History Trivia / RobinHood

** At one point, the animators considering playing with the AnimalStereotypes and make the Sheriff a goat, but indicative of Disney's DorkAge in UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, the director, Wolfgang Reitherman rejected it because a wolf was more imposing. Furthermore, Robin Hood was going to have a full cast of Merrie Men for the story, but Reitherman shot that down too considering he was too enamoured to doing a funny animal medieval emulation of ''Film/ButchCassidyAndTheSundanceKid'' had just Robin and Little John.

** At one point, the animators considering playing with the AnimalStereotypes and make the Sheriff a goat, but indicative of Disney's DorkAge in UsefulNotes/TheDarkAgeOfAnimation, the director rejected it because a wolf was more imposing.

!!The [[Disney/RobinHood Disney film]]

** In [[http://www.animatormag.com/archive/issue-26/issue-26-page-24/ issue 26]] of the magazine "Animator", Creator/DonBluth expressed dissatisfaction with working on Disney's ''[[Disney/RobinHood Robin Hood]]'';

* PlayingAgainstType: Henki Kolstad in the Norwegian dub, who was known for playing kindly old men like [[Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective Dr. Dawson]] or [[Disney/{{Aladdin}} the Sultan of Agrabah]], voices the FauxAffablyEvil Sheriff of Nottingham.

* ThoseTwoActors: Monica Evans (Maid Marian) and Carole Shelley (Lady Kluck) were also a double act in {{Film/The Odd Couple 1968}} (as Cecily and Gwendolyn) and {{Disney/The Aristocats}} (as the goose sisters Amelia and Abigail).
* {{Uncancelled}}: The 2017 CD/digital release of the soundtrack ushered in the return of the Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection of LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition albums. (At the time, two years had passed since the last Legacy Collection soundtrack, ''Disney/TheAristoCats''.)

--->"Whether it's a good movie or not is beside the point. It's a movie that's characters, there's no atmosphere in it. I call it 'sticks and stones and rocks and leaves'. First you have the stone walls outside the castle, then the stone walls inside the castle, then the leaves in the forest, that's it. There are no exotic environments, you just have all these scenes with Robin meeting Friar Tuck, then Robin meeting Little John, then Robin meeting Maid Marian. That's when I figured it out: rides are about exotic places, not characters. The best attractions are where you suddenly find yourself in a jewel mine[[note]]As in ''[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White's Scary Adventures]]''[[/note]] or flying over London[[note]]As in ''[[WesternAnimation/PeterPan]]Peter Pan's Flight[[/note]]''."

-->"Whether it's a good movie or not is beside the point. It's a movie that's characters, there's no atmosphere in it. I call it 'sticks and stones and rocks and leaves'. First you have the stone walls outside the castle, then the stone walls inside the castle, then the leaves in the forest, that's it. There are no exotic environments, you just have all these scenes with Robin meeting Friar Tuck, then Robin meeting Little John, then Robin meeting Maid Marian. That's when I figured it out: rides are about exotic places, not characters. The best attractions are where you suddenly find yourself in a jewel mine[[note]]As in ''[[WesternAnimation/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs Snow White's Scary Adventures]]''[[/note]] or flying over London[[note]]As in ''[[WesternAnimation/PeterPan]]Peter Pan's Flight[[/note]]''."

** [[UncannyFamilyResemblance King Richard and Prince John]] are both voiced by Peter Ustinov.

* OlderThanTheyThink: What was the first animated RobinHood movie with a FunnyAnimal cast? Why ''The Adventures of Robin Hoodnik,'' of course! True, it's a {{Parody}}, yet it was released by Creator/HannaBarbera in 1972, one year ahead of the Creator/{{Disney}} version.

-->''I drew with great excitement, thinking how good it was to work on a Disney feature. When Robin Hood was completed I decided it did not look the greatest of films. The heart wasn’t in it. It had technique, the characters were well drawn, the Xerox process retained the fine lines so I could see all of the self indulgence of the animators, each one saying, “Look how great I am,” but the story itself had no soul.''

* {{Uncancelled}}: The 2017 CD/digital release of the soundtrack ushered in the return of the return of the Walt Disney Records Legacy Collection of LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition albums. (At the time, two years had passed since the last Legacy Collection soundtrack, ''Disney/TheAristoCats''.)

* RealLife/MeanCharacterNiceActor: Creator/RichardArmitage states on the DVDCommentary that after he learnt that his character was going to murder [[spoiler:Marian]], he had several nightmares in the days leading up to the shooting of the scene.

* ThoseTwoActors: Monica Evans (Maid Marian) and Carole Shelley (Lady Kluck) were also a double act in {{Film/The OddCouple 1968}} (as Cecily and Gwendolyn) and {{Disney/The Aristocats}} (as the goose sisters Amelia and Abigail).

* ThoseTwoActors: Monica Evans (Maid Marian) and Carole Shelley (Lady Kluck) were also a double act in {{Film/TheOddCouple1968}} (as Cecily and Gwendolyn) and {{Disney/TheAristocats}} (as the goose sisters Amelia and Abigail).

* HilariousInHindsight: Of course foxes are associated with thievery and cunning, but did you know that the fox is also the regional animal of the Midlands?

** Played straight in S3, in which twenty-eight year old Clive Standen plays twenty year old Archer, and ''thirty'' year old Joanne Froggatt plays Kate, whose age is never specified, but who is clearly meant to be a young teenager judging by the way she behaves and is treated by other characters.

* HilariousInHindsight: Of course foxes are associated with thievery and cunning, but did you know that the fox is also the regional animal of the Midlands?

* UncreditedRole: The film only listed the actors playing the main character and key supporting characters; other actors like J. Pat O'Malley (Otto), John Fiedler (Deacon), Barbara Luddy (Deacon's wife) and all the child actors went uncredited.

** In the episode ''Lardner's Ring'', Guy tells Marian that: "you're coming home with me." This is what Thornton says to Margaret Hale at the conclusion of ''Literature/NorthAndSouth''. Both characters were played by Creator.RichardArmitage.

** The special edition DVD shows off a reconstruction of an unused ending for the movie, in which [[spoiler:Robin briefly becomes a DudeInDistress following an injury sustained from his fall during the climax: he would be left with Maid Marian at the church while Little John went off to find help. Prince John comes in while Robin is still knocked out, and is prepared to stab Marian to get to Robin, while she is prepared to stand in front of him to defend him. Of course, both are saved by the timely arrival of good King Richard]].

* CreatorBacklash: In [[http://www.animatormag.com/archive/issue-26/issue-26-page-24/ issue 26]] of the magazine "Animator", Creator/DonBluth expressed dissatisfaction with working on Disney's ''[[Disney/RobinHood Robin Hood]]'';
-->"I drew with great excitement, thinking how good it was to work on a Disney feature. When Robin Hood was completed I decided it did not look the greatest of films. The heart wasn’t in it. It had technique, the characters were well drawn, the Xerox process retained the fine lines so I could see all of the self indulgence of the animators, each one saying, “Look how great I am,” but the story itself had no soul."

* CreatorsPest: Skippy was this to former Disney animator Floyd Norman (who worked on this film) personally disliked this character due to how "annoying" and "bratty" he is.

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