History YMMV / Skylanders

** For some time, Ninjini was so rare that stores which carried Skylanders reported a ratio of one Ninjini figure out of ''forty'' other Giants being shipped. Like Sky Rise and Stink Bomb mentioned below, it was not uncommon to find her online for four times her retail price.

** Sunburn deserves special mention, as the figure is only available in the Dragon's Peak pack - which has become harder to find in a brick-and-mortar store as of late 2013.
** As mentioned by [[WebOriginal/TheIrateGamer Chris Bores]], certain Skylanders tend to be purchased immediately by collectors, who then sell them on ebay or Amazon for inflated prices. This makes certain figures a little more rare.

* DemonicSpiders: Missile Mauler trolls in ''Swap Force''. Unlike most ranged enemies, their regular attack fires a homing missile that ''turns towards you once'' and deals a HUGE amount of damage (120-ish on Medium difficulty). They also tend to be positioned on elevated areas or on the far end of the arena, which means that they're going to fire that missile at least once.

** As mentioned by [[WebOriginal/TheIrateGamer]], certain Skylanders tend to be purchased immediately by collectors, who then sell them on ebay or Amazon for inflated prices. This makes certain figures a little more rare.

** In ''[=SWAP=] Force'', one of the Portal Master achievements requires you to own at least one Sidekick... because you got it, right? Surely the toy stores haven't decided to stop carrying all the picks

* GrowingTheBeard: Some people believe that in between ''Giants'' and ''Swap Force'', the series started to take itself a little more seriously. Giants started adding [[HeyItsThatVoice a lot of well-known voice actors]] to the cast. (Just take a look at the Trivia page!) The toy designs became more detailed, and the games started gradually adding more to the gameplay, such as the ability to jump.

* {{Shipping}}: while the game doesn't provide any visible romance between the Skylanders themselves (due to their personnalities and relationships never being explored except in the biographies and trailers), this hasn't stopped the fans from already imagining some shippings. Aside from the obvious Spyro/Cynder due to them being based on ''Legend of Spyro'', Flameslinger/Stealth Elf seems to have become quite popular (logically due to the fact both are from the same species).

** In ''[=SWAP=] Force'', one of the Portal Master achievements requires you to own at least one Sidekick... because you got it, right?

* ThatOneSidequest: Some of the Heroic Challenges can be a nightmare for certain characters. For example, Drobot's HC requires the player to kill 100 green Chompies while avoiding the purple ones (although you are forgiven if you kill just one). Thing is, there is quite a ton of the purples in the dungeon, and they are also aggressive. Good luck trying to complete this challenge with characters with ranged weapons (you can accidentally shoot a purple off-screen) or wide-ranged attack (the purples will gang up on you).

** There's a displeasure within both the "Classic" and "Reboot" Spyro fans that this series is less of a Spyro reboot and more of a series that includes Spyro in it. The fact that there doesn't seem to be a new Spyro game coming out anytime soon leaves fans worried that the series will befall the same faith as its rival, ''CrashBandicoot''.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Many people had doubts that this series would be a success. The series has now gained somewhere around 700 million dollars in sales. That's even more than WreckItRalph and RiseOfTheGuardians!

* TheWoobie: Sonic Boom. She went to hell and back to find a safe place to have her eggs and some rotten wizard decides to put a curse on them so they ''always'' return to their eggs after a short period, meaning she'll never see her babies get to grow up. [[IronWoobie This didn't stop her from teaching them to kick butt]], however.

* ViewerGenderConfusion: If you never read her bio, you might be forgiven for thinking Sonic Boom is male in the first game, despite the focus on using her eggs/hatchlings in combat. In ''Giants'' however, she's given a clearly feminine voice.

* ComplainingAboutGamesYouDontPlay: From about day one, ''Skylanders'' has taken a lot of flak, mostly for being either a [[TheyChangedItNowItSucks general defilement of the Spyro franchise]] or for being [[MerchandiseDriven a gigantic merchandising ploy]]. The "merchandising" complaint makes some sense when you consider that {{Activision}} [[GuitarHero ran another series into the ground]], but still.

* UncannyValley: [[http://images.wikia.com/spyro/images/b/b9/Fari.PNG Persephone]]. Players have pointed out the uncanny resemblance to [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Film/ChildsPlay Chucky]]

* TheWoobie: Sonic Boom. She went to hell and back to find a safe place to have her eggs and some rotten wizard decides to put a curse on them so they can ''always'' return to their eggs after a short period, meaning she'll never see her babies get to grow up. [[IronWoobie This didn't stop her from teaching them to kick butt]], however.

* {{Shipping}}: while the game doesn't provide any visible romance between the Skylanders themselves (due to their personnalities and relationships never being explored except in the biographies and trailers), this hasn't stopped the fans from already imagining some shippings. Aside from the obvious Spyro/Cynder due to them being based on ''Legend of Spyro'', Flameslinger/Stealth Elf seems to have become quite popular (logically due to the fact both are from the same specie).

* CriticalDissonance: Fans were really not looking forward to it, and many are making a big deal about how little respect they have for the game or hope in its ability to sell. Critics are apparently very warm to the new game, taking it for the toyetic kids' game that it is, and apparently quite like it.

* HilariousInHindsight: One of the Skylanders, Whirlwind, is part unicorn and can fire rainbow energy rays as her main weapon. The BigBad is named Kaos. Think of the season two premier of ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic''...
** Even more hilariously, as of ''Giants'' we now have a character voiced by TaraStrong.
** This is not the first game where [[SuperSmashBros figures come to life]].

* NightmareFuel: Kaos' Hydra is actually surprisingly frightening for such a lighthearted game.
** Prism Break's [[MoreTeethThanTheOsmondFamily teeth]] are rather creepy, and given that from a distance he looks like he's completely toothless, they can be startling when you first get a good look at his [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111129183649/spyro/images/thumb/d/d6/PrismBreak_01.jpg/290px-PrismBreak_01.jpg character portrait]] -- especially if your first good look is his [[http://www.skylanders.com/sky/elements/earth/characters/prism-break page on the official website]], which shows the portrait in extreme close-up.

** As of ''Giants'', Bashwing (Bash/Flashwing) has [[IncrediblyLamePun taken wing]] due to Bash developing a crush on Flashwing in her backstory.

* AndYouThoughtItWouldFail: Many people had doubts that this series would be a success. The series has now gained somewhere 700 million dollars in sales. That's even more than WreckItRalph and RiseOfTheGuardians!

** It doesn't take long for Ninjini, Chill and Sprocket to get fan-serviced either.

** As of ''Giants'', Bashwing (Bash/Flashwing) has taken wing due to Bash developing a crush on Flashwing in her backstory.
* ThatOneSidequest: Some the Heroic Challenges can be a nightmare for some characters. For example, Drobot's HC requires the player to kill 100 green Chompies while avoiding the purple ones (although you are forgiven if you kill just one). Thing is, there is quite a ton of the purples in the dungeon, and they are also aggressive. Good luck trying to complete this challenge with characters with ranged weapons (you can accidentally shoot a purple off-screen) of wide-ranged attack (because of their aggressiveness).