Trivia / Disney Infinity

• All-Star Cast: Disney Infinity 3.0 was chock-full of big-name live-action and voice actors. Everyone from Kyle Hebert to Idina Menzel had a role in that game.
• Contest Winner Cameo: MightyGitis, one of the series' most featured "Toy Box Artists", received a Townsperson costume for Disney Infinity 3.0 for winning the Toy Box Competition at the 2014 Toy Box Summit. You can see her costume in 3.0's Toy Box Theater behind the concession stand.
• Creator-Driven Successor: To the Toy Story 3 video game, which was also developed by the game's main developer Avalanche Software. One of the featured Toy Boxes was even a remake of that game's Toy Box.
• Creator Killer: Even though the series was supposedly the most successful toys-to-life franchise, it was losing too much money for Disney, which led them to shut down Avalanche Software and the publishing unit of Disney Interactive Studios. Avalanche and its staff were later acquired and reopened by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment and secured their new lease on life with the financial success of Hogwarts Legacy, but Disney has firmly stuck with the decision to relegate Disney video game publishing duties to other companies since.
• Dueling Works - Games Cross-Genre: With the other major Toys-To-Life Game brands Skylanders, amiibo, and LEGO Dimensions. This game was actually winning the battle a few months before its sudden cancellation but in the end.
• Dummied Out: Moana content has been discovered within the PC Gold Edition.
• Executive Meddling: An interview with Kotaku revealed that some figures, such as Yondu, one of the toyline's most notorious shelf-warmers, and the Star Wars Rebels figures, were mandated by Disney, and weren't necessarily labors of love by the developers.
• Exiled from Continuity:
  • Before the series' cancellation, John Vignocchi had said it's unlikely that Daredevil will ever appear despite being part of the MCU, as his TV show isn't appropriate for the game's family demographic. He also implied that characters such as Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver will also be unlikely to appear due to these characters' toy and/or video game rights being controlled by other companies (such as 20th Century Fox).
  • On a less legal and family-friendliness issue note, it seemed that Avalanche Software did not consider any Spin-Off material when it came to the Disney Animated Canon, hence why Baloo never received his TaleSpin outfit,^note Though the developer was not against the idea of providing said outfit as a costume in the future had the series not been cancelled. Stitch's "cousins" failed to receive any mention or reference,^note Splodyhead was even removed from the red pillow on Fred's bed in the game, but not Stitch himself on the blue pillow. et cetera.
• Milestone Celebration: An interview noted that Jack Skellington's inclusion was in honor of the 20th anniversary of The Nightmare Before Christmas.
• Role Reprise:
  • Several actors from The Incredibles reprised their roles, including those for Mr. Incredible (Craig T. Nelson), Elastigirl (Holly Hunter), Violet (Sarah Vowell), and Syndrome (Jason Lee).
  • For the Pirates of the Caribbean set, several actors from the films return including Bill Nighy as Davy Jones, Kevin R. MacNally as Joshamee Gibbs, Lee Arenberg as Pintel, and MacKenzie Crook as Raggetti.
  • In terms of Toy Box-only characters, the actors for Jack Skellington (Chris Sarandon), Rapunzel (Mandy Moore), Anna (Kristen Bell), Elsa (Idina Menzel), Stitch (Chris Sanders), Aladdin (Scott Weinger), Jasmine (Linda Larkin), Mulan (Ming-Na Wen), Olaf (Josh Gad), Spot, Nick Wilde (Jason Bateman) and Judy Hopps (Ginnifer Goodwin) reprised their roles.
  • From The Lone Ranger: Armie Hammer reprised his role as the Lone Ranger.
  • Samuel L. Jackson voices Nick Fury, the character he portrays in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. To no one's surprise, there's also Fred Tatasciore as the Hulk. Adrian Pasdar reprises his role in Marvel Anime: Iron Man as the titular Tony Stark.
  • From The Avengers: Earth's Mightiest Heroes in addition to the Hulk and Jameson: Jennifer Hale as Captain Marvel, Colleen O'Shaughnessey as The Wasp and Drake Bell as Spider-Man^note Infamously, both Bell and Simmons redubbed Josh Keaton and Daran Norris as respectively Spidey and Jonah, who originally reprised the roles from The Spectacular Spider-Man. 3.0 also sees James C. Mathis III return as Black Panther.
  • From Super Hero Squad Online: Tara Strong as Black Cat.
  • From the Marvel Universe shows, in addition to Spider-Man, Jameson, Iron Man, and the Hulk: Roger Craig Smith as Captain America, Travis Willingham as Thor, Troy Baker as Hawkeye and Loki, Laura Bailey as Black Widow, Bumper Robinson as The Falcon, David Kaye as J.A.R.V.I.S., Ogie Banks as Power Man, Greg Cipes as Iron Fist, Logan Miller as Nova, Tom Kenny as Doctor Octopus, Matt Lanter as Venom, Chris Cox as Star-Lord, Nika Futterman as Gamora, David Sobolov as Drax the Destroyer, Kevin Michael Richardson as Groot, James C. Mathis III as Ronan the Accuser, and Jeff Bennett as the Collector. 3.0 also sees Jim Meskimen, Grant George, and Isaac C. Singleton Jr. reprise the respective roles of Ultron, Ant-Man, and Thanos.
  • From Big Hero 6: Ryan Potter as Hiro Hamada and Scott Adsit as Baymax.
  • From Marvel Heroes in addition to Spider-Man^note normal Spidey, anyway; symboite Spidey Superior Spider Man are voiced by Christopher Daniel Barnes and the Hulk: Nolan North as Rocket Raccoon^note albeit, a costume based on Rocket's Guardians of the Galaxy movie appearance; Steve Blum voiced Rocket in his default costume.
  • From Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions: David Kaye as Mysterio.
  • From LEGO Marvel Super Heroes in addition to Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Hulk, Hawkeye, Black Widow, Loki, and Drax: Nolan North as the Green Goblin (albeit the animated Ultimate Spider-Man one).
  • From Attack of the Clones: Matthew Wood as the Battle Droids.
  • From Revenge of the Sith: Matthew Wood as General Grievous.
  • From The Force Awakens: Daisy Ridley as Rey, John Boyega as Finn, Oscar Isaac as Poe Dameron and Adam Driver as Kylo Ren.
  • From Star Wars: The Clone Wars in addition to Grievous and the Battle Droids: Matt Lanter as Anakin Skywalker, Ashley Eckstein as Ahsoka Tano, James Arnold Taylor as Obi-Wan Kenobi, Tom Kane as Yoda, Sam Witwer as Darth Maul, Terrence C. Carson as Mace Windu, Dee Bradley Baker as the Clone Troopers, and Corey Burton as Cad Bane.
  • From Star Wars Rebels: Freddie Prinze Jr. as Kanan Jarrus, Taylor Gray as Ezra Bridger, Tiya Sircar as Sabine Wren, and Steve Blum as Zeb Orrelios.
  • From Star Wars: Battlefront II (2005) and Empire at War: Stephen Stanton as Ben Kenobi.
  • From Empire at War's Expansion Pack Forces of Corruption, Soulcalibur IV and The Force Unleashed series: Matt Sloan as Darth Vader.
  • From Star Tours: The Adventures Continue: Dee Bradley Baker as Boba Fett.
  • From Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed: Brian T. Delaney as Wreck-it Ralph.
  • From Inside Out: Lewis Black as Anger and Phyllis Smith as Sadness.
  • From Finding Dory: Hayden Rolence as Nemo.
  • From Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]: Ross Thomas as Sam Flynn and Erin Cottrell as Quorra.
• The Other Darrin:
  • Several of the characters were not able to get their original actors to play them. For the most part, the replacement voice actors gave very good and uncanny performances emulating the voices of the characters. However, some of them managed to sound a little off. The voice actors for Sulley, Captain Jack Sparrow and Ralph are some of the biggest offenders.
  • Disney Infinity 2.0 has this, too.
    • Despite being based on the Ultimate Spider-Man and Avengers Assemble cartoons, the Spider-Man and Avengers sets see Nick Fury voiced by Samuel L. Jackson, the original inspiration for the Ultimate Marvel version of Fury and the man who plays him in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, instead of Chi McBride, who voices him on the shows.
    • However, as the inverse of the example with Jackson, despite being based on the Guardians of the Galaxy movie, the GotG set features many of the voice actors who voiced the characters on Ultimate and Assemble, as well as Hulk and the Agents of S.M.A.S.H., as opposed to the actors who played them in the movie, including Chris Cox as Star-Lord, Nika Futterman as Gamora, David Sobolov as Drax, Kevin Michael Richardson as Groot, James C. Mathis III as Ronan the Accuser, and Jeff Bennett as the Collector. The only exceptions regarding voice talent coming from the recent Marvel cartoons are Nolan North as Rocket (and even then, it's a reprise as he voiced Movie!Rocket in Marvel Heroes), Chris Edgerly as Yondu, and Carlos Alazraqui as Cosmo (the last of whom didn't even speak in the movie). But none of the actors from the movie reprised their roles.
    • Courtnee Draper replaces Caitlyn Taylor Love as White Tiger.
    • Despite voicing the Green Goblin before, Nolan North is this to Steven Weber as the Green Goblin, given the Goblin North voiced before was the classic Goblin and again, the Spider-Man playset in based on the Ultimate Spider-Man cartoon.
    • Kyle Hebert voices J. Jonah Jameson in the Spider-Man set instead of J. K. Simmons.
  • 3.0:
    • Joy, Disgust, and Fear have different voice actors here than in their film. (However, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith were able to return as Anger and Sadness, respectively.) Joy's Other Darrin is Kate Higgins, Disgust's is Ashley Adler and Fear's is Jason T Lewis.
    • Dory is portrayed in Infinity by Jennifer Hale rather than Ellen DeGeneres, oddly enough. However, this is also a case of Role Reprise, as Hale has voiced Dory a few times before, particularly Traveller's Tales' video game adaptation of Finding Nemo (for in-game cutscenes).
    • Time is voiced by Michael J. Gough instead of Sacha Baron Cohen.
• Screwed by the Network:
  • The game's cancellation not only blindsided fans, but also the developers.
  • On a different note, Phineas and Ferb seemed to get the short end of the stick in terms of representation compared to the other playable franchises. Phineas and Perry were released a full seven months after the game had released, and were not prominent in trailers or promotion compared to the others, dooming them to be some of the lowest selling characters. Ferb and Dr. Doofenshmirtz were planned to be playable (and in Ferb's case, actually shown in gameplay) but cut for unclear reasons, and poking around in Phineas' unused voice clips suggest there might have been a playset in the works that got offed as well. In addition, the series got only a minimal amount of items and set pieces compared to most of the other playable franchises and the large amount fellow Disney XD show Gravity Falls got, including a racetrack in Toybox Speedway, despite having no playables.
• Sending Stuff to Save the Show: In light of the series's cancellation, a number of petitions begging Disney to reconsider their decision (or at the very least, collaborate with another company to continue the series or release the promised Peter Pan figure) have cropped up across the web. As of the July 29, 2016 announcements of the end-of-life plans, it's safe to say that these efforts didn't work.
• Two Voices, One Character: Craig T. Nelson reprises his role as Mr. Incredible, but Richard McGonagle also recorded additional dialogue for him. The two sound so similar that it's difficult to tell which lines belong to each actor.
• What Could Have Been: There was so much potential that didn't happen that we needed a whole page for this.

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