"Something that was just cut due to time concerns. Getting the game finished and out the door is always a huge challenge, and sometimes little areas don't make the game when you do that! That particular area was planned for a boss battle to win an egg. The boss was never made, so we just hid the egg in Agent 9's arena. Cool that you found it though!"

The point is, they wouldn't have put it in game unless they were already almost certain of using it, this is way past the design phase of the game. They removed it at some point after the design phase. Who knows. I'll email Insomniac for some answers.

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BUT

It leads to a portal that is UNDER the map. Swim into it, and you are brought to an area that is a circular field, an area of some sort. There is nothing else in it.

So, what was it for? It must have been an egg quest of some sort, a battle where you would win an egg, much like the Wizard in Spooky Swamp or the Rhinoc Submarine battle.

Was this the real purpose of it? If it was scrapped by designers, it must have been late into the game, because otherwise it would not have been fully functional. But, it was scrapped, so why is it still in the map? Why go through the trouble of hiding it where no one will ever find it if deleting it will only decrease the loading time of the game and improve stability. Designers usually make sure anything unneeded is deleted for the reasons outlined above. But why was this still there? Are there similiar lost portals in levels in Spyro 3?

Any thoughts?