LEGO Spyro & Sparx Fan Creation Praised by LEGO staff

A Spyro fan named Fabrick_89 put together his idea for a LEGO set of Spyro & Sparx on the LEGO Ideas website. The staff members of LEGO have noticed Fabrick's fan project and praised it so much that it was selected as a Staff Pick and featured the Spyro model on the LEGO ideas website.

The LEGO Ideas Team would like to send you virtual high fives and a big congratulations, as your LEGO Ideas project Spyro the Dragon & Sparx has been selected as today's Staff Pick! 

Staff Picks are one of the ways that we celebrate fantastic projects that show off something out of the ordinary - as your project has done! It's not 100% about the model itself, but we also reward great pictures and presentation. It doesn't matter if your project has 100 supporters or 5000 supporters, they've all got a chance as long as they can WOW us! 

Receiving a Staff Pick today doesn't mean you can't earn another in the future. Time will tell if your other projects could wow us just as much as well. 

Being chosen as a Staff Pick is an editorial decision, and has no impact on the LEGO Review if the project reaches 10,000 supporters.

Keep up the good work! 

The project has reached over 3k supporters. If enough attention is brought to Fabrick's Spyro creation, it's possible it can convince LEGO to make Spyro related LEGO merchandise.

https://beta.ideas.lego.com/product-ideas/c0f9046b-fc85-4853-99d4-61f9e29d22df 

 

 

 

 

New Nintendo Swith 2 Update improves framerate of Switch 1 games, including the Spyro Reignited Trilogy

Nintendo released a new patch update for the Nintendo Switch 2 (Version 22.0.0) that includes an optional setting called "Handheld Mode Boost". This will make Switch 1 games think that they are in TV mode even when in portable handheld mode, allowing games to run at higher resolutions in TV mode to utilize the Switch 2's 1080p screen.
 

For Spyro fans who have the Spyro Reignited Trilogy for the Nintendo Switch, they have noticed an increase in framerate that makes games run the same framerate as certain console ports. 

 

First 4 Figures Red Peace Keepers Crystal Dragon Mini-Statue Preorders

First 4 Figures has announced that they will open preorders tomorrow for their Peace Keepers edition of their Spyro mini-metal Crystal Dragon statue line. The Artisans mini crystal dragon statue was painted green, Magic Crafters' was blue, Dream Weavers' was purple (although it is actually pink) and here we have Peace Keepers crystal dragons being red.

EBGames AU releases new Spyro merchandise

 EBGames released a new set of merchandise, available exclusively in Australia.

https://www.ebgames.com.au/search?q=Spyro  

Spyro: Skybound Heist WIP Fangame Demo

Bunndragoness' Spyro Spaghetti engine has recently included a new fangame called "Spyro: Skybound Heist". This particular fangame features an interesting take on the Balloonists from Spyro 1 who ferried Spyro across the Dragon Realms with their hot air balloons.

The game starts onboard an airship operated by the Balloonists. The captain of the Balloonists orders his crew to go to different worlds to collect strange purple crystals he is obsessively seeking, but the task itself is difficult for them since they aren't built for fighting and adventuring. At their Captain's urging, the Balloonists are prompted to seek Spyro's help, aka grabbing him from the ground with their ship's crane and pulling him aboard their ship. With nowhere else to go at the altitude he's in, Spyro has no choice but to help his Balloonist friends by collecting the purple crystals in other worlds and find out why Balloonist Captain is acting strangely.

The Airship is the game's home world. And like all home worlds, it has its own collectibles, NPCs, and portals to other realms. You can talk to the Balloonists here; many who are from Spyro 1 including Marco and Tuco, and fanmade female ones created for the Skybound Heist. Conversing with the Balloonists tells the player more additional lore to the story and what the Balloonists do in their sparetime before their Captain began acting strange. There are also easter eggs from other Spyro games on the Airship that you can find.

Spyro travels to the available worlds through portals on the airship collected by the Balloonists. Each realm has a set number of crystals, gems and skill points. At the start of each world, we are given an introduction cutscene (based on the ones from Spyro 2) involving two Balloonists trying and failing to navigate through the realm to find the crystals before Spyro takes over the mission. Returning NPCs from Spyro 2 and 3 make an appearance too at the start of each world. One of the playable worlds in the demo is themed around spiders. But for those who have arachnophobia, there is a way to avoid them entirely by pressing a button that kills all the spiders in the level for easy progression.

At the moment, there is no final boss once all current levels are completed since the game is still under development. I am interested to see what else they will add to this game.