Toys For Bob Isn’t Teasing Crash, But It Might Be Teasing Spyro

Highlights

That Toys for Bob masks is not from Crash, however it’s a unusual shade of Spyro purple.
We do not know what is going on with Spyro 4 now that Toys for Bob is unbiased.
Or can we (dun dun dunnnnnn)?

Do you truthfully suppose I am so determined for a brand new Crash Bandicoot sport that I might write 750 phrases on a single image of a masks that may not even be from Crash? Boy, are you aware me effectively. Yesterday, Toys for Bob up to date its web site with an image of a tiki masks that appears extraordinarily just like the artwork type we see in Crash Bandicoot. However what does this imply? One thing? Nothing? When you ask me, it is positively a type of two.

First off, there’s the masks itself. Crash has all the time had tiki imagery, owing to the primary sport’s tropical island setting, and Crash 4 (developed by Toys for Bob) constructed on this with the brand new power-up masks. Nevertheless, this explicit masks has by no means been in a Crash sport, both as a masks, enemy, or background ornament. So there is no proof that it’s Crash. However that is the Crash builders teasing one thing that appears straight out of a Crash sport – it is a affordable leap to make.

Or is it (dun dun dunnnnnn)? Toys for Bob just lately left the clutches of Activision to develop into unbiased. The tiki brand is one Toys for Bob has used since 2020, no matter Crash, and due to this fact that is doubtless only a placeholder whereas the web site is cleaned as much as take away the Activision connection and relaunch/rebrand as a completely unbiased studio. Nothing to see right here of us.

Toys For Bob Has Unfinshed Enterprise With Spyro

Spyro skateboarding in Year of the Dragon.

OR IS THERE (DUN DUN DUNNNNNNNNNNN)?! Whereas it’s simply the Toys for Bob brand, it nonetheless feels a bit of cryptic. Plus, it is purple. The emblem shouldn’t be often purple. I perceive I could also be studying manner an excessive amount of into this, however there could possibly be a secret trace on this brand. Little was revealed in regards to the deal that noticed Toys for Bob depart Activision on the time, however it was rapidly adopted by information that Crash Workforce Rumble could be shutting down. This was assumed to be as a result of it was very garbage and thus Activision did not wish to waste one other studio on it with out Toys for Bob round, however what if it was as a result of Toys for Bob scooped up the mascot on its manner out?

It is a lengthy shot. Now we have heard nothing to recommend Toys for Bob purchased Crash when it left Activision. However in case you go together with me for a second that it did, it could effectively have purchased Spyro too. It looks like Spyro and Crash are a bundle deal as of late, and Toys for Bob additionally made Spyro: Reignited. With a couple of teases of a brand new Spyro showing in Crash 4 and its artbook, it was assumed Toys for Bob was engaged on this alongside Crash Workforce Rumble. That may be my (extraordinarily hopeful) guess as to the intent of this tease – TfB both purchased Spyro or, extra doubtless, was allowed to maintain making it after leaving Activision.

Xbox retiterated its help for Crash and Spyro after TfB’s departure, and loads of devs have been contracted to video games with out proudly owning them themselves, or being owned themselves. It is troublesome to know what Xbox desires after shutting down Tango Gameworks within the wake of Hello-Fi Rush, however having TfB on Spyro simply is smart.

May Spyro 4 Nonetheless Be In Improvement?

Spyro gliding to a hill in the Reignited Trilogy

If a Spyro sport was in movement when Toys for Bob left, there are some things that might have occurred to it. First, Toys for Bob did not purchase Spyro and Activision leaves this half shaped Spyro sport to rot. Alternatively, Activision might give it to a different studio to complete off – Vicarious Visions could be the plain port of name, however that is now a part of the CoD machine.

Beenox may be subsequent, however that has been a CoD Plus Facet Tasks studio for even longer. If Toys for Bob did purchase Spyro, then it might be able to maintain engaged on no matter it was making, or may need needed to scrap all of it and begin from scratch. Proper now, there is no manner of understanding. Then there’s the very fact TfB didn’t even want to purchase Spyro outright. Simply because it’s unbiased doesn’t imply it could actually’t proceed to do contract improvement for Xbox (who now owns Activision), and that might imply it’s nonetheless capable of work on Spyro 4 with out being an Activision firm.

In fact, I may be getting manner forward of myself. This was assumed to be a tease for Crash and now appears to only be a placeholder for a web site replace. There isn’t any indication that Toys for Bob purchased both mascot, and if it did, it is robust to think about that included the work-in-progress improvement of Spyro 4. However beneath all the doubt and the logic, it could possibly be a brand new Spyro. Or a brand new Crash. Or one thing else. Or nothing. Most likely nothing. Dun dun dunnnnnnnnnnnn.