Why was this Skylanders spin off made?

[Joey Ramone]

Why did they make a Skylanders spin off starring Spyro? And why did they change his design?

[phillippi2]

It's not a spinoff. They are remakes of the original 3 Spyro games. The ones that came out on Playstation 1 from 1998 to 2000. Well before Skylanders.

[Terepin]

This is a pure trolling post. Don't feed him.

[Dan Nukem]

DONT feed him clueless guy

[Shocker]

It was made for fake Spyro fans.

[tinkerbell12]

The Creators of Spyro they were trying to reboot Spyro after the failure of enter the dragonfly thats why we had the skylanders series.

[NBOX21]

Originally posted by tinkerbell12:

The Creators of Spyro they were trying to reboot Spyro after the failure of enter the dragonfly thats why we had the skylanders series.

You know, instead of learning from the mistakes with Enter the Dragonfly and trying to make a good version of that for next gen systems, to me it felt like because people hated Enter the Dragonfly, the publisher probably thought people don't like 3D collect-a-thon platformers anymore so they kept rebooting the series multiple times to no success.

I know the classic formula has potential even to this day, hence why Spyro 3 on PS1 is a game I always come back to due to how memorable, replayable and fun it is even after all these years. Not to mention Season of Flame on GBA was actually pretty good despite the limitations of the GBA, partially because it kept the classic formula of the PS1 trilogy.

The way I see it, the Skylanders series are not Spyro games - they're Skylanders games that just so happen to have Spyro in it possibly to cash in on a popular brand.