History Trivia / TheLionKing

* CreatorBacklash: The lead artist for the game [[https://np.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/2bef9h/walked_in_to_a_gaming_pawn_shop_last_night_walked/cj4ysdi/ apologized]] for the games [[ThatOneLevel infamously difficult second level]] on Reddit.

* DummiedOut:
** The monkeys in "Simba's Destiny" originally [[DungFu threw feces]], but after Disney execs objected, their ammo was changed to rocks.
** [[AllThereInTheManual The manual mentions]] two additional PoisonMushroom bugs that were intended to appear in the game alongside the existing Bombardier beetles and Black Widow spiders: flies which empty your roar meter, and dragonflies which deal a medium amount of damage. Subverted, in that they ''do'' appear, but only in the bonus levels, where collecting them merely ends the bonus round. They never appear during actual gameplay as Simba.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DummiedOut sprites for the "Simba's Destiny" level reveal that the monkeys were originally going to [[DungFu throw feces]], but they were changed to rocks after Disney execs complained.
** Disney originally wanted it to be a fighting game as opposed to a platformer (yes, really), but Westwood Studios pushed back and told them it wouldn't fit the movie's style and would've been impossible to program a brand new fighting engine from scratch in just six months. Elements of that original idea are ''sort of'' seen in the adult Simba levels where he fights various cats, but mostly it was scrapped.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In early writing phases, Creator/JulieTraynor devised a much stranger Act II, where Simba stumbled upon a Vegas-like City of Lights home to a population of FunnyAnimals in the desert, ran by the villainous Boss Croc. Boss Croc made a deal with Scar to divert the water to provide hydroelectric power to run the city and Simba is forced into a fighting ring at his Pussycat Club, where he gains the title "The Lion King" in the tournaments there. Nala finds him there and after being forced to fight Timon and Pumbaa in the ring, all four make their escape back to the Pride Lands.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In early writing phases, Creator/JulieTaymor devised a much stranger Act II, where Simba stumbled upon a Vegas-like City of Lights home to a population of FunnyAnimals in the desert, ran by the villainous Boss Croc. Boss Croc made a deal with Scar to divert the water to provide hydroelectric power to run the city and Simba is forced into a fighting ring at his Pussycat Club, where he gains the title "The Lion King" in the tournaments there. Nala finds him there and after being forced to fight Timon and Pumbaa in the ring, all four make their escape back to the Pride Lands.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: In early writing phases, Julie Taymor devised a much stranger Act II, where Simba stumbled upon a Vegas-like City of Lights home to a population of FunnyAnimals in the desert, ran by the villainous Boss Croc. Boss Croc made a deal with Scar to divert the water to provide hydroelectric power to run the city and Simba is forced into a fighting ring at his Pussycat Club, where he gains the title "The Lion King" in the tournaments there. Nala finds him there and after being forced to fight Timon and Pumbaa in the ring, all four make their escape back to the Pride Lands.

!The Movie:
* ActingForTwo: Creator/JimCummings as Ed and the gopher.
* AFIS100Years100Songs: "Hakuna Matata"
* AFIS10Top10: #4, Animation
* AllStarCast:
** The film that started the trend of hiring [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters a slew]] of name actors for an animated film rather than less well known voiceover specialists. Though it is not [[WesternAnimation/TheTransformersTheMovie the first]] to do so, it ''is'' the most successful movie in the Disney animated canon for a ''reason'' and this was a big part of it. In all, you have Creator/MatthewBroderick and Jonathan Taylor Thomas[[note]]who was one of the biggest child actors at the time[[/note]] as Simba, Creator/JamesEarlJones as Mufasa, Creator/JeremyIrons as Scar, Moira Kelly as Nala, Creator/NathanLane as Timon, Creator/RowanAtkinson as Zazu, Creator/WhoopiGoldberg as Shenzi, and Cheech Marin as Banzai.
** While the Mexican Spanish dub primarily uses professional voice actors for the characters, singer Kalimba Marichal provided young Simba's singing voice.
** In the Japanese dub, Pumbaa is voiced by theater actor Atomu Kobayashi, who reprised the role in the Japanese version of the musical.
* CashCowFranchise: The most successful traditionally animated film of all time; spawned a hit [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway show]], which runs to this day, a DirectToVideo [[Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride sequel]] and [[Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf a midquel]], ''two'' [[WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa reasonably]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard successful]] TV series released ''twenty years apart'' and a [[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing2019 hugely successful remake]].
* CreatorBacklash: This happened before the movie even came out! Despite being credited as one of the people behind it, Jeffrey Katzenberg clearly favoured {{Disney/Pocahontas}} more so than ''The Lion King'' that when a large amount of ''Pocahontas'' animators jumped ship to work on ''The Lion King'' instead, Katzenberg campaigned to have production on this film shut down completely.
* CutSong: The [=DVDs=] have a couple of scrapped songs:
** Mufasa was to have an upbeat song early in the film called "To Be King" in which he sang about his responsibilities as king, with Zazu pumping up the perks of being king. It was cut because it was deemed out-of-character for the dignified Mufasa. It was partially revisited for ''The Lion Guard''.
** Sarabi had a lullaby called "The Lion In The Moon". She sang it to Simba after he came home from the elephant graveyard afraid.
** There was an unused DarkReprise of "Be Prepared" sung after Scar tells the pride of Mufasa's death.
** "Warthog Rhapsody", which was the original Hakuna Matata and was reworked for the midquel.
** A "work in progress" trailer that was attached to the beginning of Disney's ''Disney/TheFoxAndTheHound'' Walt Disney Classics video had a snippet of a different version of "Can You Feel The Love Tonight", which the ''Lion King'' Deluxe Laserdisc included in its entirety. Unfortunately, only a few of these songs made it onto the extra features of the Platinum Edition DVD and the Diamond Edition Blu-ray/DVD combo pack. KeepCirculatingTheTapes indeed.
** Originally, "Can You Feel The Love Tonight" was going to be about how Timon and Pumbaa felt about Simba and Nala's blossoming relationship. The final version of the song only touches on this very briefly at the beginning and end. Elton John originally wrote the song to be sung by Simba and Nala, and was mortified when he learned Timon and Pumbaa would be singing it - and as director Rob Minkoff affirmed through a [[WebVideo/HonestTrailers Honest Reactions]] [[https://youtu.be/WYKgStQxixs?t=15m41s video]], he wanted the song to be a serious love song.
** "He Lives In You" was originally meant to be included in the original movie, but was cut and wound up being [[RefittedForSequel used as the opening song of the second movie]]. However, it is retained in the Broadway adaptation.
* DuelingWorks: With ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''. Both ''The Lion King'' and ''A Troll in Central Park'' were animated musicals released in 1994, in which the protagonist makes friends while banished from his homeland. [[CurbStompBattle Needless to]] [[SleeperHit say that]] our feline protagonists beat the tar out of the trolls, and here's how. ''The Lion King'' became the highest-grossing traditionally animated film of all time, while ''A Troll in Central Park'' was a major bomb that year, causing former Disney animator, Don Bluth's studio, Sullivan Bluth Studios to file for bankruptcy in 1995 and join Fox with ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' in 1997.
* DVDCommentary: The Deluxe [=LaserDisc=] includes one by Roger Allers, Rob Minkoff, and Don Hahn, the first commentary ever provided for an animated Disney movie. It accompanied ''TLK'' again on almost all of its subsequent home video re-releases.
* EnforcedMethodActing:
** Jonathan Taylor Thomas had his back tapped when recording his shouts for the elephant graveyard scene, specifically the part where Simba and Nala ride down an elephant's vertebrae.
** In a session for the wildebeest stampede, the director told Thomas to visualize his mother falling. Instead of the line "DAD!", Thomas screamed "MOM!" on his first take.
* ExecutiveMeddling:
** A positive and amusing example: Mufasa's infamous death scene was originally several seconds shorter than it appeared in the final film. At one pencil test review, Jeffrey Katzenberg turned to the animators, pointed to his dry eye and announced "I'm not cryin'!" The result was a longer scene that touched every single emotional nerve in an effort to become as sad as possible.
** A more traditional example with the LicensedGame: The infamously difficult second level was made ''more'' difficult in the last moments of development, due to a mandate that it be difficult enough to keep renters from finishing it before the return date, [[RevenueEnhancingDevices thereby encouraging them to buy it]].
* FanNickname: Common within the fandom. For example [[https://web.archive.org/web/20050209154243/http://www.lionking.org/~vakasi/outsiders.html there's an Outsider]] dubbed "Dotty" by many due to the small dots under her eyes.
* ImageSource:
** TheDogBitesBack
** HakunaMatata
** TheHyena
** PleaseWakeUp
* InMemoriam: The film is dedicated to Walt Disney Company president Frank Wells, who died in a helicopter crash three months before the film was released.
* LimitedSpecialCollectorsUltimateEdition: In 2014, the year of ''The Lion King'''s [[MilestoneCelebration 20th anniversary]], Walt Disney Records released a 2-Disc version of the soundtrack, to kick off the high-end Legacy Collection line. Contents include remastered versions of seven songs from the movie, the complete score available legally for the first time, some instrumental demos, Elton John's pop versions of some ''TLK'' tunes, and two songs not included in the original theatrical cut[[note]]the CutSong "Warthog Rhapsody", and "The Morning Report", a number transferred from the Broadway musical to the movie's 2003 Platinum Edition DVD and VHS, then removed again for the 2011 3D conversion[[/note]], all packaged inside a digibook of concept art, lyrics, and production notes from Don Hahn.
* ManualMisprint: One of the lyric sheets for the soundtrack gets "Be Prepared" wrong.
--> You won't get a sniff out of me!
* MagnumOpusDissonance: Most of the top animators picked working on ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' instead of ''The Lion King'', as they thought that would become Disney's next critical darling/box office hit. Jeffrey Katzenberg, who was one of the main brains behind ''The Lion King'', was the biggest victim of this because this trope combo happened to him FOUR times.[[note]]''Disney/TheBlackCauldron'' and ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' earliest, then ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' and ''Disney/TheLittleMermaid'', and ''WesternAnimation/ThePrinceOfEgypt'' and ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek}}'' at Creator/DreamWorksAnimation later.[[/note]]
* NonSingingVoice: Simba and Nala have separate actors for their speaking and singing voices, both young and adult. Jeremy Irons sings some of Scar's lyrics, but partway through, the harsher lyrics were replaced by that of Creator/JimCummings, since Irons couldn't sing the more demanding parts after [[ItMakesSenseInContext "YOU WON'T GET A SNIFF WITHOUT ME!"]] line in "[[VillainSong Be Prepared]]", [[JustifiedTrope resulting in]] Cummings subbing for him.
** In the European Spanish dub, most of the cast was this with the exceptions of Creator/SergioZamora (adult Simba), Marc Pociello (young Simba), Creator/MiguelAngelJenner (Pumbaa) and Eduard Doncos (Zazu).
* TheOtherDarrin: When it was apparent that Jeremy Irons wouldn't be able to hit the high notes near the end of "Be Prepared", Creator/JimCummings stepped in to record the last verse. Only trained ears can hear the difference.
** Jeff Bennett performed the singing vocals for Zazu in the "Morning Report" song added into the Special Edition of the movie.
* PlayingAgainstType:
** Creator/WhoopiGoldberg, normally associated with playing sympathetic, wise and/or funny characters and the {{Trope Namer|s}} for the WhoopiEpiphanySpeech, does the voice of a malevolent and thuggish hyena.
** In the Mexican Spanish dub, Banzai is voiced by Creator/JesusBarrero, who, at the time when the movie was released, his most famous role was ''[[Manga/SaintSeiya Pegasus Seiya!]]''
** In the Spanish dub, Ricardo Solans is no stranger at voicing villains but his performance as Scar bears some resemblance of the over-the-top ([[Administrivia/TropesAreTools not necessarily a bad thing]]) way he voiced Creator/DustinHoffman's [[Film/{{Hook}} Captain Hook]]. Also, this is one of Solans' very, very, ''very'' few animated roles.
* QuoteSource: This film provides the page quote for:
** TheBait
** BrainsEvilBrawnGood
** CarnivoreConfusion
** ChildhoodFriendRomance
** TheExile
** PrincelingRivalry
** TyrantTakesTheHelm
** VillainSong
* ReferencedBy: [[ReferencedBy/TheLionKing See this page.]]
* RelationshipVoiceActor: All the way in the Latin American Spanish dub, since many voice actors are regulars from many Disney dubs and also from other shows, mainly from {{Anime}}:
** From ''Manga/SaintSeiya'': Arturo Mercado (Simba) is Centaurus Babel, Creator/MariaFernandaMorales (Nala) is Saori Kido/Athena and Creator/JesusBarrero (Banzai) is Pegasus Seiya.
** From ''Anime/SailorMoon'': Angela Villanueva (Sarabi) is Queen Beryl, Creator/MariaFernandaMorales (Nala) is Minako Aino/Sailor Venus, Creator/JesusBarrero (Banzai) was Motoki Furuhata's first voice, Genaro Vasquez (Rafiki) was Mamoru Chiba/Tuxedo Mask's first voice, and Cristina Camargo (Sarafina) is both Naru Osaka and Hotaru Tomoe/Sailor Saturn.
** From ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Arturo Mercado (Simba) is Karin/Korin, Nezi, Rage Shenron, Naturon Shenron, Bibidi, Babidi and Zarbon, Creator/JesusBarrero (Banzai) was Yamcha and Puar's first voice, Francisco Colmenero (Pumbaa) is [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Dr. Rota]] and many minor characters in the whole franchise, Genaro Vasquez (Rafiki) is Android No. 17, Supreme Kai and Kibitoshin, Cristina Camargo (Sarafina) was Puar's second voice, Lunch, Snow and Android No. 18's first voice, Angela Villanueva (Sarabi) is Bulma's mom and Uranai Baba and Carlos Magaña (Mufasa) was Piroshki and the Grand Kai.
** From ''WesternAnimation/AdventuresOfTheGummiBears'': Arturo Mercado (Simba) is Gruffi Gummi, Francisco Colmenero (Pumbaa) is Zummi Gummi and King Gregor, Raul Aldana (Timon) is Cubbi Gummi and Cavin and Creator/MariaFernandaMorales (Nala) is Princess Marie.
** From ''Series/SavedByTheBell'': Raul Aldana (Timon) is Zack Morris, Genaro Vasquez (Rafiki) is Screech, and Creator/MariaFernandaMorales (Nala) is Nicki Kapowski.
** The Brazilian dub has many actors from the previous Disney Renaissance movies: Simba is Eric\Beast\Gaston, young Simba is Flounder, Scar is Jafar\Monsieur D'Arc, Rafiki is Maurice\The Sultan, Timon is Lefou's singing voice, Mufasa is Chef Bouche, Zazu is Razoul, and Sarabi is the Wardrobe.
** The Japanese dub is more a meta-example of this, genre-wise, as many of the voice actors who worked in the film worked in many series of the {{Mecha}} genre as the leads or villains. Some of them even worked together in the ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' franchise in some points of their careers: Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (Simba) is [[Anime/TheBigO Roger Smith]], Creator/YujiMitsuya (Timon) is [[Anime/CombattlerV Hyoma Aoi]], Haruko Kitahama (Sarabi) is [[Anime/MazingerZ female Baron Ashura]] and Hideyuki Umezu (Zazu) is both [[Anime/BlueCometSPTLayzner David Rutherford]] and [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Ian Vashti]].
** Also, the Japanese dub also reunites many voice actors which later reunites together in ''Manga/OnePiece'': Creator/MitsuruMiyamoto (Simba) is Shuraiya (in the fourth movie), Creator/YujiMitsuya (Timon) is Pica, Hideyuki Umezu (Zazu) is Diamante and Haruhiko Jo (Scar) is Streusen.
* ScrewedByTheLawyers: A ''Lion King Timon and Pumbaa'' coloring book from 1996 got plagiarized and produced as a ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' predecessor in 2011 in an attempt to defraud Katzenberg's other studio and ''Panda'' copyright holder Creator/DreamWorksAnimation; when they found the original book, it sunk that attempt and got the person behind it [[http://deadline.com/2015/12/kung-fu-panda-indictment-fraud-perjury-dreamworks-animation-1201671213/ charged with fraud]] and [[http://www.cartoonbrew.com/law/fake-kung-fu-panda-creator-convicted-fraud-faces-25-years-prison-145156.html ultimately convicted]]. In addition, Disney could possibly sue the man for [[SerialNumbersFiledOff plagiarizing one of their works directly]], which they've always frowned on (DWA and co-defendant Paramount declined an option to countersue the man as part of a settlement agreement, but the final sentencing judgment forced the man, Jayme Gordon, to pay back the millions [=DreamWorks=] Animation had spent in legal bills). [[note]] Gordon tried to write his original "copyrights" for before ''The Lion King'' had even hit theaters, when Frank Wells was still alive, and when Katzenberg was still very much employed by Disney. [[/note]]
* SleeperHit: As mentioned under MagnumOpusDissonance, Disney executives considered ''The Lion King'' to be nothing more than a filler on the way to the real hit, ''Pocahontas''. Instead, ''Pocahontas'' underperformed commercially (relative to expectations) and critically. ''The Lion King'' went on to be the highest grossing traditionally animated film ever, which it still holds today, and is still widely regarded as one of the greatest animated films of all time.
* ThrowItIn: Nathan Lane supposedly ad-libbed some of his dialogue, including the "hula" line.
* {{Trope Namer|s}}:
** HakunaMatata
* TroubledProduction: The film first suffered from [[AndYouThoughtItWouldFail lack of internal faith]] - only up-and-coming animators or people who wanted to do animals picked up the project, with most going to work on ''Disney/{{Pocahontas}}'' instead. One of the directors, ''Disney/OliverAndCompany'' director George Scribner, who had even traveled with the other director Roger Allers and other people to Africa for reference, left as he disagreed on turning the film into a musical while his intention was focusing on the natural aspects. The script was so bad that it needed a reworking with the help of the directors of ''Disney/BeautyAndTheBeast'' - and still was being fine-tuned during production, with completed scenes being reanimated due to dialogue changes. And just months before release, the Northridge earthquake hit Los Angeles, shutting off the studio and forcing animators to finish their work from home. Thankfully it was all worth it in the end.
* WhatCouldHaveBeen: [[WhatCouldHaveBeen/TheLionKing Has its own page.]]
* TheWikiRule: [[http://lionking.wikia.com/wiki/The_Lion_King_Wikia Here]] is the wikia for the franchise.
* WordOfSaintPaul: Timon and Pumbaa's [=VAs=] consider them to be a gay couple.
** Jim Cummings (voice of Ed), believes Ed is [[ObfuscatingStupidity faking his stupidity.]]
* WorkingTitle: Before it was released, the film was originally called ''King of the Jungle''. This was scrapped when someone pointed out that, well, ''lions don't live in the jungle''. Other potential titles were ''King of the Beasts'' and ''King of the Kalahari''.
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* EarlyDraftTieIn: All versions of the game are this for the movie, which resulted in the orphaned references noted below. Additionally, the Game Gear and Master System versions of the game are this for the 16-bit versions, which resulted in:

** The Elephant Graveyard using art based on early concept art for the movie rather than the final film; the 16-bit version had its art updated to better match the film, but this version did not.

* OrphanedReference: Two levels in the Genesis/SNES LicensedGame are based on concepts cut from the movie. If you guessed that "Be Prepared" was one of them, then... congratulations, you have eyes. Less obvious is the identity of the other one: [[spoiler:"Hakuna Matata"]]. This might have been more obvious if the final level had gone by its in-development name of "Willow Cascade".

* OrphanedReference: Two levels in the Genesis/SNES LicensedGame are based on concepts cut from the movie. If you guessed that "Be Prepared" was one of them, then... congratulations, you have eyes. Less obvious is the identity of the other one: [[spoiler:"Hakuna Matata"]]. This might have been more obvious if the final level had gone by its in-development name of "Willow Cascade".

** From ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Arturo Mercado (Simba) is Karin/Korin, Nezi, Rage Shenron, Naturon Shenron, Bibidi, Babidi and Zarbon, Creator/JesusBarrero (Banzai) was Yamcha and Puar's first voice, Francisco Colmenero (Pumbaa) is [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Dr. Rota]] and many minor characters in the whole franchise, Genaro Vasquez (Rafiki) is Android No. 16, Supreme Kai and Kibitoshin, Cristina Camargo (Sarafina) was Puar's second voice, Lunch, Snow and Android No. 18's first voice, Angela Villanueva (Sarabi) is Bulma's mom and Uranai Baba and Carlos Magaña (Mufasa) was Piroshki and the Grand Kai.

* DuelingWorks: With ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''. Both ''The Lion King'' and ''A Troll in Central Park'' were animated musicals released in 1994, in which the protagonist makes friends while banished from his homeland. [[CurbStompBattle Needless to]] [[SleeperHit say that]] ''Disney/TheLionKing'' [[BoxOfficeBomb beat out]] ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark'', and here's how. ''The Lion King'' became the highest-grossing traditionally animated film of all time, while ''A Troll in Central Park'' was a major bomb that year, causing former Disney animator, Don Bluth's studio, Sullivan Bluth Studios to file for bankruptcy in 1995 and join Fox with ''WesternAnimation/{{Anastasia}}'' in 1997.

** In the Spanish dub, Ricardo Solans is no stranger at voicing villains but his performance as Scar bears some resemblance of the over-the-top ([[TropesAreNotBad not necessarily a bad thing]]) way he voiced Creator/DustinHoffman's [[Film/{{Hook}} Captain Hook]]. Also, this is one of Solans' very, very, ''very'' few animated roles.

* ChristmasRushed: Virgin Interactive was given a meager six months to complete the game. They started work on it ahead of time before they had even signed the contract for the game because they knew time was not on their side.

* RoleReprisal: Surprisingly, per word of the games lead artist, Creator/JamesEarlJones briefly returned to rerecord one of Mufasa's lines just for the game. Most surprising is that James Earl Jones, who was ''the'' most expensive actor in Hollywood to hire at the time, did it for free.

** Disney originally wanted it to be a fighting game as opposed to a platformer (yes, really), but Westwood Studios pushed back and told them it wouldn't fit the style and would've been impossible to program in just six months. Elements of that original idea are ''sort of'' seen in the adult Simba levels where he fights various cats, but mostly it was scrapped.

* WhatCouldHaveBeen: DummiedOut sprites for the "Simba's Destiny" level reveal that the monkeys were originally going to [[DungFu throw feces]], but they were changed to rocks after Disney execs complained.

** Jonathan Taylor Thomas had has back tapped when recording his shouts for the elephant graveyard scene, specifically the part where Simba and Nala ride down an elephant's vertebrae.

* CashCowFranchise: The most successful traditionally animated film of all time; spawned a hit [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway show]], which runs to this day, a DirectToVideo [[Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride sequel]] and [[Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf a midquel]], ''two'' [[WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa reasonably]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard successful]] TV series released ''twenty years apart'' and a [[Film/TheLionKing2019 hugely successful remake]].

* CashCowFranchise: The most successful traditionally animated film of all time; spawned a hit [[Theatre/TheLionKing Broadway show]], which runs to this day, a DirectToVideo [[Disney/TheLionKingIISimbasPride sequel]] and [[Disney/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf a midquel]], and ''two'' [[WesternAnimation/TimonAndPumbaa reasonably]] [[WesternAnimation/TheLionGuard successful]] TV series. Did we also mention that those series debuted ''twenty years apart''?

** In the Spanish dub, most of the cast was this with the exceptions of Creator/SergioZamora (adult Simba), Marc Pociello (young Simba), Creator/MiguelAngelJenner (Pumbaa) and Eduard Doncos (Zazu).

** From ''Franchise/DragonBall'': Arturo Mercado (Simba) is Karin/Korin, Nezi, Rage Shenron, Naturon Shenron, Bibidi, Babidi and Zarbon, Creator/JesusBarrero (Banzai) was Yamcha and Puar's first voice, Francisco Colmenero (Pumbaa) is [[Anime/DragonBallSuper Dr. Lotta]] and many minor characters in the whole franchise, Genaro Vasquez (Rafiki) is Android No. 16, Supreme Kai and Kibitoshin, Cristina Camargo (Sarafina) was Puar's second voice, Lunch, Snow and Android No. 18's first voice, Angela Villanueva (Sarabi) is Bulma's mom and Uranai Baba and Carlos Magaña (Mufasa) was Piroshki and the Grand Kai.

* WorkingTitle: Before it was released, the film was originally called ''King of the Jungle''. This was scrapped when someone pointed out that, well, ''lions don't live in the jungle''. Other potential titles were ''King of the Beasts' and ''King of the Kalahari''.

* EnforcedMethodActing: When recording for the wildebeest stampede, the director told Jonathan Taylor Thomas to visualize his mother falling. Instead of the line "DAD!", Thomas screamed "MOM!" on his first take.