The King of Lions 2: Waylon and the Secret of Lion Land (1999 animated film)

***The King of Lions 2: Waylon and the Secret of Lion Land*** is a 1999 Japanese/American animated mockbuster film produced by CDS Communications and distributed by Piko Entertainment (now known as CDS Entertainment). It is a sequel to *The King of Lions* and a mockbuster of Disney's *The Lion King II: Simba's Pride* (1998). It is the second installment of *The King of Lions* franchise.

The film is released on VHS on September 12, 1999, and much like its predecessor it's made available at Shell gas stations.

The film takes place after the events of the original film. The film thus saw Waylon who is now famous in the Lion Land and Lydia giving birth to the same lion cub from the end of the original film, now named Loretta.

After the VHS release at Shell gas stations, the film aired on CVS in November 12, 1999. In 2005, the film is unveiled a high-definition, digitally remastered version. Currently, the film airs every Summer in CVS as of 2000.

## Plot

Waylon is able to perform his own acts and tricks during his daughter Loretta's birth celebration (with Aiden's spirit watching her). A week later, after being guilty for his late arrival on the National Lion Day, he travels with Loretta to the mysterious tree, known to inhabitants of Lion Land as a "Tree of Origin" to meet Nigel. Meanwhile, Rodgy the Hornbill is forced to visit the hidden place where he discovers a stone that he believes that it gives the lions special powers. A pride of rogue lions and panthers sends Waylon and Loretta back to Lion Land, but Loretta is going back to the Tree Of Origin where she meets a rogue lion cub named Nero, who is a successor of Jazar from the original film, and they both fall in love with each other.

Upon discovering Loretta's foreseeing powers because she inherited from her father, Nero offers Loretta to know about the same stone that Rodgy sees. Meanwhile, Nero's adoptive panther mother Lutara has a plan to steal the stone and took over Lion Land and also plots to kill Waylon because he murdered Jazar, who is her brother, in the original film.

Loretta, now a full-grown adult, heard Rodgy saying that Lutara is after the stone and the Tree of Origin and she has a plan to foil her plan by disguising Rodgy as a bird statue. That fails, and Lutara succeeds in taking the stone by sending Loretta, Nero and Rodgy to the forbidden place, the elephant graveyard where Nigel helps them escape from the hyenas.

That night, Waylon had a nightmare about attempting to save his father Aiden from gunshots used by unseen animal poachers but is stopped by Jazar who turns into Lutara and pushes Waylon to the point where he's also got shot.

The next day, Waylon has a paranoid about Lutara and Loretta is alerting him, saying that Lutara finally had a stone. Upon hearing the truth about Lutara, Nero betrays her and finds Loretta in the plains. Nero reveals that Jazar is once was a cub whose stone gives him the power to use the "Eye of the Panther". The panthers and lions then attack the paranoid Waylon, almost instantly killing him but Loretta intervenes and they ran off to find Lutara. Waylon once again reunites with Loretta and returns to Lion Land to find that it is taken over by Lutara.

When Loretta's foreseeing power depicts her going to the Tree of Origin, Nero comes to accept her mission to find the tree. When they get there, Nigel reveals to Nero and Loretta about the connection to the stone and the Tree of Origin and tells the story about Jazar. Loretta discovers this and she must find a way to save Lion Land.

The next day at the Tree of Origin, Lutara gathers her team of panthers and lions to use a stone on it. Before they can use it, Waylon and his team of lions stopped them by engaging in a battle with them in a rainstorm. Loretta and Nero disrupts the fight by sending Rodgy to attack the panthers, through the stone is destroyed, causing all the lions in Africa to lose their powers (including Loretta and Waylon). Upon losing their powers, they betrayed Lutara by joining on Waylon's side. Angered, Lutara attempts to attack Waylon alone but Loretta intervenes and Lutara falls to the cliff, plunging to her death.

With Lutara defeated, Loretta is sad that the lions lost their powers. However, Nigel shows that the Tree of Origin can restore their power. With his power finally restored by Nigel, Waylon accepts Loretta and Nero to be his successors.

## Characters

* **King Waylon** - A son of Aiden and Narla, a current king of Lion Land, and a father of Loretta.
* **Queen Lydia** - A lioness who is Waylon's mate and a mother of Loretta.
* **Great King Aiden** - A deceased father of Waylon, grandfather of Loretta and a former king of Lion Land. Currently watches Loretta as a spirit and also appeared on Waylon's nightmare.
* **Loretta** - A daughter of King Waylon and Queen Lyida and Nero's love interest, later Nero's future wife. She is the main protagonist of the film.
* **Nero** - An orphaned lion who is adopted by Lutara, and Loretta's love interest, later Loretta's future husband.
* **Rodgy** - A wise-cracking hornbill who lived in a jungle paradise and is Loretta's friend and babysitter. He carried his pet rock, "Rocky", around.
* **Lutara** - A panther who is Jazar's sister and the adopted mother of Nero. She is the main antagonist of the film.
* **Nigel** - A baboon who serves as a guardian of Lion Land in the film.
* **Great Queen Narla** - Waylon's mother and Loretta's paternal grandmother, who only made multiple cameos in the film.

## Related television series and sequel

In October 2017, a television series titled *The Prince of Lions*, which is a knockoff of *The Lion Guard*, began airing on CVS Kids following a television pilot film *The Prince of Lions: Unleash the Roar* in June 12, 2016. The majority of the TV series takes place during the years in between Loretta's first meeting with Nero as a cub and her first mission as an adult. It focuses on Lucas, the second-born cub of King Waylon and Queen Lydia, who becomes the leader of the team of animals called "Team Origin", a group who defends Lion Land from danger.

Nero and Lutara appeared in the season 1 episode "The Tree of Origin". Additionally, Nero makes an appearance in the season 3 episode "The Fall of Lion Land", which takes place after the events of *Waylon and the Secret of Lion Land*. In the Season 3 premiere, "Battle at the Tree of Origin", Team Origin leaves Lion Land in the search for the magical diamond in the mission while defeating Jazar's spirit, thus explaining Lucas' absence from *Waylon and the Secret of Lion Land*.

## Trivia

* Sound effects from *Super Smash Bros.* (N64) and *Super Mario 64* are used in this film.
* In 2001, a clip from this film is used to confirm the existence of *The King of Lions 3* in *CVS 11 News*.
* The buzzards from the first film are going to appear in this film, but they were ultimately cut off before the release.
* Prior to the release of the film, a special 10-minute teaser of it that is found in the 1998 VHS release of *The Little Star Girl* shows scenes of Nigel talking to Aiden's spirit in a light rain, Lutara's conspiring with Nero (as a cub), Lutaria committing suicide by jumping off the cliff, and Rodgy meeting a female hornbill (that is supposed to be a post-credits scene of *Waylon and the Secret of Lion Land*). None of these elements made it into the final film, although they are used in the "Scenes That Are Never Be In *Waylon and the Secret of Lion Land*" section in the DVD of *The King of Lions 1/2*.
	+ Also, CDS Communications is referenced in the uncut female hornbill scene.