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    UB Funkeys is a defunct web MMORPG developed by Mattel and subsidiary, RADICA Games! UB Funkeys starred the funkeys, a collection of vinyl toys who inhabited the world of Terripinia, SOUNDS FUNKY!
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  • @Rookie643
    @Rookie643 4 роки тому +3654

    Honestly I'm just glad that this whole thing was actually real and not a figment of my imagination

    • @deathwoomy6749
      @deathwoomy6749 4 роки тому +72

      That’s how I feel about this whole channel

    • @AstralPhnx
      @AstralPhnx 4 роки тому +10

      Fucking same

    • @jayd1415
      @jayd1415 4 роки тому +51

      These dead ass felt like a fever dream

    • @LonicTH
      @LonicTH 4 роки тому +13

      For some reason in my grandma house there's a Panda Funkey over the fridge

    • @DigitalPand3mic
      @DigitalPand3mic 4 роки тому +4

      Damn this is sad, our childhood was awesome and they really dont got cool shit like we use to get..let alone dope memories

  • @e3psilon
    @e3psilon 4 роки тому +461

    So it wasn't a fever-dream, it was just something from the early 2000's. Yet again.

    • @powerthunfischdesdonners3086
      @powerthunfischdesdonners3086 4 роки тому +30

      honestly, 2003- 2007 was just one long fever dream

    • @HelloHamburger
      @HelloHamburger 4 роки тому +4

      @@powerthunfischdesdonners3086 I was born during a fever dream and probably conceived then too.

    • @gabbersaus
      @gabbersaus 4 роки тому

      I remember seeing this at the toy store, mom wouldn't let me buy it. Only vaguely remembered that white character and a screenshot of the game. Super strange to now see what it actually all was.

    • @metazoxan2
      @metazoxan2 4 роки тому

      aren't they the same thing?

  • @scrapyarddragon
    @scrapyarddragon 4 роки тому +345

    ok real talk for a game targeted at stupid 10 year olds, knightmare rift had some pretty existential stuff like how the soldier guys were there because "There's no knightmare worse than war" and how the sprockets were there because the junkyard was an area made of dead and abandoned dreams.

    • @flarestorm9417
      @flarestorm9417 4 роки тому +47

      Yeah, lore wise the Dream States were pretty cool, even with the limits the development team had on how dark they could get with the story. Particularly speaking about the Nightmare Rift, you had...
      - *Snipe:* personifications of the horrors of war
      - *Sprocket:* old robots that represented old, broken, dying, and dead dreams.
      - *Ptep:* mummies that guard what little secrets they have left. If memory serves, Marshall says "they guard the secrets that are no longer secret. Or maybe the secret is that there are no more secrets left to guard."
      - *Vlurp:* vampires that are ironically peaceful and just misunderstood.
      The Daydream Oasis had interesting stuff too, but I think the stark contrast between the Nightmare Rift and everything else made them really stick out.

    • @GhostRat__
      @GhostRat__ 4 роки тому +3

      I know I played doom back then and for some reason this rift still haunts me to this day.

    • @user-np2xl4qk4w
      @user-np2xl4qk4w 4 роки тому +23

      @@flarestorm9417 Daydream Oasis literally had hippies who did shrooms and smelled like pot. In a kid's game.

    • @flarestorm9417
      @flarestorm9417 4 роки тому +3

      @@user-np2xl4qk4w Yeah, I'll admit that flew over my head when I was younger.

    • @aj4waffles
      @aj4waffles 3 роки тому +5

      @@user-np2xl4qk4w Damn, i never even got to that part of the game or saw it for it to influence me, but yet that place still perfectly represented my future. damn. Even the part where their whole world is just a spencers gifts. literally more than half of the decorations in ,my room are from there. Blacklight posters about weed and shrooms, a lava lamp shaped like a bong, another lava lamp with the characters from the beatles yellow submarine on it. My life just became daydream oasis from a game i played for like 2 hours of as a kid. crazy shit.

  • @rosecatuwu
    @rosecatuwu 3 роки тому +661

    U.B Funkeys: We can't have violence as a mechanic, this is a children's game!
    Also U.B Funkeys: *Lets the Flesh World™ be a thing*

    • @tintop8520
      @tintop8520 3 роки тому +15

      im gonna avoid the flesh zone lol

    • @tylervanpeursem7627
      @tylervanpeursem7627 Рік тому +1

      Also the sprocket/ hidden realm fighting mini games:

    • @thepixelatedsoul
      @thepixelatedsoul Рік тому +1

      im here after resurfacing my memories of this, and honestly i think the flesh zone was what created my interest in horror and weird genres of games, film and art lmao

    • @zaizoa
      @zaizoa 8 місяців тому

      Racer x had boxing mini games

  • @hoykfnvnnesnxnnensncjforkx1616
    @hoykfnvnnesnxnnensncjforkx1616 3 роки тому +129

    I remember asking for this for Christmas and dying from happiness. My parents even kept acting like I wasn't going to get it and I kept saying "that's okay I understand." While being really sad but didn't want my parents to have hurt feelings if they couldn't buy it. Crazy how much fun this was as a kid. Wonder if mine still works, I have them somewhere I'm sure of it

    • @yurnero5353
      @yurnero5353 11 місяців тому

      Damn u a good man with your parents

    • @DarkSharkBark
      @DarkSharkBark 10 місяців тому

      Man this game was best fun I had. I setup my old pc again to see if still worked and bought figures from other sellers. I always was like... if only I had the figure for this portal

    • @nhalexhale3876
      @nhalexhale3876 2 місяці тому

      i still have mine somewhere too. Might bust them out for a session

  • @DidYouKnowGamin
    @DidYouKnowGamin 4 роки тому +1981

    Wow, I genuinely did not know that.

  • @megamegapop12
    @megamegapop12 4 роки тому +280

    I think about UB Funkies more often than I’d like to admit.

  • @JebSvS
    @JebSvS 4 роки тому +802

    When I had these, I would put my Funkies on the HUB thing and wiggle them around to glitch it a bit and unlock Funkies I didn't have.

    • @antonioetv
      @antonioetv 4 роки тому +113

      Holy shit you could do that?

    • @guacamole97arte
      @guacamole97arte 4 роки тому +52

      Antonio Trejo yeah it was fun, it also worked for mte w some magnets

    • @slurpwis
      @slurpwis 4 роки тому +71

      I've heard you could also lick the bottom of them to unlock different skins.

    • @JebSvS
      @JebSvS 4 роки тому +20

      @@slurpwis Interesting

    • @boomboomluke1
      @boomboomluke1 3 роки тому +20

      I completely forgot that I used to do this 😂

  • @c.l.m.c.3328
    @c.l.m.c.3328 4 роки тому +442

    amazing how the toys are so insanely neat and appealing in their aesthetics while the game itself... uses Comic Sans. different design teams?

    • @DanMizu
      @DanMizu 3 роки тому +17

      what are you insinuating about comic sans?

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 3 роки тому +27

      It’s supposed to be easier for people with dyslexia to read so that might be why…

    • @jellycore1316
      @jellycore1316 3 роки тому +9

      @@aubreyh1930 Oh, that's cool, then! Thanks for the info!

    • @KaleidosXXI
      @KaleidosXXI 2 роки тому +16

      @@aubreyh1930 Except that's not actually true, it helps some people with dyslexia read but that also applies to a number of fonts and there's little overlap between their cases, not to mention there's fonts designed explicitly for dyslexia that work much better and for a wider variety of cases. Comic Sans is used in older websites because it's designed to be easily readable for CRT monitors specifically.

    • @theactualbluguy1957
      @theactualbluguy1957 Рік тому +4

      the use of comic sans created a whole aesthetic in itself

  • @maxthefrog4484
    @maxthefrog4484 4 роки тому +378

    I had these when I was young....like, I didn't have access to the internet when I had them. I remember how these fuckers TASTE dude wtf.

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 3 роки тому +61

      How they taste ? I bet they taste funky.

    • @wheelspiel
      @wheelspiel 3 роки тому +13

      @@Gatorade69 lick pop figure

    • @mareeeedensos6348
      @mareeeedensos6348 3 роки тому +1

      You ate them?

    • @generalmukmuk
      @generalmukmuk 3 роки тому +2

      i can imagine how they taste...

    • @ethanwood5700
      @ethanwood5700 3 роки тому +11

      I too remember the taste and am very glad to see other people had these guys because I thought I was making this shit up for a while since no one I know had these.

  • @chibiiiwerewolf
    @chibiiiwerewolf 4 роки тому +1616

    Well, You've just unearthed a hidden memory.

    • @gracehammond8484
      @gracehammond8484 4 роки тому +1

      He's unearthed my hidden childhood

    • @voidaspects9173
      @voidaspects9173 4 роки тому +15

      that was my exact reaction! watching this was so bizarre, because I genuinely feel like I've had every single even remote memory of this game erased from my mind. I genuinely feel weird looking at this, not even joking.

    • @mielhehe
      @mielhehe 4 роки тому +5

      I got one from Wendys when I was 5 and I wondered what they were called for YEARS

    • @starnight8819
      @starnight8819 4 роки тому

      Same! I remember almost being addicted to this lmao

    • @thepinkestpigglet7529
      @thepinkestpigglet7529 4 роки тому

      You know how when you remember something you're more likely to just be remembering the last time you remembered it?
      This is not one of those times

  • @ProjectSNT
    @ProjectSNT 4 роки тому +555

    Oh my god, these came out around the time I started babysitting my cousins, and they were OBSESSED with these! Such a blast from the past!

  • @Slakkeneter
    @Slakkeneter 4 роки тому +578

    i remember licking the bottom of the funkeys made them read as different characters. great game 10/10

    • @daxamillion9896
      @daxamillion9896 4 роки тому +69

      Wha-

    • @atlascove1810
      @atlascove1810 4 роки тому +59

      wait what

    • @allloren7277
      @allloren7277 4 роки тому +31

      Was this by accident or...

    • @josiebianchi3481
      @josiebianchi3481 4 роки тому +37

      @𝑩𝒓𝒖𝒕𝒂𝒍 𝑨𝒔𝒔 𝑴𝒂𝒔𝒕𝒆𝒓 as somebody who did that back in the day i can confirm it just changed the skin, however there were ways to properly switch them around i think

    • @Psych0boost
      @Psych0boost 4 роки тому +1

      Huh?

  • @bk_flash
    @bk_flash 4 роки тому +38

    i genuinely haven't thought about u.b. funkeys in almost a decade, despite loving them to death as a kid, so seeing this video was like a nostalgic slap in the face. thank you for making this video, if it weren't for you i probably would've forgotten about these little dudes forever

  • @lavs8761
    @lavs8761 4 роки тому +68

    I HAVE TRIED TO FIND THIS TOY FOR THE LONGEST TIME, AND THEN OUT OF THE BLUE IT GET RECOMMENDED..... never have i been so lit in my life

    • @louisekennedy3231
      @louisekennedy3231 3 роки тому +1

      I’m here after googling it trying to find out what they were called I’m so gassed 😭

  • @Vailskibum
    @Vailskibum 4 роки тому +574

    I spent WAYYYY too much money on these

    • @edp0123
      @edp0123 4 роки тому +2

      Same here

    • @jaywilliams8730
      @jaywilliams8730 4 роки тому +6

      Please do a video on this I want to know your experience

    • @DavidDumbedDown
      @DavidDumbedDown 4 роки тому +14

      Oh no it's vailskibutt

    • @knucklesskinner253
      @knucklesskinner253 4 роки тому +1

      I had to have everyone. Literally all

    • @turtlenator6249
      @turtlenator6249 4 роки тому +1

      I can relate. One of the many toy collections I used to have as a kid.

  • @ApolloDawn85
    @ApolloDawn85 4 роки тому +381

    These 2000s toys really make me think about Aqua Pets. Does anyone remember those from the 2000s?

    • @BBC600
      @BBC600 4 роки тому +5

      I think I know what you mean... I had a Spongebob one!

    • @valalava1
      @valalava1 4 роки тому +5

      Biiitch! I have lived frustrated with that since like 4th grade cuz I had one. I took it to school (cuz I've always been a fucking show off) and I went to the bathroom with it (I guess I was scared someone would steal it if I left it in the classroom lol) and it just banished. I was alone in the bathroom and when I turned to pick it up it wasn't there, it didn't fall into the trash can, it wasn't behind the toilet or in it :(

    • @juliaboon9741
      @juliaboon9741 4 роки тому

      I do. I has one. It went off lol

    • @crazyhippo93
      @crazyhippo93 4 роки тому +10

      I still have a few Aquapets. The earlier "unintended" shaped ones have sadly got algae in them so it's just a watery brown dome with the pet inside.

    • @JuanGomez-ke5py
      @JuanGomez-ke5py 4 роки тому

      Oh yeah that thing recall

  • @overlordchemm3705
    @overlordchemm3705 4 роки тому +610

    This game was my shit as a kid. Nobody I’ve talked to remembered/had heard of it though. Glad to see it wasn’t a fever dream, lmao.

    • @darknesscelv
      @darknesscelv 4 роки тому +4

      dont worry bro you 100% ain't alone

    • @Mfenton10
      @Mfenton10 4 роки тому +1

      I still have mine.

    • @saulouwerkerk2195
      @saulouwerkerk2195 3 роки тому +1

      i had this game as child
      Sweet Memories

    • @tortlebard
      @tortlebard 3 роки тому

      i think i still have mine in a drawer in my parents house

    • @BurberryBlue
      @BurberryBlue 3 роки тому

      @@tortlebard Mine got lost

  • @Spewa-em8cm
    @Spewa-em8cm 4 роки тому +244

    I remember taking the base thing apart so i could wiggle the figures around on the metal pins and unlock funkeys i didn't actually own, good times.

    • @dextercyanide8912
      @dextercyanide8912 3 роки тому +108

      *you wouldn’t Hotwire a ub funkey*

    • @aubreyh1930
      @aubreyh1930 3 роки тому +15

      Apparently licking the bottom could do that too

    • @jamiethiele460
      @jamiethiele460 2 роки тому +35

      You could also put unrelated metal objects on it as long as it had something magnetic near it. I remember I only had like 7 funkies but I hotwired at least a dozen more into the game using all the above described methods. I was convinced I flesh zone was from my imagination …

  • @connerharney8665
    @connerharney8665 3 роки тому +46

    I love the fact that Cube World cubes are purchasable as “crib” decoration. Cool detail.

  • @Itachigan22
    @Itachigan22 4 роки тому +422

    Kinda funny how these toys in the early 2000s predate Skylanders.

    • @TheDreadedJuggernaut
      @TheDreadedJuggernaut 4 роки тому +8

      This was one of the first to implement that. There had been zero innovation in games since before the early 2000s beyond graphics and pricetag.

    • @TheDreadedJuggernaut
      @TheDreadedJuggernaut 4 роки тому +1

      @@electricfishfan7159 That's true. It'll be interesting to see what comes out with noneuclidean games making a big rise too. It's just a strange era where you have the last people before technology having kids. Strange thinking people will grow up hearing about video games before they were even born.

  • @PyroJiro
    @PyroJiro 4 роки тому +334

    Before cancelation there was supposed to be another tie in expansion, a set based on DC Comics. There was going to be Funkeys based on Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and the Joker.
    Also the last expansion, Paradox Green went through some sort of development hell or something. It took forever to finally release, most players thinking the game was unofficially dead until the figures started popping up in stores. The only problem being that only the Very Rare variants of the figures could be found for some reason. Common ans Uncommon versions of the Paradox Green Funkeys just dont exist, or if they do then they never left the warehouse.
    Aside from that, other things that were canceled were Adventure Packs for the Speed Racer, Dream State, and Hidden Realm expansions. Adventure Packs being bundled (usually store exclusive if memory serves) with NPC characters such as that expansion's respective guide character (Marshall for example), the expansion's antagonist, along with their henchmen and a random Funkey from that set.
    We know they existed at some point and were intended to be sold to the public is because there exists pictures taken at toy conventions of those figures along with some files in the game that suggest those figures were playable

    • @dondon4720
      @dondon4720 4 роки тому +4

      I have a complete speed racer set

    • @PyroJiro
      @PyroJiro 4 роки тому +13

      @@dondon4720 As do I lol. Minus That other version of Speed Racer and Taejo that were never released
      I actually completed the set thanks to a 99c store of all things. The Speed Racer funkeys were just dumped there, I guess there were really trying to get rid of em haha

    • @RoseShrimp
      @RoseShrimp 4 роки тому +13

      i would legit kill someone for that Marshall prototype

    • @ju9ernaut573
      @ju9ernaut573 4 роки тому +8

      thanku for this bit of trivia, still upset this got thrown to the curb. Would be so cool if someone could get a server running for this (similar to Toontown rewritten and club penguin rewritten), unlikely though.

    • @mattwo7
      @mattwo7 4 роки тому +2

      @@ju9ernaut573 Apparently you can play offline with a mod as I found on Reddit via Google.

  • @ryanmullins8836
    @ryanmullins8836 4 роки тому +195

    Holy crap I had sooo many of these when I was younger and could almost never get them to work. This is a major nostalgia hit. Again.

    • @julienmauguin3214
      @julienmauguin3214 4 роки тому +5

      Honestly, i just tought that i was the only one playing it 😂

    • @HYP3M0D368
      @HYP3M0D368 4 роки тому

      Same i couldnt never work them

    • @thefury770able
      @thefury770able 4 роки тому

      I still have the fish one in my shelf, I would probably have bought more but they mostly didn’t work and it didn’t want to save my progress so I abandoned it

    • @haruhirogrimgar6047
      @haruhirogrimgar6047 4 роки тому +1

      I never had problems with getting them to work. But I absolutely loved these so much.

  • @Temzy
    @Temzy 4 роки тому +47

    YOOOOOOOO I THOUGHT I IMAGINED THIS, YOU'VE UNLOCKED A LOST PART OF MY CHILDHOOD MEMORIES

  • @snakesonaframe2668
    @snakesonaframe2668 2 роки тому +14

    I think the art style is awesome and way more detailed than I would expect for this kind of game. Like it’s literally art. It’s not even the type of art style I’m usually drawn too, but the attention to detail and colors make me really like it.

  • @erin4204
    @erin4204 4 роки тому +1007

    When I was a kid I thought the F word was “Funk” so when these toys came out I was highly offended lmao

    • @sk34life56
      @sk34life56 4 роки тому +127

      Funk off

    • @roboticjanitor3332
      @roboticjanitor3332 4 роки тому +101

      What the Funk did you just funky say about me you little britches?

    • @daxamillion9896
      @daxamillion9896 4 роки тому +79

      That's funking funny

    • @dali3839
      @dali3839 3 роки тому +42

      Dang what the Funk?

    • @BrokeBot
      @BrokeBot 3 роки тому +57

      i had to say “Fun Keys” bc when i was a kid it sounded like i was saying “U B Fucking”

  • @spankymcanus999
    @spankymcanus999 4 роки тому +142

    Forgot about these but damn that kid going “HUHH my god” at that twist ending no one saw coming cracked me up

  • @Fourkintheroad
    @Fourkintheroad 4 роки тому +148

    I was OBSESSED with these things as a kid, so seeing them again is really giving me whiplash

  • @wowiezowie837
    @wowiezowie837 4 роки тому +160

    I remember having these, I barely played the actual game to instead play with the figures. At the time I was way too scared to play the game because of the enemies lmao

    • @jellycore1316
      @jellycore1316 3 роки тому +5

      Aww, I getcha! XD My sister and I played with them, too, pretty sure. She loved Twinx, I think was the name, and I loved Scratch! The enemies always terrified me, too XD Like, if I saw one of them, I'd just try my absolute best to run away from them as quickly and best as I could

    • @shekiidevils6060
      @shekiidevils6060 2 роки тому +6

      I remember the enemies, they used to make that freaky noise whenever they showed up. Such a fun game, if only they kept it. They were so cute, and the whole USB thing was such a neat idea! Today, they could be upgraded into the PC. And i totally remember that just could not understand what to do! ^^" XD

    • @tylervanpeursem7627
      @tylervanpeursem7627 Рік тому +1

      I always just ran to the closest building possible (that and just not spend much time outside)

    • @fernicandia
      @fernicandia 10 місяців тому

      the enemies were the WORST part of the game, I remember pretty well being scared bc of them and they were more faster than you and there was no way out!

  • @valicefenris325
    @valicefenris325 3 роки тому +21

    I used to collect them adamantly and also had some of the variant colors. It was my favorite thing to play as a kid until some of the newer funkies (one with a jet pack I remember) would not scan in no matter how hard I tried for some reason that made me quit.
    I even had NPC ones and I think my parents even have my old tote full of them

  • @joeyg.6818
    @joeyg.6818 4 роки тому +213

    THAT’S what these were called. Christ, I remembered everything about this except the name lmao

    • @Scoobzz
      @Scoobzz 4 роки тому +6

      ha, same...

    • @r.r815
      @r.r815 4 роки тому +2

      Same

  • @JamesLawner
    @JamesLawner 4 роки тому +290

    The Flesh Zone looks like something David Lynch made up during a nap.

  • @b2air1921
    @b2air1921 4 роки тому +57

    It wasn't weird... it was FUN-KY
    In all seriousness, this was my childhood. My nan would spend her free time playing the minigames because she genuinely enjoyed them. Plus I got me money in game that I could use yo decorate my home

  • @acehealer4212
    @acehealer4212 3 роки тому +19

    The "flesh zone" isn't the most creepy thing I've seen, but it's definitely creepier than I would expect from a game like this. Don't remember the coin-hugging spitworm in the TV commercials...

  • @ate7026
    @ate7026 2 роки тому +6

    THANK YOU FOR SHOWING GAMEPLAY. I played this game so much as a child i to this day remember many parts of the map vividly. I hope i find some of my old funkeys one day but i have moved several times sense then and may have lost the funkeys. One thing i remember about the game was that after i had got about 10 funkeys only about 5 of them worked, the others simply didnt spawn or refused to work unless i unlocked a different area prior. Also fun fact Speed Racer was in the game as a figure and a special speed way zone in the top right of the city by a wishing well i think.

  • @corvus6865
    @corvus6865 4 роки тому +217

    Why do you always manage to talk about the most specific, obscure parts of my childhood. Are you stalking me?

  • @soniasquishy
    @soniasquishy 4 роки тому +97

    OH HELL YES SOMEONE IS FINALLY TALKING ABOUT THIS-
    I still have some laying around. Hell yeah for 2000s nostalgia bs.

  • @redsquirrelstudio6018
    @redsquirrelstudio6018 4 роки тому +23

    Is it me or does the design of the funkies look cool?
    I don't know why, they're like little vinyl figs you'd collect but instead costing $40, they cost like $5 each.
    I like them!

    • @VexAcer
      @VexAcer 4 роки тому +4

      Yea because they are supposed to be vinyl figs. They actually do look legit cool.
      I'd imagine tying it to a game was a way to try to popularize vinyls more.

  • @slap_my_hand
    @slap_my_hand 4 роки тому +108

    I had a starter set of htese, and there was literally *nothing* you could do without buying more of them. It also made me have nightmares of getting mugged in hell.
    10/10.

    • @sbanwe247fan1234
      @sbanwe247fan1234 3 роки тому +7

      There was a funkey where you could steal a coin from players, it was a tribal one with a spear

    • @jellycore1316
      @jellycore1316 3 роки тому +1

      @@sbanwe247fan1234 WHAAAT XD EVIL

  • @sonnystar6227
    @sonnystar6227 4 роки тому +300

    u.b funkeys was the only gender neutral thing i was interested in that wasn’t ‘girly’ or feminine as a young boy, so my of course my father let me actually dive into it... it was pretty fun to say nonetheless..

    • @squidyrotmg
      @squidyrotmg 3 роки тому +15

      based

    • @sonnystar6227
      @sonnystar6227 3 роки тому +4

      @@squidyrotmg i see that a lot, what does that mean?

    • @squidyrotmg
      @squidyrotmg 3 роки тому +9

      @@sonnystar6227 good and or badass

    • @sonnystar6227
      @sonnystar6227 3 роки тому +5

      @@squidyrotmg oh ok lol, thank you

    • @haruhirogrimgar6047
      @haruhirogrimgar6047 3 роки тому +10

      @@sonnystar6227 More specifically it means the statement you made got to the crux of the issue in a cool way. I normally see it as a universally positive version of calling something "woke."

  • @mamodokod
    @mamodokod 4 роки тому +50

    OH MY GOD THIS IS ONE OF THOSE THINGS I ABSOLUTELY OBSESSED OVER BUT NEVER GOT. I LOVED THE COMERCIALS FOR THESE!

  • @SeasicTaters
    @SeasicTaters 4 роки тому +189

    Warms up my heart whenever someone else remembers Funkeys. Still heartbroken that I gave away my whole collection years ago. I loved everything about them.

    • @tylervanpeursem7627
      @tylervanpeursem7627 4 роки тому +4

      *war of the monsters pfp and loves funkeys* i see you are a man of culture

    • @simplesimply3753
      @simplesimply3753 3 роки тому +1

      I feel the same way. I’m sad I gave mine away but I’m not sure they work any more.

    • @sam4gaming135
      @sam4gaming135 3 роки тому +1

      Can relate, I gave away my entire skylanders collection

    • @BOBINDUN
      @BOBINDUN 2 роки тому +1

      Same, although I still have one that my brother didn't take with him. So it lives on in my room

    • @BOBINDUN
      @BOBINDUN 2 роки тому +1

      @@tylervanpeursem7627 war of the monsters is amazing

  • @redlily2893
    @redlily2893 4 роки тому +45

    I still have a shoebox full of these in storage because my mom thinks they'll be worth something someday.

  • @samibear55
    @samibear55 4 роки тому +14

    Man this video revived what I thought to be lost childhood memories of these lil dudes. I remember finding the Funky Hub figure very cute and having it next to me at bedtime like a plush. Thank you for the nostalgia kick and reassurance that Funkeys weren’t just my imagination!

  • @rusticgiraffe4262
    @rusticgiraffe4262 4 роки тому +33

    I remember having this. I also remember that half the funkies I owned didn’t fucking work, and I never actually got any new ones, so I was condemned to the same few areas of the game forever.

  • @TheWrathAbove
    @TheWrathAbove 4 роки тому +69

    YES, I've been waiting for this one. I remember these vividly from when I was a kid.

    • @Siecyl
      @Siecyl 4 роки тому

      I still have some of mine, they were some of the toys i played the most with both in-game and with the figures

    • @sagetheassassin3192
      @sagetheassassin3192 4 роки тому

      I have some stashed in my room

  • @j4zzrabotSSS
    @j4zzrabotSSS 4 роки тому +147

    Does anyone remember this?
    It was an online world created by Mcdonals with an island, you could play games alone or with people, if I remember you could choose some characters, I think two of them were a robot and another a monkey (the last one I'm doubting it)
    .
    Edit: forget it, I found it, It's Mcworld

    • @tidepodpadthai2633
      @tidepodpadthai2633 4 роки тому +33

      McWorld, yes!!
      I remember in the happy meals they'd have pieces of paper with codes that you could enter to get furniture

    • @ailanita2481
      @ailanita2481 4 роки тому +6

      We need a video on this

    • @nikkinunyabusiness7962
      @nikkinunyabusiness7962 4 роки тому +1

      This gave me nostalgic flashbacks that I did not know I needed

    • @saulouwerkerk2195
      @saulouwerkerk2195 4 роки тому +2

      I play this when i was young thats was super fun

    • @thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307
      @thegreatcanadianlumberjack5307 4 роки тому +4

      Well it was a shame i never got interested in it but i remember the Codes would unlock gear and stuff for your character. That was like Micro transactions before they even existed.

  • @BugsyFoga
    @BugsyFoga 4 роки тому +99

    "You can't be anything less than a 10 out of 10 if you have mini golf"
    - Billiam

  • @ilovechika1
    @ilovechika1 3 роки тому +15

    I loved these things! But my mom took it over thanks to the panda and flower looking funkeys. She never let me play anymore cause she enjoyed the mini game too much and didn’t want to pay for the full versions of pop games

  • @thomasdevlin5825
    @thomasdevlin5825 3 роки тому +5

    Dude you are taking me back to a happy place, something about U.B. funkeys was just so incredibly pleasant, I loved decorating my little house and playing the different mini games, the only one I remember in detail was that fishing mini game with the skeleton funkey

  • @bambasalad
    @bambasalad 4 роки тому +111

    This, Webkinz, Build-Bear-Ville, and Neopets hold a strong hold on my parents credit cards 😂

    • @TotallyStormy
      @TotallyStormy 4 роки тому +4

      bambasalad oh my god I forgot all about Build a Bearville! Those were good times...

    • @crypticcorvid
      @crypticcorvid 4 роки тому +1

      @@TotallyStormy I was so distraught when Bearville went down. R.I.P.

    • @bambasalad
      @bambasalad 4 роки тому +1

      Cryptic Corvid I still haven’t recovered

    • @Brax.
      @Brax. 4 роки тому +1

      Club penguin too 😭

    • @frostproductions
      @frostproductions 3 роки тому

      The only one I played/heard of was Neopets on this list 🤣 UB funkey and Club Penguin were my other favorite childhood online games lol

  • @connorbeith3232
    @connorbeith3232 4 роки тому +8

    5:01 It's kinda cute that they threw in a Cube World reference.

  • @Silent_611
    @Silent_611 4 роки тому +42

    I've been trying to remember what these were called for months now and I could never find anything when I tried describing it in google so thank you for making this, as a side note, I remember buying the starter set as a kid but I don't think I ever actually played the game despite having wanted it for months so I just kinda had the figures sitting on my desk

    • @goob8040
      @goob8040 4 роки тому +3

      Months? I been trying to imagine it for literally years

    • @isabelapiva5096
      @isabelapiva5096 4 роки тому

      I also had them just in display, and after all these years I still have the Hub

  • @Cyber5layer
    @Cyber5layer 4 роки тому +6

    This dug up some deep memories, another web game series I played as a kid was called Nanovor. It was turn based battles with weird little computer bugs and it had a web series.

  • @greggomovierants
    @greggomovierants 4 роки тому +18

    This channel gives me nostalgia for stuff that barely entered my 12 year old self's sphere of awareness. Fantastic stuff!

  • @wendymccoy1093
    @wendymccoy1093 4 роки тому +122

    They really made a rainbow ubfunkeys and described them as "fierce". We see you, Mattel. We see you.

    • @ferretappreciator
      @ferretappreciator Рік тому +7

      I played ub funkeys when I was younger and now I'm 💅fierce💅. Doesn't seem like a coincidence

  • @bloxyjola6040
    @bloxyjola6040 4 роки тому +6

    oh my GOD i love this game so much, i think the main reason i still love it so much over something like club penguin or webkinz is just like, the creativity of this game, and the art style of the worlds and the figures is all so pretty, and especially that weird flesh body horror zone, that is daring to put into a kids game. I honestly think ub funkeys, even though its kinda lackluster in gameplay, is still probably one of my favorite games ever, it has stuck around with my life for so long and inspired my art so much man. It's bordering obsession probably. I absolutely hate how it was just cancelled one day even though there was a TV show, merchandise, and more worlds and figures on their way. Good video dude, keep up the good work!!!

    • @vicefaun2316
      @vicefaun2316 4 роки тому

      i love this comment!!! it resonates w me

  • @lordvaust5830
    @lordvaust5830 4 роки тому +21

    This stuff was my jam back in the day. Everyone thought Skylanders did it first, but they were wrong.

  • @bexly96
    @bexly96 3 роки тому +2

    I still have my Funkeys and a black Hub Funkey in a box currently sitting about 12 feet away from me. Loved that game as a kid. Honestly doing stuff like this makes toy lines more worth buying in my opinion, especially if you're mostly just interested in collecting the models anyway like Funko Pop figures. You'll always have a collection to put up on your shelf (which I'm pretty sure is the only thing people buy Funko Pop figures for anyway) and showcase it to people or just do it for your own personal viewing but then you also have a little game on the side as a bonus to it all. It's perfect, one of the few money-making schemes I'm actually ok with xD

  • @candy_ribbons
    @candy_ribbons 3 роки тому +118

    You should’ve mentioned how Marshall had a Onceler-esque fanbase
    Yes people found these things attractive

    • @Levi_The_One_The_Only
      @Levi_The_One_The_Only 3 роки тому +17

      My sexuality is Funkey

    • @LadyJaggerX3
      @LadyJaggerX3 3 роки тому +2

      Ohlordt

    • @lieutenant_lucky_rocks
      @lieutenant_lucky_rocks 2 роки тому +19

      Now hear me out. I didn’t play this game as a kid (and I assume that the somewhat icky element of childhood nostalgia would complicate things), but…I totally get it? He’s got a cool, vague, semi-monstrous design with sharp teeth, a mysterious personality, and a verrry deep voice. That’s high octane Tumblr-bait before Tumblr was even really a thing.

    • @lieutenant_lucky_rocks
      @lieutenant_lucky_rocks 2 роки тому +4

      @sibillas THAT’S WHAT I’M SAYING.

    • @kiricappuchin
      @kiricappuchin 2 роки тому +6

      Agree with everything Lieutenant Lucky said. Marshall’s design is super cute, looking like a little monster guy in a mysterious lil hat.
      Dare I say he was ahead of his time for the “Tumblr Sexyman” label.

  • @dragondonk8595
    @dragondonk8595 4 роки тому +10

    I remember getting mugged in this game when i was 6/7. Scared the hell out of me, so I tossed all of my coins down a well. I then got scared again because I thought the mugger would just kill me because I had no coins. Good times

  • @twilliamspro
    @twilliamspro 4 роки тому +19

    The main villain is called Master Locks? Send for Lock picking Lawyer he'll sort this out in an afternoon

  • @Yami_Soryu
    @Yami_Soryu 4 роки тому +53

    so this is like a early 2000's toys to life game? just... in a very primitive form

  • @kadebrockhausen
    @kadebrockhausen 4 роки тому +43

    WAIT I JUST REALIZED THESE THINGS ARE THE DEVIANTART MASCOT

    • @ColeCoibiBFDIObject
      @ColeCoibiBFDIObject 3 роки тому +4

      I love DeviantArt now and I really loved UB Funkeys when I was 6 in 2008 :3

    • @mareeeedensos6348
      @mareeeedensos6348 3 роки тому +3

      DeviantArt?
      U.B. Funkeys?

    • @BroomPusher2024
      @BroomPusher2024 3 роки тому

      Funkies originally: allegory of drugs
      Funkies now: Symbol if bizzare smoot... most likely inspired by drugs.

    • @V8chump
      @V8chump 3 роки тому

      @@BroomPusher2024 most likely the result of damage done from far too many drugs*
      😂

  • @Eldrisaur
    @Eldrisaur 3 роки тому +2

    “It (Speed Racer) was the only brand to tie in”
    Also Billiam: They had a Wendy’s tie in!

  • @RaccoonRevolution
    @RaccoonRevolution 4 роки тому +46

    You can only say "funk" so many times before you accidentally leave off the N.

    • @angry_zergling
      @angry_zergling 4 роки тому +2

      hey Hey HEY! Watch your mouth mister or Marshall will wash it out with funksoap.

    • @user-np2xl4qk4w
      @user-np2xl4qk4w 4 роки тому +2

      @@angry_zergling *fuksoap

    • @vivimannequin
      @vivimannequin 4 роки тому

      Me and my brother couldn't stop laughing after he accidentally said u.b. fuckeys

  • @beaniebean4885
    @beaniebean4885 4 роки тому +32

    I've had one of these things in my room for the longest time and I never knew what it was.

  • @Myr642
    @Myr642 4 роки тому +21

    I thought I had these for a second but I don’t remember any of the gameplay. I think I just saw the commercial so damn much that the figure shape stuck in my head to the point I thought I had them. I do remember that the commercial was everywhere so that must be it 🤔 Seeing that gameplay does make me glad I stuck with things like webkins and neopets; the nightmare rift would have given me some nightmares for sure 😂

    • @aceofpentacles2k
      @aceofpentacles2k 4 роки тому +3

      Lol I had these but no computer at the time so my brother and I just collected them and put them in my old doll house

  • @legojigga
    @legojigga 3 роки тому +9

    I remember having tons of these and i remember getting hooked in by this Demo disc i got in a wendys meal. By that time most of the funkies were lining 99 cent store shelves so it was easy to gather a huge group of them

  • @shirokumaotaku
    @shirokumaotaku 4 роки тому +8

    I remember seeing adverts for them & seeing them at Toys R' Us, They kinda look Gogo Crazy Bones but with everyone the exact same mold rather than different like their individual paint jobs

  • @ashleyrose6438
    @ashleyrose6438 4 роки тому +52

    i LOVED this shit, even made a stop motion show about my figures called "the funkeys" although i got really embarrassed by it in 9th grade and deleted it like an idiot

    • @ju9ernaut573
      @ju9ernaut573 4 роки тому

      Hell yeah

    • @babyfromiceage2404
      @babyfromiceage2404 4 роки тому +3

      i made a stop motion "movie" in windows movie maker using my funkeys too!!

  • @TheTrueUltimateDX
    @TheTrueUltimateDX 4 роки тому +123

    Bro when this showed up i immediately thought of deviantarts fella

    • @GuestZer0
      @GuestZer0 4 роки тому +5

      I liked Fella. I'm sad I never got a plushie.

    • @JackieKog
      @JackieKog 4 роки тому +5

      @@GuestZer0 Also sad I never got a plush and no one resells them online.

    • @TheTrueUltimateDX
      @TheTrueUltimateDX 4 роки тому +2

      Ryan Wieber im aware of what they are called
      I can see the resemblance

    • @L0rdOfThePies
      @L0rdOfThePies 4 роки тому +1

      I thought it was fella too lol

  • @OGPepsiman
    @OGPepsiman 4 роки тому +13

    Holy hell I miss this game, I remember buying the Funkeys after Walgreens when I was about 6, and then when they stopped selling I legit was so disappointed!
    My brain was so small I never knew how to pass the tutorial, and I would always get these game overs so fast

  • @noodle6852
    @noodle6852 3 роки тому +8

    I’m so glad someone else knows about this I’ve been searching for years because I forgot what it was called, I found two of my old ones the otherday

  • @Cordyceps_Canine
    @Cordyceps_Canine 3 роки тому +5

    That actually was one of my favorite games as a kid!😂 Then it got discontinued and both me and my mom were left wondering were the freaking figures went...
    I honestly still miss it sometimes.😅
    (And you just made me realize that we never got the full version of the game in Germany. Only the first 4 worlds and the funkeys for that...)

  • @blackhawk3975
    @blackhawk3975 4 роки тому +25

    Please cover FreeRealms, that game was where I spent a majority of my childhood. I'd like it to get some coverage, if you would.

    • @oddlygreenly
      @oddlygreenly 4 роки тому

      Agreed! That game still means so much to me.

  • @moviegeek5361
    @moviegeek5361 4 роки тому +68

    I saw that tech deck dude I would love to hear you talk about them in another video some day

  • @Phloxix
    @Phloxix 4 роки тому +16

    I have the vaguest memories of these things I didn’t know they had a game to go with the toys.

  • @Classic_Kadance
    @Classic_Kadance 10 місяців тому +2

    every now and then, I wake up in the middle of the night in a cold sweat. I'll have dreams about ub flunkeys and I WISH I still had my hub and funkeys, I had easily 600 dollars worth of characters. my mom and I both loved playing this game. the flower power character was my mom's favorite

  • @ayakashibot4760
    @ayakashibot4760 3 роки тому +3

    I forgot this existed...
    This channel is one big pile of NOSTALGIA

  • @mastercrazyyyd7699
    @mastercrazyyyd7699 4 роки тому +6

    You made me go out of my way to create an Ebay account, search "UB Funkeys Speed Racer", and purchase the starter kit with Speed Racer and Chimp, thank you so much for this Billiam

  • @zebedeetotty
    @zebedeetotty 4 роки тому +9

    It's funny because not too long ago i was trying to remember what the toy was called but i stopped looking because i knew billiam would cover it at some point

  • @aurene8636
    @aurene8636 4 роки тому +10

    I had this as a kid and I thought when I remembered these that they were just a dream I had as a kid but now I realize they actually did exist and now I miss them. They had Sensor issues where it would fail to scan the Funky Pop and I had the Speed Racer ones

  • @charcoal6017
    @charcoal6017 4 роки тому +2

    There was one game I remember from the 2000's, Freaky Creatures
    I barely remember much besides it doing something similar to UB Funkeys, with the toys. But what they did was kinda different, where they sold figures that also had these cards alongside them. Those cards had codes that let you use the species of creature the figure was supposed to be as an avatar

  • @sajithpragash5487
    @sajithpragash5487 3 роки тому +5

    OMG THE NOSTALGIA IS HITTING SO HARD RN

  • @sheller153
    @sheller153 4 роки тому +23

    11:24 sounds like you discovered SCP-610, The Flesh That Hates

  • @VictorHernandez-nj2lo
    @VictorHernandez-nj2lo 4 роки тому +30

    Marshall sounds like David Hayter,former voice of solid snake from the metal gear solid game series.also whenever anybody says yellow submarine,i instantly think of the beatles

    • @ikethethotslayercertifiedw5782
      @ikethethotslayercertifiedw5782 4 роки тому

      god he really does huh

    • @angry_zergling
      @angry_zergling 4 роки тому

      I have never heard of this game but after watching this I sort of want a Marshall.

    • @zedtronic
      @zedtronic 4 роки тому +1

      @@angry_zergling believe it or not there is an entire community on tumblr dedicated to thirsting over Marshall and trying to persuade radica to release his figure, since he was never actually released lmao

    • @angry_zergling
      @angry_zergling 4 роки тому +1

      @@zedtronic Wow still to this day huh? Haha that's cool.

  • @blockrocka225
    @blockrocka225 4 роки тому +37

    I had a demo CD from a Wendy's once. It was fun for like 5 minutes.

  • @the13throse
    @the13throse 4 роки тому +1

    I'm glad you talked about the story because it's been years since I played this and I'd completely forgotten it even had a story!
    I wound up deciding to keep a few of the Funkies I had when I was sorting through my toy collection for things to donate/sell. I might not be planning on ever playing this game again, but I really liked the designs of the four I decided to keep -- The skeleton, mummy, ninja, and snowflake-face ones

  • @LegoStopMotionMan777
    @LegoStopMotionMan777 4 роки тому +45

    Never played the “Game” but I did have a few of the figures though.

  • @SoxxOnTroxx
    @SoxxOnTroxx 4 роки тому +5

    I remember buying this game only to try downloading the software and getting linked to futaporn... as a kid I was really confused as to what was going on and told my dad what was going on. We ended up just taking the UB Funky toy back to the store and getting a refund. never even got to play it

  • @joystix7857
    @joystix7857 4 роки тому +19

    “I do my decorating at Spencer’s gifts”

  • @adamnebula4474
    @adamnebula4474 3 роки тому

    This game was my childhood but nobody else I talk to seems to know anything about it. So its nice to see a video actually talking about it!

  • @cheepoi3700
    @cheepoi3700 4 роки тому

    UB funkees were the one yoy I desperately wanted as a kid but never owned. I’m really glad you’ve brought light to them again

  • @TheOGFlipFlop
    @TheOGFlipFlop 4 роки тому +10

    I just randomly found one in a box like two hours ago after a long, long ass time and then boom, this pops up

  • @moonmuffins
    @moonmuffins 4 роки тому +4

    Wow, this brought up some hidden memories. Never got into these because I was a loyal Webkinz/Build-A-Bearville and Beanie Babies 2.0 girl, but these were advertised a lot back in the day. Didn't remember that they had a virtual world so it was really cool to see you go through it. :) Am I weird for thinking Flesh World is kinda cool though? 🤣

  • @jeffalo4109
    @jeffalo4109 3 роки тому

    It's really cool to see people acknowledge a game I played as a kid. I've never met anyone who had also played this game.

  • @OpenWorldGirlMR
    @OpenWorldGirlMR 3 роки тому

    IVE BEEN TRYING TO THINK OF THE NAME OF THESE FOR THE LAST 8 YEARS AND NO ONE KNEW WHAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT WHEN I DESCRIBED IT THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS

  • @cwopre
    @cwopre 4 роки тому +6

    Yo Billiam when are you going to put “I’m tired. I’m stressed.” on a T-shirt? 100% would buy.

  • @AlexMartinez-gv7hy
    @AlexMartinez-gv7hy 4 роки тому +18

    I remember this dinosaurs game that had you removing there dna to make hybrids to fight evil dinosaurs, i forgot its names but it was interesting

    • @rae4417
      @rae4417 4 роки тому +2

      Fossil Fighters?

    • @AlexMartinez-gv7hy
      @AlexMartinez-gv7hy 4 роки тому +5

      @@rae4417 no, I remember the name. It was called Xtractsaurs

    • @bam4795
      @bam4795 4 роки тому

      @@AlexMartinez-gv7hy I have had one of these for the longest time but never knew how to use it or what it was called so i just liked it as a cool dinosaur toy. Thank you for bringing this up

    • @rockclanhawkstar1454
      @rockclanhawkstar1454 4 роки тому

      Oh my heavens somebody else remembers the game!
      I ended up breaking my Syringe Gun by jabbing it into a disposable camera like and idiot when I was a kid.

    • @commanderblackheart5856
      @commanderblackheart5856 4 роки тому

      Aye, Alex Martinez is correct in the name.