Crystal Dragon

Template:Items (Original)Crystal Statues are one of the main collectibles in Spyro the Dragon.

Gnasty Gnorc turned all of the dragons, excluding Spyro, into crystal after they called him 'ugly' and other derogatory terms during an interview with DNN. Spyro then sets out to rescue all of the dragons as well as recover the stolen treasure. The crystal statues can be seen rocking slightly as the dragon trapped inside struggles to free himself.

In order to free the crystallized dragon, Spyro must step onto the statue's pedestal. A white flash will erupt from it, allowing the imprisoned dragon to break free of his entrapment.

Gallery

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  Spyro Reignited Trilogy concept art of the Crystal Dragon Statue

Trivia

• During the events of Spyro the Dragon, six of the dragons were imprisoned twice. All six of these dragons appear in the levels of Gnorc Gnexus, as it is said that they went to go confront Gnasty after Spyro freed them the first time only to be trapped a second time. Four of them feature physical changes for no apparent reason.
  • Delbin: Voice change
  • Cleetus: Voice change, skin color becomes pale-green (skin change only in NTCS version though)
  • Cosmos: Voice change, wings become bigger
  • Magnus: Voice change, wings become darker, horns change color to brown (horn change only in NTCS version though)
  • Tomas: Did not suffer any changes
  • Lateef: Did not suffer any changes
• Considering that Gnasty Gnorc knows a spell that can turn gems into gnorcs, he probably was able to use gem material to imprison the dragons, meaning that all of the dragons may have been inside the green gem material.
• Trapped dragons can hear everything around them while they are inside their crystal prisons.
• In the Reignited Trilogy, the statues now bear a striking resemblence to Ignitus from The Legend of Spyro trilogy. It is unknown if this was intentional or not.