History Trivia / TheEmperorsNewGroove

** Rudy, the old man, was originally voiced by John Fiedler, the long-standing voice of Piglet in Disney's ''Franchise/WinnieThePooh''. When Fiedler passed away in 2005, Travis Oates replaced him as Rudy for the character's single appearance in ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool''.

** In the US, there were six different launching toys; Kusco, Kronk, Pacha, Yzma, Kusco as a llama, and [[SpoiledByTheMerchandise Yzma as a cat]].

** Asia featured four of the toys from the European set; Kusco as a llama, Pacha, Kronk, and Bucky.

** While Kuzco's personality didn't seem to change that much through the retool, his original character design (and consequently, Pacha's, as shown in test animation of the duo's first meeting) was markedly different from the final product.

** Kuzco was originally named Manco until someone realized that it was also phonetically the same as the Japanese word for "pussy".

** In the Japanese dub of ''Kronk's New Groove'', Creator/ShowtaroMorikubo voiced both Kuzko and Tipo, in the later case as the replacement of his previous voice actor, Yuuki Tokiwa.

* WagTheDirector: Sting, who was already annoyed about having to stay on a project for which he'd already exhausted all of the time he'd set aside, nearly left the project when he objected to the original ending where Kuzco spared Pacha's village, but still built his water park on the hill ''next'' to his. He wrote to the producers that this meant that Kuzco hadn't learned anything, not to mention went against his personal beliefs about the environment, to which they agreed and had the necessary changes made.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Due to the film's TroubledProduction, there was never a completed script written. When the Disney archives requested a copy of the script, the filmmakers admitted they didn't have one, and instead gathered all of the film's written material, which was then compiled into the first and only draft of the film's script two weeks after it released.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Due to the film's TroubledProduction, there was never a completed script written. When a representative from the Disney archives requested a copy of the script, the filmmakers admitted they didn't have one, and instead sent multiple boxes of written material for the film which was then compiled into the first and only draft of the film's script, two weeks after it released.

* WriterRevolt:
** Changing the typical Disney Renaissance-era epic into a screwball comedy was nothing but this. Disney's staff was sick of doing blockbuster musicals and fought for a smaller, more experimental film when ''Kingdom of The Sun'' was rejected. In turn, a number of the original team who weren't fired willingly left, believing that the retool would trivialize their work.
** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Kuzco was originally planned to be [[CelebrityVoiceActor dubbed by a soap opera actor]] (Arath de la Torre, to be exact), and while he did finish the dub and get paid, it was never used because Walt Disney's Mexican branch didn't like his performance and, probably to avoid another sub-par performance with the main character (just like they did with the dub of ''WesternAnimation/{{Hercules}}''), he was replaced with Creator/JesusBarrero, who originally only dubbed him in the trailers.

** In the original ''Kingdom of the Sun'', Pacha would've been voiced by Creator/OwenWilson. He recorded all his dialogue but when the film was retooled, his voice work was thrown out.

** Pacha was also going to gain a love interest, Nina, voiced by Creator/CarlaGugino.

** Pacha originally was designed to look like a twin of Kuzco.

* TheWikiRule: Has one called [[http://emperorsnew.wikia.com/wiki/The_Emperor%27s_New_Wiki The Emperor's New Wiki]].

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Due to the film's TroubledProduction, there was never a completed script written. When a representative from the Disney archives requested a copy of the script, the filmmakers were admitted they didn't have one, and instead sent multiple boxes of written material for the film which was then compiled into the first and only draft of the film's script, two weeks after it released.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Due to the film's TroubledProduction, there was never a completed script written. When a representative from the Disney requested a copy of the script, the filmmakers were forced to admit they didn't have one, and instead sent to the archives multiple boxes of written material for the film which was then compiled into the first and only draft of the film's script, two weeks after it released.

* WritingByTheSeatOfYourPants: Due to the film's TroubledProduction, there was never a completed script written. When Disney requested a copy of the script for their archives, the filmmakers were forced to admit they didn't have one, and instead sent over to Disney legal several boxes of written material for the film which was then compiled into the first and only draft the film's script, two weeks after the film released.

* {{Trope Namer|s}}: For KissOfLife and ItsAllAboutMe.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: One of the main reasons why any form of the original ''Kingdom of the Sun'' concept can't be made at another studio; while the final product is quite different from what could have been, from a legal standpoint, Disney kept ''just'' enough from the unmade version to prevent the original team from taking the project somewhere else to fully realize their vision.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: One of the main reasons why any form of the original ''Kingdom of the Sun'' concept can't be made at another studio; while the final product is quite different from what could have been, from a legal standpoint, Disney kept ''just'' enough from the unmade version to prevent the original team from taking the project to another studio and realizing their vision there.

* ScrewedByTheLawyers: One of the main reason why any form of the original ''Kingdom of the Sun'' concept can't be made at another studio; while the final product is quite different from what could have been, from a legal standpoint, Disney kept ''just'' enough from the original concept to prevent another studio from fully realizing the original team's vision.

* CreatorChosenCasting: After seeing Creator/PatrickWarburton's performance as Kronk, the Disney imagineers picked him to be the flight attendant in the safety video for the attraction ''Soarin''' over their original choice, Creator/JohnTravolta.