Toys for Bob is going indie, and what does this mean for Skylanders?

 

So last month Toys for Bob announced that they're going to become an indie studi0, they shut down their physical headquarters in California since it was too expensive to keep up, and people almost worried that TFB were going to be shutting down for good. TFB have stated that they are still in a partnership with Microsoft too, so what does this mean for any future Skylanders games?

In my personal opinion, I don't think this actually changes much for the future of Skylanders. Since Microsoft is still partnered with them they can still use IPs such as Crash Bandicoot and Skylanders.

I still hold onto some hope that a remaster is a possibility in the future, but I do doubt that there will be anything relating to Skylanders being released for years to come.

Addressing some claims going about from their post: (Note that I am not an employee of TFB and that these are just what I have inferred from research)

Skylanders is not cancelled forever but the chances of a new game are still slim

No, the fact that 'horns' are mentioned here does not confirm a new Skylanders game like some people are saying (what logic is that???)

Toys for Bob mentioning Skylanders (once) in the post also does not confirm a new game

So in the end, what does this mean? Nothing too much really in terms of Skylanders.

The chances of getting a new game is the same as before, still miniscule. But this doesn't mean that the series is done for good.

Happy Birthday to my Blog! And a small update-

    So I went on an accidental hiatus for a bit, whoops! I didn't post anything all Feburary, and I haven't been making much progress on my comic for a bit. (Sorry!) It's weird to think this blog is already a year old now, my first post was about me saving up to buy the land trophy for Superchargers, I still haven't actually brought it.

(Apology sneak peek)

I've 3D modeled the environments for convenience! (I hate drawing different camera angles...)

    I haven't been doing much related to Skylanders in general for a small while, I have been doing a lot of other stuff, juggling working on multiple games, such as my own project, two Yo-Kai Watch fan projects, and working on an entirely original game as an animator and modeller. I'm a highschool student too, which also cuts down my time to work on projects by a lot. 

Also I haven't had my Skylanders hyperfixation come back swinging in a while, don't get me wrong I still adore Skylanders but I've ended up gravitating towards other games for the past while. Though I still enjoy drawing Skylanders from time to time. 

    I was going to say that nobody really visits this blog but I went and checked my website statistics and it seems I get a small amount regular viewers which honestly surprised me! A very pleasant surprise, I wish I could shout them out here but I can't view usernames which is honestly for the best.

    Either way thank you to any readers that visit, it means a lot to me! I'm sorry about my lack of recent posts, I hope to get back to my regular posting schedule of once at least every week. I'm also going to be back on doing regular renovations and working on polishing some pages while making some new ones, as you can see by the Fanart and Collection buttons I've made that take you to an empty page...

Thank you for visiting! And happy birthday to a now entire year of my Skylanders blog!

Skylanders Superchargers concept art

From Lisa Wiley who worked on Skylanders Superchargers, several pieces of concept art and level sketchovers! Also an earlier version of Splat seems to be present in some of the level sketchovers. There are more on their site which is why I didn't upload everything here as I urge you to visit their page and look at their amazing art for youself, Lisa Wiley's art site!

Character concepts:

Fox clothing concepts for Cloudbreather's Crag

Level concepts and sketchovers:

An early splat design appears in the latter two, probably an in-between design of Splat and Inkwell.

Again, there is a ton more on their website that I didn't upload here, please look at their work from the source!

Sorry for the brief post hiatus! I was busy working on other things and I kinda forgot that I ran this site in the first place, I did wish I had some help here, I still need to work on the dark mode button...