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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
@@candy-kp8bb No, at the time, I paid maybe $10 for it and I was worried the whole time it was a scam, but it came and I was elated when it did. It doesn't work with the game, but looks amazing on the shelf with Tinkerbell. I don't know if you can even find them anymore. I know when the box was found, all anyone could talk about was getting them, so I'm sure they are ebay only at this point.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
I remember me and my big brother got Disney 1.0 and played it every single day and would run to the isle in the store with all the disney infinity characters and skylanders and would dream about having every character. This truely was the greatest gaming era in the history of video games in my opinion. When we got Disney Infinity 2.0 we stayed up alll night before the first day of school and played with thor and ironman. IF they ever brought this game back I would spend so much money on characters now that I'm older and have money.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Imagine, if you will, Disney Infinity 3.0: Gold Edition was ported to consoles. All characters unlocked, all play sets available, everything built in. The steam version lacks multiplayer and some post-launch content, so that can be added back in. I think it'd be a decent commercial success.
I was just a little kid when the first game came out, and I remember playing it for hours. To this day I have all three games and almost all the figures and I still play it a ton!
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 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.
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 😭
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 :(
Dude, I remember playing the Toy Story 3 game on the PS3 and later Disney Infinity on the Xbox 360, and I was shocked at how both games shared developers. It felt awesome to know those two great games were made by the same companies. They use similar assets and sounds.
The fact that this video got over half a million views in less than 2 months shows that the Disney Infinity fandom is still alive and thriving. The game hasn't died. The fans are still here, waiting for something new, like 4.0 but on PC. The only reason for the failure of Disney Infinity, alongside other Toys-to-Life games, was the production cost of the toy models, and the diminishing returns due to the expensive figures that were required to continue playing the game, that were taking a strain on parents' wallets. Elimating that aspect would make the game perfect by just releasing on Steam like the Gold Editions, and I bet all the fans would return and make the game a lot of money, especially since you wouldn't have to pay for each individual character or playset, and instead they could just all be free on purchase, or you could unlock by doing specific achievements.
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.
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.
What I remember most about this game were the power disks. They were supposed to be blind packs, but the "rare" ones all had a holographic picture on the, so you could tell which blind packs had a rare in them just by scratching the package and feel it
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 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
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 as a kid I so badly wanted to play the game without even knowing what it was like, but for a long time I didn't have the game pad or any characters. When I did finally get the game pad alongside Elsa, the game still gave me errors no matter what I tried doing so I never ended up actually playing 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.
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.
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 had a dream once that my mom and little brother left the house for Jamba Juice, and 3 seconds later, they teleported back, then disappeared one second later. After that, the rhinos from Disney infinity teleported me to a sand prison, where everything was made of sand. The dream ended when I looked at a shell.
My wife bought the Wii U right at launch and wrapped it up for Christmas. Throughout 2013, I remember playing a lot of Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U, and waiting for some blockbuster games to be released that would justify the new Wii console. That summer at Wal-Mart, I would hear the trailer music for Disney Infinity looping in the Electronics section, and I thought that even if it was a third-party cross-platform game, it would give the Wii U a little bit of a boost. My wife and I never really got into Disney Infinity before it died, but we got started with 2.0 and downloaded 1.0 for free, and we collected a few figures that we liked. I'm glad Tron was added to 3.0, but it needed more characters.
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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
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
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
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.
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
I defenitely noticed that as a kid. The movement, double jumping mechanic, the ground slam, it all felt just like toy story 3.
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
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…
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
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
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
did you get the peter pan figure for free?
@@candy-kp8bb No, at the time, I paid maybe $10 for it and I was worried the whole time it was a scam, but it came and I was elated when it did. It doesn't work with the game, but looks amazing on the shelf with Tinkerbell. I don't know if you can even find them anymore. I know when the box was found, all anyone could talk about was getting them, so I'm sure they are ebay only at this point.
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
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 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
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 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
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
Turns out "disney infinity" was in fact, not infinite.
you can say they went beyond ;)
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
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 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 ?
I remember me and my big brother got Disney 1.0 and played it every single day and would run to the isle in the store with all the disney infinity characters and skylanders and would dream about having every character. This truely was the greatest gaming era in the history of video games in my opinion. When we got Disney Infinity 2.0 we stayed up alll night before the first day of school and played with thor and ironman. IF they ever brought this game back I would spend so much money on characters now that I'm older and have money.
me and my brother used to play it all the time
Ah the perfect storm.
I remember seeing this happening and being reminded of the rise and fall of Guitar Hero.
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
This game is so nostalgic this was the one of the first videos games I ever played
the introduction to the gaming world
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
I recently bought 3.0 Gold Edition on Steam, and this game still holds up to this day.
yessir its very fun
Can you buy the DLCs?
at least epic mickey is still getting a reboot
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 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
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.
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!
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
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
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
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
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
I loved games like Disney Infinity and Skylanders but the cost of buying new characters for both games ended up meaning I didn't play them for long.
Too expensive
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.
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
0:18 "HEY ALL"
Scott here
i just remember being incredibly lost in the lobby just walking around as darth vader
Thats all our kid brains could do
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!
1:05 I just hear a distant “get the cooool”
Imagine, if you will, Disney Infinity 3.0: Gold Edition was ported to consoles. All characters unlocked, all play sets available, everything built in. The steam version lacks multiplayer and some post-launch content, so that can be added back in. I think it'd be a decent commercial success.
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 wish they still had games like this because there's nothing like Disney Infinity and Skylander that kids can experience nowadays
agreed
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 think they should bring it back now and release Disney Infinity 4 over a decade later. It might do well now.
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 was just a little kid when the first game came out, and I remember playing it for hours. To this day I have all three games and almost all the figures and I still play it a ton!
Dang thats so cool
1:22 seconds in and you've earned my like for properly addressing CAPTAIN Jack Sparrow
AYE AYE CAPTIN
Thank you for covering the game that fueled my childhood, you are the best!
no you are the best for watching!
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
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 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
I played this game non stop. It was so fun. I still have every figure. One of my favorite games of all time.
good collection to have
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 😭
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 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
Dude, I remember playing the Toy Story 3 game on the PS3 and later Disney Infinity on the Xbox 360, and I was shocked at how both games shared developers. It felt awesome to know those two great games were made by the same companies. They use similar assets and sounds.
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
This is a childhood flash-bang I did not expect
im here to bring back your lost core memories
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!
The fact that this video got over half a million views in less than 2 months shows that the Disney Infinity fandom is still alive and thriving. The game hasn't died. The fans are still here, waiting for something new, like 4.0 but on PC. The only reason for the failure of Disney Infinity, alongside other Toys-to-Life games, was the production cost of the toy models, and the diminishing returns due to the expensive figures that were required to continue playing the game, that were taking a strain on parents' wallets. Elimating that aspect would make the game perfect by just releasing on Steam like the Gold Editions, and I bet all the fans would return and make the game a lot of money, especially since you wouldn't have to pay for each individual character or playset, and instead they could just all be free on purchase, or you could unlock by doing specific achievements.
true but i think fortnite is disney's new focus
I miss Disney Infinity.
After years of searching, i finally found the thing that brought me joy as a child. I used to watch people play this😭
The childhood gem
I remember the mobile app it’s sad that it went off the platform 😞
ooo i never knew about it
The toys to life genre was something you just had to be there for.
fr , you just had to be there
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
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.
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.
What I remember most about this game were the power disks. They were supposed to be blind packs, but the "rare" ones all had a holographic picture on the, so you could tell which blind packs had a rare in them just by scratching the package and feel it
@@derf213 hahaha that's unfortunate for them lmao
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
the nostalgia of this video has me THIS CLOSE to rebuying all the sets i had a child from my local CEX
R.i.p wallet
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
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 🫡
1:35 none of those were released in 2013
@@austinhassler7283 I was just referencing generally
I remember as a kid I so badly wanted to play the game without even knowing what it was like, but for a long time I didn't have the game pad or any characters. When I did finally get the game pad alongside Elsa, the game still gave me errors no matter what I tried doing so I never ended up actually playing it.
Dang it
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 still play this game with my sister on our ps3 every once in a while. it’s such a nostalgic game!! this was a great analysis :)
thats so cool! and thank you
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
This was my favorite game when I was a child. If they continue it by a miracle, I am going straight to the store.
you can still get the offline version on steam
I see the Disney Infinity Skylanders launch pad in Goodwill constantly. (Ion know which game set came 1st)
Skylanders i believe
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
Used to love this game…I still have tons of the figures this day!!! I miss it so much😢❤
breaks my heart
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
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
Man the Lone Ranger playset campaign was like my Red dead 1
slightly less impressive graphics
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 had a dream once that my mom and little brother left the house for Jamba Juice, and 3 seconds later, they teleported back, then disappeared one second later. After that, the rhinos from Disney infinity teleported me to a sand prison, where everything was made of sand. The dream ended when I looked at a shell.
Reading your comment about your dream when im like half-asleep got me tripping. I read the comment like 4 times
I wish Disney Infinity Were never Cancelled in 2016.
We all wish the same thing
My wife bought the Wii U right at launch and wrapped it up for Christmas. Throughout 2013, I remember playing a lot of Nintendo Land and New Super Mario Bros. U, and waiting for some blockbuster games to be released that would justify the new Wii console. That summer at Wal-Mart, I would hear the trailer music for Disney Infinity looping in the Electronics section, and I thought that even if it was a third-party cross-platform game, it would give the Wii U a little bit of a boost. My wife and I never really got into Disney Infinity before it died, but we got started with 2.0 and downloaded 1.0 for free, and we collected a few figures that we liked. I'm glad Tron was added to 3.0, but it needed more characters.
that is such a wholesome story man 🥲