Dean Takahashi's Skylanders creation.
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Meet Fire Smasher, my very own Skylanders Imaginators figure

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Skylanders Imaginators has a new way to engage its players: enabling you to make an action figure, T-shirt, and playing card. And I have taken advantage of this to create my own character: Fire Smasher.

It is not particularly inspired as far as 3D-printed toy characters go, but it is my own. As humble as my Skylander is, this is quite possibly the beginning of an era of mass customization for toys, technology, and video games. As you can see, the developers of the $3 billion game franchise decided to finally let fans take charge.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.