Disney taking on Skylanders with Disney Infinity - Report

Pokemon could easily kill Skylanders if they started making sh*t like this to sell to the kids.

wonder how long it'll be before acti-blizzard sues disney over this game lol.and if Disney needs money for the console games, then they need to hurry up and get KH3 out; now that they own SW, they have a ton more characters to add to part 3

Not sure why everyone assumes tokens are like a coin.

Definition of token from dictionary:

to·ken/?t?k?n/Noun:  A thing serving as a visible or tangible representation of something abstract.

Now wouldn't that fit the bill for some sort of figure/item representing a Disney character?

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I can see why they would be drafted to work on that particular game and also and not least how they could be struggling in their game department...I still can't grasp the fascination with Kingdom Hearts and I am usually not wrong about these sorts of things.

I don't like enough Disney characters to get behind such a project. Then again, I'm in my late 20s, so clearly I'm not the target demographic.

Skylanders surprised me, to be honest. The bright, colorful worlds and characters reminded of those days when I used to get "kids games" (Spyro, Crash, etc.) on Christmas morning and spend all of my Christmas vacation from school enthralled in their worlds.

It's hard for me to find that kind of wonder anymore...

Possibly cool.  Probably not for my age group, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea.  Skylanders seems to have caught on well enough, but their characters are all pretty fugly, IMO.

If they came out with another Disney Skate I'd give them some money haha. That was my childhood!

I am not into it, but if it's a good game, the more the merrier.

Tokens? I don't think kids will be interested in tokens.

I thought Skylanders was popular cuz they were actual toys and a video game.

this is great, disney has a huuge universe =D sinba and alladin need to show up xD

Where is Nintendo? Pokemon!!!

I think you need to start with a clean slate when you make one of these games.   Otherwise, you're forcing characters developed for different scenarios to mesh into similar gameplay mechanics and design concepts that are pretty similar.   I could be wrong but mesh it in, not mash it in.

Great idea! Disney has a huge universe.

It sounds interesting, but right now I think they are missing one of the biggest points, the toys. Part of the fun of skylanders is the actual figures themselves. You have toys that you can play with as toys, then put them on the portal and play with them in the game. If this Disney version is just tokens, then I think they have lost the appeal of the physical element to the game.