10 Facts About Skylanders

1.

Skylanders is a toys-to-life action-adventure video game series published by Activision.

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2.

Skylanders games are played by placing character figures called the Skylanders on the "Portal of Power", a device that reads the figures' tags through NFC and "imports" the character represented by the figure into the game as a playable character.

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3.

The Skylanders have an unbreakable bond with their Portal Masters.

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4.

The main plot is the Skylanders going through levels to defeat Kaos, and stop him from ruling over Skylands.

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Skylanders are able to open gates of their element, which are found throughout the game.

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6.

Together, the Swap Force and the Skylanders fight Kaos and his mother from ruining the performance of Mount Cloudbreak.

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7.

The Wii version of the game is titled Skylanders: SuperChargers Racing and does not have adventure segments from the Wii U and PS3 versions.

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8.

Series of books in the Skylanders franchise started with Skylanders: The Machine of Doom that takes place before the events of Spyro's Adventure.

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9.

Skylanders: Giants received "generally favorable" reviews on most platforms according to Metacritic; the Nintendo 3DS version received "mixed or average" reviews.

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10.

Skylanders: Imaginators received "generally favorable" reviews for most platforms according to Metacritic; the Nintendo Switch version received "mixed or average" reviews.

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