Rift to Skylands turns 3!

Let's disregard the fact I'm a few days late alright? What matters is that I managed to remember during the month... Except it's almost the end of the month. It doesn't matter.

Happy 3rd birthday to Rift to Skylands!

Can you believe the blog is already 3? It feels like yesterday I was still in highschool, writing posts in the computer lab instead of doing my schoolwork.

So let's see what we have on the agenda for stuff happening now!

This month I'm getting my copy of Clutch mailed back to me after archive, and I'm scrounging up the funds to get my copy of Strata scanned as well. I was mailed a copy of Strata by an anonymous donor, who was willing to send it to me for free under the condition I get it archived, rest assured it will happen soon!

Some more Skylanders Youtooz stuff launched lately but I've been too busy with classes to really look, and I'm too broke for it... Youtooz is starting to pump these out too quickly for my liking, or for my wallet.

I'm also now co-owner of Quicksilver Vault! That's neat right? I got a URL approved for Quicksilver Vault to move to https://skylanderswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page. For those that for some reason can't view the blue text, we're moved to skylanderswiki.miraheze.org I also programmed the site style there, and I'm quite proud of how it's turnt out!

There's usually not much in the department of Skylanders news is there...

As usual, thank you for reading and being here for Rift to Skylands! Thank you for celebrating its 3rd birthday with me! Have a wonderful day!

Where I have been?

Wow I haven't uploaded at all for over half a year... This seems like one of my usual hiatuses but this time I have some other things I want to talk about. Yes this is a wee off topic from the main Skylanders stuff but this is my blog and I can talk about what I want eheh. 

Today, the day I'm posting this, is the day I graduate from high school.

But I really can't believe it, I started this blog back in my freshman year of high school. It honestly sounds a bit crazy to me. It's so odd to think I'm an adult now. It's pretty obvious that there's a bit of a mental maturity gap with me, since I so vehemently refuse to ever let go of Skylanders.

I've had a lot happen in the time I haven't post. While I'm adjusting to the sudden change dropped on me, I have been hard at work on lots of Skylanders projects. I've been working on several fangames, alongside working on the Quicksilver Vault Skylanders Wiki. I've still been collecting figures slowly. I have also started up my new Youtube channel since my old one had to be deleted, I don't want to go into details with that one.

A lot has happened since I last posted, a lot in my life has changed, and I'm still trying to work out what I'm doing with my whole... existence? It's been wildly stressful, and since I'll be in college I'll probably have less time to post as a whole. I have a laptop now, so maybe I could post a bit more frequently as I move around?

And if you're wondering, from my first ever post, I still do not have the land trophy. It forever eludes my grasp...

Forever grateful for those who read my posts, thank you for being here with me!

Quicksilver Vault Partnership!

Ta-da! I'm now an editor for Quicksilver Vault and I am happy to announce an official partnership!

All of my blog wiki links will be redirecting to their site now, it's currently super unfinished at the time of writing this, but I am working hard on uploading all of my assets to it and making new pages.

Why make a new site over the currently existing Fandom Wiki? Well, Fandom is becoming almost unusable with the amount of ads that are constantly shoved into everyone's faces, and it lacks some of the features that will hopefully be implemented into the Quicksilver Vault. Also it overall looks nicer and is easier to read than the Fandom site.

Thanks for your time!

https://quicksilvervault.miraheze.org/wiki/Main_Page

My Birthday!

 Hi! It's April 27th, and you know what that means? My birthday! This year I just asked for Skylanders and uh, didn't get any, again... But that's okay cause I finally got a Cricut machine to help me make stickers! And with making stickers I can hopefully make some of my own money to buy Skylanders with!

Dive-Clops is my favorite Skylander

I'm 17 now, and one year closer to getting that internship that I really want...

Thanks for sticking around! 

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!

The Skybridge AU is finally in progress! I hope to work out a release schedule I can work with over School.

Thank you for checking it out!

Lost Islands Guides

Well thanks to my newfound Lost Islands addiction (Booting it up every hour or so and in between classes) I had the big brain very smart idea of adding more guide pages to the current Lost Islands page under all of the other games.

Though I am debating creating a new page specifically for Lost Islands, I don't want this site to devolve into clicking millions of links to get where you want to be.

Anyways enjoy these guides, and I'll update them as I go through the game, and hopefully I can rip assets for better images...

Thank you!

Coming Back With Some News!

 Hey, well I'm returning to my Skylanders blog site finally, a lot has happened in that time but the best news here is that Lost Islands is no longer, well, lost.

Ta da! Here's a fully functioning guide!

I published a guide alongside the help of another Skylanders fan JesseTheLamest who you can check out their channel here!

Also here's my island so far...

Thank you for taking the time to check out my site!

Today Is my Birthday!

 Today is the 27th, my birthday!

My Skylanders that I ordered last week arrived in the mail today too! I'm turning 16 today!
I don't have my permit yet so getting a license is out of the question for now... I'm hoping that I get some Skylanders today!

Fanart Features

 So while renovating the page I had the idea of holding weekly fanart features!
With permission from the creators of course

Maybe I'll build on this later

Skylanders Lost Islands: Restoration Project

    If you've looked at the helpful links page recently, then you might have noticed that I have added sections for each mobile game and that there is a (currently not functioning) spot for a revived version of Skylanders: Lost Islands in its section.

    Currently, I have started a project to emulate the old servers again to get the game working. I'll be making frequent updates on the blog on the progress of the project.

    If I never finish the project, I'll upload the unfinished code if somebody would ever want to take over from my trashy spaghetti code. Just a note, I know very minimal code, so I wouldn't bet on it being completed anytime soon...

    Ah, I'm only partially joking, don't worry, I'm learning, and I plan on finishing this whole thing.

-Arbo

Helpful Links Page!

We have now made a Helpful Links page! And I hope that you have noticed our new page buttons. I'm working on making them look a bit less sloppy...

The Helpful Links page will be updated frequently with tutorials, files, and other neat stuff for you fellow Skylanders fans.

I'm also working on drawing up a custom banner for our blog so we don't have to use that screenshot anymore for our banner.

Thank you for sticking with us!

New Fanfiction Archive!

Ta-da!

We on The Rift to Skylands blog have now created a Skylanders fanfiction archive as a fun project!

You can find the link here.

We will only be hosting our own original works or the works of those who agree to host them in our archive. We will not be hosting works without the permission of their authors.

If you would like to host your works in our archive don't hesitate to contact me! (Mod General-Robot)

Happy reading!