Jeff Bennett voices both Cyril and Mole-Yair, as well as Scratch in The Eternal Night.
Besides voicing Terrador throughout the trilogy, Kevin Michael Richardson voices the Conductor in A New Beginning, Gaul and Sniff in The Eternal Night, and Prowlus and the Hermit in Dawn of the Dragon.
Celebrity Voice Actor: Spyro's voiced by Elijah Wood (however, Wood is admittedly a big nerd...). Sparx is David Spade in the first game, who is replaced by Billy West for the second, and then he is replaced by Wayne Brady for the final installment. Ignitus is Gary Oldman, Cynder is Cree Summer in the first game, who is replaced by Mae Whitman for the second, and then she is replaced by Christina Ricci for the final installment, and Mark Hamill is Malefor (though his voice is heavily filtered, and he's been voice acting for a very long time).
Flashback with the Other Darrin: During the intro sequences for The Eternal Night and Dawn of the Dragon. The Convexity flashback for The Eternal Night is redone with West and Whitman redoing the respective lines for Spade and Summer in A New Beginning, and in the intro sequence for Dawn of the Dragon Ricci redid the "Spyro, stop!" line from the ending for The Eternal Night.
The trilogy not so subtly wears its Lord of the Rings influence on its sleeves, what with Spyro being voiced by Frodo Baggins and the movies debuting around the time these games were made. It's downplayed, though, as despite the aesthetics and such clearly bringing to mind LotR imagery, the plots only bare a passing resemblance to one another.
It's clear that Dark Spyro only really exists because of the Superpowered Evil Side trope being huge in media around the mid-2000s.
Hostility on the Set: According to a former crew member of the sound editorial team for the first two games on Youtube, this was the reason David Spade got replaced as Sparx in Eternal Night. Spade was apparently very difficult to work with in A New Beginning, as he had never done voice acting in a video game before and didn't understand the process, giving the audio crew a hard time about how he didn't like it. Because of that, Spade wasn't asked back for Eternal Night and Billy West was brought in to replace him.
International Coproduction: While the games were published by Sierra in the U.S., the first two games were developed by Krome Studios in Australia and the third by Étranges Libellules in France.
No Budget: Initially a podcast with game developer Mike Stout says all three of the games had very small budgets, roughly 1,000,000$ per game. A recent interview with A New Beginning lead designer Cameron Davis later stated that the number was off the mark and the budget was 10,000,000$ per game, with 60/40 split between A New Beginning and The Eternal Night. This is not big money for a video game to begin with, and the ambitious scope of the trilogy combined with this gave the producer and dev teams no end of trouble.
Sparx: Hey, Spyro, man, you're alive. Spyro: Sparx! It's good to see you too! You okay? Sparx: Huh, you know, little stiff, voice keeps changing, but I'm good.
When the last installment of the trilogy, Dawn of the Dragon, was carried over to Étranges Libellules, the producers of the trilogy allowed Étranges Libellules free reign to make "adjustments" to character designs, including sudden color changes to Cynder that conflict with the lore establish around purple dragons.
The creators of the trilogy intentionally left Spyro and Cynder's fate at the story conclusion open to interpretation.
Uncredited Role: None of the foreign voice actors were credited inside the game. For example, in the French dub, Cyril was miscredited to Laurent Morteau, and Malefor was miscredited to Pierre Hatet. However, both characters were voiced by Martial Le Minoux.
What Could Have Been: The trilogy's low development budget means that a great deal of story and setting elements couldn't be included in the final games. For specifics, see the franchise page.
Jared Pullen, the lead artist of the trilogy, has a deviantART account where he answers questions about the games, goes into what they weren't able to fit into the trilogy, and further elaborates on things that weren't fully elaborated on in the games. Before he created his account, he answered fan questions in an interview about The Legend of Spyro.
The purple energy that Spyro, Cynder, and Malefor wield at various points is called Aether, which comes in two forms — Light and Dark. Ordinarily only purple dragons can use Aether, but Cynder can do so as well due to having been mutated by Malefor's dark power, which is also responsible for Spyro's Dark form. When used offensively as Dark Aether, it is a torrent of plasma with power comparable to a particle accelerator.
Despite Spyro and Cynder appearing at the end of Dawn of the Dragon seemingly alive, the story producers of trilogy confirmed that they left the two heroes' ultimate fate open to interpretation, allowing the fans to decide whether Spyro and Cynder are alive or not.
Cynder's natural element is implied to be Wind, with her other elements being a result of her corruption by Malefor's power.
Spyro's parentage would've been revealed in stages across The Legend of Spyro trilogy, that his biological father would've been either Ignitus or Malefor. However while this goal was never fully developed in the final games, Jared Pullen personally maintains that Ignitus is Spyro's biological father and threw hints of it from the design phase. Malefor was even intended to cloud Spyro's mind with the lie that he was his father, but it never panned out.
Malefor is permanently stuck in his Dark Form, as he's embraced the darkness so thoroughly that, unlike Spyro and Cynder, there's no difference between his true personality and his Dark Form, effectively making it just a Super Mode instead of a Superpowered Evil Side.
Malefor was intended to be the hope of Dragonkind and to have been beloved by all as "the Great Protector", with the statue in the Dragon Temple depicting him in an honorable light, and Prowlus comparing Spyro's current self to Malefor at the same age. Now the temple statue of Malefor serves as a reminder of how things for Dragonkind should've been and how a regrettable tragedy befell them. It makes Malefor's "Not So Different" RemarkBreaking Speech even more effective.
was this. Originally, the developers didn't see them getting together, but the very vocal fans for them during the series made them decide to make it canon.