Franchise: Spyro the Dragon

Stewart Copeland, drummer of famed rock group "The Police", compased the soundtracks of the first four Spyro the Dragon games. The music for the level "Jacques" in Spyro the Dragon appears on his greatest hits album, "The Stewart Copeland Anthology".
(The music of the level Jacques is titled "Rain".)

In Mystic Marsh (Spyro 2), and Dino Mines (Spyro: Year of the Dragon), an Insomniac employee, Dan Johnson, makes a cameo. In Mystic Marsh, his face is shown on the coins in the fountain and in Dino Mines, on a "Wanted" poster.

At one stage, an educational Spyro game was planned known as Spyro: Ever After. It would have been based on fairy tales, but was cancelled before any work had begun.

Spyro's original personality attracted a bit of bad feedback, with some people complaining that he was cocky. For all subsequent games his personality was toned down to be more likeable, and his new voice was softer.

In Japan, the first two games each came with a special game for the PocketStation. Since the PocketStation never made it outside Japan, these are the only Spyro games not available in the US.

In 2007, a computer animated feature based on The Legend of Spyro was announced. The movie would have been based on the then recent Legend of Spyro trilogy, and was originally going to be released around Christmas 2009, but was later pushed back to a different release date and was eventually cancelled. Daniel Altiere, who was a writer on the movie, stated that the movie was officially cancelled due to decisions made by ##Activision## to go in a different direction with the Spyro series, likely making reference to the Skylanders series.

In the PlayStation Spyro Games if the player swaps out the disc in the middle of gameplay with another one of the original Playstation spyro games the game will load different stage music from the swapped disk, although not all stages have associated music.

Before settling on “Spyro’s Kingdom”, the game that would eventually become “Skylanders”, Toys For Bob experimented with different ideas for the Spyro license. These included a gritty, realistic Spyro, A tiny Spyro that could walk on things like bookshelves, and an Origami Spyro.

Crash Bandicoot and Spyro the Dragon have both shared two voice actors. Carlos Alazraqui voiced Crash in a promotional trailer for Crash Bandicoot 2: Cortex Strikes Back and Spyro in the original Spyro the Dragon. Jess Harnell voiced Spyro in Spryo: A Hero's Tail and Crash since Crash Tag Team Racing.