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To be fair Skylanders were trendsetting somrthing that was bound to happen to all. While I don't own Disney Infinity or any Amiibos, the fact Disney and Nintendo are popular franchise it's pretty cool to have game figures of their popular characters.

Heck Skylanders was perhaps inspired from those video games that come with card scanners, like Mushiking and I think Digimon. So who knows maybe Amiibo and Disney Infinity would of been based on trading cards, though I'd suspect someone would of figured it be great to have collectible figurines with gaming microchips in them.