I was the Game Director for four different Disney Infinity playsets: (Lone Ranger, Avengers, Inside Out, and Finding Dory) and I very much appreciate this video. One additional fun fact about Disney Infinty is that after Avalanche was closed by Disney, it was later reopened under WB's management. The development team then went on to create Hogwarts Legacy. So, kind of a happy ending after all. :)
Hello were there ever any plans for ms marvel (kamala khan) and miles morales to be in Disney infinity? since Nova is in the game, it would’ve been so cool that the legacy trio from champions team were there.
I always felt that Disney should have pivoted away from the "Toys-to-life" model, since it was dying and focused more on the content generation aspect of the game, moving to digital versions of the various assets just to keep the "Toys" model going if that is what was needed to keep the suits happy. I even tracked down James Pitaro and tried to convince him to consider doing that, and moving in the direction that Roblox was going. I basically was told to "eff off". The irony here is now disney is buying into Epic and Fortnite and are basically planning on remaking Disney Infinity with and focus as a content creation engine. Spending 10 times the money they could have saved, and have owned the company outright producing it and have BEEN doing it these last 7 years. Such a shame.
I think the biggest issue was the fact they keep releasing a new Disney infinite game every year. I stopped playing cause my parents kept complaining about how they had to spend money to get figures. And being a kid who had no money I ended up stop playing.
I used to play this game every day. I still have like 30 huge plastic bins all filled with characters. I even got a super rare Peter Pan figure off eBay.
Very rare figure like the 3.0 kindom Mickey. Power disk. Although Peter Pan. Figure doesn't work in the console. But is playable in the. Pc. Game. 2.0 on PlayStation 4and 5 still has multiplayer and 3.0 on ps4 and 5 still have coop via sharplay
I remember the day the game franchise got canceled. It sucked because it was me and my younger brother’s favorite game to play together but there was a bright side. I was working a part time job and couldn’t afford the (from what I remember) 11-13 dollar price for each character but when the game got canceled a week or so later the finding dory world came out and I thought I’d get it for my brother and it was 7 dollars and better yet the single characters were like 3 bucks. I grabbed like 10 of them and the smile on his face seeing them all. We played for hrs and the game didn’t die in our house for like 2yrs after the game series died. We had almost every character by the end because they dropped to like 2 bucks on game stop and every check id let him pick 10( i mean like 20 bucks a week is worth happiness) just to see his giant smile. This game will forever be part of my heart
I had a similar experience, but with my father! me and my little brother continued to play the game after its cancellation and my dad would always come home with a new disney infinity character every day because of how the prices had dropped
I just want add that after canceling the franchise they release each game in gold edition that allow players to play the games like if they had the all collections for a very decent price. It is rare in this industry to have a such nice good bye gift that allow us to still play the game with out limitation due to the dead of the project.
Disney infinity definitely suffered the most coz all of the online content was shut down which is half of the game,Lego dimensions and Skylanders are still fully playable
@@adambarnes49 it would have been so cool if we had the chance to go back and check our creativity as a kid. I would be so hype to see what small me would create. I remember making slide maps with groot on a shared PC with my brother. Good days
@@OvalCreations it's a shame coz I was too late,for whatever reason I never played Disney infinity when it first came out so I never got the chance to play with other people
Honestly I think they care more about their games nowadays than they do the movies and TV shows they’re putting out. Everybody knows that when there’s a new Star Wars thing there is a 98% chance it’s gonna suck. But look at how everybody reacted when they casually decided that Marvel versus Capcom deserves to live again. The entire gaming community was ecstatic. If you get people more excited for 20-year-old fighting games than you do for your newest big budget TV series, I think it’s fair to assume the gaming division gets more love.
im surprised people still remember this game. i remember wanting the game so bad when it came out, i never did play the game but i watched so many videos of people playing it on youtube back in the day
0:30 fun fact actually, they built Disney Infinity using the previous engine from their older games such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, but more interestingly, used the already existing Toy Story 3 game as a base to build on top of. There are many leftovers from that game in the files and some similarities between the two such as in the character movesets.
I never played the toy story 3 game , i wonder what that game was like. But a game built on an older game reminds me of gmod and thats exactly the feeling u had when you saw half life items inside of gmod
Man, this game was my childhood, I remember in 2014 my dad bought me Disney Infinity 1.0 for the Wii. 2 years later got a ps4 and also got 3.0. Such good times.
Who here besides me and my wife that played Infinity was able to eventually buy all the figures and playsets on clearance as the game shut down and Toys R Us was closing at the same time? Even better, who found and bought the Peter Pan figures when they were found in a box in China? We now have two walls full of Infinity figures on display and the grandkids still love to play with them.
Yep. All the profit of micro-transactions without the operating costs of making the game themselves. The Fall Guys and Fortnite skins are cute, but I still miss the physical aspect of the figurines.
You said itself, the market got spread too thin once Lego dimensions added a third option to invest in. Just one of the series is a considerable price to get into, so there was a small market already. The more toys to life options came up, the less customers each one got.
As someone who never played this game, I'm sad that they didn't try dropping the physical aspect and just start treating it like a normal game with DLC & Expansion Packs. Yeah that sounds dumb when the whole point was buying figures to use as characters but fans were very vocal about the game aspect of Disney Infinity which meant there was still a market they could sell to. The game itself wasn't failing, it was a change in the market regarding physical figures rendering the production side a loss, so if you cut that part out then you just have to focus on selling the game. It probably would've still failed as kids & parents get confused on if they need to buy the physical figures or not but at least 4.0 could've had a chance to release as well as give the game a chance to make a profit again.
I remembered getting Disney Infinity 2.0 game along with the Wii U in 2015 Christmas. And Man, I Enjoyed Playing The Avengers Playset & Completing The Spider-Man Playset With My Younger Brother. Then, months later, in April 2016, we got Disney Infinity 3.0 Starter Pack along with getting both the Darth Vader & Symbiote Spider-Man Figures, then we soon got the Marvel Battlegrounds set and the rise aganist the empire starter pack, and me and my brother enjoyed it a lot. With me and my brother, Completing the Star Wars playsets, Playing Marvel Battlegrounds, & making toy box worlds were My brother will play Anakin Skywalker & Me playing Spider-Man. When I heard that the news in May of 2016 that they're canceling Disney Infinity, just imagine how much that breaks my heart, knowing that they won't be able to produce more Disney, Pixar, Marvel, & Star Wars characters. But even then, I still enjoyed this game. Too bad most of the Marvel & Star Wars figures I have were lost. But then again, 2015-Early 2017 memories of this game.
I started buying this for my youngest when he was 2, just to get him into gaming as he grew up. Once he could play, we played this together all the time. Both Story and Toybox. I used to go to Downtown Disney damn near every weekend to get new released characters. I still have all the discs and multiple carrying cases full of the physical character statutes.
Toys to Life is always kind of a crappy system... Its basically if you took a normal game, but made EVERY CHARACTER a buyable DLC instead of regular unlockables.
The toys to life era was awesome. Now that I’m older I do realize how it all was literally just a big cash grab in a way but it was still so fun. I still have my skylanders and Disney infinity figures and I’ll probably just keep em bc they just look so cool.
Man I used the play the first one with my old best friend all the time. I lost touch with her but this video really brings back my memories with her. We played the Toy Story level so much I don’t even remember playing any of the other ones.
What killed disney infinity was the fact that they marketed the sequels as just updates for the previous ones, giving people the impression that they could just buy a previous edition that was being sold for cheaper, and then update it to the newer one. That's what happened to us, and i still feel like we've been scammed.
I really wish that Skylanders and Lego Dimensions could get a release in the same vein as the Steam release of Disney Infinity. If you buy Disney Infinity on Steam today, you can get all 3 games with all the content released for them(minus a small chunk of Disney Infinity 3.0, I think anything released after The Force Awakens playset, but that is still a ton of content imo) and from a preservation standpoint, that is GENUIS!! I mean if you wanna revisit Skylanders with all of its content, you have to have a console it was on, the portal for that game, and the figures for that game. If you want to play LEGO Dimensions you need to do the same AND pray the NFC tags still work because a lot of mine from my childhood just don’t work anymore. It’s nice that Disney Infinity is pretty much entirely archived if you have a Steam account
@Darren-lb3rx age just a number man , I was making this video and kinda enjoyed playing it. Get the steam version of it and chillax on it whenever and enjoy living with the characters you grew up with.
They should’ve had more characters if they weren’t so thoughtless. Including Zurg Bo peep Frozone Flik Hopper Roger rabbit Jessica rabbit Yokai Gogo Fredzilla Honey lemon Wasabi Dr facilier Naveen Tiana Darkwing Duck Goliath Gadget hachwrench Beast Gaston Peter Pan Captain Hook Hercules Hades Jafar
Yeah imma say it now Disney infinity walked so their new endeavour could run. My thinking is they were testing out something they have been planning for years and just wanted accurate figures to make sure that their final product meets the conditions THEY set for it.
I adored this game, my sister and I played it so much. We were so sad when one day we realized they weren’t releasing anything else and were shutting things down.
I still play this game and it was my favourite when I was younger. I remember trying to go into the arcade in the toy box hub but it didn’t work, at first I thought it was a glitch but when I went on Google I saw something about the game shutting down and that’s how I found out. I still introduce younger family members to it and they kind of like it. I wish they would have at least released 4.0 before the cancellation it sounded like it was going to be really good.
No one seems to talk about the compatibility aspect of these games. If you join the game (Infinity/Skylanders or Dimensions) after a few years, you have to do so much research about which characters work with which game. It may seem obvious that 3.0 characters don't work with 1.0, but it is hard to keep track of all of that if you join in year 2 or 3 rather than from the beginning. If the shop/online shop doesn't list each characters edition then you can easily buy the wrong product. I think Toys to LIfe could work if the developers promise to patch in new characters to old games, so that you can buy whatever you want and not have to worry about wasting your money on incompatible products.
I was addicted to this game from late 2014 until mid 2017 and then I still played on and off until late 2019. I remember I was 11 when the I found out the game was going to be cancelled. I was so distraught, I am so happy that I was able to experience the game at its peak. I only look back with fond memories.
I have all infinity games, my favorite one was the 3.0, I just loved the star wars section and the inside out one too u know what I loved everything about it, it makes me so sad that those days will never come back but i had so much fun playing it with my brother and getting new characters on Christmas, it was so amazing.
Honestly an amazing video. Made me remember just how much I loved this game. Never knew they were already working on the 4th that makes me so sad to know what we could have had :(
This is one of the games that me and my brother mostly played past the years and we played again a couple of months ago and I will always cherish those memories
Dude I remember playing the Toybox version with my brother. We were always doing this fun thing where we used the deleting block using the wand and basically try and stay alive as long as before and not fall off the castle. Man, the memories.
Dude I loved this game I wouldn’t play any of the real story mode missions I would literally just fuck around with my sister on the game and go to random locations but I remember we did this one Star Wars mission and we could never beat it😂
I was in the toy box all the time and played those games where it had the dispenser and different capsules did different things like change the background or add enemies and characters Sadly the toy box hub doesn’t change backgrounds when you enter the different sections like it used to like brave to star wars to nightmare before Christmas Sad that since the online feature isn’t there anymore they got rid of the trivia in the INterior Favorite part was always throwing the little npcs off the map and watch them go down in a little parachute 😭
This game was my absolute favourite. me and my sister used to play it everyday. We played all three instalments of the game. I still keep the box with all the characters and game modes.
I got 1.0 for my bday and luckily school was close that day so I was at my granny’s house playing it. I know I got 2.0 a year late for Christmas since my uncle bought me and my cousin the bundle ps3 with it. I enjoyed it so much. I didn’t know there was a problem playing different characters in story worlds so that’s new information for me.
Aw man, I remembered always wanting to play Disney infinity when the first game came out but I didn’t have a console to play it on (well other than my 3ds but I heard that version was not as good LOL), that was until quite a few years later when someone gave me their old xbox 360. Disney infinity 3.0 was one of the first games I bought for it. It really was one of those games that got me into gaming, and I still have the game and a lot of the Star Wars figures now. Thanks for making this video, it’s really nice to hear people still talk about these games
My childhood was built off this game. I even joined a playstation Disney Infinity group that had hundreds of active members that still enjoyed the game.
I would have loved this had Skylanders not already gotten their money siphon on me back then. Toys to Life is one of my favorite genres but oh so costly.
@kolonarulez5222 I think this attracted me way more than skylander simply because as a kid you always wanted to play as the superheros or characters you saw on TV and this was like I was living in that universe
This show in general was absolutely incredible! Honestly as a kid this show was the thing that actually got me into Marvel as a whole! Absolutely loved your coverage on this shows take on Cap and I hope you do more content on the show😄
I remember how my sister and I spent half the time playing with the figures themselves, not even the game (we still played the game a lot too) but it was good fun!
I used to play this game all the time i have so much plastic bins with characters just like the guy in the top comment, heck i even have the phineas and ferb ones, this is so nostalgic to think about. I think I am going to go and play some disney infinity
I stil play it now, i have a massive box full of nearly all the characters. I started playing it after i got it for Christmas in 2015. Idk but i wanted it after asking my mum for it after seeing it advertised on a dvd. I got 3.0 and i never stopped playing throughout my childhood, now near the end, i still wont let it go its so nostalgic and theres something nice about how simple it is and how much fun i had
i miss the times when my dad would get me minifigures every time i got good grades, I also miss the times when I was in school and all i would just think is building a new race track in the toybox
Skylanders was no competitor to Disney Infinity, Disney Infinity was a competitor to Skylanders and Skylanders won by a long shot. Skylanders was always the top dog!
No matter how bad a company in the same genre as you is performing, a smaller or a larger business is always your competitor. That's why monopolies are quick to shut down smaller business and keep higher barriers to entry , any smaller or worse performing business can take over in the long term
@OvalCreations True but I do have to disagree with your statements in the video stating that it was disney infinity who popularised the toys to life genre. It was very much Skylanders who made the toys to life genre a mainstream thing and only after their success did competitors like disney infinity and lego dimensions pop up
I don’t play no video games, I’ve always just been one to watch my friends play it. However I would always get the figurines cause they looked fricking sick! Glad you made this video so I could learn more about this. God bless!!!
I remember getting 1.0 for Christmas back when it was new that year we had a big blackout though so I wasn’t able to play it until the power came back on I also got 2.0 and 3.0 in the years that followed
@@OvalCreations they are stored away in a cupboard under my tv still in relatively good condition I have quite a lot of them I remember playing a lot of the incredibles and pirates of the Caribbean mode though with the latter I was unable to progress after a certain point because my game was softlocked I also remember exploring around the monsters university world I also remember seeing a mobile port of I think 2.0 that had a normal character select screen rather than the toys to life gimmick overall though I think this game is one of the reasons why I got so interested in making map design in video games
I remember when I was younger and watching the commercials. I thought it was kind of like gmod, but officially Disney where you could do literally whatever you wanted in an open world sandbox. Boy, my expectations were incredibly high. But to be fair, they did hype it up HARD in the commercials back then.
2:14 lol i love how nobody played this and the content creator showed are just fans of the far superior competitor (skylanders) that waned to see the other game, and since they arn't credited (at least i didn't saw it and if it is at the end sorry for saying that bc i didn't wached the video fully) the 2 that i know are mikenoid and theskylandersboysandgirls (this is skydad and one of his sons)
@machincort this video is not edited by me , it's my editors so I never got to see where he got the videos from hence why it's not credited. And I already apologized for not crediting and that from next video forth I will be doing so.
I remember really wanting to play the game as a kid, i watched every single gameplay video back then and was absolutely waiting to get a console just to play the game lol It's cancellation did emotionally hit me hard back then, i really hoped to be able to create amazing things like my favorite UA-camrs used to do back then.
I think that requires people to enjoy your content and not only that enjoy your catalog of content youve made aswell as future content so far im not seeing anything special just sounds like your reading a wiki page
Like i could just read the wiki my self and be over and done with the topic in a minute but because of your video i gotta keep fast forwarding and skipping ahead
@ultimate_pleb it's almost sadly not their fault , they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. The world quickly shifted to digitalized items so quick because of fortnite and the battle pass system that's Disney couldn't possibly keep up. If they did , they probably had to revamp the whole toys to life genre or put out a completely different game which is fully digital and shut down Disney infinity
Since its launch, the game accompanied me during the Wii U era. My brother and I originally agreed to only collect two figurines per Playset (albeit Lone Ranger only had two characters) and it was like that until we traveled to Orlando, when the game became my obsession. We both were into Skylanders back in the day as well, so our money went off our savings when we saw the characters we wanted. Except, I, with Disney Infinity... kind of became a perfectionist, and proposed to collect all the Playset figures I could. I never completed the Incredibles playset, the three Marvel ones (four if the one from 3.0 is included), or Rise Against the Empire (never got Han Solo), but I still put a lot of money into the franchise. I felt I threw away all of the money spent when I learned the franchise got cancelled before 2017; thus, would never find its way to Switch (albeit Skylanders Imaginators had a port in there and the figures worked by scanning them on the controllers' points, much like amiibo; right JoyCon and Switch logo in the Pro Controller). By 2023, I got rid of the figures I had preserved, because they would never find use ever again, and I no longer felt anything about them; not even a speck of melancholy, considering one of the characters I held onto was Sadness. Despite everything, I still wonder what could've been of the game to this date, now that we have more films/universes and extended franchises; I can't stop imagining Coco, Encanto, Luca, or the new emotions from Inside Out 2, in the Disney Infinity style. (But now that Disney owns more companies, it would've probably been a bigger mess.) One thing I'll never understand is how and why Tonto was my go-to character for most, if not all, my Toy Box adventures. I never saw the film, nor did I see the original Lone Ranger show, so I didn't (still don't) have context of the character. What could have been in him that wasn't in the characters I know about...?
I was the Game Director for four different Disney Infinity playsets: (Lone Ranger, Avengers, Inside Out, and Finding Dory) and I very much appreciate this video.
One additional fun fact about Disney Infinty is that after Avalanche was closed by Disney, it was later reopened under WB's management. The development team then went on to create Hogwarts Legacy. So, kind of a happy ending after all. :)
Glad to have you here sir. Avalanche gave the gaming community absolute gems. Thank you for your service
On the one hand I’m sad Disney closed Avalanche down but on the other without it we wouldn’t have gotten Hogwarts Legacy so…
Pog
Hello were there ever any plans for ms marvel (kamala khan) and miles morales to be in Disney infinity? since Nova is in the game, it would’ve been so cool that the legacy trio from champions team were there.
I always felt that Disney should have pivoted away from the "Toys-to-life" model, since it was dying and focused more on the content generation aspect of the game, moving to digital versions of the various assets just to keep the "Toys" model going if that is what was needed to keep the suits happy. I even tracked down James Pitaro and tried to convince him to consider doing that, and moving in the direction that Roblox was going. I basically was told to "eff off".
The irony here is now disney is buying into Epic and Fortnite and are basically planning on remaking Disney Infinity with and focus as a content creation engine. Spending 10 times the money they could have saved, and have owned the company outright producing it and have BEEN doing it these last 7 years. Such a shame.
I think the biggest issue was the fact they keep releasing a new Disney infinite game every year. I stopped playing cause my parents kept complaining about how they had to spend money to get figures. And being a kid who had no money I ended up stop playing.
they didnt balance the costs of playing the game very well
Same
Disney Infinity basically was a Battle Pass before the time of Battle Passes. XD
@@kordencaden5560 that's a really good way to put it lol
Your parents really couldn't afford to get you 1 game a year?
I used to play this game every day. I still have like 30 huge plastic bins all filled with characters. I even got a super rare Peter Pan figure off eBay.
What do you plan on doing with them? They prolly serve as an occasional memory trip
@@OvalCreations Nothing. I will keep them until I die. I love those things.
@JackTrahanOfficial fair enough, I would probably do the same too 😭
You should probably display them!
Very rare figure like the 3.0 kindom Mickey. Power disk. Although Peter Pan. Figure doesn't work in the console. But is playable in the. Pc. Game. 2.0 on PlayStation 4and 5 still has multiplayer and 3.0 on ps4 and 5 still have coop via sharplay
I remember the day the game franchise got canceled. It sucked because it was me and my younger brother’s favorite game to play together but there was a bright side. I was working a part time job and couldn’t afford the (from what I remember) 11-13 dollar price for each character but when the game got canceled a week or so later the finding dory world came out and I thought I’d get it for my brother and it was 7 dollars and better yet the single characters were like 3 bucks. I grabbed like 10 of them and the smile on his face seeing them all. We played for hrs and the game didn’t die in our house for like 2yrs after the game series died. We had almost every character by the end because they dropped to like 2 bucks on game stop and every check id let him pick 10( i mean like 20 bucks a week is worth happiness) just to see his giant smile. This game will forever be part of my heart
this is the most wholesome story ive read , omg
I had a similar experience, but with my father! me and my little brother continued to play the game after its cancellation and my dad would always come home with a new disney infinity character every day because of how the prices had dropped
Aawwww thats so awesome 😢.....makes me wanna cry
I hope your brother truly understands and values the fact that he has an amazing big brother
I remember playing it and it was janky as hell- and thinking it was a skylanders rip off
Every day I mourn Disney Infinity 4.0.
We could have had greatness
me too..
@OvalCreations skylanders is better and superior than disney infinity
@@jjohnson2445In your opinion.
@@jjohnson2445the online games Disney shut down to fund Disney infinity were better
I just want add that after canceling the franchise they release each game in gold edition that allow players to play the games like if they had the all collections for a very decent price.
It is rare in this industry to have a such nice good bye gift that allow us to still play the game with out limitation due to the dead of the project.
i should have mentioned that for sure
But some characters and playsets are not there
Is this still possible to get?
@@Acrobaticmatt yes its on steam
Disney infinity definitely suffered the most coz all of the online content was shut down which is half of the game,Lego dimensions and Skylanders are still fully playable
i miss the maps i made with my brothers when i was young :( wish i could get a chance to play them again
@@OvalCreations Same,you can still create maps you just can't upload and share them
@@adambarnes49 it would have been so cool if we had the chance to go back and check our creativity as a kid. I would be so hype to see what small me would create. I remember making slide maps with groot on a shared PC with my brother. Good days
@@OvalCreations it's a shame coz I was too late,for whatever reason I never played Disney infinity when it first came out so I never got the chance to play with other people
@@adambarnes49 defo missed on the golden age of the game
Ah Disney Infinity… back when Disney cared about their games.
peak disney
Well the reason why they made this was because sky lander,
they shut down so many good games in order to make infinity, tbh I don’t think they cared much even then
@@gizmonovackTo which Disney Infinity became the better Skylanders game.
Honestly I think they care more about their games nowadays than they do the movies and TV shows they’re putting out. Everybody knows that when there’s a new Star Wars thing there is a 98% chance it’s gonna suck. But look at how everybody reacted when they casually decided that Marvel versus Capcom deserves to live again. The entire gaming community was ecstatic. If you get people more excited for 20-year-old fighting games than you do for your newest big budget TV series, I think it’s fair to assume the gaming division gets more love.
im surprised people still remember this game. i remember wanting the game so bad when it came out, i never did play the game but i watched so many videos of people playing it on youtube back in the day
@burundianfamily2982 the good old days when we couldn't buy a game so we watched hours of gameplay walk through 😭
Same 😂
Sameee like Evan tube hd
I had the money to play it but we didn’t have a lot of characters
Me and my brother would play it almost everyday, still one of my favorite games. Hoping it goes on sale on steam soon…
I miss this game. Nostalgia hits different 😢
I missed it sm i made a video
@@OvalCreations it Makes me so sad they cancelled it
Fr it is so beautiful
@OvalCreations Fortnite is the next Disney infinity but not just for disney for more then that.
@@MlikGood Disney infinity 3.5
0:30 fun fact actually, they built Disney Infinity using the previous engine from their older games such as Toy Story 3 and Cars 2, but more interestingly, used the already existing Toy Story 3 game as a base to build on top of. There are many leftovers from that game in the files and some similarities between the two such as in the character movesets.
I never played the toy story 3 game , i wonder what that game was like. But a game built on an older game reminds me of gmod and thats exactly the feeling u had when you saw half life items inside of gmod
@@OvalCreationsI played it on my ps3 when I was younger and the game was fun don’t remember much of it though really forgetful game.
@@JimmyJomas one of those games you get a glimpse of in a random time on a random day
as someone who's played both i definitely noticed this
Man, this game was my childhood, I remember in 2014 my dad bought me Disney Infinity 1.0 for the Wii. 2 years later got a ps4 and also got 3.0. Such good times.
good ol memories
as a kid choosing between dimensions, disney infinity, and skylanders was tough
What did you choose tho
Yeah bro what did you choose
don’t dodge the question.
@@svnnci disney infinity and dimensions since i had both my birthday and christmas to get them as a child
I was able to bad all three over the years. Disney Infinity was always my favorite though, and Skylanders my least favorite.
Who here besides me and my wife that played Infinity was able to eventually buy all the figures and playsets on clearance as the game shut down and Toys R Us was closing at the same time? Even better, who found and bought the Peter Pan figures when they were found in a box in China? We now have two walls full of Infinity figures on display and the grandkids still love to play with them.
this is so wholesome
Disney Infinity may have died out, but Disney is trying to recreate it again. Not through themselves though, but through Epic Games.
they need to make it so you can use all the characters in every story
@@mattcary8075true I was disappointed when I couldnt cheat pirates of the Caribbean by using obi wan kenobi
What is the new project called?
Yep. All the profit of micro-transactions without the operating costs of making the game themselves. The Fall Guys and Fortnite skins are cute, but I still miss the physical aspect of the figurines.
@@PursuantMusic87u a tumor
You said itself, the market got spread too thin once Lego dimensions added a third option to invest in. Just one of the series is a considerable price to get into, so there was a small market already. The more toys to life options came up, the less customers each one got.
@@theheroneededwillette6964 there will only so many kids who wanted to play and even less parents who wanted to pay
So many memories 😭😭 I remember being Yoda and having a paintball gun and somehow I went invisible, good times
@@HELLO-AGAIN-h8c paintball gun mode was so fun
bro the pirates of the carribean one brings back so much memories it was like sea of thieves back then
As someone who never played this game, I'm sad that they didn't try dropping the physical aspect and just start treating it like a normal game with DLC & Expansion Packs.
Yeah that sounds dumb when the whole point was buying figures to use as characters but fans were very vocal about the game aspect of Disney Infinity which meant there was still a market they could sell to.
The game itself wasn't failing, it was a change in the market regarding physical figures rendering the production side a loss, so if you cut that part out then you just have to focus on selling the game. It probably would've still failed as kids & parents get confused on if they need to buy the physical figures or not but at least 4.0 could've had a chance to release as well as give the game a chance to make a profit again.
I still don't get why they didnt choose to do this. It seems so logical to do so
they did with steam version
I remembered getting Disney Infinity 2.0 game along with the Wii U in 2015 Christmas. And Man, I Enjoyed Playing The Avengers Playset & Completing The Spider-Man Playset With My Younger Brother. Then, months later, in April 2016, we got Disney Infinity 3.0 Starter Pack along with getting both the Darth Vader & Symbiote Spider-Man Figures, then we soon got the Marvel Battlegrounds set and the rise aganist the empire starter pack, and me and my brother enjoyed it a lot. With me and my brother, Completing the Star Wars playsets, Playing Marvel Battlegrounds, & making toy box worlds were My brother will play Anakin Skywalker & Me playing Spider-Man. When I heard that the news in May of 2016 that they're canceling Disney Infinity, just imagine how much that breaks my heart, knowing that they won't be able to produce more Disney, Pixar, Marvel, & Star Wars characters. But even then, I still enjoyed this game. Too bad most of the Marvel & Star Wars figures I have were lost. But then again, 2015-Early 2017 memories of this game.
@@spideyfan6441 the memories I made with my brother on Disney infinity were so pure. I wish I could go back to the maps we once made together
@@OvalCreations Same
My favourite video game of all time. They should have released 4.0 and said it was the last one and at least let us fans still play online.
@@ivanodosreis4921 we never got greatness
I wish they would’ve let you use different characters in other play sets I think if that was possible it may have lasted longer
Agreed
Man i had this game for the WiiU and it was a blast. I remember going into the Walmart and there being a whole section dedicated to Disney infinity
oh man that would be the dream as a kid
I started buying this for my youngest when he was 2, just to get him into gaming as he grew up. Once he could play, we played this together all the time. Both Story and Toybox.
I used to go to Downtown Disney damn near every weekend to get new released characters. I still have all the discs and multiple carrying cases full of the physical character statutes.
@squishymcsquisherson that is the most wholesome story ever. Do you still have the collection ?
Turns out "disney infinity" was in fact, not infinite.
you can say they went beyond ;)
Legendary Video, I used to play this game so much like 7 years ago
My childhood was growing up playing this and roblox with my brother. So much nostalgia and memories with it
Toys to Life is always kind of a crappy system... Its basically if you took a normal game, but made EVERY CHARACTER a buyable DLC instead of regular unlockables.
@@lasercraft32 yeah that's an accurate way to put it
This game is so nostalgic this was the one of the first videos games I ever played
the introduction to the gaming world
Ah the perfect storm.
I remember seeing this happening and being reminded of the rise and fall of Guitar Hero.
4:22 OH MY GOD THATS ME!!! Thanks for including me and my collection!!!
you are the goat ! im so sorry for not crediting all the people i used. I totally forgot and lost track. But im so happy you came across this!
0:18 "HEY ALL"
Scott here
at least epic mickey is still getting a reboot
I recently bought 3.0 Gold Edition on Steam, and this game still holds up to this day.
yessir its very fun
The toys to life era was awesome.
Now that I’m older I do realize how it all was literally just a big cash grab in a way but it was still so fun. I still have my skylanders and Disney infinity figures and I’ll probably just keep em bc they just look so cool.
dope collection
i just remember being incredibly lost in the lobby just walking around as darth vader
Man I used the play the first one with my old best friend all the time. I lost touch with her but this video really brings back my memories with her. We played the Toy Story level so much I don’t even remember playing any of the other ones.
This game serves like a memory trip for everyone
What killed disney infinity was the fact that they marketed the sequels as just updates for the previous ones, giving people the impression that they could just buy a previous edition that was being sold for cheaper, and then update it to the newer one. That's what happened to us, and i still feel like we've been scammed.
I really wish that Skylanders and Lego Dimensions could get a release in the same vein as the Steam release of Disney Infinity. If you buy Disney Infinity on Steam today, you can get all 3 games with all the content released for them(minus a small chunk of Disney Infinity 3.0, I think anything released after The Force Awakens playset, but that is still a ton of content imo) and from a preservation standpoint, that is GENUIS!!
I mean if you wanna revisit Skylanders with all of its content, you have to have a console it was on, the portal for that game, and the figures for that game. If you want to play LEGO Dimensions you need to do the same AND pray the NFC tags still work because a lot of mine from my childhood just don’t work anymore. It’s nice that Disney Infinity is pretty much entirely archived if you have a Steam account
A lot of skylander fans here
This was the kind of game I wanted to play when I was younger, but am now 21 and can’t play them, it makes me sad
@Darren-lb3rx age just a number man , I was making this video and kinda enjoyed playing it. Get the steam version of it and chillax on it whenever and enjoy living with the characters you grew up with.
Thanks for giving us modder a shoutout id suggest heading to Nexus mods and giving modding a shot on PC we have made some cool stuff
@@JohnLogostini pinning this for people interested
@@OvalCreationswheres the pin?
@1thedanfan949 the dev commented , I had to pin his later on , this comment was pinned for quite a while
I used to be addicted to this game 😂. I also still have a bin of the characters and items, and the thing you put the characters on to scan them in.
Disney Infinite had so much potential. If it wasn’t discontinued it would still be a huge thing.
good game to be addicted to as a kid rather than whats on the market now
They should’ve had more characters if they weren’t so thoughtless.
Including
Zurg
Bo peep
Frozone
Flik
Hopper
Roger rabbit
Jessica rabbit
Yokai
Gogo
Fredzilla
Honey lemon
Wasabi
Dr facilier
Naveen
Tiana
Darkwing Duck
Goliath
Gadget hachwrench
Beast
Gaston
Peter Pan
Captain Hook
Hercules
Hades
Jafar
@disneyknightspadilla1406 individual stories of all these characters would be so cool. I would defo plays Hercules so much
peter pan definitely existed
Yeah imma say it now Disney infinity walked so their new endeavour could run.
My thinking is they were testing out something they have been planning for years and just wanted accurate figures to make sure that their final product meets the conditions THEY set for it.
I adored this game, my sister and I played it so much. We were so sad when one day we realized they weren’t releasing anything else and were shutting things down.
I didnt expect them to shutdown at alll
11:02 Skylanders popularized the genre.
Would you say it's debatable or a fact?
@@OvalCreations I’d say fact since it was the first to get really popular, Disney just jumped on the Trend Early on.
Dang I guess I missed that part on the research , noted from now
And Smash Bros
I still play this game and it was my favourite when I was younger. I remember trying to go into the arcade in the toy box hub but it didn’t work, at first I thought it was a glitch but when I went on Google I saw something about the game shutting down and that’s how I found out. I still introduce younger family members to it and they kind of like it. I wish they would have at least released 4.0 before the cancellation it sounded like it was going to be really good.
@@chloefazakerley7319 :( this breaks my heart
Never seen a video of yours before but this really was a great one!! Awesome editing and info. Definitely deserves a like and sub :)
Thanks a ton!
DAMNN THIS GUY IS UNDERATED ONLY 834 SUBS! VIDEO LOOKS SO HIGH QUALITY THOUGHT HE WOULD HAVE MINIMAL OF 100K
one day man , one day
@@OvalCreations I hope it for you :D
@@Hiihowisitgoing
I miss this game so much. I would spend hours playing it and I had sooooo many figures and tokens
@@TheUltima_Werewolf good old days
No one seems to talk about the compatibility aspect of these games. If you join the game (Infinity/Skylanders or Dimensions) after a few years, you have to do so much research about which characters work with which game. It may seem obvious that 3.0 characters don't work with 1.0, but it is hard to keep track of all of that if you join in year 2 or 3 rather than from the beginning. If the shop/online shop doesn't list each characters edition then you can easily buy the wrong product.
I think Toys to LIfe could work if the developers promise to patch in new characters to old games, so that you can buy whatever you want and not have to worry about wasting your money on incompatible products.
@@britishbattleborn that's what skylanders did though , you could use old ones in new games
I was addicted to this game from late 2014 until mid 2017 and then I still played on and off until late 2019. I remember I was 11 when the I found out the game was going to be cancelled. I was so distraught, I am so happy that I was able to experience the game at its peak. I only look back with fond memories.
it gave us good memories
I remember alwaysplaying Infinity with my brother as a kid. Before he left for college we tried to play again, but it was just broken 😭
good memories man
I have all infinity games, my favorite one was the 3.0, I just loved the star wars section and the inside out one too u know what I loved everything about it, it makes me so sad that those days will never come back but i had so much fun playing it with my brother and getting new characters on Christmas, it was so amazing.
1:22 seconds in and you've earned my like for properly addressing CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow
AYE AYE CAPTIN
I got multiple advices from a previous sculpt artist who worked at Disney infinity, now he work at Guerrilla Studio
@@kvendy that's so cool
Good work! Well put together and the points you hit were great, it was nice to remanence in a game I used to play and still love.
Glad you enjoyed!
Honestly an amazing video. Made me remember just how much I loved this game. Never knew they were already working on the 4th that makes me so sad to know what we could have had :(
so close yet so far
I'm 9:07 in and all I'm thinking is, "so this was the original iteration of LEGO Dimensions?"
@@amaranthia0320 first toy to life game was skylanders
This is one of the games that me and my brother mostly played past the years and we played again a couple of months ago and I will always cherish those memories
good ol days
Hey Bro, remember me when you get there. Your content is gold.
Noting you down in my books rn , if I ever make it ill always try to reply to everyone. I wanna build a community
me and my brothers used to play this game all the time, it’s so sad that it’s legacy didn’t carry on after it disappeared
me too , used to play with my brother all the time
I miss Disney Infinity.
Dude I remember playing the Toybox version with my brother. We were always doing this fun thing where we used the deleting block using the wand and basically try and stay alive as long as before and not fall off the castle. Man, the memories.
good memories man
Dude I loved this game I wouldn’t play any of the real story mode missions I would literally just fuck around with my sister on the game and go to random locations but I remember we did this one Star Wars mission and we could never beat it😂
I was in the toy box all the time and played those games where it had the dispenser and different capsules did different things like change the background or add enemies and characters
Sadly the toy box hub doesn’t change backgrounds when you enter the different sections like it used to like brave to star wars to nightmare before Christmas
Sad that since the online feature isn’t there anymore they got rid of the trivia in the INterior
Favorite part was always throwing the little npcs off the map and watch them go down in a little parachute 😭
Used to love this game…I still have tons of the figures this day!!! I miss it so much😢❤
breaks my heart
U unlocked nostalgia in a bag for me
I used to watch Evan tube play this all the time
I remember the mobile app it’s sad that it went off the platform 😞
ooo i never knew about it
This game was my absolute favourite. me and my sister used to play it everyday. We played all three instalments of the game. I still keep the box with all the characters and game modes.
used to play with my brother all the time
I got 1.0 for my bday and luckily school was close that day so I was at my granny’s house playing it. I know I got 2.0 a year late for Christmas since my uncle bought me and my cousin the bundle ps3 with it. I enjoyed it so much. I didn’t know there was a problem playing different characters in story worlds so that’s new information for me.
good memories with good games , do you still have your figures somewhere?
@@OvalCreations I sold most of mine except like two cars and sully, but he broke of his stand and I meant to fix it. I just forgot.
I remember entering a Smyths Toys store and seeing a mesh box FILLED with various INF figures, especially crystal Apprentice Mickeys.
Aw man, I remembered always wanting to play Disney infinity when the first game came out but I didn’t have a console to play it on (well other than my 3ds but I heard that version was not as good LOL), that was until quite a few years later when someone gave me their old xbox 360. Disney infinity 3.0 was one of the first games I bought for it. It really was one of those games that got me into gaming, and I still have the game and a lot of the Star Wars figures now.
Thanks for making this video, it’s really nice to hear people still talk about these games
i went down a trip to memory lane to come up with the idea for this video
My childhood was built off this game. I even joined a playstation Disney Infinity group that had hundreds of active members that still enjoyed the game.
one of the best starter games
I would have loved this had Skylanders not already gotten their money siphon on me back then. Toys to Life is one of my favorite genres but oh so costly.
@kolonarulez5222 I think this attracted me way more than skylander simply because as a kid you always wanted to play as the superheros or characters you saw on TV and this was like I was living in that universe
Great review, man. I didn't get why the 1.0, 2.0, 3.0 trends were back in the days. This clarified it.
@@activemotionpictures thank you
i played it as a kid, i still kept my perry the platypus for the memes
@@ClodsireBcuzYes perrrrryyyy the platttttypuzzzzz , I read it in that voice
This show in general was absolutely incredible! Honestly as a kid this show was the thing that actually got me into Marvel as a whole! Absolutely loved your coverage on this shows take on Cap and I hope you do more content on the show😄
I wish Disney Infinity Were never Cancelled in 2016.
We all wish the same thing
I remember playing this game with a cousin all the time! I still have a remote and I think some characters. I'd have to check and see what ones I have
good memories
1:35 none of those were released in 2013
@@austinhassler7283 I was just referencing generally
I remember how my sister and I spent half the time playing with the figures themselves, not even the game (we still played the game a lot too) but it was good fun!
me and my brother used to play this game all the time
I think dimensions also had the leg up due to the toys being more like toys. Not statues.
yeah for sure , i think ill make a video on it
I used to play this game all the time i have so much plastic bins with characters just like the guy in the top comment, heck i even have the phineas and ferb ones, this is so nostalgic to think about. I think I am going to go and play some disney infinity
I remember I did a sleepover at my friends house and this game I loved playing I wish I spent less money on Skylanders and got Disney Infinity figures
equivalent of modern day generation saying they shouldnt have bought fortnite skins
@@OvalCreations If only it required them to go outside and buy it
@@easiers not much of touching grass these days
Disney Infinity: I give up
Funko Fusion: Hold my beer, I got this!!!
i hope its good
I see the Disney Infinity Skylanders launch pad in Goodwill constantly. (Ion know which game set came 1st)
Skylanders i believe
I stil play it now, i have a massive box full of nearly all the characters. I started playing it after i got it for Christmas in 2015. Idk but i wanted it after asking my mum for it after seeing it advertised on a dvd. I got 3.0 and i never stopped playing throughout my childhood, now near the end, i still wont let it go its so nostalgic and theres something nice about how simple it is and how much fun i had
@elliexoxo2200 the ability to be the characters you grew up watching has a weird and good feeling to it
I just want to play Disney infinity digital so badly.
i miss the times when my dad would get me minifigures every time i got good grades, I also miss the times when I was in school and all i would just think is building a new race track in the toybox
man your dads super cool
Skylanders was no competitor to Disney Infinity, Disney Infinity was a competitor to Skylanders and Skylanders won by a long shot. Skylanders was always the top dog!
No matter how bad a company in the same genre as you is performing, a smaller or a larger business is always your competitor. That's why monopolies are quick to shut down smaller business and keep higher barriers to entry , any smaller or worse performing business can take over in the long term
@OvalCreations True but I do have to disagree with your statements in the video stating that it was disney infinity who popularised the toys to life genre. It was very much Skylanders who made the toys to life genre a mainstream thing and only after their success did competitors like disney infinity and lego dimensions pop up
@@itsjustluca2308 yes i got that wrong in the video
I don’t play no video games, I’ve always just been one to watch my friends play it. However I would always get the figurines cause they looked fricking sick! Glad you made this video so I could learn more about this. God bless!!!
@lightning3605 no problemo 🫡
I remember getting 1.0 for Christmas back when it was new that year we had a big blackout though so I wasn’t able to play it until the power came back on I also got 2.0 and 3.0 in the years that followed
good memories , what did you ever do to the figures?
@@OvalCreations they are stored away in a cupboard under my tv still in relatively good condition I have quite a lot of them I remember playing a lot of the incredibles and pirates of the Caribbean mode though with the latter I was unable to progress after a certain point because my game was softlocked I also remember exploring around the monsters university world I also remember seeing a mobile port of I think 2.0 that had a normal character select screen rather than the toys to life gimmick overall though I think this game is one of the reasons why I got so interested in making map design in video games
@@sometf2player752 thats actually crazy , most people ive asked they all have been storing the figures. I guess they do serve some nostalgia
@@OvalCreations yeah
I remember when I was younger and watching the commercials. I thought it was kind of like gmod, but officially Disney where you could do literally whatever you wanted in an open world sandbox. Boy, my expectations were incredibly high. But to be fair, they did hype it up HARD in the commercials back then.
@umamifan I mean it was a dream come true but u can't compete with gmod
Oof. Sully from Monsters University… not from Monsters Inc? 1:18 unless there’s something specific about this sully?
@@KuyaRGB nah I just messed up , confused both of them
He did say that Sully was exploring the MU campus.
@@Cuppppps got my back fr
@@Cuppppps i mean thats true but thats a crime that they went after monsters U lol
@@KuyaRGBI mean MU did come out when Disney Infinity 1.0 did so it would make sense for it to have a MU story
I remember going into my local Toys R Us and buying Disney Infinity and all it's expensive add ons
good ol days
2:14 lol i love how nobody played this and the content creator showed are just fans of the far superior competitor (skylanders) that waned to see the other game, and since they arn't credited (at least i didn't saw it and if it is at the end sorry for saying that bc i didn't wached the video fully) the 2 that i know are mikenoid and theskylandersboysandgirls (this is skydad and one of his sons)
2:59 you didn't even tried there XD they are not playing with disney there, they are playing with skylanders
@machincort this video is not edited by me , it's my editors so I never got to see where he got the videos from hence why it's not credited. And I already apologized for not crediting and that from next video forth I will be doing so.
@@OvalCreations dont worry i understand and i don't mind uncreditation even more on thos such small clips i just did it because i recognised them
also if i had i nickle for every time tsbag appeared in this video i 'll had two nickles that is isn't much but it is wired that it happend twice
I remember really wanting to play the game as a kid, i watched every single gameplay video back then and was absolutely waiting to get a console just to play the game lol
It's cancellation did emotionally hit me hard back then, i really hoped to be able to create amazing things like my favorite UA-camrs used to do back then.
good ol days when we used to watch hours of play through footage because we never could buy the game
@@OvalCreations yeah, the good ol days 😔
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Like i could just read the wiki my self and be over and done with the topic in a minute but because of your video i gotta keep fast forwarding and skipping ahead
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This game was my childhood, I remember when 1.0 came out the first character I got was Elsa cause I just wanted to freeze everybody to piss them off🤣🤣
@@eboymario 😂😂😂
Disney killed Disney infinity
@ultimate_pleb it's almost sadly not their fault , they were at the wrong place at the wrong time. The world quickly shifted to digitalized items so quick because of fortnite and the battle pass system that's Disney couldn't possibly keep up. If they did , they probably had to revamp the whole toys to life genre or put out a completely different game which is fully digital and shut down Disney infinity
Since its launch, the game accompanied me during the Wii U era. My brother and I originally agreed to only collect two figurines per Playset (albeit Lone Ranger only had two characters) and it was like that until we traveled to Orlando, when the game became my obsession. We both were into Skylanders back in the day as well, so our money went off our savings when we saw the characters we wanted. Except, I, with Disney Infinity... kind of became a perfectionist, and proposed to collect all the Playset figures I could. I never completed the Incredibles playset, the three Marvel ones (four if the one from 3.0 is included), or Rise Against the Empire (never got Han Solo), but I still put a lot of money into the franchise.
I felt I threw away all of the money spent when I learned the franchise got cancelled before 2017; thus, would never find its way to Switch (albeit Skylanders Imaginators had a port in there and the figures worked by scanning them on the controllers' points, much like amiibo; right JoyCon and Switch logo in the Pro Controller). By 2023, I got rid of the figures I had preserved, because they would never find use ever again, and I no longer felt anything about them; not even a speck of melancholy, considering one of the characters I held onto was Sadness.
Despite everything, I still wonder what could've been of the game to this date, now that we have more films/universes and extended franchises; I can't stop imagining Coco, Encanto, Luca, or the new emotions from Inside Out 2, in the Disney Infinity style. (But now that Disney owns more companies, it would've probably been a bigger mess.)
One thing I'll never understand is how and why Tonto was my go-to character for most, if not all, my Toy Box adventures. I never saw the film, nor did I see the original Lone Ranger show, so I didn't (still don't) have context of the character. What could have been in him that wasn't in the characters I know about...?
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