Whether you love licensed skins or not, there’s no denying that Fortnite collabs bring a lot of money and attention to the game. There’s already an abundance of collabs, and Epic doesn’t seem to be slowing down either. Some fans argue that they’d rather see original skins, rather than yet another superhero. On the other side of things, it’s still pretty awesome to queue up as your favorite characters, or even take part in events that almost seem too grand for Fortnite. While some collabs simply put out iconic skins in the shop, others have come with in-game events and new weapons. Out of all of the Fortnite collabs out thus far, here are some of the most memorable.
10. Stranger Things
Stranger Things was one of the earlier collabs that Fortnite had, but it still holds up in comparison to others. With so many collabs, it’s hard for Epic to really bring much to the equation aside from a few skins. Stranger Things stands out from the rest because this collab came with some map changes alongside skins for Chief Hopper and the Demagorgon.
In this season of Fortnite, they introduced the Mega Mall, which was quite reminiscent of the Starcourt Mall from Stranger Things, but with a futuristic twist. In the Mega Mall, players were able to visit Scoops Ahoy, which looked almost identical to the one where Robin and Steve worked on the show. There were also some creepy portals to the upside-down around the map, the one downside being that we weren’t actually able to enter them.
9. Borderlands
As of recently, Fortnite has been experimenting with an anime art style for cosmetics, but one of their first massive cell shading changes was actually during the Borderlands event. This event came with a Clap Trap skin and even brought Pandora from Borderlands onto the Fortnite map.
On Fortnite, Pandora was in its own bubble and once you entered it, it felt as if you were actually playing Borderlands because they replicated the art style to a T. Not only was that part of the map different, but every Fortnite skin would have a different shading over them once they entered Pandora. As of now, this is still the only time Fortnite has ever created a part of a map with a totally different artistic shading over it, which makes the Borderlands collab unique enough for the 9th spot.
8. Dragon Ball
Dragon Ball arrived in Fortnite with two skins, an event tab with quests for players to complete in order to unlock rewards, a few changes to the map, and a new weapon. While there have been a few collabs with other anime before, there was way more hype surrounding Dragon Ball, along with more content.
For starters, we were really given a chance to fight Dragon Ball style by picking up the Kamehameha, which launched a powerful energy beam that was equally as devastating as the Comet Azur on Elden Ring. Players were also able to use the Nimbus cloud to travel around the map faster. Bounty boards were replaced with versus boards, in which two warriors’ locations were revealed to each other for a 1v1. Not only that, but the Kame House was also added to the map, along with the NPC Bulma who would give players some helpful items. Son Goku, Vegeta, Bulma, and Beerus were all added to the item shop, which is quite a handful of skins for one collab.
7. Batman
Batman is undoubtedly one of DC’s most popular heroes, so seeing the character finally brought to Fortnite after the abundance of Marvel heroes was quite a shock. What made this collab extra special is that he came with Catwoman as well.
Of course, they couldn’t bring the two iconic heroes by themselves, so they replaced Tilted Town with Gotham City. Gotham was filled with Batman Easter eggs, such as the Wayne Enterprises tower, GCPD cars all around, and the Monarch Theater where Bruce Wayne lost his parents. Similarly to the Borderlands collab, Gotham City was also in its own bubble, and once you entered, it automatically became night-time. There were special sound effects such as police sirens that really gave it that Gotham feel. Not only that, but players were able to deploy the bat glider at will, which made for even more exciting fights.