History Trivia / AtlantisTheLostEmpire

* UrbanLegendofZelda: In 2019, rumors that this film was going to join the list of Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon films slated for live-action remakes started flying around the internet, with claims that Creator/GuillermoDelToro and Creator/TomHolland were being considered to direct and star, respectively. These rumors were ultimately debunked by del Toro himself, but many people still believe them to be true, mostly because the idea of an ''Atlantis'' remake with del Toro at the helm is widely considered to be an ''awesome'' idea.

* BadExportForYou: The European DVD has a tiny aspect ratio of 1.33:1, which is much smaller than the original 2.39:1. Luckily the original ratio was restored on both digital versions and the Blu-Ray.

* DeletedScene: The prologue was going to show a group of Vikings using the Shepherd's Journal and encountering the Leviathan instead of the Great Flood. This was later reused in the video game.

** The original intro of Vikings being attacked by the Leviathan was used for the opening to the video game.

* DeletedScene: The prologue was going to show a group of Vikings using the Shepherd's Journal and encountering the Leviathan instead of the Great Flood.

* RefittedForSequel: The lava whales from ''[[WesternAnimation/AtlantisMilosReturn Milo's Return]]''.

** At one point, Creator/MarkHamill was considered to voice Mole. Just think about it... [[Franchise/StarWars Luke]] [[Creator/MarkHamill Skywalker]], [[Franchise/StarTrek Mr.]] [[Creator/LeonardNimoy Spock]], and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty]] [[Creator/MichaelJFox McFly]] in a film with a story by [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]] [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Freakin']] [[Series/{{Firefly}} Whedon]].

** Cookie's lines in the goodbye scene are the only Cookie dialogue delivered by Creator/StevenBarr instead of Jim Varney.

** In the Spanish version, the voice of Vanessa Garcel from the Mexican dub was used for Audrey's dialogue to give her [[ShownTheirWork a distinctive Latina personality and accent]]. However, Spanish voice actress Cristina Yuste did some small takes to replace Mexican jargon words that Spanish viewers might not get, and there's rumor that she was originally slated to dub the whole character before they decided to use Garcel's recordings. Yuste also went to voice Audrey in the videogame of the film.

* CreatorKiller: The film's failure at the box office was one of the events that led to Michael Eisner being exiled from Disney and stalled the careers of directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale (who'd previously directed ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''); Trousdale has since gone on to work on Creator/DreamWorksAnimation shorts while Wise eventually moved to a few documentaries, with his only animated feature-length film ever since being ''Bobbleheads: The Movie''. In addition, this was the first in the set of dominoes that made Disney give up on traditional animation (apart from [=DisneyToon=] Studios) for [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle a]] [[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons brief]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}} period]]. Then they returned to traditional animation for a [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog short]] [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh2011 time]], but now it seems as though that won't happen again.

* CreatorKiller: The film's failure at the box office was one of the events that led to Michael Eisner being exiled from Disney and stalled the careers of directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale (who'd previously directed ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''); Trousdale has since gone on to work on Creator/DreamWorksAnimation shorts while Wise eventually moved to a few documentaries, with his only animated feature-length film ever since being ''Bobbleheads: The Movie''. In addition, this was the first in the set of dominoes that made Disney give up on traditional animation (apart from [=DisneyToon=] Studios) for [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle a]] [[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons brief]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}} period]]. Then they returned to traditional animation for a [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog short]] [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh time]], but now it seems as though that won't happen again.

** Cookie's lines in the goodbye scene are the only Cookie dialogue delivered by Steve Barr instead of Jim Varney.

** Lloyd Bridges was cast as Whitmore, but died just as production began. John Mahoney was given the role instead.

* CreatorKiller: The film's failure at the box office was one of the events that led to Michael Eisner being exiled from Disney and stalled the careers of directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale (who'd previously directed ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''); Trousdale has since gone on to work on Creator/DreamWorks animated shorts while Wise eventually moved to a few documentaries, with his only animated feature-length film ever since being ''Bobbleheads: The Movie''. In addition, this was the first in the set of dominoes that made Disney give up on traditional animation (apart from [=DisneyToon=] Studios) for [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle a]] [[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons brief]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}} period]]. Then they returned to traditional animation for a [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog short]] [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh time]], but now it seems as though that won't happen again.

* DuelingMovies: This was the second Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon film in a row to deal with [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks Pictures']] ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', this time with the hidden city/MsFanservice lead angle. This duel was much closer than the one with ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' thanks to both ''Atlantis'' and ''El Dorado'' scoring about the same Rotten Tomatoes score (upper 40's), underperforming, and becoming [[StillbornFranchise Stillborn Franchises]]. ''Atlantis'' does have an edge as it got a DirectToVideo sequel, while ''El Dorado'' did worse and buried that franchise stone dead before [=DreamWorks=] could do anything with it. But given the reception of ''Atlantis''' second film from both audiences and critics, it's not much of a victory. All three films got VindicatedByHistory, though.

* OldShame: For Disney, owing to its very poor box office performance.

* CreatorKiller: The film's failure at the box office was one of the events that led to Michael Eisner being exiled from Disney and stalled the careers of directors Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale (who'd previously directed ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}''); Trousdale has since gone on to work on Creator/DreamWorks animated shorts while Wise eventually moved to a few documentaries, but was credited on an animated film with ''Open Season''. In addition, this was the first in the set of dominoes that made Disney give up on traditional animation (apart from [=DisneyToon=] Studios) for [[WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle a]] [[WesternAnimation/MeetTheRobinsons brief]] [[WesternAnimation/{{Bolt}} period]]. Then they returned to traditional animation for a [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog short]] [[WesternAnimation/WinnieThePooh time]], but now it seems as though that won't happen again.

** At one point, Creator/MarkHamill was considered to voice Mole. Just think about it...[[Franchise/StarWars Luke]] [[Creator/MarkHamill Skywalker]], [[Franchise/StarTrek Mr.]] [[Creator/LeonardNimoy Spock]], and [[Franchise/BackToTheFuture Marty]] [[Creator/MichaelJFox McFly]] in a film with a story by [[Creator/JossWhedon Joss]] [[Film/TheAvengers2012 Freakin']] [[Series/{{Firefly}} Whedon]].

** Helga's introduction, early on, was storyboarded differently than the final version [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0gyp1H548U as seen here]].
** Her original design was also [[https://vegalleries.com/art/walt-disney/1945/atlantis-the-lost-empire-2001/atlantis-production-drawing-id-octatlantis17419 quite different]] appearing [[HotterAndSexier lusher, more sensual]] like a [[FemmeFatale film noir temptress]], more so than her [[TamerAndChaster final incarnation]]. Interestingly "prototype Helga" resembles [[Film/CoolWorld another seductive, hand drawn blonde]].
** In both above-mentioned examples she had [[SmokingIsGlamorous a cigarette holder]]. Obviously scrubbed.

** Her original design was also [[https://vegalleries.com/art/walt-disney/1945/atlantis-the-lost-empire-2001/atlantis-production-drawing-id-octatlantis17419 quite different]] appearing lusher, more sensual like a [[FemmeFatale film noir temptress]], more so than her [[TamerAndChaster final incarnation]]. Interestingly "prototype Helga" resembles [[Film/CoolWorld another seductive, hand drawn blonde]].

* DuelingMovies: This was the second Franchise/DisneyAnimatedCanon film in a row to deal with [[Creator/DreamWorksAnimation DreamWorks Pictures']] ''WesternAnimation/TheRoadToElDorado'', this time with the hidden city/MsFanservice lead angle. This duel was much closer than the one with ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' thanks to both ''Atlantis'' and ''El Dorado'' scoring about the same Rotten Tomatoes score (upper 40's), underperforming, and becoming [[StillbornFranchise Stillborn Franchises]]. ''Atlantis'' does have an edge as it got a DirectToVideo sequel, while ''El Dorado'' was a worse BoxOfficeBomb and buried that franchise stone dead before [=DreamWorks=] could do anything with it. But given the reception of ''Atlantis''' second film from both audiences and critics, it's not much of a victory. All three films got VindicatedByHistory, though.

* BoxOfficeBomb: This was released one month after the literal monster hit that was ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' (which involved former Disney executive Jeffrey Katzenberg) and around the same time as the original ''Film/{{The Fast and The Furious}}'', as well as opening the same day as ''Film/LaraCroftTombRaider''. As a result, it made only $186 million against a budget of $120 million, making it one of Disney's biggest underperformers. This, along with the critical underperformance of ''Film/PearlHarbor'', [[http://decentfilms.com/articles/quovadisdisney prompted Peter Schneider (then chairman of Walt Disney Pictures, and former vice president of Feature Animation) to step down to form his own theatre production company]].

** Her original design was also [[https://vegalleries.com/art/walt-disney/1945/atlantis-the-lost-empire-2001/atlantis-production-drawing-id-octatlantis17419 quite different]] appearing lusher, more sensual like a [[FemmeFatale film noir temptress]], more so than her final incarnation. Interestingly "prototype Helga" resembles [[Film/CoolWorld another seductive, hand drawn blonde]].

** Helga's introduction, early on, was differently storyboarded than the final version [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0gyp1H548U as seen here]].

** Her original design was also [[https://vegalleries.com/art/walt-disney/1945/atlantis-the-lost-empire-2001/atlantis-production-drawing-id-octatlantis17419 quite different]] appearing lusher, more sensual like a [[FemmeFatale film noir temptress]], more so than her final incarnation.

** Her original design was also [[https://vegalleries.com/art/walt-disney/1945/atlantis-the-lost-empire-2001/atlantis-production-drawing-id-octatlantis17419 quite different]] appearing lush, sensual like a [[film noir temptress FemmeFatale]], more so than her final incarnation.

** Helga's introduction, early on, was differently storyboarded than the final version [[as seen here ttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=z0gyp1H548U]].