The movie was promoted as being the final iteration of the "Classic Jonny Quest".
The film is dedicated to Doug Wildey, who died the year before it was released.
This was the last movie to be produced until Warner Bros. Animation produced the direct-to-video movie Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island (1998) and Cartoon Network produced the movie Dexter's Laboratory: Ego Trip (1999) after the Time Warner merger in 1996.
The last Jonny Quest film to be produced and created by the original Hanna-Barbera until the Quest characters made a crossover appearance in Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest (2015) featuring Tom and Jerry. One more series was The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996) was produced and premiered on Cartoon Network until H-B studios closed down in 2001.