How Toys-To-Life Became A Global Phenomenon, How Toys-To-Life Products Changed People’s Lives, And How To Earn Revenue As A Producer Of Content About Toys-To-Life Video Games

This essay sheds light on how toys-to-life became a global video game phenomenon, explicate how toys-to-life products changed people’s lives, and expounds upon how to earn revenue as a producer of content about toys-to-life video games. Even though the phrase toys-to-life is an oxymoron since toys are inanimate objects that are devoid of life, it nonetheless delineates a video game feature that allows toys-to-life figures to give off the impression of metaphorically being alive in contexts in which the toys-to-life figures are able to robustly interact with a video game in the fantasy world of a video game. Succinctly stated, “toys-to-life is a video game feature” that utilizes tangible figures to represent fictitious fantasy characters who are able to interact with a video game in the fantasy world of a video game even though these physical figures ironically lack dynamic articulation in real-world settings and are in static poses in real-world settings. Toys-to-life figures are able to harness a “near field communication (NFC), radio frequency identification (RFID), or image recognition data protocol to determine the individual toys-to-life figure’s proximity” to a NFC reader or RFID reader, “and are able to save a player's progress data to a storage medium located” on the “individual toys-to-life figure”, such as on the inside the toys-to-life figure’s base. Toys-to-life figures appeal to gamers since they are able to profusely expand the prodigious character rosters of action-adventure platform video games that double as toys-to-life video games in contexts in which the toys-to-life figures can be utilized as playable characters in toys-to-life video games. Toys-to-life figures appeal to gamers also because toys-to-life figures remind gamers of their favorite mass media franchises in offline settings that the toys-to-life figures are derived from. Toys-to-life figures are redolent of the fictitious fantasy characters who they represent that are derived from beloved mass media franchises. A gamer can also more easily vindicate expending money purchasing toys-to-life figures that are able to serve as playable heroic characters in robust action-adventure platform video games than he can vindicate purchasing downloadable heroic characters for a video game, since toys-to-life figures are tangible items that can potentially interact with a video game and that can double as collectibles.