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  • Celebrity Voice Actor:
  • Creator Backlash: A minor one. Genndy Tartakovsky hasn't exactly spoken ill of these movies, but admits that he doesn't care much for CGI, due to its homogeneity, and vastly prefers hand-drawn animation.
  • Dueling Movies: It had to compete with two other animated horror movies of 2012; ParaNorman and Frankenweenie. More directly Frankenweenie, since it came out a week after this movie.
  • Missing Trailer Scene: Some scenes are altered.
    • In the first trailer, when Jonathan first enters the hotel, he loudly says "Hello?", a shocked Dracula says "A human!" and Jonathan says "What is this place?" In the movie, the animation is the same, but the characters don't say anything until Dracula traps Jonathan in the revolving door.
    • Also, in the scene where Dracula and Jonathan are in the tunnel network and have the accidental pervert moment with the skeleton in the shower, Jonathan is dressed like his normal human self. The movie version of the scene has him wearing his "Johnnystein" monster disguise.
    • The Bigfoot who causes the clogged toilet problem had white fur with blue hands and feet in all the trailers. He's brown in the final version, probably because so many people said he looked more like the Yeti.
    • The silhouetted montage of all the monsters of the world beginning their travels to the hotel from their respective hideouts is cut from the final film.
    • One trailer showed the scene where one of the suits of armor gets kicked between the legs, making it look like Jonathan did it when it was Quasimodo.
    • The scene with Dracula going down the hall with the shrunken heads has some difference to the voices between the trailer and the movie.
    • At no point does Dracula try to convince Johnny that this is just a normal hotel, unlike in the trailer.
  • Money, Dear Boy: Genndy Tartakovsky has made no secret that the only reason he took the job initially was that he needed work after Sym-Bionic Titan was canceled, although he has also said he's happy with the movie and was excited to do the sequel.
  • The Other Darrin: Brian Hull replaces Adam Sandler as Dracula from Monster Pets onwards, making his official movie debut in Hotel Transylvania: Transformania.
  • The Other Marty:
    • Miley Cyrus was originally cast to voice Mavis, but she left the project to concentrate on her music, and was replaced with Selena Gomez.
    • The Skeleton couple and Mavis' shrunken head had different voices in the trailers.
  • Production Posse: Though not made by Adam Sandler's production company Happy Madison Productions, it is a production by its distribution partner at the time, Columbia Pictures, and many of his regular collaborators are present, including co-stars Steve Buscemi, David Spade, and Kevin James, as well as writer Robert Smigel.
  • Real-Life Relative: Not only does Adam Sandler voice Dracula but wife Jacqueline "Jackie Titone" Sandler voices Martha, Drac's wife and their daughter Sadie voices Winnie (the werewolves' only daughter) and also young Mavis.
  • Saved from Development Hell: The film was first pitched in 2002 and was one of the first ideas pitched to Sony Pictures Animation around the time, started development in 2006, and went through 5 other directors before Genndy was brought, by which point so much had already been rendered that it was, as he put it, "like coming onto a live-action set." He was given the task of rewriting, redesigning the characters, and re-supervising the animation all in under a year. The DVD commentary mostly consists of Genndy explaining all the creative hurdles they had to do when recycling pre-existing set pieces for new scenes since they had no time to create new models. When he was made director, the film finally started to come together and was given a release date in 2012.
  • What Could Have Been:
    • Jonathan was intended at one point to be the last descendant of Abraham Van Helsing, which would have created an even bigger conflict between him and Dracula. There's no word as to why this was dropped, but it was eventually put to use in the third film, which was about Dracula falling in love with Van Helsing's great-great-granddaughter.
    • Mavis was originally a character from a scrapped romantic comedy film.
    • As seen in early promotional material Griffen (The Invisible Man) was originally going to share clothes but the idea was scrapped to just wearing glasses in the final.
    • Jonathan was originally named Gerald.
    • Miley Cyrus was originally cast as Mavis but was fired after buying Liam Hemsworth a lewd birthday cake and posting it online.

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