Check these surprising facts about Disney’s most famous characters!
1 - And Dalmatians have a ton of spots
More than 6,400,000 spots appear on the dogs in the movie 101 Dalmations. Each puppy has 32, their mother Perdita has 68, and their father Pongo has 72.
2 - The crab from The Little Mermaid isn’t named Sebastian
As revealed at the beginning of the film, his full name is Horatio Thelonious Ignacious Crustaceous Sebastian. We can understand why he shortened it.
3 - The Beast has the features of many animals
Animator Glen Keane told animatedviews.com that he created the titular character from Beauty and the Beast with the legs of a wolf, the tail of a dog, the body of a bear, the head of a buffalo, the eyebrows of a gorilla, the muzzle of a wild boar, and the mane of a lion.
4 - Jackie Chan played two popular Disney roles
Yes, you read that right. In the Chinese translation of Beauty and the Beast, Jackie Chan voiced the Beast, and in the Chinese version of Mulan, he dubbed Captain Li Shang. He sang for both roles.
5 - The man who voiced Donald Duck had more than just one role
Clarence Nash is most known for voicing Donald Duck (a role he played for 50 years); his nephews Huey, Dewey, and Louie; and Daisy Duck in some of her earliest appearances. But he also appears in other animated shorts and films as the voice of random barnyard animals, including a chirping bluebird, a horse, a bear, additional dogs in 101 Dalmatians, and, of course, ducks.
6 - Lady from Lady and the Tramp is based on a real dog
That dog was also named Lady, a Springer Spaniel that belonged to a Disney writer named Joe Grant. After seeing sketches of the dog, Walt Disney told Grant to create a storyboard with them but ended up scrapping the idea. It wasn’t until Disney read a story called “Happy Dan, the Whistling Dog” about a dog “from the other side of the tracks” that he revisited the story with Grant’s original sketches.
