Fun facts about the Lion King

everyone loves the Lion King, and i was recently reminded of its brilliance after watching the 3d release which is still availble in limited cinemas (to check out cinema movie times click here!).

While I was scanning IMDb i came across some interesting facts about the movie:



One of the bugs that Timon pulls out of a knothole during Hakuna Matata is wearing Mickey Mouse ears.

There have been rumors that when Simba collapses on the cliff after talking with Timon and Pumbaa about stars, the dust that flies off the cliff forms the letters SEX. In fact it forms the letters SFX, the abbreviation of the special-effects team that worked on that portion of the film. This scene was deleted in the 2011 release.

Originally titled "King of the Jungle", it was supposed to be about African lions living in the jungle until the production team realized that lions don't live in the jungle. Interestingly enough, the phrase "King of the Jungle" is still used on certain T-shirts sold at the Disney Store.

The wildebeest stampede took Disney's CG department approximately three years to animate.

Elton John and Tim Rice were a little shocked when they saw that the producers originally intended to have their (eventual) Oscar-winning love ballad "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" as a duet between Timon and Pumbaa.

The best selling home video of all time, with more than 55 million copies sold to date.

In the end of the scene where Mufasa explains to Simba that the stars are old kings, we can see the constellation of Leo (the lion) in the sky.

A few weeks before the film opened, Elton John was given a special screening. Noticing that the film's love song had been left out, he successfully lobbied to have the song put back in. Later, "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" won him an Academy Award for Best Original Song.

The first Disney animation movie to be dubbed into Portuguese in Portugal rather than Brazil.

One of three Disney movies to win a Golden Globe for Best Picture. The other two areBeauty and the Beast and Toy Story 2

The team working on the movie was supposedly Disney's "team B", who were "kept busy" while "team A" worked on Pocahontas, on which the production had much higher hopes.

Originally the film was going to be about a conflict between lions and baboons, and Scar was going to be the baboon leader. Rafiki, the only baboon in the film, was instead going to be a cheetah.