Wreck-It Ralph/Trivia

* This is the eighth non-musical film in the Disney animated canon, following The Black Cauldron, The Rescuers Down Under, Dinosaur, Atlantis: The Lost Empire, Treasure Planet and Bolt, and then followed by Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Ralph Breaks the Internet, and Raya and the Last Dragon.
* Nintendo's Mario and Luigi were intended to have cameo appearances in this film.
** Since the producers of the movie were unable to put Luigi into the plot, and they didn't want to make him a cameo, he was not included.
** On the other side, Bowser, Mario's hateful nemesis and the antagonist of the Mario franchise, did make a cameo in this film.
** Although he didn't make a cameo appearance, Mario is mentioned by Felix during the party scene as being "fashionably late as usual".
* The Royal Raceway track is also the name of the third Star Cup racetrack in the 1997 Nintendo 64 game, Mario Kart 64.
** Only this course comprises candies and sweet foods instead of just a regular landscape and Princess Peach's castle.
* The DVD/Blu-ray main menu are both the Fix-It Felix Jr. game in its attract mode.
** The high score is 110,212 — an unpunctuated short American format rendition of the movie's US release date.
* This is currently the only Disney film for which Toonami has done a "Paid Immersion Event".
* When the movie aired on Freeform the following scenes were cut:
** Tapper passing out root beer.
** Some of the scenes when characters from Hero's Duty were entering the game.
** Ralph hitting the wall.
** The Cy-Bug eating Ralph's gun.
** Felix communicating with Q*bert when everyone realized Ralph's gone turbo.
** Ralph coming out from the entrance of Sugar Rush.
** Ralph telling Vanellope that his medal was precious and it's his ticket to a better life.
** Some scenes of the Sugar Rush racers.
** The devil dogs looking for Ralph, Ralph hiding in the chocolate and Ralph trying to catch up with the racers.
** Ralph and Vanellope baking and decorating a kart.
** King Candy chasing Ralph and Vanellope.
** Ralph teaching Vanellope how to drive.
** When Vanellope said she thinks she's going to puke and Ralph saying "Who doesn't love a brat with dirty hair?"
** The first three scenes of Ralph returning to his game.
** The scene when Ralph told Sour Bill to stick around.
** Felix imitating Ralph, making the jail bars bigger and stronger and saying "Why do I fix everything I touch?".
** Ralph calling himself a "numbskull" and a "selfish diaper baby".
** When Ralph and Vanellope landed in the chocolate pond after defeating the Cy-Bugs and King Candy, they cut their lines out that they survived.
* Thomas Newman, who composed the score to Pixar's Finding Nemo, was originally picked to create the score to this film, but since he was too busy working on the score to Skyfall, Henry Jackman stepped in to fill his role.
* Touchstone Pictures' Who Framed Roger Rabbit had cartoon character cameos, Pixar's Toy Story had toy cameos and Wreck-It Ralph had video game character cameos. The latter also included other Disney character cameos, like Maximus (from Tangled) and Lefty and Tiny (from Meet the Robinsons).
* A homage to Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet can be seen on a sign (saying "Parting is such sweet sorrow") once Ralph and Felix leave Sugar Rush towards the ending.
* This is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios feature to completely have the aspect ratio of 2.39:1 [CinemaScope]. This ratio (including its alternate ratio, 2.35:1) is later used in all later Walt Disney Animation Studios films except Encanto (which uses 1.85:1).
** The last traditionally-animated Disney feature to use this format was Brother Bear (The rest of that film; The first twenty-four minutes were in 1.85:1).
* In Big Hero 6, a toy version of Ralph can be seen in Hiro's room on his computer desk.
* Skrillex makes a cameo in Fix-it Felix's penthouse, during the 30th-anniversary party.
* This film has a wide variety of 70 distinct settings while the usual Disney film has around 10 to 25.
* The film was released in theaters exactly 11 years after the Pixar movie Monsters, Inc.
* The film opens with an 8-bit Walt Disney Animation Studios logo.
* Wreck-It Ralph has 188 unique, individual characters, three times more than any other Disney film in history. Disney films normally have between 40 and 60.
** These consist of characters from Disney, Nintendo, and classic arcade companies such as Taito. While Disney has a total character base of around 60, most of the characters that made cameo appearance were from Nintendo's archive. These included Street Fighter characters such as M. Bison, Ryu, Ken, and Zangief. Characters from arcade companies other than Nintendo include Pac-man, Pooka, and Fygar (characters from Dig-Dug), Clyde (the orange Pac-Man ghost), Sonic, Dr. Eggman, Bowser, Neff, Q-Bert, Yuni, and plenty more.
* In this film, the color acid green is associated with evil.
* During production, the animators and director would watch dailies 3-5 hours per day and animators were expected to turn in about 80 frames per week.
* The animation team spent many hours visiting different locations in an attempt to provide a more realistic basis for the environments found in the movie. These locations included a visit to Cologne, Germany, where they visited a bakery, candy factories, and the World Confectionery Convention. Ideas were collected from these, which inspired the Sugar Rush, a candy-themed racing game and its surrounding environment. Another trip featured a stop at the Ford manufacturing plant in Detroit, Michigan to see the entire assembly on how trucks are made, which would assist in creating a scene where a Sugar Rush character, Vanellope, builds a car.
* Disney recruited professional football players who provided the models for the muscular guys in Hero's Duty. These models imparted reference points as to how real-life soldiers would move. In addition, the team visited Edwards Air Force Base in California to provide the battleground on which the game was based.
* The production team were urged to spend many hours of playing video games on different platforms using different controllers and joysticks, which would assist in the look and feel of the in-game environments. In addition, the team also visited many of the game development HQs to get a first-hand glimpse at the process behind creating these games. The movie highlighted many of the video game rules for each of the games they were based upon and is something that is featured throughout the movie itself.
* The song "When Can I See You Again" by Owl City was featured in the Paint the Night parade at Disneyland for the park's 60th anniversary.
* Sugar Rush's buildings are inspired by Antoni Gaudí's architecture. Visual development artist, Lorelay Bove thought his buildings looked like candy houses when she was growing up in Spain.
* In Japan, the film is called "シュガーラッシュ" (Shugārasshu), which translates to Sugar Rush. This would make sense, seeing how a majority of the movie takes place in Sugar Rush, and the "kawaii" (Japanese for "cute") style of the game, as part of Japanese culture is cuteness.
* This is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to feature a mock-Disney logo, which is seen at the end of the film.
* This is also the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to contain the 2011 “DiSNEY” text variant of the current Walt Disney Pictures logo.
* This is the tenth Disney animated film to be set in the same year it was first released, following Bolt, Meet the Robinsons, Chicken Little, Lilo and Stitch, The Rescuers Down Under, Oliver and Company, The Rescuers, One Hundred and One Dalmatians, and Dumbo.
* Wreck-It Ralph is the fifth original Walt Disney Animation Studios film to be CGI-Animated, following Dinosaur, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Bolt, and Tangled.
* When King Candy gets Vanellope's coin and brings it back to Ralph, he uses the same code that is used in the DS game version of Cars.
* In the scene of Ralph escaping King Candy's Police, he had the sound breathing of Darth Vader from the chocolate river.
* Ralph mentions the iconic Tootsie Roll®️ Pop line, "How many licks does it take to get to the center of a tootsie pop?" when eating Sour Bill.
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