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19Dumbo is an elephant of few words - none, in fact - which makes him the quietest central character of them all. Hot on his heels is Aurora from Sleeping Beauty, who gets a mere 18 whole lines of dialogue, and just 18 minutes of screen time in her own film. Well, that's what you get for laziness.
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Joss Whedon was part of a team of writers brought in to perk up the Toy Story script, and came up with the character of Rex, the cowardly dinosaur (Rex was voiced by Wallace Shawn, who you'll know from The Princess Bride and Clueless. What a CV.) and the line, "You are a sad, strange little man".
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Sulley from Monsters Inc has more than 2.3 million individual hairs, which are all carefully animated. This explains why a single frame of the big blue fella took an average of 12 hours to produce.
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Clarence Nash, aka the voice of Donald Duck, created the dog barks for 101 Dalmations. While we're on the subject of animal noise, tiger roars were used for the Lion King, as lions weren't deemed loud enough.
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While we know him as Prince Charming, the dapper chap who steals Cinderella's heart (and slipper) is never actually named during the film.
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Peter Cullen is another Disney voice with a varied CV, having voiced both Eeyore and Optimus Prime.
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Simba is Swahili for 'lion', while Bhalu (Baloo) is Hindi for 'bear'.
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Bruce, the 'vegetarian' great white shark of Finding Nemo, was named after the mechanical shark used in Jaws, which, in turn, was named after Steven Spielberg's lawyer!
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Blogger Jon Negroni has a unified theory of Pixar films and how they all connect, from Brave through to the frightening, sci-fi world of Wall-E, and finally to a freakish future when animals and humans have inter-bred, to create the monsters of Monsters Inc/University. Strange but fascinating.
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