It All Started With A Mouse

Follow me to learn useless trivia facts about Disney and Pixar movies!! (My source is IMDb but really I just have most of this memorized 😂)

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The Three Caballeros came out 72 years ago today!

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101 Dalmatians came out 56 years ago today!

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During the course of recording the voices, Robin Williams improvised so much they had almost 16 hours of material.

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Originally, Aladar's name was Noah.

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Georgie Henley's reaction to Mr. Tumnus at the lamppost is genuine. She had not seen her cast mate James McAvoy in his costume before the scene was filmed, so her screams and reaction were real. Georgie's first reaction to the snowy world of Narnia is also genuine - she was carried into the set blindfolded to make her first entrance, and her wide-eyed, delighted reactions to it all are entirely her own.

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The genie's lamp from Aladdin can be seen on Tomatoa's shell.

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The license plate on the truck is CALA113. "A113" appears in all Pixar movies, as a reference to the Cal Arts room where many of the animators of Pixar Studios attended.

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The character Lightning McQueen is a reference to Glenn McQueen, a Pixar animator who died in 2002.

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The Darling children become very sleepy as their parents leave the room. This may not be merely because it is their bed time. The "tonic" given to the children by Nana may have been morphine. It was quite common in the early 20th century to give children "soothing syrups" and "tonics" to control their behavior. These concoctions turned out to consist of several different narcotics.

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Baymax's movement and posing was modeled after studying the movement of baby with a full diaper.