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The market has seen a turn over the last few years towards selling figurines that interact with video games, providing something additional to the base experience; a physical sort of DLC, if you will. You'd have to had your head buried in the ground these last few years not to have heard about Amiibo - and the shortages as Nintendo vastly underestimate demand and screw up, again - and other, similar experiences such as Skylanders, Lego Dimensions, and Disney Infinity. Marketed more as a platform than a video game (at least outside of Amiibo) these toy-to-life games are generally designed to give players a customisable experience, as well as play through some familiar scenarios.
Recently, despite being obscenely lucrative for the last three years, and having plenty of opportunities for the future, Disney Infinity was announced to be discontinued, supposedly due to increased risk in keeping the franchise competitive, and the game not performing as well as expected...despite calling upon characters from Disney films, Marvel, and Star Wars.
So, in the wake of the passing of Disney Infinity, let's talk about figures and video games again. What do you think of these peripherals/accessories? Are they a good idea, or little better than glorified DLC? Do you own any figures yourself? Are there any characters you'd love to see made into figurines and, if so, what sort of functionality in the game do you think they'd have? Is the death of Disney Infinity a herald of the end of the popularity of toy-to-life games?