History CommonKnowledge / AnimatedFilms

** While they are princesses (well, queen in Elsa's case) from a Disney movie, believe it or not, Anna and Elsa are not a part of the official ''Franchise/DisneyPrincess'' lineup! They're so popular that they have their own, separate brand.

* WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagicRailroad:

*** Likewise, the main reason why PT Boomer was removed was not because he was too scary for a children's film villain, but it was because the test audience didn't like the non-Sodor scenes in general.

* ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'' is pretty much universally accepted to be the first feature-length 3D CGI animated movie, but an obscure Japanese movie called ''Gadget Trips: Mindscapes'' was released in May 1995 for the Laserdisc in Japan, while ''Toy Story'' came out in November of the same year (sources for ''Mindscapes'' will often claim it came out in 1998, but that was when the more widely-available DVD version was released). ''Mindscapes'' is an AnimatedAdaptation of the relatively unknown [[VideoGame/GadgetPastAsFuture Gadget]] game series, and like the games it's a total MindScrew that only partially makes sense if you read the summary included with the Laserdisc version or read the art book ''Inside Out with Gadget'', which the movie borrows its "plot" from, and it's essentially an extended music video with weird imagery in the same vein as something like ''Film/{{Koyaanisqatsi}}''. Though, if one wanted to count something that was in development before both ''Toy Story'' and ''Mindscapes'' and then released afterwards, then the Brazilian animated movie ''WesternAnimation/{{Cassiopeia}}'' could have a claim to being the first movie of its kind, since it started development in 1992 (while ''Toy Story'' started development in 1993), but production problems such as some of the computers getting stolen prevented its release until 1996.

* WesternAnimation/ThomasAndTheMagic Railroad:

** The film is not set in TheFuture per se, but [[ALongTimeAgoInAGalaxyFarFarAway a fictional galaxy]] in a universe where outer space is [[SpaceIsMagic a mystical]] [[SpaceIsAnOcean and oceanlike]], as well as having [[BatmanCanBreatheInSpace a breathable layer called Etherium]].

** The studio always includes HilariousOuttakes in their movies... except, no, they don't. They did that in ''WesternAnimation/ABugsLife'', ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory2'', and ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc'', and then got bored with the practice and stopped ''forever'' to focus on other kinds of CreativeClosingCredits. Also the notion that the outtakes are genuine flubs from the voice actors which are then animated; while surely some of the concept's [[FollowTheLeader imitators]] took that route, Pixar's outtakes feature the AnimatedActors getting hit by shenanigans such as {{corpsing}}, forgetting their lines, on-set pranks, stunt and prop failures, and other things that wouldn't happen in a booth.

* ''Franchise/IceAge'':

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': Oppositors of later movies tend to argue that this movie involves the melting of the glaciers and therefore the end of the Ice Age, which is used as a justification for this installment being considered the GrandFinale of the series. That's not what happens, the movie focused on the valley where the protagonists are living in, being about to flood because of an ice wall barely holding a massive body of water, there's no sign in the movie that this is an issue for anyone else besides the valley where the Herd were living at the time, so is quite a stretch to argue this will be the end of the Ice Age at a global scale.

* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeTheMeltdown'': Oppositors of later movies tend to argue that this movie involves the melting of the glaciars and therefore the end of the Ice Age, which is used as a justification for this installment being considered the GrandFinale of the series. That's not what happens, the movie focused on the valley where the protagonists are living in, being about to flood because of an ice wall barely holding a massive body of water, there's no sign in the movie that this is an issue for anyone else besides the valley where the Herd were living at the time, so is quite a stretch to argue this will be the end of the Ice Age at a global scale.

** Another commonly-stated claim regarding the film is that it's basically "''Theatre/{{Hamlet}}'' with lions." It involves a prince who gets told by the ghost of his father that he has to avenge his death and defeat his evil uncle, but puts off doing so... and that's about the extent of the similarities, with every plot point, character, conflict, and theme, along with the story's general pacing and structure, being vastly different. The creators did note that [[InspiredBy they saw it as an inspiration]], but they clearly went in their own direction. (And on that note, ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf'' is only similar to ''Theatre/RosencrantzAndGuildensternAreDead'' in a ''very'' meta sense; the plots have no similarity.)

* Everyone "knows" that ''WesternAnimation/Wish2023'' was purely AI-generated, from the "sloppy" writing to the "soulless" animation, right? Wrong. Nothing about ''Wish'' was AI-generated, and all the writers and animators were human. The film began development in 2018, well before the popularity of AI rose in 2023. The songs were also performed at the 2022 D23 Expo in September 2022, two months before [=ChatGPT=] launched.

** Everybody knows that Cinderella wears a [[TrueBlueFemininity blue dress]] in [[SignatureScene the famous ball scene]]. Except she doesn't--her dress is ''silver''. Notably, Creator/{{Disney}} is largely responsible for proliferating this misconception: they've been selling official merchandise of Cinderella in a blue dress since at least the 1990s (possibly to make it more eye-catching, and possibly to contrast better with [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Belle's yellow dress]] and [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Aurora's pink dress]]), and even used [[GeorgeLucasAlteredVersion digital color correction]] in later versions of the film to make her dress look blue. And they finally solidified it as Cinderella's default look in [[Film/Cinderella2015 the 2015 live-action remake]], where her dress ''is'' blue.[[note]] Even Cinderella's physical appearance was changed for marketing purposes: nearly all Disney merchandise depicts her as blonde, even though her hair is more reddish in the actual film. Once again: Disney used color correction to change this, and finally made it official in the live-action remake (with blonde actress Creator/LilyJames in the role), possibly to make her more distinct from the brunette Belle and the redheaded [[WesternAnimation/TheLittleMermaid1989 Ariel]].[[/note]]

* Everyone "knows" that ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' got Creator/GenndyTartakovsky's ‘’Franchise/{{Popeye}}'' movie and Creator/LaurenFaust's ''Medusa'' movie [[MisBlamed canceled]], when in actuality, the cancellation of both films happened during the Sony hack and the subsequent rearrangement of executive positions. Afterward, it was only then that Tom Rothman greenlit ''The Emoji Movie''. This [[https://youtu.be/KN2j12QN8M8 video]] explains it all in detail.

* While it did name [[DisneyVillainDeath a trope]], Disney villains don't always fall to their deaths, contrary to what many assume. Not only that, but some of the cited cases of villains falling to their deaths are wrong; while these deaths ''involved'' a fall, they weren't killed ''by'' the fall. For two examples, [[WesternAnimation/SleepingBeauty Maleficent]] was already mortally wounded from being stabbed in the heart before she fell, and [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 Scar]] actually '''survived''' his fall off Pride Rock only to get killed by the hyenas he'd just betrayed. The trope only means their fates, though definitely ominous, are ambiguous (in many cases, they are last seen in silhouette, and the action cuts away before we see what becomes of them. [[WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast Gaston]] is an unusual case, as the animators openly hinted at his impending death by drawing skulls in his pupils as he fell past the camera, but it qualifies as an EasterEgg because the detail is only visible for a second.)

* Everyone "knows" that ''WesternAnimation/TheEmojiMovie'' got Genndy Tartakovsky's ''Popeye'' movie and Lauren Faust's ''Medusa'' movie [[MisBlamed canceled]], when in actuality, the cancellation of both films happened during the Sony hack and the subsequent rearrangement of executive positions. Afterward, it was only then that Tom Rothman greenlit ''The Emoji Movie''. This [[https://youtu.be/KN2j12QN8M8 video]] explains it all in detail.