Cynder originally was going to have more dialogue in A New Beginning

Dataminers dug into the game files of The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning and discovered several dialogue clips that contains Cynder having more lines for A New Beginning that went unused in the end. These voice dialogue showed a different side to Cynder's villainous personality, from taunting Spyro to responses to Spyro's game overs. In the end, the majority of the dialogue went unused to give Cynder a more serious personality, but the voice clips are found in the game files.

One of normal Cynder's dialogue was used for the Nintendo Gameboy Advance and DS version of A New Beginning.

 

The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon Storyboards

Storyboards of The Legend of Spyro: Dawn of the Dragon have just been uploaded today on Herve Masseron's ArtStation blog. I'll post several of them here, but the rest can be found in the link.

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/6bG8Pr

 

Introduction cutscene storyboard

Youtooz - Spyro Plushies

9'' inch Spyro the Dragon Youtooz plushies are coming soon! They will be up for preorder on August 5th.

https://youtooz.com/products/spyro-plush-9-inch

 

https://youtooz.com/products/spyro-chill-plush-9-inch
 

Early Reignited Spyro Designs

From ComicCon 2018 panel for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy, Insomniac Games worked with Toys For Bob in making Spyro right. They went through numerous designs for Spyro until one is chosen and finalized. 

 

 

 

2D artwork by I-Wei Huang 

 

 

 

 

 

Prototype models by Megan Gritzfeld 

 

 

 

Velvet Octopus's PDF Brochure on The Legend of Spyro Cancelled Film

So back in 2008, Velvet Octopus posted a page about The Legend of Spyro 3D Movie that had its poster and movie summary. But they removed it after fans discovered the page. Apparently the PDF was part of a brochure put together by Velvet Octorpus and BakerWilcox back in 2008.

Here is the copy of the old PDF file of Velvet Octopus's brochure article on The Legend of Spyro 3D (thanks goes to dark52 of darkspyro.net for preserving it).

 

The Fourth Draft of The Legend of Spyro Movie discovered!

A user on The Lost Media Wiki named YoshiKiller2S discovered and uploaded the fourth draft of the cancelled Legend of Spyro movie script today. Here is the direct link to the script.

The Legend of Spyro: 3D poster

To confirm its legitimacy, I reached out to one of the movie writers, Daniel Altiere, and turns out it is real! What a major find!

 

 

 

 

Edit (August 14th): More information from Daniel Altiere: it's also strongly implied that the fourth draft that was found is the final draft.

 

 

Spyro: A Hero's Tail "All Unlockables" Cheat Code Found

A Hero's Tail mega fan Ebbe has found a cheat code in Spyro: A Hero's Tail that has you unlock all unlockables in the game.

 

Spyro Youtooz Variant Figures

A new set of Spyro figures have been announced by Youtooz, one of them is a GameStop Exclusive, and all will be available for preorder on April 8th.

https://youtooz.com/search?type=product&q=Spyro&fbclid=IwAR19cO1wixEMMwEJhOD7iUhGmeyYYlmJG-lFmn7bFAmplY_gL5lADrDa3x4

 

Welovethis.store released statement on the Ember Tee

Following public outry from Spyro fans regarding the upcoming Ember-based tee, Welovethis.store has issued a statement on Twitter. The upcoming product has also been redacted.

Upcoming Spyro Welovethis.store merch contains Ember Fanart

Welovethis.store released a new image of their upcoming Spyro apparel based on an existing Spyro character. But fans have noticed that the featured dragon's pose and the dragon icon at the lower right of the image are awfully familiar.

The image in question is from a PC mod for the Spyro Reignited Trilogy that features a model edit of Ember the Dragon, a character from Spyro: A Hero's Tail. The art on the mock Store apparel is copied straight from a game screenshot of the Ember mod pulled from Google Images.

 

 The Ember icon on the bottom right is also taken from alaynakgray's Reignited Ember fanart.

 

 

In response to this, fans have been notifying and criticizing Welovethis.store of the theft, since this upcoming product is Activision-approved and they would be selling stolen merchandise.