History Trivia / Pinocchio

* HostilityOnTheSet: Christian Rub (Geppetto's voice actor) was a Nazi sympathizer and frequently upset cast and crew members with his praising of Hitler. ''While the Holocaust was going on''. The film crew jumped at the opportunity to get their revenge, organising for him to be rocked around on a boat set to get a reference for the animators during the Monstro scenes. They apparently rocked the set so hard, they gave him "the ride of his life".

* CrossDressingVoices: In the original dubs for the French, Swedish, Danish and Hungarian versions, Pinocchio was voiced by grown women. In the re-dubs he's voices by boys, however, making it seem like Disney himself preferred the idea of having children voice children.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: A UsefulNotes/Sega32X version of the game was planned, but cancelled due in part to the 32X's commercial failure.

* LicensedGame: Was adapted in 1996 into a fairly generic platformer for the UsefulNotes/{{Super N|intendoEntertainmentSystem}}ES, UsefulNotes/GameBoy, and UsefulNotes/SegaGenesis. And you actually get to "kill" [[KarmaHoudini the Coachman!]]

* HostilityOnTheSet: Christian Rub (Geppetto's voice actor) was a Nazi sympathizer and frequently upset cast and crew members with his praising of Hitler. ''While the Holocaust was going on''. The film crew showed him what they thought of him when they got to "rock" him on a boat set for the animators to use as a reference during the Monstro scenes.

* RealitySubtext: Jiminy starts the movie in ratty clothes, (technically) breaks-and-enters a house with a fire because he's that desperate for warmth, and when [[PhysicalGod the Blue Fairy]] gives him [[AndYourRewardIsClothes new clothes]], he's genuinely overjoyed. The Great Depression had lasted for the entire previous decade in America, and a lot of Americans would recognise Jiminy as a homeless person barely managing to survive.

* TropeNamer: For PleasureIsland.

* DoingItForTheArt: The film's production was just as ambitious, if not more so than Snow White. How much work was put into the film? To give an idea, $85,000, or a fairly large chunk of the film's $2,289,247 budget, was spent on two specialized multiplane camera shots that barely amount to a minute and 30 seconds total on screen! That's close to the budget of two Disney short cartoons!

* DuelingDubs: The film has been dubbed four times into Japanese; three times into French; and twice each into Albanian, Arabic, Brazilian Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, German, Hungarian, and Swedish. The French, Japanese and Danish dubs were also revised for later releases.
* HostilityOnTheSet: Christian Rub (Geppetto's voice actor) was a '''Nazi sympathizer''' and frequently upset cast and crew members with his praising of Hitler. ''While the Holocaust was going on''. The film crew showed him what they thought of him when they got to "rock" him on a boat set for the animators to use as a reference during the Monstro scenes.

** Pinocchio was originally going to be more like his literary counterpart, where he's more of mischievous, and his design more puppet-like. Walt Disney halted production after he decided the character was coming off as too unsympathetic. They restarted from scratch, making Pinocchio more naive and misguided, and they gave him a more boyish like appearance.

** In the 1984 holiday season, Hardee's released a set of five plushes based on Disney movies. Besides Pinocchio, there were also plushes of [[WesternAnimation/LadyAndTheTramp Lady]], WesternAnimation/{{Bambi}}, WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}, and one of the WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians.

* KidsMealToy: At Burger King, it got 4 inflatable bath toys in 1992.

!!The 1940 animated film:

** Foulfellow and Gideon were supposed to meet Pinocchio a third time, and be caught by the police onscreen. Cutting this effectively made them {{Karma Houdini}}s. However, while their ultimate fate in the film is left to the interpretation of the viewers, like for the rest of the other antagonists, it can be implied that Honest John and Gideon suffered some sort of comeuppance offscreen during the unspecified time Pinocchio stayed on Pleasure Island, since Geppetto, before being swallowed by Monstro the whale, sailed to said island after discovering that Pinocchio was taken there (as confirmed by the original script, the book "Mouse Under Glass", and book/comic book adaptations of the film), and the only people who could knew that were Honest John and Gideon and probably some villagers who heard the already notorious crooks (according to the promotional song "Honest John") singing loudly the song about Pleasure Island in late evening while taking Pinocchio to the Coachman's coach.

** In his autobiography, Creator/BillPeet mentions two scenes he worked on that didn't get into the movie. The first scene would have shown Monstro consuming Geppetto's boat (see DeletedScene above). This scene was cut for being too dark. The second scene would have shown the zany and goofy monsters of Bogyland (his spelling).

** At one point during the "I Got No Strings" sequence, there was going to be an African puppet that was depicted in [[ValuesDissonance extremely racist imagery (notably with lips so large it looked more like a duck than a human)]] that was quickly cut during the film's production. Only [[https://photos.auctionanything.com/x/9186/m12ms.jpeg a single model sheet of that scene is known to exist]]. Another puppet that would have appeared during the song would have been [[https://havesomedisney.tumblr.com/post/139693747889/marionettes-should-not-be-this-provacative-cut a beautiful Arabian puppet]], although this puppet didn't make it into the film at all, along with [[https://disney.fandom.com/wiki/Stromboli%27s_Caravan#Gallery the Gendarme puppets]].