It was pitched as the reinvention of toys, but it turned out even that was an understatement.
Since its 2011 debut, Skylanders has become a multi-billion-dollar franchise with literally hundreds of merchandising deals. While Skylanders didn’t invent the toys-to-life genre — games that use physical toys to load characters and levels into a video game — it did popularize it and kick off a broader interest in the style of gaming.
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