Skylanders 2017 Unused Grown Up Concept Art

Jeff Bellio, one of the concept artists on Skylanders, released an art dump on the projects he did for the franchise. Several of these art pieces were from 2017 on a scrapped age up concept that never made it out of the concept process.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/bKN3wm

 

 

Welovethis.store Spyro Merch Coming

 Welovethis.store has announced they are releasing Spyro the Dragon merchandise. They have released attire merchandise based on existing franchises.

https://welovethis.store/pages/spyro-coming-soon 

 

Welovethis.store Spyro Shirt

A new shirt was posted on the Welovethis.store for their upcoming Spyro the Dragon merchandise. This shirt contains binary code that reads "Coming soon 202?" It was soon removed because Lovethisstore put it out too soon.

 

Spyro 2 and Spyro 3 Early Prototypes

Hidden Palace released April and September early builds of Spyro 2: Ripto's Rage! and Spyro: Year of the Dragon.

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Spyro_2:_Ripto%27s_Rage!/August_11th,_1999_build 

 https://tcrf.net/Proto:Spyro:_Year_of_the_Dragon/April_25th,_2000_build

https://tcrf.net/Proto:Spyro:_Year_of_the_Dragon/April_25th,_2000_build 

 

Spyro fan, Hwd405, has provided video showcases of each.
 

 

 

 

Female adult Dragons in the future?

I know we had more female dragons in the old classic Spyro games after the OG trilogy, notably in A Hero's Tail and Shadow Legacy. But I'm more open to the idea of the developers actually looking into why there were no female dragons in the original trilogy and we only got female baby dragons from Spyro 3.

Insomniac Games mentioned that they had no female voice actors, there was a limited hired voice cast and the lack of technical hardware that could allow differences between male and female dragons.

Now with the evolution of technology and budget, we have a chance for that, especially after how Toys For Bob handled the creativity for all 74 adult male dragons. Devon Cady-Lee mentioned that he and the art team of Reignited proposed to TFB about lady dragons for Spyro but never went through with it as it was too inconsistent with the original Spyro trilogy that only had male dragons.

Do you think they could explain why the female dragons weren't around in the original Spyro trilogy and Reignited in a new game? It's possible. I can see them introducing female dragons like Ember, who was around Spyro's age in the old games. They can also reintroduce Cynder if they choose.

Dragon design exploration by Devon Cady-Lee.