Then Bob Igor decided to be cheapskate and cancelled because all they did was lose a little bit on money.😒 I still am salty we never got 4.0 thanks a lot Bob the worst Disney CEO ever I am talking about Igor.
I known Disney company wants do other games instead not continue Disney infinity games series but wb owned it they done work on it they released on August 25, 2024 called it’s Disney Infinity 4.0: The Muppets and Fox Edition (2024) released on this Platform(s) PlayStation 4 PlayStation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series S|X Nintendo Switch Microsoft Windows
The sad thing about Lego Dimensions is that it had plans for a third year run, which the last thing of lego dimensions was Teen Titans Go, Beetlejuice, and Powerpuff girls and they never got to finish it they had plans to add Minecraft, Looney tunes and more
Same. My favorite game franchise. It created my childhood and took a meaty chop out of my parents wallet but it was worth it! Activision made skylanders what did you do dad?
As I skylanders fan I really appreciate this video as it gives an objective look on each game instead of arguing about Spyro or if the games are good or not it was genuinely refreshing to see such a well made video from such an underrated channel!
Skylanders reeled me back in with its afterlife fishing pole. I’ve like spent $80-$90 dollars, just because I wanted to collect the figures and wasn’t paying attention over the last month. Not my proudest moment.
@@Robertwozneylover4635 Yeah, I got 16 figures, 3 games, two vehicles, and the Sky racing trophy. One of the vehicles was the Barrel Blaster which was half the usual price if I payed over 10 bucks with it in a bundle with some other figures.
Wish they could eventually do that for Lego Dimensions, but its portal is way more involved. They’d either have to awkwardly simulate it or remake the puzzles from scratch to work without the portals
Just something to note on the giants part. Giants introduced a difficulty option which SSA didn’t had before and will stay for the rest of the series. And if you beat the game during the first playthrough you will unlock a even harder difficulty know as nightmare mode. And boy there aren’t joking when they say nightmare especially on Trap Team and Giants. You will definitely struggle a lot. Besides that good vid
Believe it or not, they actually DID have a thing where you could have your Imaginators be made as actual toys. They had an app called "Skylanders: Creator" that was released along side the main "Imaginators" game where people could design their Imaginators in the exact same manner. They could then submit their designs and pay money to have them be made as an actual functional Skylander toy. This was able to be done either as the standard figure, which was poorly made in a dome-like case for its protection, or as a trading card, which the portal was able to scan like the main toy and was the cooler option in my opinion.
This makes me wish I was still into the Skylanders games. I absolutely loved the first one and I played some of Giants, but nothing past that. My younger brothers played Swap Force, at least, and I thought that gimmick was really neat.
the sad fact is as well, is that I, along with a ton of other people would immediately buy out the whole wave plus everything else if another skylanders or lego dimensions came out
I'm planning to make my own Toys-to-life game called Toysters. It's basically Pokémon combined with Yu-Gi-Oh using toys. Like Pokémon, you travel around the land challenge people with monsters to battle and have to challenge eight elemental specialists to become the champion. And like Yu-Gi-Oh, you use cards to attack. Okay, maybe the card system is more like Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The cards instruct your Toyster how to attack and dodge in these turn-based battles. Oh, and the game will have two player characters, a boy and a girl. They are brother and sister who set off on their own journeys. Since the toy industry had often segregated their toys by gender, there are Toysters that only the boy character could use and Toysters for the girl. Though, that's more of an incentive to switch between the two characters when you want to use your full collection. Your Dad will give the two heroes the Toysters from the Starter Pack: Howdy Bumpy for the boy, and Princess Aliconey for the girl. The two human characters you play as will be fully customizable as you can change clothes you collected and get haircuts at salons.
That actually sounds great and am totally on board with a indie Toys-To-Life game. The only issue is how on earth would you be able to sell the figures.
@@theTadpolshrimpl3425 That might have to come later after I become a best-selling author with a popular movie franchise. Maybe whoever I negotiate with to make the merchandise for my movies could make the Toyster figures. I can't make the Toysters now because I don't have a 3D printer. And besides, the indie game I'm focusing on now is Speed Prix, the Crash Team Racing clone.
Hopefully skylanders will return at end of skylanders giants 10th anniversary video they said something about right around the corner 2 years from now it’s 2024 so hopefully they’ll announce a new game or just 10th anniversary trap team we can still hope
Thank you for this video. I am still playing these games. Skylanders continuously and Disney Infinity and Legos Dimensions occasionally. Get that 1.0 pack. I am sure you can find It on the internet for sale. Its also good gameplay with the figures. I know, I have it. Just get the 1.0 You won't be sorry. You said no one cares that these games ended but, I care and so do many others. I hate it but nothing I can do about it. I really enjoyed playing with other players toy box creations in Disney Infinity. I was crushed when they turned off the servers. I still play on occassion but its not the same without the servers. I am still playing Skylanders. I have Legos Dimensions but I have not played it in a while. I will probably get back into that over the summer. I wish they would bring these games back now by popular demand. I believe they would be successful today. More so today than before. I don't know about the figure collecting though. Maybe use the DLC for getting the figures. I feel the actual figures today would be very expensive, would be hard to find and collect this day in age with scalpers and the use of buy bots making it difficult to buy from the internet and needing to stand in a long line at a store to maybe not even get a Skylander depending on how many were sent to a store. Usually not very many. I use to work at Toys R us doing this era and they would get like 3 or 4 boxes with like 6 in a box and we were able to hang them up on the shelves. No one was waiting to get them so, today not everybody would get one if this will be the same shipments to stores as before. Like this last series of Animal Crossing cards. Target got like 2 boxes of cards. 1 pack per customer. Not everybody in line got a pack of cards. You won't see walls full of figure packs like before. Those days are gone. Those were the fun days though. To go to the store. Walk to the video game section and see a wall full of figures. It was exciting. Those were the fun times now gone😢
I think Spyro's Adventure is okay but completely lacks replayability, but I love giants very much and have a good time getting all the collectibles in the levels, figuring out how to make it through on hard/nightmare mode, and watching the story unfold, and it's much more fun to me generally.
Replay IS Collecting ALL The Hats & IF Complicated, Get Hats in Later Games & THEN Use Same Figurines in Older Games & They'll Unlock SOME Harder To Find Ones... It's RLY Cool.
Toys to Life carried my tween years and teenage years. Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions was the best ones! I only played Skylanders Spyros Adventure then Giants after that Disney Infinity,Disney Infinity 2.0,Disney Infinity 3.0,and Lego Dimensions.
Kinda interesting that Imaginators is your favorite Game in the Series because it's the most unpolular Entry in the Series. About which one is considered the best: That's pretty split up among Fans.
People do buy Amiibo for their in game stuff...the largest recent one was the entire fiasco with Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's Switch release where the Zelda & Loftwing Amiibo that released with it gave quick travel...and the massive issue in finding a lot of the ones with some of the special stuff became nearly impossible to find for a while whenever a game with them came out such as Tears of the Kingdom, Splatoon 2 &3, Monster Hunter, and Smash...and that's without some of the ones like the Metroid game that locked harder difficulties behind amiibos. I think that Amiibos kind of shifted what they were with taking some of the stuff from the Toys to Life and mixed it with other things there since all of the games tended to have them as added features rather than the main event there
Ya wanna know something funny: They consider Imaginators to be the best skylanders game, but (most) Skylanders fans say it's the worst game in the series.
ABSOLUTE COOLEST Part Of Skylanders is That You Can STILL Use Older Figurines in ALL Later Iterations Of The Games, Like "Spyro's Advent" Ones in GIANTS; in #SWAPForce To TrapTeam To SuperChargers & Even Use Same Ones On 3DS!
4:56 half of the Skylanders games were already planned out before Spyros adventure released so to say it was giants was a lousy guess for a gimmick is kind of contradictory
2 cool things about the toys to life Is that the bowser and donkey kong skylanders could also be used as amiibos! Also you could order a physical figure of your custom skylander online! I rlly miss dimensions and wish they would make a second one, Just maybe without the toys to life feature. There was so many universes but it was kinda ruined by the fact all the cutscenes had the same 3 characters over and over again.
ALSO, IF You Own Wii & 3DS Versions Of The Games, Then Internet ISN'T Required. As Stats & Names Are Saved Within EACH Figurine OR TrapTotem & Even THOSE Can STILL Be Used in SuperChargers!
It was a good idea... But also a horrible one. It put content behind a paywall (which always sucks) but at least in the lego game it gave you a functional toy outside the game.
Someone did a pole in the Skylanders community. About if they are a fan because of the games, or the collecting. And the majority said the latter. I’m kinda in the middle. I don’t care about the gameplay that much, it’s seeing my Skylanders in game, leveling them up, collecting them, wasting tons of money on them… Oh what the? Who put that there? But yeah, those first three reasons contributes to it. I also just like many of the characters featured because of their design, lore, gameplay, personality. But let’s be honest, it’s mostly design.
I Have A TON Of Infinity 2.0 Avengers & ENTIRE Collection Of 3.0 SrarWars, Yet DO NOT Own ANY NextGen Consoles To Use Them with. But DID Get 1st Infinity On Wii & A Few Figurines... It Honestly WASN'T Much Fun, As #SandboxMode Was Dull & Repetitive!
Giants inproved on ssa so much but the typical person isnt gona see it,only the better skylander players will notice the true differences,like how skylanders giants doesnt just have the regular difficulty modes but also has SCALING,making giants alone more advanced than swap force since swap force doesnt even have scaling at all, yet another " how toys to life died" clone in the sea of yt,and tbh all of us skylander enjoyers are sick of them,its just the als toy barn buzz shelf all over again.
Sorry you didn’t enjoy the video, but to be honest I don’t think you watched the whole thing. This video was not a “how toys to life died” video, yes I briefly touched on that since it did happen but overall the video was just me reviewing games I enjoyed as a kid. Also difficulty scaling doesn’t make Giants a masterpiece since it’s really not noticeable at all. While I can see why you like Giants more than swap force, I think saying that it is more advanced than swap force just isn’t accurate.
Look don’t get me wrong I like giants and do agree with you about giants. But I won’t consider it to be “the best” when it’s just SSA but with a difficulty option and post game contact.
@@theTadpolshrimpl3425 ive seen that "giants is just ssa" argument everywhere and all they all end the same way,the person going back to giants only to find out they were wrong and find out giants fixed everything wrong with ssa while adding post game and difficulty and also adding better level design,better boss design,better everything,isnt that what a sequel is MEANT to do?,yea.. it is.
Hell no. I knew Activision way too well to know they will definitely add a gacha system The characters should just have the TtL functionality but they are also digitally lockable by doing certain in game achievements Basically, just make the TtL functionality optional.
the sad about Disney Infinity is that there was gonna be a forth game that would've addressed your main point of criticism but it got canceled.
Then Bob Igor decided to be cheapskate and cancelled because all they did was lose a little bit on money.😒 I still am salty we never got 4.0 thanks a lot Bob the worst Disney CEO ever I am talking about Igor.
What changes were planned?
I known Disney company wants do other games instead not continue Disney infinity games series but wb owned it they done work on it they released on August 25, 2024 called it’s Disney Infinity 4.0: The Muppets and Fox Edition (2024) released on this Platform(s)
PlayStation 4
PlayStation 5
Xbox One
Xbox Series S|X
Nintendo Switch
Microsoft Windows
Autism alert
The sad thing about Lego Dimensions is that it had plans for a third year run, which the last thing of lego dimensions was Teen Titans Go, Beetlejuice, and Powerpuff girls and they never got to finish it they had plans to add Minecraft, Looney tunes and more
I'm so happy that people are recongnizing skylanders again.
Same. My favorite game franchise. It created my childhood and took a meaty chop out of my parents wallet but it was worth it! Activision made skylanders what did you do dad?
Something you forgot about imaginators: they had a service where you could order your own imaginator figure that could work in the game.
As I skylanders fan I really appreciate this video as it gives an objective look on each game instead of arguing about Spyro or if the games are good or not it was genuinely refreshing to see such a well made video from such an underrated channel!
Skylanders reeled me back in with its afterlife fishing pole.
I’ve like spent $80-$90 dollars, just because I wanted to collect the figures and wasn’t paying attention over the last month. Not my proudest moment.
I’ve spent way more, but honestly they are so cheap nowadays it’s worth it to buy a nice big collection
@@Robertwozneylover4635 Yeah, I got 16 figures, 3 games, two vehicles, and the Sky racing trophy. One of the vehicles was the Barrel Blaster which was half the usual price if I payed over 10 bucks with it in a bundle with some other figures.
I’ve spent over 300 in the past 2 weeks 😂trying to collect all my Disney and skylanders back in so glad I got money now .
My major problem with Imaginators is how overpowered they make the enemies and senseis. Making your previous Skylanders worthless.
Not sure about the others but the Lego ones ARE DLC with access locked to the toy, not already in the game.
Disney infinity has a gold version of each that are actually pretty great for the price.
Wish they could eventually do that for Lego Dimensions, but its portal is way more involved. They’d either have to awkwardly simulate it or remake the puzzles from scratch to work without the portals
Just something to note on the giants part. Giants introduced a difficulty option which SSA didn’t had before and will stay for the rest of the series. And if you beat the game during the first playthrough you will unlock a even harder difficulty know as nightmare mode. And boy there aren’t joking when they say nightmare especially on Trap Team and Giants. You will definitely struggle a lot.
Besides that good vid
The best Crash Bandicoot design is weirdly his Imaginators figure
Believe it or not, they actually DID have a thing where you could have your Imaginators be made as actual toys. They had an app called "Skylanders: Creator" that was released along side the main "Imaginators" game where people could design their Imaginators in the exact same manner. They could then submit their designs and pay money to have them be made as an actual functional Skylander toy. This was able to be done either as the standard figure, which was poorly made in a dome-like case for its protection, or as a trading card, which the portal was able to scan like the main toy and was the cooler option in my opinion.
This makes me wish I was still into the Skylanders games. I absolutely loved the first one and I played some of Giants, but nothing past that. My younger brothers played Swap Force, at least, and I thought that gimmick was really neat.
There's still cheap ways to play the games. Check out emulators or NFC cards
the sad fact is as well, is that I, along with a ton of other people would immediately buy out the whole wave plus everything else if another skylanders or lego dimensions came out
She Krypt My King till I $60 on Ebay😔
Ro-bow still $400 unboxed 💀💀
I'm planning to make my own Toys-to-life game called Toysters.
It's basically Pokémon combined with Yu-Gi-Oh using toys. Like Pokémon, you travel around the land challenge people with monsters to battle and have to challenge eight elemental specialists to become the champion. And like Yu-Gi-Oh, you use cards to attack. Okay, maybe the card system is more like Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories. The cards instruct your Toyster how to attack and dodge in these turn-based battles.
Oh, and the game will have two player characters, a boy and a girl. They are brother and sister who set off on their own journeys. Since the toy industry had often segregated their toys by gender, there are Toysters that only the boy character could use and Toysters for the girl. Though, that's more of an incentive to switch between the two characters when you want to use your full collection. Your Dad will give the two heroes the Toysters from the Starter Pack: Howdy Bumpy for the boy, and Princess Aliconey for the girl.
The two human characters you play as will be fully customizable as you can change clothes you collected and get haircuts at salons.
That actually sounds great and am totally on board with a indie Toys-To-Life game. The only issue is how on earth would you be able to sell the figures.
@@theTadpolshrimpl3425 That might have to come later after I become a best-selling author with a popular movie franchise. Maybe whoever I negotiate with to make the merchandise for my movies could make the Toyster figures.
I can't make the Toysters now because I don't have a 3D printer.
And besides, the indie game I'm focusing on now is Speed Prix, the Crash Team Racing clone.
Hopefully skylanders will return at end of skylanders giants 10th anniversary video they said something about right around the corner 2 years from now it’s 2024 so hopefully they’ll announce a new game or just 10th anniversary trap team we can still hope
Top tier vid right here, TTL forever!
I love toys to life would buy thousands worth if they came back
There actually would have been a main story in 4.0
i like skylander :)
i havent played disney infinity or lego dimensions yet but they look fun too
20:56
Technically they were in every game. Just not this size.
I really want toys to life to come back
Atleast we still have amiibo but it’s not the same 😭
I want the games to come back not the concept
I would love skylanders to comeback collecting figures is my life
i loved this
Thank you for this video. I am still playing these games. Skylanders continuously and Disney Infinity and Legos Dimensions occasionally.
Get that 1.0 pack. I am sure you can find It on the internet for sale. Its also good gameplay with the figures. I know, I have it. Just get the 1.0 You won't be sorry.
You said no one cares that these games ended but, I care and so do many others. I hate it but nothing I can do about it. I really enjoyed playing with other players toy box creations in Disney Infinity. I was crushed when they turned off the servers. I still play on occassion but its not the same without the servers. I am still playing Skylanders. I have Legos Dimensions but I have not played it in a while. I will probably get back into that over the summer. I wish they would bring these games back now by popular demand.
I believe they would be successful today. More so today than before. I don't know about the figure collecting though. Maybe use the DLC for getting the figures. I feel the actual figures today would be very expensive, would be hard to find and collect this day in age with scalpers and the use of buy bots making it difficult to buy from the internet and needing to stand in a long line at a store to maybe not even get a Skylander depending on how many were sent to a store. Usually not very many. I use to work at Toys R us doing this era and they would get like 3 or 4 boxes with like 6 in a box and we were able to hang them up on the shelves. No one was waiting to get them so, today not everybody would get one if this will be the same shipments to stores as before.
Like this last series of Animal Crossing cards. Target got like 2 boxes of cards. 1 pack per customer. Not everybody in line got a pack of cards.
You won't see walls full of figure packs like before. Those days are gone. Those were the fun days though. To go to the store. Walk to the video game section and see a wall full of figures. It was exciting. Those were the fun times now gone😢
I can see the scott the woz inspiration, great video btw
Sometimes he even sounds like Scott, like the cadence of his voice
I think Spyro's Adventure is okay but completely lacks replayability, but I love giants very much and have a good time getting all the collectibles in the levels, figuring out how to make it through on hard/nightmare mode, and watching the story unfold, and it's much more fun to me generally.
Replay IS Collecting
ALL The Hats & IF
Complicated, Get Hats in
Later Games & THEN
Use Same Figurines in
Older Games & They'll
Unlock SOME Harder To
Find Ones... It's RLY Cool.
If you would pay a bit of money they would make a Skylander figure of your imaginator
giants is the best skylanders game, fact
I fucking love toys! WE THE BEST MUSIC!
Toys to Life carried my tween years and teenage years. Disney Infinity and Lego Dimensions was the best ones! I only played Skylanders Spyros Adventure then Giants after that Disney Infinity,Disney Infinity 2.0,Disney Infinity 3.0,and Lego Dimensions.
Kinda interesting that Imaginators is your favorite Game in the Series because it's the most unpolular Entry in the Series.
About which one is considered the best: That's pretty split up among Fans.
SWAPForce & TrapTeam!
People do buy Amiibo for their in game stuff...the largest recent one was the entire fiasco with Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword's Switch release where the Zelda & Loftwing Amiibo that released with it gave quick travel...and the massive issue in finding a lot of the ones with some of the special stuff became nearly impossible to find for a while whenever a game with them came out such as Tears of the Kingdom, Splatoon 2 &3, Monster Hunter, and Smash...and that's without some of the ones like the Metroid game that locked harder difficulties behind amiibos.
I think that Amiibos kind of shifted what they were with taking some of the stuff from the Toys to Life and mixed it with other things there since all of the games tended to have them as added features rather than the main event there
Ya wanna know something funny:
They consider Imaginators to be the best skylanders game, but (most) Skylanders fans say it's the worst game in the series.
ABSOLUTE COOLEST
Part Of Skylanders is
That You Can STILL Use
Older Figurines in ALL
Later Iterations Of The
Games, Like "Spyro's
Advent" Ones in GIANTS;
in #SWAPForce To TrapTeam To SuperChargers & Even
Use Same Ones On 3DS!
22:27 You could sell the lego Dimensions minifigures to me?
You forgot amiibo dude
22:27 - “Anybody know what I should do with these things now?”
You should put them in a JAR-
Nah but fr, if you ain’t want them, I’ll legit take’em.
Bro is trying so hard to be Scott the woz
4:56 half of the Skylanders games were already planned out before Spyros adventure released so to say it was giants was a lousy guess for a gimmick is kind of contradictory
2 cool things about the toys to life Is that the bowser and donkey kong skylanders could also be used as amiibos! Also you could order a physical figure of your custom skylander online!
I rlly miss dimensions and wish they would make a second one, Just maybe without the toys to life feature. There was so many universes but it was kinda ruined by the fact all the cutscenes had the same 3 characters over and over again.
Lets all agree, amiibo are terrible
ok so what you do is a Skylander nuzlocke live stream to get more enjoyment out of this stuff, if you want at least, I would watch it
Just give it to a local video game store or donate it. And even the toy pad and toy tag too.
Would buy starlink its a great game (buy it when its on sale)
ALSO, IF You Own Wii &
3DS Versions Of The
Games, Then Internet
ISN'T Required. As Stats &
Names Are Saved
Within EACH Figurine
OR TrapTotem & Even
THOSE Can STILL Be
Used in SuperChargers!
skylander swap force is the best
My favorites are Lego dimensions and Skylanders
I dont get why you couldnt buy disney infinity 1.0 for this game its like $1
Hi legoGuy how are you $ amzing video
Let's be honest disney Infinity was just pretty much A Gmod rip off At the Dollar Tree That had constant microtransactions lol
It was a good idea... But also a horrible one.
It put content behind a paywall (which always sucks) but at least in the lego game it gave you a functional toy outside the game.
Angry birds star wars telepods?
i lik goblo
Would digital purchasing be an alternative to buying toys?
🥇 Skylanders 🥈 Disney Infinity 🥉 Lego Dimensions
Why is Lego dimensions 3RD
I’ve spent over £300 on skylanders and have a £500 collection
Why does nobody talk about lego dimensions
Someone did a pole in the Skylanders community. About if they are a fan because of the games, or the collecting. And the majority said the latter.
I’m kinda in the middle. I don’t care about the gameplay that much, it’s seeing my Skylanders in game, leveling them up, collecting them, wasting tons of money on them…
Oh what the? Who put that there?
But yeah, those first three reasons contributes to it. I also just like many of the characters featured because of their design, lore, gameplay, personality. But let’s be honest, it’s mostly design.
😐 i love making the same Video about the "fall of ttl" as everyone else🗣‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️
Do you mind generously donating me all of your toys to life figures? Thanks.
I Have A TON Of Infinity
2.0 Avengers & ENTIRE
Collection Of 3.0 SrarWars,
Yet DO NOT Own ANY
NextGen Consoles To
Use Them with. But DID
Get 1st Infinity On Wii &
A Few Figurines... It
Honestly WASN'T Much
Fun, As #SandboxMode
Was Dull & Repetitive!
Giants inproved on ssa so much but the typical person isnt gona see it,only the better skylander players will notice the true differences,like how skylanders giants doesnt just have the regular difficulty modes but also has SCALING,making giants alone more advanced than swap force since swap force doesnt even have scaling at all, yet another " how toys to life died" clone in the sea of yt,and tbh all of us skylander enjoyers are sick of them,its just the als toy barn buzz shelf all over again.
Sorry you didn’t enjoy the video, but to be honest I don’t think you watched the whole thing. This video was not a “how toys to life died” video, yes I briefly touched on that since it did happen but overall the video was just me reviewing games I enjoyed as a kid. Also difficulty scaling doesn’t make Giants a masterpiece since it’s really not noticeable at all. While I can see why you like Giants more than swap force, I think saying that it is more advanced than swap force just isn’t accurate.
@@brodgi_tbh i did enjoy the vid, u did put alot of effort into it and also to the rest of ur vids,i respect that
Look don’t get me wrong I like giants and do agree with you about giants.
But I won’t consider it to be “the best” when it’s just SSA but with a difficulty option and post game contact.
@@theTadpolshrimpl3425 ive seen that "giants is just ssa" argument everywhere and all they all end the same way,the person going back to giants only to find out they were wrong and find out giants fixed everything wrong with ssa while adding post game and difficulty and also adding better level design,better boss design,better everything,isnt that what a sequel is MEANT to do?,yea.. it is.
Give them to me
If anything, they could continue these franchises, but just replace toys with microtransactions.
Edit: Or something more preferrable.
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hell no. I knew Activision way too well to know they will definitely add a gacha system
The characters should just have the TtL functionality but they are also digitally lockable by doing certain in game achievements
Basically, just make the TtL functionality optional.