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They changed the title screen in the latest game update.

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New gameplay of Epic Mickey Rebrushed was released today. And they showed gameplay of the Asian Boat Ride.

They changed the design of the Fire Bridge dragon animatronic. XD

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For those who are in range of the solar eclipse today, don't forget to wear your eclipse glasses.

For those who will miss it, don't worry, there's always an eclipse in Doctor Shemp's area.

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Don’t forget we have a Spyro fan forum. Drop by and join to talk with other fans on Spyro the Dragon or other things! :)

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One of the best story arcs in the Skylanders IDW comics. I would strongly recommend it if you are a fan of the Skylanders series, Spyro, Cynder, and Malefor.

The Skylanders: Return of the Dragon King three-part comic arc. Originally released in 2015 as three separate comic book issues, but is available in one book. Notably featuring the reintroduction of Malefor into the Skylanders mythos.

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What if Cynder never turned undead?

The Artists of Skylands server put out a challenge on making element swapped characters, and I decided to chose to do Cynder for this challenge.

On the same server, someone mentioned a headcanon that Cynder was originally an Air element dragon before she became Undead by Malefor, so I thought to myself "what if I made a design for her if she never became undead?" I decided to make her a lightning dragon, since her powers do revolve around using lightning.

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Smolder Champion Teaser - Envar Studios

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@charlottelaycock It’s in the link on the artist’s name in the OP post.

The real reason Cynder and other characters changed colors in DOTD

"I won't talk much about Spyro because for me it's one of the worst productions I've worked on. Our engine was too old to correctly display normal maps. It was decided to boost glossiness and had an orange bloom. The whole game render looked oily and ugly On most ELB productions, we didn't have an artistic director and decisions were made by the studio manager. These choices were decisive in the final rendering of the game. It was difficult to bring subtlety to the textures since the render was broken." - Yannick Gombart

This explains SO MUCH. We finally have the actual reason why Cynder’s change in scale color from black to indigo/dark purple! And the Chronicler's colors changing from gray to bright blue! And it has nothing to do with story!

Cynder, the Chronicler, and other characters had their textures changed so that they can stand out in the messy bloom that covered the whole game and a result of DOTD’s broken game render and outdated game engine.

The game also didn’t have an art director, can you believe it?? So Etranges Libellules’ studio manager had to make the decisions. That explains why the character designs were all over the place too!

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The real reason Cynder and other characters changed colors in DOTD

"I won't talk much about Spyro because for me it's one of the worst productions I've worked on. Our engine was too old to correctly display normal maps. It was decided to boost glossiness and had an orange bloom. The whole game render looked oily and ugly On most ELB productions, we didn't have an artistic director and decisions were made by the studio manager. These choices were decisive in the final rendering of the game. It was difficult to bring subtlety to the textures since the render was broken." - Yannick Gombart

This explains SO MUCH. We finally have the actual reason why Cynder’s change in scale color from black to indigo/dark purple! And the Chronicler's colors changing from gray to bright blue! And it has nothing to do with story!

Cynder, the Chronicler, and other characters had their textures changed so that they can stand out in the messy bloom that covered the whole game and a result of DOTD’s broken game render and outdated game engine.

The game also didn’t have an art director, can you believe it?? So Etranges Libellules’ studio manager had to make the decisions. That explains why the character designs were all over the place too!

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Gonna say this as someone who has been critical of Game Freak both as a fan and as someone with a Pokémon SPIN for a while now:

Do not support Palworld.

The CEO of Pocket Pair, the game’s studio, openly supports AI and even made a game where making AI-generated art is its main mechanic.

Palworld is not Pocket Pair’s first instance of plagiarism, either. Their previous game, Craftopia, plagiarizes Breath of the Wild, whereas as its upcoming game, Never Grave: The Witch and The Curse, plagiarizes from independent developer Team Cherry’s game, Hollow Knight.

On top of stolen character models and concepts from fakemon artists, it’s already known that you can put Pals through what is basically slave labor BUT what’s been recently discovered is that the game allows you to capture and sell humans. This has been raising some red flags for black gamers looking into these mechanics, me included, considering this factors into the established slave labor system of Palworld.

TL;DR: I completely understand being tired of Game Freak and the Pokémon Company’s lack of polish over the years, but supporting something that is just as devoid of polish is not the way to make those criticisms clearer. This will only encourage more soullessness in the industry.

I implore you to support other creature collectors with some real passion behind them; I will reblog this post with recommendations shortly!

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Year of the Dragon

Dragons listed:

Fwench Fwy – Chikn Nuggit Bowser – Super Mario Mushu – Disney Pitaya Dragon Cookie – Cookin Run Matches – Scooby Doo and the Ghoul School Spyro – Spyro Terara – Keroro Gunso Tohru – Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid Spike – My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Scorchio – Neopets Dragonite – Pokemon Toothless – How to Train Your Dragon Penelope – Barbie as Rapunzel Bleu – Shining Force Grim Matchstick – Cuphead Blue Eyes White Dragon – Yu-Gi-Oh! Paarthurnax – Skyrim (Elder Scrolls) Haku – Spirited Away YomiGami – Okami Falkor – The Neverending Story Dragon – Shrek Smaug – The Hobbit Shenron – Dragon Ball King Ghidorah – Ghidorah, The Three-Headed Monster

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i folded and gave into the urge to draw the new champion but how could i resist drawing a baby dragon 😭

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Smolder Fanart

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Year of The Dragon playable characters in their TLOS version:

These 4 formed an emegency squad in the story, helping the dragons and other species during the war againts the dark armies. (These designs are heavily inspired by scrapped Reignited concept art)

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Cynder <3