U.B. Funkeys Was Weird: The FUNKIEST Web Game! | Billiam

UB Funkeys is a defunct web MMORPG developed by Mattel and subsidiary, RADICA Games! UB Funkeys starred the funkeys, a collection of vinyl toys who inhabited the world of Terripinia, SOUNDS FUNKY!

[Rookie]

Honestly I'm just glad that this whole thing was actually real and not a figment of my imagination

[chibiiiwerewolf]

Well, You've just unearthed a hidden memory.

[rosecatuwu]

U.B Funkeys: We can't have violence as a mechanic, this is a children's game!
Also U.B Funkeys: *Lets the Flesh World™ be a thing*

[maxthefrog]

I had these when I was young....like, I didn't have access to the internet when I had them. I remember how these fuckers TASTE dude wtf.

[epsilon]

So it wasn't a fever-dream, it was just something from the early 2000's. Yet again.

[JebSvS]

When I had these, I would put my Funkies on the HUB thing and wiggle them around to glitch it a bit and unlock Funkies I didn't have.

[ProjectSNT]

Oh my god, these came out around the time I started babysitting my cousins, and they were OBSESSED with these! Such a blast from the past!

[c.l.m.c.]

amazing how the toys are so insanely neat and appealing in their aesthetics while the game itself... uses Comic Sans. different design teams?

[hoykfnvnnesnxnnensncjforkx]

I remember asking for this for Christmas and dying from happiness. My parents even kept acting like I wasn't going to get it and I kept saying "that's okay I understand." While being really sad but didn't want my parents to have hurt feelings if they couldn't buy it. Crazy how much fun this was as a kid. Wonder if mine still works, I have them somewhere I'm sure of it

[megamegapop]

I think about UB Funkies more often than I’d like to admit.

[PyroJiro]

Before cancelation there was supposed to be another tie in expansion, a set based on DC Comics. There was going to be Funkeys based on Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Aquaman, Flash and the Joker.

Also the last expansion, Paradox Green went through some sort of development hell or something. It took forever to finally release, most players thinking the game was unofficially dead until the figures started popping up in stores. The only problem being that only the Very Rare variants of the figures could be found for some reason. Common ans Uncommon versions of the Paradox Green Funkeys just dont exist, or if they do then they never left the warehouse.

Aside from that, other things that were canceled were Adventure Packs for the Speed Racer, Dream State, and Hidden Realm expansions. Adventure Packs being bundled (usually store exclusive if memory serves) with NPC characters such as that expansion's respective guide character (Marshall for example), the expansion's antagonist, along with their henchmen and a random Funkey from that set.

We know they existed at some point and were intended to be sold to the public is because there exists pictures taken at toy conventions of those figures along with some files in the game that suggest those figures were playable

[scrapyarddragon]

ok real talk for a game targeted at stupid 10 year olds, knightmare rift had some pretty existential stuff like how the soldier guys were there because "There's no knightmare worse than war" and how the sprockets were there because the junkyard was an area made of dead and abandoned dreams.

[Spewa-emcm]

I remember taking the base thing apart so i could wiggle the figures around on the metal pins and unlock funkeys i didn't actually own, good times.

[bk_flash]

i genuinely haven't thought about u.b. funkeys in almost a decade, despite loving them to death as a kid, so seeing this video was like a nostalgic slap in the face. thank you for making this video, if it weren't for you i probably would've forgotten about these little dudes forever

[Itachigan]

Kinda funny how these toys in the early 2000s predate Skylanders.

[ryanmullins]

Holy crap I had sooo many of these when I was younger and could almost never get them to work. This is a major nostalgia hit. Again.

[overlordchemm]

This game was my shit as a kid. Nobody I’ve talked to remembered/had heard of it though. Glad to see it wasn’t a fever dream, lmao.

[lavs]

I HAVE TRIED TO FIND THIS TOY FOR THE LONGEST TIME, AND THEN OUT OF THE BLUE IT GET never have i been so lit in my life

[wowiezowie]

I remember having these, I barely played the actual game to instead play with the figures. At the time I was way too scared to play the game because of the enemies lmao

[Slakkeneter]

i remember licking the bottom of the funkeys made them read as different characters. great game 10/10