Ama and the Mysterious Crystal/Trivia

Trivia

 * This is Universal Studios' first animated film that was created completely in-house, as Steven Spielberg's Amblimation's films were distributed, but not produced by Universal, and An American Tail (1986) and The Land Before Time (1988) were produced by Don Bluth's American-Irish Sullivan Bluth Studios.
 * This is Universal Animation Studios' first traditionally animated film.
 * This is the first Universal Animation Studios film to be released in December.
 * Coincidentally, this film was released on the same day as the dark comedy film Mouse Hunt, which happens to be the first family film from DreamWorks.
 * THX was chosen by Universal Studios Home Video to digitally remaster the film on both VHS & LaserDisc. THX would later digitally remaster the 2000 DVD release as well as the 2001 and 2007 DVD releases.
 * It is also the first Universal Animation Studios film to be digitally mastered by THX on home media releases.
 * Karey Kirkpatrick and Michael J. Wilson did an uncredited rewrite of the script.
 * This is one of the three animated films that have both Patrick Stewart and Martin Short co-star together. The others are DreamWorks' The Prince of Egypt (1998) and Paramount/Nickelodeon's Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius (2001).
 * This is also the second 1997 family film from Universal to star Martin Short, the other being A Simple Wish.