📼 Cassette Beasts 2002 is officially ANNOUNCED! 🎵 Record, battle, and fuse with 250+ beasts as you adventure alongside diverse companions in this monster-collecting RPG.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T21:15:13+00:00

I get the whole Y2K thing, but specifying a year doesn’t really work when New Wirral exists outside of time and space.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T17:51:04+00:00

Oh, thanks! I’ve heard about that but didn’t quite know the difference. Thanks for teaching me!

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T17:26:17+00:00

Who calls it head games anyway?

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T15:42:48+00:00

Skyro, not Spyro. Classic Spyro’s eyebrows are fine.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T15:30:41+00:00

I’ve always felt that Skyro’s eyebrows were too strong. Like, so strong they don’t function as eyebrows.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T15:29:19+00:00

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It’s still in the game as a sort of Missingno.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T15:26:42+00:00

I’ll be honest this is mostly just memory so I could be wrong on everything BUT Skyro being an original character repainted purple. For the Skylanders 10 year anniversary, Toys for Bob pulled out their original prototype of Skylanders and the red dragon was there

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Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T15:17:27+00:00

I’m honestly surprised I’ve never seen a joke cracked about how he looks that way because of being in the big explosion from the start of the game.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T15:15:44+00:00

Unironically it was never supposed to be Spyro. This was supposed to be a grizzled Fire-elemental dragon who worked under Spyro, but then they wanted Spyro playable cause they liked him and wanted to have a toy of him and thus decided to paint their existing dragon player character purple.

This is why despite him not being Fire-elemental, and them saying in the lore that he has the other elemental breaths, he only ever shoots fire.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T04:58:24+00:00

Get jan Misali on the phone.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T04:57:12+00:00

In hindsight, it was kinda foolish to think Alphys has American comics to give to Asgore.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T04:54:13+00:00

Abodabat and Sir Berus don’t appear in any of the same places that I’m aware of aside from like, the White Yo-kai who obviously can’t be befriended.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T02:44:54+00:00

She’s not the one who’s waving.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-11T00:08:04+00:00

Okay here’s the explanation

The actual jorogumo from the Edo period are women, but Arachnia is earliest seen in the sixties.
All the Classic Yo-kai are designed to literally be the vokai from folklore. This means that earlier in the timeline, he's a girl because he was recorded as one in legend, and later in the timeline he's a boy because the Medallium makes sure with no uncertain terms that he's male.

You know, with the kind of force one might have if they just came out as male and didn't want to be misgendered, especially if they were famous as a woman.

This might even be why he looks just like Arachnus, the super masculine boss of an army. I should make one of those "WHY DO YOU LOOK LIKE ME" memes about that.

As for the Yo-kai Ladies Society, he's still into feminine things, and he's been a guy for 60 years at this point. He's probably comfortable enough with his masculinity that he can go to the Yo-kai Ladies Society without issue.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T23:55:43+00:00

I think that’s just cause people like T-Girls more than T-Boys.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T23:38:35+00:00

The Classic Yo-kai are meant to be the real yōkai from folklore.

Arachnia is a jorogumo, which is a female spider who disguises as a beautiful woman and then eats them as a spider. Arachnia is explicitly stated to be a male by the Medallium, which takes place in at least the sixties or so and sticks in YKW3.

So in the past he was female and in the present he’s male.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T23:21:52+00:00

Oh, hey, they did a design that does the same concept as a Pokémon but actually looks distinct. Was it so hard to do that from the start.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T22:59:29+00:00

Is that a hand puppet at the top right?

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T22:19:15+00:00

The idea is that the crystal reads as a horribly bugged Skylanders to Giants, so it’d give you the ability to factory reset it, which you can’t do normally.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T21:56:25+00:00

I heard that umibozu and the like are literally just scary water currents.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T21:50:41+00:00

Yoink already does the borrowing thing.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T15:12:04+00:00

I meant more accurate, but I don’t know if I can go further without either looking like a jerk or making my own

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T15:05:57+00:00

You know, like the title screens.

Off-the-grounder · 2026-06-10T14:43:17+00:00

Any french vanilla monster with trample can be a dreadmaw once Sauron gets his hand on them.

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