Toys For Games 'Cast - Collecting, playing with, and discussing toys-to-life

Look, we can’t always have exciting, big news weeks within the toys-to-life genre, right? As much as we would love to have a packed show full of awesome topics, sometimes we just have to work with the lemons given to us and make lemonade out of them. Besides, with The Great Pumpkin waiting just around the corner, it’s only fitting that this episode is full of more tricks than treats. As David S. Pumpkins would say ... ANY QUESTIONS?

We start off by checking in on the Lightseekers Kickstarter campaign with less than 10 days to go, and we are encouraged by how close they are! Oh, and we may or may not send a desperate plea to the team to possibly allow us to drive their tank. We then break down the newest update to the LEGO Dimensions Collection Vortex app, since it’s the best option we have for keeping track of our collections (*cough*). Then we break down the newly-announced Nintendo Switch and what that might possibly mean for amiibo. And finally, we talk about the best holiday variant for Skylanders and get excited for the upcoming Skylanders Academy show coming to Netflix this weekend.

From there, we read the #CommunityQuestion and awarded a listener a cool prize for having the Response of the Week. We then try to stump the experts with the Inquire This! trivia question which is perfectly timed for the Skylanders Academy series. And finally, we wrapped up the show with some fantastic emails, as always!

All this, and more, only in Episode 94!

Executive Producers:

Jorge Torres!

Our Sponsors:

• SHOW SPONSOR - Devin Laschinski (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dlasch2)
• James Holian (@InfinityMuseum)
• Matt Sonnenberg (@SCLMatt) from SkylandersCharacterList.com and Facebook.com/SkylandersCharacterList
• Micheal O'Driscoll (@amiibo_Museum)
• Christopher Long (@clong83), from Long’s Toys. Check out his YouTube page as well!
• Evan, TheLoneGoldfish (@TheLoneGoldfish). Watch him play games at Twitch.tv/TheLoneGoldfish

Want to become a Sponsor as well? Check out our Patreon page!

A quick roundup of the news from the last week, including:

• Lightseekers Kickstarter half-way mark
• Amiibo functionality coming to NX/mobile?
• Sonic screen shot from LEGO Dimensions
• SKylanders Imaginators launch review

Executive Producer:Jorge Torres!

SHOW SPONSOR - Devin Laschinski (Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dlasch2)

As we’re beginning to finally start enjoying the Fall season - with the exception of a pesky sinus infection - the changing of the leaves and the dropping of temperatures can only mean one thing ... new releases! While we may not be getting the same type of new releases this year as we did in 2015, it’s an exciting time for the toys-to-life community nonetheless. Not every launch can be perfectly smooth though, and even though LEGO Dimensions promises to “break the rules,” Wave 6 seems to breaking more than the rules, unfortunately.

We start off with some typical banter before getting down to the nitty gritty of discussing all the news from the previous week. First, we talk about some Disney Infinity news, and it’s quite bittersweet to have that franchise back on the show. Then we hype up the Customs for a Cure custom amiibo charity auction hosted by Nintendo Wire. We discuss the continued awesomeness of the Lightseekers team and their continued communication with the community. We jump over to Skylanders and talk about some cool bundles available now and some crazy blunders by Activision. Finally, we break down the launch of LEGO Dimensions Wave 6 - both the good and the bad.

From there we grabbed our Pumpkin Spice Lattes, read the #CommunityQuestion and awarded a listener a cool prize for having the Response of the Week. Then we tried to stump the expert with a trivia question submitted by the community for the Inquire This! segment. Finally, we wrapped up the show with some fantastic emails, as always!

All this, and more, only in Episode 90!

Executive Producers: Jorge Torres!

Our Sponsors:

• SHOW SPONSOR - Devin Laschinski (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dlasch2)
• James Holian (@InfinityMuseum)
• Matt Sonnenberg (@SCLMatt) from SkylandersCharacterList.com and Facebook.com/SkylandersCharacterList
• Micheal O'Driscoll (@amiibo_Museum)
• Christopher Long (@clong83), from Long’s Toys. Check out his YouTube page as well!
• Evan, TheLoneGoldfish (@TheLoneGoldfish). Watch him play games at Twitch.tv/TheLoneGoldfish

Want to become a Sponsor as well? Check out our Patreon page!

The moment you all have been waiting for is here! That’s right, it’s the return of Jason to the co-host chair, as he makes his triumphant return for Episode 88. While the world famous - sometimes infamous - toys-to-life podcast is back to its normal form, we had a special topic on this show. Join us on our new adventure into the toys-to-life, as we explore Tantos, seeking the light.

As always, we broke down all the recent news from the tentpole franchises we love to talk about. Before we got to the fun community interactions, however, we got to gush about a new game entering the gaming space we all know and love, which we are just learning about along with the rest of the world. Lightseekers, an ambitious new franchise hoping to bridge the many gaps in the toys-to-life space with refined ideas of how gamers interact with their games.

After learning all about Lightseekers, we jumped over to the #CommunityQuestion and awarded a listener a cool prize for having the Response of the Week. Then we tried to stump the expert with a trivia question submitted by the community for the Inquire This! segment. Finally, we wrapped up the show with some fantastic emails, several of which were in regards to Lightseekers as well!

All this, and more, only in Episode 88!

Executive Producers:

Jorge Torres!

Our Sponsors:

• SHOW SPONSOR - Devin Laschinski (YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/Dlasch2)
• James Holian (@InfinityMuseum)
• Matt Sonnenberg (@SCLMatt) from SkylandersCharacterList.com and Facebook.com/SkylandersCharacterList
• Micheal O'Driscoll (@amiibo_Museum)
• Christopher Long (@clong83), from Long’s Toys. Check out his YouTube page as well!
• Evan, TheLoneGoldfish (@TheLoneGoldfish). Watch him play games at Twitch.tv/TheLoneGoldfish

Want to become a Sponsor as well? Check out our Patreon page!

It’s the dog days of summer, but the heat can’t slow us down on a Friday night full of madness and hilarity. We chat about discontinued fast food items, Santa being booed off the field, overpriced Olympic t-shirts, and an unforgettable and incredibly awkward Periscope from one of the members in our community! Don’t worry, toys fans, we eventually get down to brass tacks and talk about your favorite franchises as well.

Starting off, we have our now weekly Pokemon GO update, before jumping in to talk about the recently released amiibo display stands. Then we glide over to Skylanders to break down the nine new figures unofficially announced and some hilarious rumors from Sweden. We break down the Disney Infinity online server shutdown timeline, which is as big of a mess as you would expect it to be. Finally, we talk all about the news that came from San Diego Comic Con regarding LEGO Dimensions, including Sonic and Wave 7.

The #CommunityQuestion was a tad more emotional than anticipated, and we picked another winner for the Response of the Week. The Inquire This! segment put the expert to the test about Skylanders Battlecast. And finally, we had plenty of great emails from the community. All this and more on Episode 83 of the Toys For Games ‘Cast!

Executive Producers: Jorge Torres!

Our Sponsors:

• SHOW SPONSOR - Devin Laschinski (PSN/XBL: Unrace)
• James Holian (@InfinityMuseum)
• Matt Sonnenberg (@SCLMatt) from SkylandersCharacterList.com and Facebook.com/SkylandersCharacterList
• Micheal O'Driscoll (@amiibo_Museum)
• @AmiiboAmigo, from AmiiboAmigo.com. Also be sure to check him out on Instagram and his new project, @MiitomoDiaries!
• Christopher Long (@clong83), from Long’s Toys. Check out his YouTube page as well!
• Evan, TheLoneGoldfish (@TheLoneGoldfish). Watch him play games at Twitch.tv/TheLoneGoldfish

Want to become a Sponsor as well? Check out our Patreon page!