Trivia / Spyro Reignited Trilogy

• Acting for Two:
  • Tom Kenny voices Spyro, the Professor and Sgt. Byrd.
  • Richard Tatum reprises his roles as Agent 9, Bartholomew the Yeti and the Mountain Goats.
  • Cassandra Lee Morris voices both Elora and Handel.
  • Gregg Berger voices Ripto, Crush and Gulp.
• Approval of God:
  • Insomniac Games thanked Toys for Bob for bringing back their original games and stated that they're rooting for them. Toys for Bob also said that they had consulted with Insomniac Games to stay true to the originals. After the game was released, Insomniac Games even started running their own streams of it.
  • Stewart Copeland also gave Toys for Bob his blessing in regards to the remastered version of the soundtrack. When first hearing of the project, he was hesitant over concerns it wouldn't capture the feel of his original, but by his own admission, he was moved to tears when he heard the remastered versions.
• Blooper: Normally, while playing the other characters in Year of the Dragon, their leitmotif (or a remix in the case of Enchanted Towers) plays in the background. However, in Haunted Tomb, the regular theme continues to play during Agent 9's segment.
• Christmas Rushed:
  • Toys for Bob spent a lot of time just on the original game, which left little time for Ripto's Rage! and Year of the Dragon. Giving all the dragons unique designs is but one of the cited reasons: note that while they all do have unique designs, the baby dragons in the third game are even more copy/paste than in the PS1 game, having fewer designs and animations.
  • There are several implications that the remake of Year of the Dragon was rushed out before the game itself was fully polished: there's multiple glitches and bugs that aren't present in the other two games, and some of the animations are noticeably stiffer (with several facial animations outright failing to animate correctly) than in the other games. It later turned out that the third game was outsourced to Sanzaru Games rather than being done in-house like the first two, explaining some of the oddities present (including slightly different takes on surfaces, such as cliffs and tiles, compared to Toys for Bob's work in 1 and 2).
• Creator Backlash: While Oliver Wade (character designer for the original games) didn't hate all of the redesigns and thought the remakes were still aesthetically loyal, he did express a dislike for some of the more drastic ones, especially Sheila's who he considered "awful".
• Directed by Cast Member: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Luis Daniel Ramírez is both Spyro's voice actor and also the dub's ADR director.
• Dummied Out: There's a lot of unused audio in the game; most of them being re-recordings of lines that go unused in the original games too. Some of the audio relates to Sparx unlocking his abilities (which is impossible in this game, as they're all unlocked from the start to make collecting gems and travelling to previously-visited levels easier). The developers even went to the trouble of re-recording the third game's infamous "illegal copy" spiel said by Zoe, despite there being no way of activating it, and even modding the game doesn't make the line play anywhere. They also re-recorded the "Flirtatious Fauns" line, said by Moneybags in the second game, despite being Bowdlerised to "Fanciful Frivolities" instead, specifically to avoid the unintentional "hiring a hooker" implication.
• Fake Brit: Sgt. Byrd and Bentley are voiced by Americans, Tom Kenny and Dave B. Mitchell respectively.
• Meme Acknowledgement:
  • On October 12, 2018, this was posted on the official Spyro Twitter account...
  • The trophy for completing the infamous trolley mini-game in Breeze Harbor is called "Trouble No More". It being That One Achievement is also acknowledged by it being the only non-boss sidequest to yield a gold trophy.
• Milestone Celebration: Played with. The trilogy was originally set to be released on September 21, 2018, coinciding with the first game's 20th anniversary. However, it was delayed to November 13th by Activision due to controversy surrounding the physical copies. That being said, it was still released in the 20th anniversary year.
• No Dub for You: Activision released the game in Japan without localization for both dub and texts, a shocking contrast to the other collection, Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy. It was a glaring issue for Spyro: Year of the Dragon, which was never released in Japan.
• The Original Darrin:
  • After being replaced by Jess Harnell (not counting the other continuities) for the first and Michael J. Gough for the latter two, Tom Kenny returns to voice Spyro, the Professor and Sgt. Byrd.
  • Richard Tatum reprises his role as Bartholomew after Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly recast the character with Dee Bradley Baker.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Tom Kenny voices Spyro in the remake of the first game, replacing Carlos Alazraqui.
  • Despite Gregg Berger coming back to voice Ripto, he's been replaced as Hunter by Robbie Daymond.
  • Cassandra Lee Morris voices Elora and Handel, replacing Melissa Disney (Ripto's Rage!) and Carolyn Lawrence (Year of the Dragon).
  • Catherine Taber voices Zoe, replacing Mary Linda Phillips (Ripto's Rage) and Carolyn Lawrence (again, Year of the Dragon).
  • Melissa Hutchison voices Bianca, replacing Pamela Hayden.
  • JB Blanc voices Moneybags, replacing Milton James (Ripto's Rage) and Neil Ross (Year of the Dragon).
  • Chantelle Barry replaces Edita Brychta as Sheila. Notably, the former actually is Australian, averting Fake Nationality.
  • Dave B. Mitchell replaces Neil Ross as Bentley.
  • Cissy Jones replaces Flo Di Re as the Sorceress. Notably, she's the only villain not to have their original actor, as Gnasty Gnorc's (Michael J. Gough) and Ripto's (Gregg Berger) both reprise their roles.
  • The original trilogy was dubbed in London into Spanish, French, German and Italian. For the reignited trilogy, all four languages were instead dubbed in Continental Europe.
• Role Reprise: The developers stated early on that they have tried their best to contact as many of the original voice actors as possible. Many of the original series' actors have been steadily confirming their involvement in the remakes.
  • On top of Spyro, Tom Kenny also returns as The Professor and Sgt. Byrd, and he also replaced Michael Gough as Astor.
  • Richard Tatum, the original voice of Agent 9, Bartholomew the Yeti, and the Mountain Goats confirmed on Twitter that he’s reprising his roles.
  • Gregg Berger confirmed he's reprising his role as Ripto, Crush, and Gulp, though Hunter was recast with Robbie Daymond.
  • Andre Sogliuzzo announced he would reprise his role as Sparx.
  • In the French dub, Alexandre Gillet reprises his role as Spyro from The Legend of Spyro and Skylanders Academy, while Martial Le Minoux (the Professor) and Patrice Melennec (Moneybags) reprise their roles from Spyro: A Hero's Tail.
  • In the Latin American Spanish dub, Luis Daniel Ramírez reprises his role as Spyro from the Skylanders games.
  • In the Italian dub, Gianni Quillico reprises his role as the Professor from A Hero's Tail.
• Schedule Slip: Originally announced to be released on September 21st, 2018 only to be delayed to November 13th, 2018.
• Sequel Gap: Well, not so much a sequel as it is a remake, but it's still worth noting that the last work to be set in the original Spyro continuity was Spyro: Shadow Legacy, which was released in 2005.
• Trolling Creator: The infamous line "Trouble with the trolley, eh?" is even more annoying in this version.

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