As for Cynder's iron jewelry, they were planning to add a cutscene where Cynder put back on her, but they didn't have time to add it in. And why Cynder's beak and other body features looks slightly different than what she supposed to look like from ANB and TEN, again, it was the art style of Estranes Libellules. If they grew normally, how come Cynder's beak turned avian-like when it was supposed to look like a beak she had in ANB and TEN and why the horns on her wings turned backwards? The answer again was the art style of EL, their version of Cynder.

My theory of why Spyro and Cynder changed in the crystal. I don't believe they were frozen. I think they were in some sort of hybernation or suspended animation. Like some kind of deep sleep. the crystal they were in suported them much like a life support system. they still grow and age normally.

as for the jewelry on cynder, i just looked at some screenshots of the TEN version and the DotD version. The only things i found different were her body shape looked older and the horns on her head were larger. the symbol on her head did look slightly different though. I saw no jewelry on her.

@ Dracokon and Stormy:

I think we can all concur on this, Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

Some people will say she's sexy, and I think that's fairly disturbing in its own right <_<, and others think differently.

As long as the obsession of her is under control then you won't hear a lot from me. Same thing goes from the other side, if you don't like her, good for you , and if you do like her, again good for you , just don't go radical on me.

don't go hatin' a sister, but don't obsess over her.
amen, dude, amen.

I think we can all concur on this, Beauty lies in the eye of the beholder.

Some people will say she's sexy, and I think that's fairly disturbing in its own right <_<, and others think differently.

As long as the obsession of her is under control then you won't hear a lot from me. Same thing goes from the other side, if you don't like her, good for you , and if you do like her, again good for you , just don't go radical on me.

Hmm, will I guess I should have known better that logic would never work here on the internet *sigh* but you've got to give me credit somewhere, at least I tried .

Anyway as I stated previously Cynder, or at least in my own little world, has the potential to be a really cool, independent, and strong willed female character.

Do I think she is here to stay... meh, only because of her looks to be honest. *sigh*, to bad for hear, physical beauty doesn't last forever  .

If you noticed in DoTD Cynder's Mana capacity is bigger than Spyro's capacity. In real life if you have chest like Cynder's, then you can breathe in really deep because the shape of chest is do to your really, really, big lungs. This is called being Barreled chested (note I haven't seen a pic of Cynder in a while so I could be wrong).

My point is that Cynder is probably naturally born with big lungs, making her able to breathe longer and deeper than Spyro or any other dragon for that matter and explains why her chest is so big (That or she works out behind the Scenes (BTS)).

As for her hind quarters... I'm not sure but I think she can jump higher than Spyro and if she can then let explains that... well ok I can easily deal with her hind quarters being less... *shiver* sexy... bleck...

But I do completely agree, that I don't like how her waist is so thin... I swear if her head is bigger than her waist, then she needs a physical re-design stat!

As for personality... I think she has the potential to be really, epic character. I personally enjoy the fact that she's not overly cliched (But then again all characters in this trilogy are <_< ) character that falls for the hero in this girlie girl fashion... or for the fact that she's not this hot head tomboy of a character.

As for her being fan-service... its possible, really possible that she is... but I've seen worst (Krystal from SF, Candy from Donkey Kong, and more). All in all I like Cynder for that fact that she has oodles of potential inside of her... But I highly doubt that her developers will realize this and she'll suffer like any other character did from this series...

Oh well, might as well light your torches and sharpen your pitch forks .

If there are any new games coming up, I really hope they go back to the original developers, and maybe come up with a better plot. The characters dont need much improvement.

I'm pretty sure most people don't want Cynder gone; they just want her to returned to the way she was. If we keep the same developer for future Spyro games, I don't see that happening. What is possible is that they improve upon Cynder's current personality with better voice acting and give her a different role.

I personally wouldn't want any more major changes. More changes would just make more unexplained questions and weaken support for new Spyro games.

if the next trilogy keeps her "mary sue" attitude, or turns her into a fuzzy, I will be able to tolerate bad-mouthing as a result.

Note I said if they MAKE her a fuzzy. she's not a fuzzy, the designers just wanted a feminine look, and most teenage boys will make comments on anything with wide hips and a pair of legs.

Just saying.

Plus her role in the series is just clitched and overused as hell. TEN = Princess Peach. DotD = somehow turns into Xena.

I'd post  more but I am tired.

Give it time.