The opening credits, instead of saying "Disney presents" as usual, says "A Walt Disney FEATURE Production" in the same font as the opening credits for Snow White. Additionally, it begins with a fairy tale book opening to tell the prologue before getting into the main story.
A wishing well similar to the one from the film is seen in the woods.
More importantly, Asha's band of human friends are direct analogues to the Seven Dwarfs in their names, personalities and color schemes: Dahlia is Doc, Simon is Sleepy, Gabo is Grumpy, Safi is Sneezy, Hal is Happy, Bazeema is Bashful, and Dario is Dopey. During "Knowing What We Know Now", the group even marches in sync like the Dwarfs did in "Heigh Ho", and Dario plays the drums in a similar way to Dopey in "The Silly Song". It's topped off at the end when Gabo gets pinned under a heavy weight and exasperatedly yells, "And you wonder why I'm grumpy!"
Magnifico's lair features elements from the lair of the Evil Queen, including the skull with a candle and the poison apple. The way he forges his staff is evocative of how the Queen crafted her disguise, and the book of dark magic was based off of the Queen's spell book.
In the climax, Magnifico references the "magic mirror on the wall" summoning spell when gloating about how handsome he is.
Magnifico's room has a prominent astrology theme with an ovular Zodiac sign theme. Queen Grimhilde's Magic Mirror has the same design, and she also has a book on astrology.
The image of the Magic Mirror's face flashes for a split-second when Magnifico becomes trapped in his staff, implying he becomes the character in Snow White.
The logo uses a similar typeface to the logo used for later reissues of Fantasia and Fantasia 2000.
One of the wishes has a woman making a dress that looks like the one worn by Aurora.
Three bird hatchlings have color-coded eggs that are blue, green, and red, just like the fairies.
The climax also sees the Kingdom of Rosas covered in Magnifico’s dark magic that looks an awful lot like Maleficent’s forest of thorns.
Asha's cottage and the surrounding woods resemble the ones where the Fairies raised Aurora as Briar Rose.
Dahlia's apron was inspired by Flora, Fauna, and Merryweather's peasant outfits.
The art book says that Sabino's lute-playing and warm color scheme were a deliberate reference to the minstrel from Sleeping Beauty.
Magnifico's dark magic took visual inspiration from Maleficent's flames, Frollo's hellfire, and Ursula's smoke hands.
During the climax, Magnifico summons a spiral storm cloud above his castle, in much the same way that Maleficent and Jafar did in their respectivefilms.
When Star wildly throws magic around Magnifico's study to try and unlock the dumbwaiter, they enchant a quill to start drawing a familiar pair of ears.
Asha wears a cloak similar to the Fairy Godmother's robe after she gets branded a criminal. Later, she gains a magic wand and grants wishes just like said Fairy Godmother.
Asha recreates Pocahontas' butterflies-swarming-behind-her pose in "I'm A Star."
One of the rabbits in the woods thumps his foot like Thumper. A deer in the sequence later is even referred to as "Bambi."
During "Knowing What We Know Now", Dario does a "Lion King" Lift of Valentino twice.
In "I'm A Star," Valentino says stars are big balls of gas in the sky, just like Timon and Pumbaa.
The bear is called "John", a reference to the version of Little John portrayed in Disney's Robin Hood.
The squirrel at the beginning of "I'm a Star" is the girl squirrel from The Sword in the Stone.
Chip from Beauty and the Beast (1991) appears in the film as a regular teacup. Additionally, Magnifico's mantelpiece holds a candelabra and a clock that resemble Lumiere and Cogsworth.
Dario does a Tarzan yell when swinging in to save the wishes.
When Star makes a batch of mushrooms sentient, Asha says "This is crazy." and they all reply "We love crazy!"
As the mushrooms become sentient, the musical score references "Golden Afternoon," a song performed by the sentient flowers in Disney's Alice in Wonderland (1951).
A deleted chase scene featuring talking Star and evil Amaya had Star transform into several different creatures to escape, including a cameo of Olaf.
In deciding not to grant Saba Sabino's wish, Magnifico says it's too "vague" in reference to Mother Gothel's performance of "Mother Knows Best" in Tangled.
When Magnifico crushes three wishes, he makes some smug remarks about them.
Amaya introduces a girl whose wish is to fly to a man named Peter who is working on a flying machine. Peter is pretty much dressed exactly like Disney's version of Peter Pan, and the girl's clothes and hair are the same color scheme as Wendy.
The last shot of the castle has fireworks making a Hidden Mickey and Star does a stream over the castle much like the Disney castle logo.
During the credits, illustrations of characters representing almost every Walt Disney Animation Studios film appear. The only exclusions are the package films before Ichabod and Mr. Toad, both Rescuers films, The Black Cauldron and Meet the Robinsons. Winnie the Pooh, Ralph Breaks the Internet and Frozen II are also absent, likely due to those films being sequels, but all three are still represented by their original films with Pooh, Ralph, and Elsa appearing.
In The Stinger, Sabino composes "When You Wish Upon a Star" on his lute.
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