This one's a quickie on the organization end, because these were already sorted. However I stole their binder for Monster Rancher so they need a new box to go in. This is #Lightseekers

Lightseekers is something I found during the demise of Toys R Us. It was trying to be extremely ambitious and I kind of feel bad it didn't fare better. Basically it was a tcg, a set of toys and a mobile game. Working backwards, the mobile game was kind of a single player MMO style rpg. I played some of it, it was kinda fun. The toys could be linked to the app, item toys gave you items but the character toys would make noises and stuff.

So how do the cards tie into the app stuff? Well, see the little dots along the sides? All the cards are printed with one time use codes with those dots. Once they're scanned into the app they're tied to your account. Which is why there are little cardboard sleeves to the left, they included those so you could show off your card pulls while not giving your codes away. Go ahead and steal mine if there's anything left to scan them into.

As a trading card game, I actually found this one extremely fun. I was expecting...well...very little from a toy pushing mobile game art looking thing I got from a dying toy store. But the mechanics were rock solid. Heavy focus on combos which I love, unusual structure where you get so many action points a turn and have to use those to draw cards so you can forgo drawing for more abilities, and a system where cards had numbers on each corner so you could rotate them for effects that change from turn to turn.

So what happened to all of this? Well, the toys and the cards ended up not making enough money, but rather than scrap it, they turned the game into a pure digital TCG. I haven't checked, it may still be around. But I found it wholly disappointing mostly because the UI made it extremely hard to see what the cards in your hand did if they weren't memorized. Interestingly, I saw some of the old toys kicking around an Ollie's just in the last year, but I believe I got them all from Toys R Us.

Anyway, I still have a soft spot in my heart for lightseekers, I think if it had been marketed for a slightly older serious TCG audience and not kids to sell toys to it could have made it a lot bigger. You need a big ad budget to sell to kids. If you ever come across some of the old starter decks cheap somewhere grab them, it's really fun.