History Trivia / TheRoadToElDorado

* PermanentPlaceholder: Creator/{{Jim Cummings|VoiceActor} was originally just meant to provide scratch dialogue for Cortez while doing an Creator/OrsonWelles impression, but the staff realized that his voice ended up matching the character so well that they [[ThrowItIn decided to just keep his recordings in the movie as is]].

** It was originally planned to contain more sexual material and provocative clothing on Chel for the film to receive a PG-13 rating. However, most of these elements were cut, and Chel underwent a redesign to appeal to a younger audience.

** It was originally planned to contain more sexual material and provocative clothing on Chel in order for the film to receive a PG-13 rating. However, most of these elements were cut, and Chel underwent a redesign in an effort to appeal to a younger audience.

** The film was going to include more sexual content and suggestive clothing for Chel in the film to earn a PG-13 rating, but executives removed most of them and redesigned Chel to make the film more marketable to a younger audience.

** The film was going to have more profanity and innuendos so it would earn an [[MediaNotes/RestrictedRating R]] rating (or, at the very least, PG-13), but executives removed most of them.

** The film was going to have more profanity and innuendos so it would earn an [[UsefulNotes/RestrictedRating R]] rating (or, at the very least, PG-13), but executives removed most of them.

** Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} voices Hernán Cortés and his cook, in addition to two of the El Dorado natives.

* DuelingDubs: There are two French dubs. The first one had Tulio, Miguel, and Chel being voiced by professional voice actors (Creator/BrunoChoel, Creator/VincentRopion, and Creator/BarbaraBeretta respectively), while the second had all three of them being replaced by {{Celebrity Voice Actor}}s (José Garcia, Antoine de Caunes, and Victoria Abril, again respectively).

* PermanentPlaceholder: Creator/{{Jim Cummings|1952}} was originally just meant to provide scratch dialogue for Cortez while doing an Creator/OrsonWelles impression, but the staff realized that his voice ended up matching the character so well that they [[ThrowItIn decided to just keep his recordings in the movie as is.]]

** Chel was going to be a designated sacrifice victim to bring the Gods to the city, but the writers didn't want to show the city too soon.

* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: The movie was originally conceived as an R-rated comedy (in the ''Disney Animated Canon'', of all things!), which explains some of the dirty humor and mild cursing.

** After previously composing the ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994'', the disappointing performance of this film botched the collaboration of singer and composer Music/EltonJohn and lyricist Creator/TimRice. They have mainly stuck to theatre since, only reuniting for the 2019 [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 remake]] of ''The Lion King''.

** Creator/JimCummings voices Hernán Cortés and his cook, in addition to two of the El Dorado natives.

* PermanentPlaceholder: Creator/JimCummings was originally just meant to provide scratch dialogue for Cortez while doing an Creator/OrsonWelles impression, but the staff realized that his voice ended up matching the character so well that they [[ThrowItIn decided to just keep his recordings in the movie as is.]]

* KidsMealToy: At Burger King, it got toys of Chel, Miguel, Tulio, and Tzekel-kan. In addition to the main protagonists and antagonist, there were also toys of El Diablo the bull, Altivo, and Tzekel-kan's stone jaguar.

* KidsMealToy: At Burger King, it got toys of Chel, Miguel, Tulio, and Tzekel-kan. In addition to the main protagonists and antagonist, there were also toys of El Diablo the bull and Altivo.

* KidsMealToy: At Burger King, it got toys of Chel, Miguel, Tulio, and Tzekel-kan.

** Creator/ArmandAssante went shirtless like his character for half a recording session because the mike kept picking up the ruffles of his shirt as he acted.

---> ”There was a lot of me saying to Kevin, ‘What’s the plan now, darling?”’ says Branagh. ”But they cut the ‘darling’s out, actually. Jeffrey would say, ‘I don’t think you can say ”darling.” I’d say, ‘It’s affectionate.’ He’d say, ‘Yeah, yeah. Different kind of audience.”’

* ScrewedByTheNetwork: A non-intentional example. Due to the TroubledProduction the film went through, the studio's advertisements went about trying to sell the movie as a ShownTheirWork story about the New World instead of what the film actually was, essentially a comedy movie. This played a role in the films failure at the box-office; critics thought it was a failure at the thing the advertisements said it was, causing people to not see it.

** Animator Will Finn, who directed a bulk of the film, has spoken at length about how much he hated making this film and that he still has nightmares about it to this day. He hated the script and brought it to writer David Swift in the hopes of punching it up, later admitting that he agreed with Swift when he said, "You're never going to make a good movie with shit like this for writing!". He fought tooth and nail to keep the game sequence in the film because it was one of the few actual references to real Indigenous Mesoamerican culture, and the higher-ups could give him no rational reason as to why they wanted it removed. He [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere jumped ship late in production to return to Disney]] and had his name removed from the credits, leaving Don Paul and Eric "Bibo" Bergeron (and even an uncredited Jeff Katzenberg and Creator/DavidSilverman) to finish the job.

* OldShame: Almost everyone who worked on the film views it as this. Hell, even today Creator/DreamWorksAnimation wants almost nothing to do with it.

* CelebrityVoiceActor: In the Latin American Spanish dub, Tulio is voiced by film/television actor Creator/DemianBichir and Miguel by singer Aleks Syntek.

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** ImOkay

* ExecutiveMeddling: According to [[https://ew.com/article/2000/02/11/road-el-dorado/ an Entertainment Weekly article]], Creator/KennethBranagh had said that he used pet names as Miguel towards Tulio, but this was cut from the final movie. However, some allege that these pet names made it into some subtitles in older DVDs of the film.

* MidDevelopmentGenreShift: The movie was originally conceived as an R-rated comedy (in the ''Disney Animated Canon'', of all things!), which explains some of the dirty humor and near cursing.

* WorkingTitle: The project was humorously and begrudgingly named "El Dorado: The Lost City on Hold" to symbolize [[TroubledProduction its hell-ish production staduse.]]