids play with them, I had just dumped them off the display into a trash bag and sat it on the other side of the room, and they just had fun playing with the figures, especially Superchargers and Swap Force. Its made me rethink some opinions and question things.
1. For the longest time I've had almost a disdain for the VV entries in the series. Most of it was level design, some of it was character driven, feeling like people were created just for one or two moments, and didn't matter to the overall lore...both SF and SC were the bottom tier of the Skylanders franchise...yet watching my kids - and thinking of myself as well, I have to admit, from a toy perspective, they blew TfB out the water...between SAS, Giants, TT, Imaginators, the figures/gimmicks, were stagnant toys, figurines that were un-posable. But Both SF and SC had gimmicks/elemennts that made the toys fun - outside of the game. My 2 year old daughter was driving the monster truck around the room on the floor, while my son (6) was using the light spaceship (backwards) to fly around in the basement. They then ran through the bag to pull out the SF characters - as a completionist, I have all the base swaps and all the non-chase variants, and for the next half hour they just swapped figures, randomly approaching me to show what they came up with. so I HAVE to solute VV, if not for the games, for the gimmicks being useful even now, when the kids aren't playing the games.
2.I've got a ton of figures and don't know what to do with them. I have grouped everything together, and frowned as I realized I had a couple thousand most likely in figures sitting there, that had depreciated to a couple hundred, not including the boxes of figures I had that were tucked away because my display case didn't have room for the duplicates or multiple series of the same figure. I wonder what I will do with the figures in 5 years?
3. I got upset looking at my elites...I have like 8-10 of them and purchased them with hopes of using them - moving forward...yet here they are, sitting in their display boxes, used for a couple games. They look great, and I can't help but feel guilt that I'm not playing with them right now, but I have no new content to use them on.
4. I miss the series ya'll. I'm fine with them taking a year for the next entry, the market was over saturated, and I want quality over quantity, but I'm falling into a black hole of uncertainty that I'm sure all of you can identify with. My daughter is almost at the age where she can start playing, my son started helping us at 2 and playing at 3 (I still remember when we lived only a few miles from the Cary TRU, and the day a game came out, coming home with al lthe boxes and opening them with my son, it was like Xmas in...the Fall), so I'm sure I'll run the whole series back with her, but still - I miss it.
-Unreall
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