darkSpyro

I hate to say this, but it is time. I'm done. I'm just so into other stuff now that I can't focus on this. I will keep some figures, but I'm selling 50 at GameStop, and if I don't get Trap Team for Christmas, so be it. I really hate doing this, but I will be more free for buying options. :,( I'll keep both games and read the comics, but behind all that I'm sort of done. Live long and Prosper, Portal Masters.

I'm sorry. I don't know what to say. I personally don't know why you feel this way but I hope you have fun playing what ever you want to play now. Goodbye portal master

: WHY
: ARE
: YOU
: DOING
: THIS

: YES !!! ONE LESS PORTAL MASTER !!!

Iganagor: Seeya Portal Master

Sure is tough times. I can tell you that.

'Til all are one fellow Portalmaster! Oh wait, wrong franchise....

there is always next year for skylanders5 done by vv.....

Thats okay, i'm thinking about selling alot of my Skylanders too.

You will always be a great portal master ! Enjoy anything you do after skylanders. Goodbye fellow " compadre "

I gave almost all of my Skylanders, both of my games, my portals, and my strategy guides to my friend's kids and I don't regret it. The series was fun for awhile and it's still enjoyable to watch other people get excited. But, at the end of the day, it's just plastic and a game series designed and meant for a younger audience. Nothing wrong with that and nothing wrong with making the choice to spend your time/money on things you like more. :)

As much as I criticize, I doubt I'll sell my "raw" collection. I sense the endgame is in sight if they rinse and repeat performance of this game. I just get a feeling sales are going to be sliding on this one.

Eh. Folks have been saying that since Giants and I doubt it's really true. Skylanders has a long franchise life ahead of it, I don't doubt. Folks like us not being a part of it any more doesn't decide the entire franchise's fate.

What makes "folks like us" less important if it's a micro-chasm of an overall decisive trend? One or two fanatics a trend does not make, I agree, but there could be overall trends seen here that could speak to overall market conditions for the franchise.

The bottom line is the bottom line. We'll know soon enough.

Mostly because "folks like us" aren't the target demographic and never were. We're not being courted or marketed to. Little kids still adore this franchise and their parents are still buying it for them.

I should say, too, that it's day one of Trap Team being released. As far as I can tell, it's successful so far. Just like Swap Force was last year when everyone was saying the exact same thing. And Giants before that. I just personally find it ridiculous that people will prophecy doom on an obviously successful franchise based solely on their personal disinterest in it. Like I said already, Skylanders is probably going to continue for quite some time, especially now that it's fully branched out into books and comics and there's a potential tv show/film in the works AND two game studios on board. $2+ billion says even if TT was a total dud in sales (which it isn't), this franchise has at least five more years left at its current pace.

I really don't think the trend of older fans on a dedicated forum deciding they're bored after a few years is saying anything about the overall market for this franchise. Nobody on dS is the target audience for Skylanders (unless somebody's parents are really inattentive). They threw some Eon's Elites at older collectors to see if it would stick, but the big push for this whole franchise is still aiming at kids too young to even register on this site.

How sad. I still have a lot of passion in this series. Even if it isn't all the way for me, there's always a little spark for me. My boyfriend didn't want to get involved in Trap Team, but now that we have a few figures and will buy the game in November, he is fully on board.

See how you feel in a year . There should a a clearance sale on the TT Starter . No need to rush .