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  • Awesome Music:
    • The game has a veritable playlist of Radio Disney-friendly jams that may date the game firmly to the early 2000’s, but they’re upbeat and fun to listen to nonetheless.
    • The instrumental themes for each fictional character are all great, fitting themes for them. Special mention goes to Woody’s western-inspired theme, Rafiki’s mystical theme, and Timon and Pumbaa’s jazzy theme.
  • Best Level Ever:
    • Andy's Room is a fan-favorite stage for its variety of lines and setpieces, and the novelty of skating around a child's room while toy-sized. It was so well-received that it was later officially added into THUG Pro, being the only stage from this game to make the jump.
    • Pride Rock, Elephant Graveyard, and Scar's Canyon are beloved by Lion King fans. While by this point in time, Tarzan had a world in Kingdom Hearts and Toy Story had Toy Story 2: Buzz Lightyear to the Rescue! to explore its' world, this is the first time that the settings of The Lion King had been adapted into open-world video game levels to explore. The levels manage to faithfully translate three of the biggest locations of the film and provide lots of fun set pieces and NPC interactions.
  • Game-Breaker: Lip tricks in this game completely trivialize any and all difficulty in score based challenges. You can string together as many as you want so long as you are able to keep your balance, and unlike the Tony Hawk games, your balance doesn't increase in sensitivity with time, so there is absolutely no risk involved with just going nuts. Once you figure this out, shattering score records becomes just another day at the office.
  • Hilarious in Hindsight:
    • One of the missions in Olliewood has you delivering food from McDonald’s to the various NPC’s. While food delivery has always been a thing, it really took off in the late 2010’s with the rise of services like UberEats and DoorDash.
    • Corey Burton voices a gorilla in the Human Camp level using the same crotchety voice he’d later employ to play Ratchet in Transformers: Animated.
    • The Toy Story levels featuring Andy’s room and Pizza Planet when it would later be revealed that the Kingdom Hearts franchise had been trying since its inception to get a Toy Story world - with the first game of the series having a pitch for a world using those exact locations. This would eventually come full circle when Kingdom Hearts III featured a Toy Story world partially set in Andy's room.
    • Zazu being captured in a cage made of bones over a pit of lava later happened to him again in The Lion Guard.
  • No Problem with Licensed Games: It's a surprisingly competent kid-friendly version of the Tony Hawk games that works as a great introduction to the genre of skating games. It helps a lot that it uses the Pro Skater 4 engine, so the game was easily able to be just as polished as said series.

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