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.

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?

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.

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.

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

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.

Bro really had to flex his Snowderdash on us 😭

it's always nice to see non-skylanders content creators dive into skylanders content, thanks!

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

I don't care about the spring-trap Skylander I care about the Cleveland Cleveland Brown Skylander

I have heard that you can use the SSA portal in imaginators and can even scan in Swap force Skylanders perfectly fine.

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 :)

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.

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...

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Portal Lore:

I live in the UK, and my copy of Imaginators came with the Swap Force portal.

Oh my god seeing anything from Englanders was such a blast from the past, these games were my childhood lol

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.

I would love to see more Skylanders content from this guy

Wanna bring something up since while minor, it’s somewhat notable. The iOS Traptanium Portal did work with at least ONE other Skylanders mobile game. Lost Islands. Likely because it was the only one in the series to receive Trap Team support, before dropping their mobile spin-offs completely in 2015. Not sure if it worked for the others buuuut I also never got to play them. Fantastic video, the Superchargers portal in non-US Imaginators boxes really surprised me!

Great video! I had no idea it was this complex!

5:00 My Favorite Mobiel is Lost island too, we are meant for each other

The true portal master is the person who owns every single Skylanders portal

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!

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.

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.

9:00 in trap team the portal must speak and the superchargers one can not do that

Love to see people still talking about this game

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.

Finally some one remember skylander

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

there is a dark version of traptanium portal and possibly dark versions for SSF, SSC, and SI portals but idk for those last 3

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.

Thank you for reminding me about skylanders lost island I completely forgot about that

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.

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.

It's been years since I played with my Skylanders and its great to see that the game still has fans to this very day. It's also great to learn more about the portals.

11:29 Funny. A while ago I found a Spring Trap Skylander custom.

Nice someone is talking about this

I had two Swap Force portals so I dismantled one and spray painted it chrome, turned out not bad

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.

My favorite one was the shark that could go under groumd

I remember when I was playing sky landers I only had 3 sky landers, the crocodile with the bow and arrow, the little plant guy (I don’t remember what vegetable he was but I know it was one I didn’t like). And my personal favorite, Gearshift

I got the repageged supercharger portal….. and ripped the bit covering the trap bit with put realised g

Man I'm feeling nostalgic and I might try to play some Skylanders after work.

recently dug up my old portal from ssa, and it still had the batteries inside from the beginning with a little bit of life left in them (no leaks either, yay). man those batteries has been inside that portal all these years from the beginning of skylanders till now

i love skylanders please make more skylander videos!!!!!!!!!!!!

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.

I remember playing the 1st game when i was a child

I have the 3ds glow in the dark set. I like it a lot

I want to see someone using all of the portals on an infinity gauntlet.

epic rantsona lmao

I think I remember obtaining a glow in the dark portal. I also never used a wired portal except when i played on xbox 360 after our wii sensor broke. I was a massive skylander junkie

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

Super excited to say my portal still works! I do need a new USB however to connect it to my ps3 but still this is huge

I can confirm that the Xbox and Wii portals from SSA used to work on the online game as I used to play it constantly when I was younger

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 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?

I had one of them glow in the dark ones.

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 always thought it was pretty simple. You put the thing on the other portal thing so you can do things, and there’s a lot of things that can do cool things once you put them on the portal thing

I love skylanders content, and I love it when people that don't usually talk about skylanders talk about skylanders.

Makes me wonder why there hasn't been drivers for any portals to be used like regular NFC readers.

My favorite skylanders are funny bones, Twin blade chop chop, blackout and Roller Brawl.

Like this, more of this!

i found a weird thing with my 360 portals where i could have one portal plugged in, have another sitting next to it not plugged in, put a skylander on the one that isn’t plugged in, and it activates the one that is plugged in

Yo my brother loved skylanders, happy to see people still talk about it lmao 😅

The superchargers portal doesn't work on trapteam because it doesn't have a speaker

HELL YEAH SKYLANDERS EPISODE

On the Wii version of superchargers you can place a trap in the slot to get a stats buff

i love this game.

You have taught me that there was a 3DS Skylanders, I am now trying to get one.

Giant was my first game, and Swarm was my first Skylander. I then proceeded to go crazy over Skylanders any time I was home.

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

Great video! Also, I'm pretty sure that the Superchargers portal isn't compatible with Trap Team due to it not having a speaker.

Lego Dimensions and Disney Infinity also had the Xbox exclusivity issue

For Skylanders on my Xbox 360, I only use the trap team portal for all games and that works

My imagnaters portale was identical to my super chargers oen

“If I had a nickel for every time a fnaf KZfaqr was in to Skylanders I’d have two nickels, which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice.” -Doofenshmirts

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.

Me and my brother had the glow in the dark one 😂

I always just keep the traptanium portal plugged in my wii u and play all five games whenever I want

The only issue I ever had with the wireless portal was that my brother and I played a lot of Skylanders and killed the batteries in a very short span of time, so we ended up running out of AA batteries very fast

Ok bro does fnaf and skyalnders? You earned a sub

The trap team portal is the only portal you really need

Casual Snowderdash flex 6:50

The Xbox portal for spyros adventure was a giants portal because I have a Xbox portal for ssa and there’s green at the bottom

My favorite portals were the giants portals, you could use it upside down

When I was a kid and saw the advertisements for the first game, I thought the tech was amazing

Quick correction,in Trap Team for 3DS in USA the portal is the Spyro's Adventure one,but in EU it's the Swap Force portal,very weird