Skylander: Looking for input

[Pilsner12]

Looking to the gaming community on CP to draw on their knowledge of the Skylander video game series. We were handed down a rather large set of characters and games for the Nintendo Wii. Our Wii died before we ever got to play and to be honest from what I can read I am not sure they are my sons thing.

My questions are:
1.) Is their any value to them? (I'm guessing so to the right person)
2.) If so what is the value?
3.) Is there anyone interested in purchasing them?

I am doing this on behalf of my 9 year old who want's to use the money from the sale to put towards purchasing his own gaming equipment.

TIA

[KTrain]

I saw dozens at Value Village for 3/$2.99 but then I went to Video Game Trader a month later and they were selling for $5-10 each but had lots. I don't think there's really a big market for them anymore. Maybe some of the rarer ones but they're not making games anymore so it's really just retro collector value.

[Ashartus]

Probably not much, a few years ago my son played for a while and I bought a big box full 2nd hand for about $10. Maybe worth more if you have the game and platform and it is for a relatively current console, but if yours was on the Wii that presumably isn't the case.

[sumdood]

Agree with what the others said. Most likely not much value in them now. Possibly to the right person as you mentioned, but it may take a long time to find said person.

Not sure if this helps, but the skylander portal(s) and figures are compatible with any console. Any characters/portals are forward compatible, but newer portals/characters won't work on an older game. As long as you have the game disc for the console, the skylander hardware will work.

I would be interested in any characters that I don't have as my younger kids sometimes pull out skylanders to play every so often, but I don't think I would offer the kind of cash that would contribute to new gaming equipment. They have a lot already, so only if I can find some for very cheap.

[Sr. Mints]

Skylanders, Lego Dimensions, Amiibo -they all sorta just died, yes? Any particular reason? I assumed because of the apparent popularity 5-10 years ago they were a license to print money.