this are my opinions
-his design - his look is now more like a real dragon and not a weird cartoon dragon
-main character - that is true but he is at least in every skylanders game (spyro's adventure - spyro)(Giants - series 2 spyro)(swap force - mega ram spyro)
+ spyro his self- i think he is now more happy than before not only he has more than 70 friends and he is now rich
don't wotty i respect your opinion
but 2 little thing
1 i have all the 3 spyro from skylanders and side by side with a image from google of a goblin i see big difference
& 2 he has still his personality everytime you open a gate, defeated a group of enemies or someting else he still act like the good old spyro (heroic)
oke maybe skylanders spyro is a little bit creepy for the old spyro fans
but the first spyro looks (for me) too cartoonie
the legend of spyro version is (for me) just a updated verion of the classic one
but the version from dawn of the dragon that version looks awsome