History Trivia / ATrollInCentralPark

* DuelingWorks: With Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'' in that both films are animated musicals about an exile living in banishment from a kingdom. Needless to say, ''The Lion King'' easily defeated ''A Troll in Central Park'' in 1994, seeing as how the former became the highest-grossing traditionally animated movie, while the latter became the biggest animated BoxOfficeBomb until Delgo in 2008.

* DuelingWorks: With Disney's ''Disney/TheLionKing'' in that both films are animated musicals about an exile living in banishment from a kingdom. Needless to say, ''The Lion King'' easily defeated ''A Troll in Central Park'' in 1994, seeing as how the former became the highest-grossing traditionally animated movie, while the latter became the biggest animated BoxOfficeBomb until Delgo in 2008.

* ChannelHop: Warner Bros. released the film originally, but is now distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox (now a part of Creator/{{Disney}}, ironically) due to Creator/RupertMurdoch's ownership of Media Assets, the company that owned the film.

* ChannelHop: Warner Bros. released the film originally, but is now distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox (now a part of Creator/{{Disney}}, ironically) due to that studio hiring Bluth to run their now-defunct feature animation unit.

* ChannelHop: Warner Bros. released the film originally, but is now distributed by Creator/TwentiethCenturyFox due to that studio hiring Bluth to run their now-defunct feature animation unit.

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the Studio]]: According to the IMDB trivia. Gary Goldman stated that the reason the movie did so poorly at the box office was the fact that it was released without any promotion whatsoever, and what release it ''did'' have was limited. To which most people replied "Have you ''SEEN'' the thing?! No wonder they didn't want to promote it!"

* TroubledProduction: Creator/DonBluth made the mistake of [[WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants shortening production]], hoping that it would inspire more spontaneity among his crew. [[NiceJobBreakingItHero It wound up being his worst-reviewed film]].

* CastingGag: Cloris Leachman voices Gnorga, the Queen of the Trolls in this film, and she had previously played a role as Cerena, Queen of the Trolls in the Creator/HannaBarbera Christmas special ''The Little Troll Prince''.

-->As it is never a good thing that a child is born prematurely, so it is with producing a film. Development of a script is like the development of a child in the womb, it takes time and must be done right. Building the movie, ''A Troll In Central Park'', taught us this lesson, but indeed, the hard way. I tell you all this in the hope that you might benefit from our foolish mistakes. Scrutinizing your own work is so important, but lets face it, we all are afraid of not measuring up, so we stubbornly cling to our own opinions, shutting out all others. Stanley could have been a richer character with more levels to his personality. Maybe he could have had a dark side, a troll side that he struggled with.

* ActorAllusion: Cloris Leachman voices Gnorga, the Queen of the Trolls in this film, and she had previously played a role as Cerena, Queen of the Trolls in the Creator/HannaBarbera Christmas special ''The Little Troll Prince''.

* [[ScrewedByTheNetwork Screwed by the Studio]]: According to the IMDB trivia. Gary Goldman stated that the reason the movie did so poorly at the box office was the fact that it was released without any promotion whatsoever, and what release it ''did'' have was limited. To which most people replied "Have you ''SEEN'' the thing?!"

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: The film was apparently a failed effort for Bluth's team to invoke this trope.

* CreatorBacklash: In the July 2001 issue of "Toon Talk", Don Bluth admitted the film was terrible, and regretted how badly the film turned out;

* InkSuitActor: Gus bears a small resemblance to his actor Phillip Glasser.

* ActorAllusion: Cloris Leachman voices Gnorga, the Queen of the Trolls in this film, and she had previously played a role as Cerena, Queen of the Trolls in the Creator/HannaBarbera Christmas special "The Little Troll Prince".

-->“As it is never a good thing that a child is born prematurely, so it is with producing a film. Development of a script is like the development of a child in the womb; It takes time and must be done right. Building the movie, “A Troll In Central Park”, taught us this lesson, but indeed, the hard way.”I tell you all this in the hope that you might benefit from our foolish mistakes. Scrutinizing your own work is so important, but lets face it, we all are afraid of not measuring up, so we stubbornly cling to our own opinions, shutting out all others. Stanley could have been a richer character with more levels to his personality. Maybe he could have had a dark side, a troll side that he struggled with.”

** Buddy Hackett was initially the voice for Stanley, but Bluth ended up replacing him with Dom Deluise because he was easier to work with (for example, Hackett's contracts demanded a limited number of takes per line, while Dom was more than willing to do muliple takes of his lines).

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: Bluth has said that, had they not rushed their production, he would have wanted Stanley to be a much darker character with more abundant flaws.

* BoxOfficeBomb: One of the biggest percentage-wise in the history of filmmaking. The film had a budget of $23,000,000 and only grossed $71,368 domestically, which is less than one-third of 1% of its budget, making it one of the biggest {{box office bomb}}s in the history of animated films (formerly ''the'' biggest until ''WesternAnimation/{{Delgo}}'' came along).

* ActorAllusion: Creator/ClorisLeachman voices Gnorga, the Queen of the Trolls in this film, and she had previously played a role as Cerena, Queen of the Trolls in the Creator/HannaBarbera Christmas special "The Little Troll Prince".

* CreatorKiller: This was the second-to-last film from the animation studio Creator/DonBluth founded after he left Creator/{{Disney}} on really bad terms, and the last one to actually credit him ([[AlanSmithee he ordered his name removed]] from ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin''.) This movie's [[TastesLikeDiabetes Defcon-1 sweetness level]] and the fact that it directly contrasted his earlier work effectively soiled the studio's reputation for good.

* RelationshipVoiceActor: Gus and Stanley are [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel and Tiger]] respectively.

* ActorAllusion: Cloris Leachman voices Gnorga, the Queen of the Trolls in this film, and she had previously played a role as Cerena, Queen of the Trolls in the Creator/HannaBarbera Christmas special "The Little Troll Prince".

* CreatorKiller: This was the second-to-last film from the animation studio Don Bluth founded after he left Creator/{{Disney}} on really bad terms, and the last one to actually credit him ([[Main/AlanSmithee he ordered his name removed]] from ''WesternAnimation/ThePebbleAndThePenguin''.) This movie's [[TastesLikeDiabetes Defcon-1 sweetness level]] and the fact that it directly contrasted his earlier work effectively soiled the studio's reputation for good.
* FakeAmerican: The parents, [[WTHCastingAgency who for some reason are voiced by none other than]] Jonathan Pryce and Hayley Mills. [[OohMeAccentsSlipping They don't do a very good job of it.]]

* HeyItsThatVoice: Gus and Stanley are [[WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail Fievel and Tiger]] respectively.