The Confusing Complexity of Skylanders Portals
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Hi everyone, quick correction, turns out the XBOX One and 360 have two different portals entirely, and are not interchangeable. This means there is an additional portal for every xbox one skylanders release, meaning there are 3 additional portals or so. The XBOX one portals are interchangeable with the Series consoles. Sorry I didn't catch this before, I don't own an xbox.
Huh, I wonder if you comenting pushed the video since this comment was made 3min ago
@@julianbello8376 I doubt it. It’s just been gaining traction recently, and because of that people just pointed out the error more, so I made an official statement.
I learned this the hard way.
WHY, why has everyone forgotten about that the first game "Spyros Adventure" was actually also released for PC, i really hate that is was the only game of the series for PC.
It had a wired portal, likely the same as the XBox Portal.
The superchargers portal probably doesnt work on trap team because of the voicelines thingy from the original traptanium portal, like when the villains talk through the portal Idk how to describe it
Hey Mike, it's canon that the Skylanders characters were actually, physically transported to our world in the form of plastic figurines, right? Does that mean Activision just has both a menagerie of interdimensional refugees, and the technology to send them home, but is choosing to make profit by selling the privlige of sending them home to random kids, and that's just actual Skylanders lore? Am I getting this right?
Yes. And that also means that by them stopping making games for skylanders, skylands is doomed
Never thought Skylanders would have the darkest lore I've seen.
Yes. Activision found these characters somewhere in their frozen state and put these heroes from anohter world trapped within their own bodies, up for sale to CHILDREN in stores worldwide. That is the lore.
This means the slam bam in my room has been subjected to psychological torture everytime I nut?
Note to self:wipe slam bams data
Yes. Skylanders is a commentary against capitalism
I personally think the Trap Team portal is the coolest one, just for how rad it looks. It even has a speaker in the little cage part so you can hear nice little random banter from the villains you trap! That kind of stuff just oozes personality.
It also works on all the games
The superchargers portal got slept on by the devs. It could've been amazing. But they just got lazy and made it blue
I agree but say rad again and youll fucking die
scott the woz ooze
Well they also have hundreds of clones of them
the reason the rift portal doesnt work with trap team is because trap team required a speaker on the portal so you can hear the villains trapped in the traps, which the rift portal did not have.
Yeah, that's what I thought
It works, it changes the elemental attack of the car
@@aperturemax3651 huh?
@@doabuilder if you use a fire elemental car, but put in a water crystal it will change the attack of the car from fiery to watery
3:35 I can confirm that the 3DS portal does work on Wii U, however it wouldn't fully load the skylander rather constantly flicker the intro sequence, although take note that I was doing this with a 3rd party charger and was Playing Imaginators/Superchargers
Although the fact that the games accept the portal in the first place highly suggests that its compatible
you can use a Pro Controller charger lol
I can confirm the SSA, Giants, and Trap Team 3ds versions on the portal work on pc, ps3, ps4, wii and wii u. They work just fine and load characters on the console releases without any issues, heck I even played though superchargers on the ps4 with a giants 3ds portal just for the goofs
Something about imaginators, I was little and skylander boy & girl were still a thing and I legit thought they kidnapped a guy at activision and that's how the game was made
@@BoomBringer
HOW DO YOU DO THAT? OwO
To add some extra clarification based on what I've been able to learn.
Old Portals from SSA and Giants can still scan Swap Force Skylanders, you can try through SuperChargers and Imaginators.
The reason why Activision insisted on that Arch Portal for Swap Force was basically because of multiplayer.
Original Rune Portals aren't really restricted by the type of toys they scan but moreso they have a hard cap on how many toys the Portal can scan at once: Three toys at a time.
Because a Swapper's top and bottom means it counts as two toys, if you and a buddy say... placed two Swappers and a Magic Item on a Portal, that's effectively 5 toys. Something way beyond what a Rune Portal can accept.
So Arch Portals and beyond were engineered to handle at least 7 toys. Since the maximum combination of toys read on a Portal in Skylanders would be in SuperChargers with two Swappers, one vehicle, a Trap power up and a Racing Trophy.
You try doing that on an Rune Portal in SuperChargers and the game would deny you.
Ok so you can use giant portal for swap force right?
@Émile Veilleux Not for the game Swap Force, that put a restriction on what Portal to use. What I'm saying is Swap Force figures can be scanned on Giants Portals, but in SuperChargers and Imaginators only.
Trap team portal works with every game, thats the one you wanna use. Superchargers work with all except trap team as it doesn’t have a built in speaker for the villains. Imaginators, swap force, giants and spyros adventure portals only work on those 4 games, they will not work on superchargers or trap team.
actually, all portals can support a lot more than that, i don't remember if it's 32 or 64 figures but the way the portal addresses them as they come in can go up to that number
I don't care about the spring-trap Skylander I care about the Cleveland Cleveland Brown Skylander
The fact I found another toontown fan here talking about the best character in the series/hj
did i just stumble upon other toontown fans?
oh my god they’re real
Man i thought he meant Cleveland Brown from family guy
@@foreignracer4168 he did
Fr
Bro really had to flex his Snowderdash on us 😭
You forgot to mention that if you use a supercharger portal in imaginators and put a trap in, you get 500 gold. Same with the extra items like the dragonfire cannon
it's always nice to see non-skylanders content creators dive into skylanders content, thanks!
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random fun fact: you forgot to mention the portal from the Spyros Adventure PC Version!
it looks like a classic SSA portal, but came with a wire and USB plug. It also says “for PC” on the bottom. Don’t know if it works with any other consoles as I got all my other skylanders games on Xbox :)
I have heard that you can use the SSA portal in imaginators and can even scan in Swap force Skylanders perfectly fine.
The ssa and giants portals can read swap force figures but they can only read a max of 4 figures at a time. Swap force skylanders count as 2 figures bc of the top and bottom. So 2 swap force characters and a magic item would be 5 figures which is too much for the ssa and giants portals which is why they made a new portal for ssf. But the ssa and giants portals technically still can read swap force characters as long as you don’t go over the 4 figure limit.
Portal Lore:
I live in the UK, and my copy of Imaginators came with the Swap Force portal.
i have a huge tub of skylanders under my bed
waiting to see the light of day
i would kill for a new skylanders game. i would 100% buy it for nostalgia
Skylanders comes on most platforms, so knock yourself out!
Allegedly we’re getting remakes of Spyro adventure, giants, and swap force so that’s something
@@Danblak08I'm also thinking my mind if we can ability to play all 6 Skylanders games digitally on latest gen consoles (plus PC for Steam) and digitally play as any Skylanders (similar to Disney Infinity Gold Edition on Steam).
If so, I'm thinking I will call it Skylanders (The) Portal Master Collection for PS4/5, Xbox One/Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, and Steam.
They gave us the crash bandicoot remastered trilogy, then they gave us the spyro remastered trilogy, its only a matter of time, and i cannot wait
I’m a skylanders collector as well, and when i buy them secondhand they always send the portals 😭. So now im stuck with around 30-40 portals that i have no idea what to do with cuz who on earth would buy em/need em. Help.
As a kid I stole my mother's lipstick and painted on the figures, especially the swap force ones to inact my childhood need for toy blood.
I literally did the thing
10 year old me thinking it was paint 💀💀💀
It was nail polish 💀💀💀💀
Xbox Skylander gamer here, and what you said about the Xbox portals pretty much sums up. It sucks having to switch portals all the time, but if you have the Traptanium Portal, it's compatible for every game. Obviously for the games with no traps in them the actual trap slot won't function, but other than that its a really cool, very compatible Xbox portal. If you are an Xbox gamer looking to get into Skylanders, buy Trap Team first for the portal.
You know, I wish someone would make a custom made Portal that would be compatible with every single Skylanders game in existence. It would look like the portal from SSA & Giants (specifically the glow in the dark portal from Giants) but was just a bit bigger so it could read more newer Skylanders like the Swappers & beyond. It could also have a slot to attach a custom trap attachment where the traps would be inserted & the speaker where you can hear the Villains talk. The speaker could also make different sound effects when a Skylander’s magic moment occurs depending on the element of the Skylander or Villain. Like for example, if a Tech Skylander would be scanned in, the trap attachment’s speaker would make mechanical sounds.
For that to be a thing the portal would need the following functions
USB to work on consoles
3DS connectivity
Bluetooth capability to work with mobile games
Ability to read 4+ figures to avoid swap force character problems
Trap slot with speaker so it works with trap team
And than we would still need a separate Xbox version of the same thing.
@@speedrunner1763 True, but I meant my custom portal to be the most high tech out of them all.
You almost have that with the trap team portal. It just needs to be a bit bigger
@@Sammy_The_Umbreon the biggest problem with the trap team portal is the slowest and most inconsistent at scanning in figures, especially in the earlier games
Imagine a portal that could read up to 25+ figures. 💀
I forget where I heard and saw this from, but I believe a variant of the giants portal has a sort of quasi connectivity where if it's pressed up against a portal currently being used, it also gets connected and is available for use despite not being plugged in or connected to anything wirelessly.
Likely true. As someone who experimented a lot with her portal as a kid, I can confirm Skylanders figures also get read if you press them up against the *side* of the portal (referring to the portals from the first two games here). So if you press the sides of two portals next to each other, then put a figure on one of them, the other portal can likely read the figure that way.
I will mention this every time I can, but I am in the credits for the original Skylanders for the 3DS. I was one of the original play testers, as I was young at the time, and lived near the company. Did you know that originally you had three characters to select from in every level instead of two for the final release?
Ok couple things I'd like to add as a fellow Skylanders fanatic:
(disclaimer, I loved this video and appreciate seeing high-quality informative Skylanders content these days when misinformation around the series so prevalent):
On top of all of this portal BS, Xbox portals still got their own portals, one exclusive version for the 360 versions and the One versions when they came out, you probably already knew that tho lol
The devs totally didn't give up when it comes to Imaginators. In fact they worked harder on that game than they did on any other game, scrambling to re-use assets and engines in order to have a complete and finished game by the extremely early due date.
Also, Trap Team is picky about its portal and couldn't use the superchargers one because of the speaker; activision couldn't send out an update to ignore if the portal had a speaker either because the Wii version of trap team couldn't be updated
There was one thing I remember a friend of mine showed me back when Trap Team was out; apparently as long as one portal of power was plugged in, while two (older) portals are touching, the unplugged portal (somehow) didnt need to be plugged in to work. It confused the living hell outta me...
Magnets? Electromagnetic signals?
@@Hyper_Drud quasi connectivity. if you're confused another guy made a comment about it go look for it
In the imaginotors rift engine portal, if you take off the thing covering the trap hole it still works, so there was no reason to put a thing over it
What’s most impressive is how the portals are so powerful, that if you put an unplugged one next to the portal you’re using, the game would react still if you put a Skylander on said unplugged portal. Since it’s within the active portal’s radius.
I have the 3DS Spyro’s adventure portal with the mini USB port in. And it did work with PC for the Skylanders universe online game since I used to play that all the time in 2011-12. And it worked with the Wii, too. (Idk about PS3 since I never had one of those growing up).
But when I plug my 3DS portal into the Wii, my Wii portal stopped working. I don’t know if it’s the console or me plugging in a second portal confused it. But strangely, the USB receiver and the Wii portal stopped trying to connect to each other. This was before Giants came out so my brother & I had to make do with the 3DS portal until we got the next game. That portal got very cramped when it came to co-op. It was not made for it.
Good Times.
when i saw at 9:57 the portal and thought no that can't be true. i got one of my many left overs imaginators portals and made it open with a schrew driver. I am anstonished.
I had no idea I just needed a trap team portal to play all of it's predecessors. This is actually great news for me.
Wait for real ? Cuz im buying the games again and I don’t wanna spend any more than I have to due to some sellers overpricing some Skylanders.
Does the trap portal with with every game with no problem? Or just a handful, any info is appreciated !
I wish there was a phone app that used your phone's NFC to back up your characters and maybe act as characters that you can't find.
I really like the sleekness, portability, and the usefulness of the wireless I pad trap team portal. Never played a game past giants but I can really admire the look and quality of it. Shame they never made more portals like that and that companies aren't doing stuff like that.
Finally some one remember skylander
I do too!
Giants and the PVP was/is some of the most fun I've had when playing a game with friends. Drobot, Stealth Elf and Double trouble were insane!
Great video my dude!
9:00 in trap team the portal must speak and the superchargers one can not do that
I remember when I was little, I would go to Toys R Us and there would be walls of skylanders 😢
1:55 There was also a PC Portal of Power. It was wired and was compatible with PC, PS3, PS4, Wii, WiiU and PS5 when playing the PS4 disc on it. It saved me so many headaches.
My supercharger portal worked on trap team. It just doesn’t have the speaker so you don’t get to hear what the villains are saying.
I had a thing that allowed you to pit the portal in, and have several skylanders on it. it came with a remote that let you choose what skylander you wanted, based on where they were placed. Real useful.
The true portal master is the person who owns every single Skylanders portal
I remember that online game actually! The wii portal came with a tiny usb that could be plugged into your computer to use the game. I don't remember how the portal factored in though. I think the usb held save data while you plugged the portal in separately to use the skylanders toys. I could be wrong though, I'm going off of fuzzy childhood memories here
I remember well. The USB allowed the Portal to connect to console or PC, and that's all. It basically cut the cord. As far as the web game goes, you could use the portal to add your figures instead of punching in the code, as well as updating the Hero Level on the figure in the case of SSA. You could even use that to swap on the fly instead of going into the menu.
I haven't seen anything about the site being preserved. Big shame. I'd love to try going through it again--especially to finally raise that Hero Level on SSA!
The original wireless portals for the Wii were prone to breaking and getting interfered by external signals (Bluetooth, Routers, etc.). I remember getting Spyro’s Adventure for the Wii back in Christmas, 2011. The portal eventually broke and I would get constant error messages for the Skylanders that I placed on the portal. To compensate, I ended up getting a new portal from Activision and it ended up working much better.
Not to mention if you buy it used you run the risk of the seller not having the wireless dongle. Happened to me, good thing the giants portal worked for the first game.
When we moved with my brother, we only took the Traptinium Portal with us out of our other portals as it's compatible with all games.
YOU HAVE SNOWDERDASH?!?!
5:56
Fun fact, the 3DS Giants and Spyro’s Adventure portals can also scan in Swap Force figures. It probably just takes longer than the Swap Force portal.
My Xbox 360 portal won’t work on my Xbox 1. It lights up but doesn’t work. Unless it’s because I tried it with Superchargers
I think Trap Team should’ve had a trap holder figure that you put on the portal.
You put a trap in a trap holder, and then put it on the base. Allowing the same functionality except for voices coming out.
I used the Wii portal for Spyros adventures for 4 years, I never once changed those baterries.
Iirc you could u
Put the 3ds portal touching the orignal wii portal and it would work like it was part of the same portal
The reason the Superchargers portal doesn’t work with Trap Team is because it doesn’t have the speaker.
I liked skylanders but it destroyed my wii. I later learned that everytime there is any kind of loading screen you cannot change the figure on the portal (The game doesn't tell you this) If you do change it, it will completely destroy your wii software and you will not be able to use it every again. This is why skaylanders is BS, they did not take any time to fix any of this huge dangerous bugs and just wanted to make money
I bought a portal of Power for the 3DS
And the game Spyros adventure and swap force
When I tried playing swap force with the portal It told me It was the wrong one
So I got sad and looked up trap team 3ds
So tell me why they use the Portal of power From Spyros adventure For trap team the game that can use swap force characters!!!
Please answer this can I just use a portal not for a game but get it to light up off the USB just being plugged in to a phone charger brick thing
Oh my god seeing anything from Englanders was such a blast from the past, these games were my childhood lol
fellow portal master = sub
Ok bro does fnaf and skyalnders? You earned a sub
My favorite portals were the giants portals, you could use it upside down
9:03 i think it doesnt work because the supercharger portal d ont has any speakers
I have every skylanders portal for the Xbox 360 (from giants forward) except for the imaginators portal. I didn't even know it had one, i just use the superchargers portal for everything. I too have a large collection of skylanders though and I have absolutely no idea what to do with them
“If I had a nickel for every time a fnaf RUclipsr was in to Skylanders I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.” -Doofenshmirts
Dude what the hell was that fake png of lava barf eruptor doing at the end? 😂
3:04 Id object, wired is not objectively bad
there is a dark version of traptanium portal and possibly dark versions for SSF, SSC, and SI portals but idk for those last 3
The superchargers portal doesn't work on trapteam because it doesn't have a speaker
Yo let’s go I love Skylanders
I had one of them glow in the dark ones.
3ds portal works on wii and playstation
Yo my brother loved skylanders, happy to see people still talk about it lmao 😅
ikr
Do any of the non Xbox portals work on any of the Xbox
All I heard was “🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🗿”
I have always been a skylander fan, and I’ve always thought the portals were fun! But one complaint: traps should work on superchargers and imaginatiors.
0:23 HE'S JUST LIKE ME FRR
bet you dont own all 8 pop fizzes
Yo let’s go I love Skylanders
correction RFID portal not nfc
Wired is objectively better
About to spend $300 on Skylanders imaginators on switch (the rarest version) just to play Skylanders again lol
I would love to see more Skylanders content from this guy
Makes me wonder why there hasn't been drivers for any portals to be used like regular NFC readers.
Never mind the portals wishing for a springtrap skylander? what about heartbreaker buckshot!? 🤣
Two of them exist and we will never have any of them :(
@@Mikeonut The fact they never released public copies because it looked evil/scary sure broke the hearts of many young collectors! 😭
The good thing is, you can use the Traptanium portal with every game as long as it worked with the console. I have only that portal and I've used it on the 4 PS4 released games and PS3 SSA and Giants with barely any issue. Meanwhile for 3ds, the Swap Force mode is the way to go since it also works with every game and is the one you require to even play the game its from lol. Seriously, you need the swap force model even though the trap team 3ds version can use the swappers perfectly.
TLDR, if you can get only one portal, Trap team for console and Swap force for 3ds.
I had two Swap Force portals so I dismantled one and spray painted it chrome, turned out not bad
I have a xbox 360 skylanders swap force portal will it work on a ps3?
So what I'm hearing is that, if I were to buy just the Wii version of every Skylanders game and all the various Skylanders, I can use the Super Chargers portal for all of them?
I want to see someone using all of the portals on an infinity gauntlet.
when I got giants on the 3DS I didn't get a portal so I had to use the previous one from spyro's adventure
3:00 wirelesscels when they have to buy batteries vs cordchads plugging things in
Great video! I love seeing content for my favorite series in my feed.
Not a FNAF guy personally so this my first video of yours I've seen.
Also can confirm the 3ds ssa portal does work with other versions. I've used it on Wii before with no issues.
FWI. yes, the 3DS portal fr Spyro's Adventure can be used on Wii, and thus, on PlayStation I think, I believe that you an also use it on Imaginators, so long as you didn't use Swap Force, if you wanted top compatibility on a given console, you needed a Traptaniun Portal, even though traps were no longer usable on Imaginators.
Also, Giants and Spyro's used the exact same portal, it wasn't updated until Swap Force due to the figures complexity (as you did mentioned) and I believe they stopped upgrading them in Trap Team. Of which's portal was the fasters to read toys.
I have all 6 games for xbox 360, and I only use two portals for every game, the one I got from Giants for the majority, and Trap Team's for Trap Team and Superchargers
Swap force on 3ds can only use the swap force 3ds portal and no others. All the other 3ds games use both portals, and the swap force portal is more expensive. WHAT?
IM STILL CONFUSED WITH THE SKYLANDER PORTALS AND THE INFINITY BASE (PLUS THE AMIIBO READER FOR 3DS)
I HAVE FOR ALL 3 AND IM SUPER CONFUSED AN WITCH ONES WORKS AND WITCH ONES DONT
IS STRANGE BUT THE ONLY THING I REMEBER IS
FOR BOTH SKYLANDERS AND DISNEY INFINITY:
1-3DS
2-VITA
3-360
4-ONE
5-WII/WII U/PS3/PS4
6-MOBILES
7-SWITCH JOYCON
AFTER THAT ON INFINITY THERES JUST 2 TYPES, THE HOME CONSOLE ONES WITH 3 SLOTS AND THE 3DS/VITA WITH ONLY 2 SLOTS (3DS ONLY HAS 1.0 AND VITA ONLY 2.0)
FOR SKYLANDERS IM JUST LOST BECAUSE EACH GEN HAS A DIFERENT ONE BUT THERE ARE SOME THAT ARE SIMILAR AND THERE ARE VARIANTS...
BUT IS FUNNY HOW THE 360, ONE AND WII/WII U/PS3/PS4 RULE IS THE SAME ON BOTH
WHY 360 AND ONE DIDNT USE THE SAME ONES? LITERALLY HALG OF THE PORTALS ARE 360 AND ONE AND THE OTHER HALF ARE 3DS AND THE MAIN 4 (WIIS AND PLAYS)
AT LEAST FOR AMIIBO THERES ONLY ONE FOR OLD 3DS BECAUSE WII U, NEW 3DS AND SWITCH ALREADY HAVE THE NFC INSIDE
I HAVE ALL CONSOLES AND IS LIKE
FOR SKYLANDERS 6 PORTALS FOR 360 AND 6 PORTALS FOR ONE
(PLUS 2 FOR INFINITY ALL 3 BASES ARE THE SAME BUT IS DIFFERENT 360 AND ONE)
FOR THE MAIN 4 ARE JUST 6 PORTALS
(WII, WII U, PS3, PS4)
(PLUS ONE MORE FOR INFINITY FOR ALL 4 CONSOLES AND ALL 3 VERSIONS)
AND 5 MORE FOR 3DS PLUS ONE MORE FOR INFINITY 1.0 AND ANOTHER ONE FOR AMIIBO IF IT IS AN OLD 3DS
AND VITA ONLY HAS ONE FOR INFINITY 2.0
What would a sky landers x fnaf crossover be like? What would the lore, elements and powers of the fnaf landers be? What would the story be? Would they be the animatronics or the characters that fazbear entertainment based the animatronics on? Would they be the versions scott made just pulled from the fnaf universe or the sky land universe versions?
Ok I already can't take you seriously when you said that the wireless SSA portal is objectively better than the wired one. That's just dumb. It's obviously more expensive cause you have to get new batteries every time, and it's so annoying to have this little usb bluetooth stick for the console, it's very easy to lose. I just recently got myself a wired Giants portal and I'm so happy to finally play SSA & Giants without having to change Batteries EVERY 2 WEEKS
I had the portal for spyros adventure for the 3ds and that Mf was still on the original battery’s years later and still worked idk how but they lasted a lot longer then they should have
Hear me out. I liked the wired portal better. I didn’t want to worry about battery life for my portal. I played skylanders for hours. So I just did not want the thing dying on me. And I feel I managed the cable pretty well, you wouldn’t have even noticed it.
I saw skylanders and how theyvhave 50 figurines you had to buy and on top of the portal so a verryvexpensive game. I disney infinity is the same way and as fo building shit just play minecraft and thats without any mods. Of course now they have the aminos and they make good deciritve starues and have the nfc chip in them and theyvall donsomething different in every game supporting amibos.
I've never had the wrong portal version pop-up. I'm playing superchargers with an og portal. I'm using a superchargers ps3 portal to play giants. The only problem I've had is xbox one AND 360 have sperate portals
I once brought one to a GameStop, they took the game, figures but not the portal. Always confused me as without it you couldn’t play the game.
This is just speculation, but the first Xbox was hacked with a game exploit in combination with a USB adapter that was used through one of the controller ports. This might have something to do with Xbox's paranoia around USB devices for Xbox
My favorite skylanders are funny bones, Twin blade chop chop, blackout and Roller Brawl.
Hey! One of my portals is the old 3ds from the first game! It turns out you can plug it in to your console (I used a ps3) and it works like a normal portal, not sure if it will work on my Xbox but I doubt it