At any point while playing it have someone press A on controller two, instantly turns into a co-op game, also it's great if they need to check on something or head away because if they remove the skylander they are using from the portal they can press B at the portal screen to drop out again, you can also have a second player drop in and the first player drop out, it really is fantastic the way the co-op in it is so seemless, no leaving the game, menus or anything, just someone else drop a second skylander on the portal and press A to join you.

The way the games handle the 2 figures on screen is all slightly different but mostly involves the same mechanic, it is full screen co op so you can't go too far from each other without rubber banding back in, and in trap team if you fall off something you get ported next to each other fairly quickly, can make some platforming parts in Trap team very tough, one time we just had to have one player sit out for a piece which was just too hard with the rubber band effect pulling us out of the air mid jump pad.

Can imagine your collection looks pretty cool already... I wonder if you have noticed anything about the toy figures! Something I only seen myself before Xmas but on checking it was something they've had on them since 2011, Just, if you got a shelf where the toys all are lined up take a look at them tonight when you're heading towards bed! After the lights are off! (literally took me 5 years to notice it) Also you mentioned having issues getting the light dark traps, those came with a pack ... more a base expansion for the game, tis a strange one but I'm not sure if they are a special circumstance to be able to use them in trap team, they cost a fortune here so I never bought into it, just the 8 base element traps for me.... and KAAOOOOOOOOOSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS, because well.... Kaos!

Oh! Side note, if you are using an early version of the portal of power (pre swap force) and you go into co-op mode in a later game, you can't actually co-op while one person is using a swap force figure (the ones in 2 halves) Each portion of those figures counts as an NFC figure and the original portals were not designed to transmit the data of 3-4 skylanders figures at the same time... old portals work fine for the new games and figures while single player tho... just not co op!

Then we're in a similar boat because it was the $60 price tag ($64 after US sales tax) that reeled me in.  What first attracted me to the franchise was the Doctor Who level pack so the starter pack being on sale sealed the deal.  At the time, I could have had it for $60 from Amazon (no tax and shipping cost), but I wanted to ensure I picked a box in mint condition.

I will admit that after playing the first two levels of Dimensions, it quelled my curiosity.  Just last night, I was playing Hyperdimention Neptunia U and started the first Assassins Creed (you read that right).  And I thought that I would not have missed Dimensions if I hadn't bought into it.  But I'm glad I did because it's a light hearted romp of an adventure.  It's very novel, and putting together the LEGO added an extra... dimension to the game play.  $7.50 for a fun pack is ALMOST worth the price alone to build the LEGO.  There was no way I would have bought into this if I had to purchase most everything at full price.

Nothing at all.

The only game (or game series) I would even consider playing is Skylanders.

Do it.... the first skylanders are free! With the start packs >.>

Run, while you still can! ganoncrotch has strong persuasion levels. 😒

The main difference between Disney Infinity and Skyladers, is that in Skylanders you can play the whole game with any Skylader and from past games too. In Infinity, you can only play the characters that the levels were made for, unless you play in Toybox. Due to this, I have been leaning towards Skylanders now as my main Toys to Life game. It's also the reason I want to keep buyinig more.

Hum, probably spent over $800 on Amiibos.

I was a little disappointed the way that cross compatibility works, or rather I should say doesn't work with Infinity . 

The Star Wars figures work in the other Star Wars playsets once unlocked, but that should be a given since they were all released for the same Ver. 3.0 and there are less than 20 total. 

I didn't run into hitches until after picking up older Ver. 2.0 figures and a play set. Ultron is a 3.0 character that works with 2.0 sets, but the 2.0 sets require Ver. 2.0 Toy Box to work. Not really worth buying a downgrade license for backwards compatibility. 

The whole notion of ridiculous franchise breaking cross play (ie. Marvel Heroes in Star Wars and vice versa) does not work within the franchise themed playsets although you can play in Toy Box designed franchise theme levels. It was a little weird flying around as Ironman shooting at TIE fighters but probably not as weird as it would be playing the story of Star Wars as Thor. 

So Infinity does limit the fun with franchise based licensed characters a bit, but it's ocurred to me that Infinity is more of a game builder tool set along the lines of Little Big Planet, which is good for designers, but I would like to see the Toy Box itself to be more like Minecraft with customization and content based upgrades.

Yeah, it totally sneaks up on you.

The mistake was buying without the intention of playing. Or was the mistake wanting to play after having a couple figures?

The problem, at least with the Disney Infinity figures and sets, is that they frequently go on sale from what I've seen, which makes it easier to justify picking them up. 

For me, it's really just a licensing thing since Disney owns Marvel and Lucasfilm. Even then, it wasn't until they added Star Wars that I started looking at the figures. If Infinity was just original Disney IPs, I wouldn't have bought anything. 

The ability to play in the Star Wars universe was pretty much what tipped the scale for me. Along with the game being on sale digitally. Marvel did nothing for me. Once I started buying the characters, I saw how much cheaper the older ones could be bought at, so I decided to start collecting the older ones first. Eventually the newer ones will be cheaper than they are now. So yeah, the Star Wars hype played a role, since I just finished a Clone Wars marathon and all. 😆