Trivia / Cranium Command

• Creator-Driven Successor: Inside Out director Pete Docter was one of the animators who worked on this and has a split-second cameo in the pre-show.
• Genre-Killer: This was the very last project at Disney Feature Animation to be traditionally inked and painted on cels until many years later.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Inevitable, given it's a closed theme park attraction, but this is a particularly interesting example, as the Buzzy animatronic and his clothing have gone missing. A former Walt Disney World employee named Patrick Spikes and his cousin Blaytin Taunton were later found to have stolen the clothing (along with props from The Haunted Mansion) and sold them online, though they were not involved in the disappearance of Buzzy himself.
• Science Marches On: Nowadays the left brain/right brain concept has been discredited, as creativity and logic are processed on both halves of the brain.
• What Could Have Been:
  • At one point the attraction was planned to be a parody of Star Trek with a team of brain cells with a slew of characters such as a captain, a Mr. Spock type, several ensigns at each of the senses, an officer for reason (became Logic in the final), and an officer for emotion (became Imagination in the final). This idea was scrapped when they reduced the budget. This also could have been dropped due to the Leonard Nimoy directed "Body Wars" within the same Wonders of Life pavilion.
  • Colossal Pictures was hired to work on the project in a Roger Ramjet style but their version of the project was scrapped due to the overwhelmingly poor reaction from the Disney higher-ups. Some of the art style can be seen with the signs outside of the attraction, some of the advertisements, and some brief in-show moments.
  • General Knowledge was a wise former captain, then became an Army General.
  • Buzzy was originally named Captain Cortex. The name was retained for a trio of educational films loosely based on the attraction.
  • The attraction originally would have had yearly sequential shows with themes such as aging, marriage, health choices etc. The idea was scrapped due to the pavilion losing its sponsor, later becoming a seasonal attraction and eventually closing down with the pavilion all together in 2007.
• Working Title: The Head Trip in 1978 to Brain Command in 1985.