Hammer Slam Bowser Amiibo

Hammer Slam Bowser is the Skylanders SuperChargers crossover figure, which is its own weird sentence to write. Activision's 2015 toys-to-life entry made specific Bowser and Donkey Kong variants that work on both the Skylanders portal AND as Nintendo amiibos at the same time. Dual-functional. Unprecedented in the line. The figure released September 20, 2015 alongside Skylanders SuperChargers, in Bowser's slightly more cartoonish Skylanders-look character art.

He's a busy little figure. Tap on Skylanders SuperChargers for Skylanders content; tap on Smash Ultimate for the figure-player slot (Bowser is a fighter); tap on Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and the broader Bowser-supporting Switch lineup.

He sits in a strange collector category. The Skylanders-version of a Mario character means the figure exists at the intersection of two toys-to-life systems that briefly coordinated before Skylanders shut down. The Skylanders franchise ended in 2017, which makes this figure one of the few permanent artifacts of the brief Activision-Nintendo licensing window.

He pairs naturally with Turbo Charge Donkey Kong (released same day) plus the dark variants of both characters.