‘Want’ incorporates greater than 100 Disney Easter eggs. Listed below are all those we discovered.

Warning: Want spoilers forward.

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There are greater than 100 Easter eggs, allusions and nods to basic Disney movies within the new animated journey, Wish. That’s a staggering quantity, even for a studio that has long embraced self-referential movie moments — and doubtless probably the most now we have seen in a significant launch since Steven Spielberg’s pop culture extravaganza Ready Player One.

The Want filmmakers affirm as a lot to Yahoo Leisure, with Jennifer Lee, the Frozen filmmaker and present CCO of Disney Animation, initially guesstimating there have been “over 70” earlier than producer Juan Pablo Reyes Lancaster-Jones reveals that he had created a spreadsheet to trace all of the references, and there have been at the very least 100 entries. Co-directors Chris Buck and Fawn Veerasunthorn put it someplace between 100 and 150. “It’s a really lengthy spreadsheet,” Lancaster-Jones tells us.

Written by Lee and Allison Moore, Want was closely impressed by — and deliberately formed as tribute to — the a hundredth birthday of the Walt Disney Firm, launched by brothers Walt and Roy Disney on Oct. 16, 1923. The animated function follows a 17-year-old lady named Asha (Ariana DeBose) who leads a revolt towards the wish-suppressing ruler (Chris Pine) of their in any other case utopian Kingdom of Rojas.

“After we first wrote the story, we wrote it very straight as this unique fairy story,” Lee confirms. “And as we have been rewriting and issues have been evolving, sure issues would are available in that just about felt like they have been there for us. I am going to simply tease the idea of mirrors. … They did it organically. After which over time we additionally stated, ‘Let’s not take ourselves too critically. Let’s have enjoyable.’”

The references are each common and particular, with some tougher than others to identify. For example, the movie’s premise traffics in some basic Disney tropes, following Asha as she interviews to change into apprentice to the sorcerer King Magnifico (howdy, Fantasia), needs upon a star to achieve her personal powers (hey, Pinocchio) — which can embrace speaking to animals (Snow White), together with a charismatic rabbit (Bambi) — and divulges Magnifico to be an scepter-wielding (Sleeping Magnificence) evil royal (Snow White once more). Lee additionally teases bits of Walt Disney is Asha and Mickey Mouse within the anthropomorphic Star.

“There are issues thematically which are beneath it which are deeper,” says the filmmaker.

Look nearer and also you’ll uncover extra delicate salutes to the studio, like a Mickey-shaped masks, or poison apple hiding on Magnifico’s desk.

DeBose, the Oscar-winning West Aspect Story actress, has been wanting carefully every time she has watched the movie, and he or she’s keen to share some (obscure, comparatively spoiler-free) findings.

“The hidden gems are so nice,” she says. “I’ve noticed a lot of them. I don’t know that I’ve gotten all 100 or over 100 hidden gems or nods, nonetheless, you leverage them. However Alice in Wonderland is all around the movie, which I really like. There are some lovely references to Pocahontas. … A few of this animation is impressed by Sleeping Magnificence. … I’ve seen Fox and the Hound. I’ve seen Bambi. I’ve seen lots. Atlantis. If you will discover the Atlantis reference, hey yo! … I’m not going to inform you as a result of that’s not enjoyable for me.”

Right here’s a rundown of all of the Disney Easter eggs, references and callbacks we’ve noticed — with the assistance of another web sleuths — in Want.

(If there are over 100, this may solely be a 3rd of them — so be happy to remark with any you’ve discovered that aren’t included right here.)

A number of Disney movies: The movie’s use of a storybook to begin its tale recollects related begins to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937), Pinocchio (1940) and Sleeping Magnificence (1959).

Sleeping Magnificence: The animation’s water-cooler fashion was closely impressed by Sleeping Magnificence, however right here’s the place it will get actually geeky, so was Want’s 2.55:1 side ratio (or wider display screen), which hasn’t been used since that 1959 basic.

Tangled: In “Welcome to Rojas,” Asha sings a couple of townsperson who needs to have “hair contact all the way down to your ft,” so similar to Rapunzel in Tangled (2010).

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves: Asha has seven buddies she works with on the fort, and every is impressed by one among Snow White’s pleasant friends. The chief Dahlia (Jennifer Kumiyama) is impressed by Doc, Gabo (Harvey Guillén) by Grumpy, Hal (Niko Vargas) by Joyful, Simon (Evan Peters) by Sleepy, Safi (Ramy Youssef) by Sneezy, Dario (Jon Rudnitsky) by Dopey and Bazeema (Della Saba) by Bashful.

Magnificence and the Beast: There’s a chipped cup within the kitchen sink, recalling everybody’s favourite lil’ teacup Chip from Magnificence and the Beast (1991).

Tarzan: There’s a sneakily planted Tarzan name, too.

Sleeping Magnificence: Dahlia’s apron was impressed by these worn by Aurora’s three Fairy Godmothers.

Disney (centennial): Asha’s grandfather Sabino (Victor Garber) is 100 years previous, the identical as Walt Disney Studios.

Fantasia: Asha interviews to be the apprentice to King Magnifico, who can also be a sorcerer — which might doubtlessly make her the Sorcerer’s Apprentice, a transparent nod to probably the most well-known sequence in 1940’s Fantasia, which additionally impressed a 2010 Nicolas Cage movie.

Sleeping Magnificence: As Magnifico is peering into among the needs he’s suppressed, one character noticed is stitching a gown that appears similar to Aurora’s blue get-up.

A number of Disney movies: Later, when he begins actually crushing goals, they’re impressed by The Little Mermaid, Peter Pan and Mary Poppins. He even slyly notes he’s “poppin’” the want bubble.

Snow White: King Magnifico is also referred to as the Evil King, a gender-flip of Snow White’s primary adversary, the Evil Queen.

Snow White: Talking of the Evil Queen, eagle-eyed viewers will spot a poison apple resting on Magnifico’s desk in his library.

Snow White: An apparent hat tip to the Evil Queen? When Magnifico utters the phrases, “Mirrors, mirrors on my wall.”

Snow White: Much less apparent? The steps to his lairs very carefully resemble the Evil Queen’s.

Sleeping Magnificence: Magnifico isn’t simply paying homage to the Evil Queen, he acknowledges different GOATs who got here earlier than him, like Sleeping Magnificence’s Massive Unhealthy Maleficent. Simply have a look at how related their names are.

Sleeping Magnificence: Magnifico additionally wields a scepter he may’ve inherited from Sleeping Magnificence’s Maleficent, casting the same inexperienced mist and inexperienced vines throughout the dominion.

Pinocchio and The Princess and the Frog: Asha actually needs upon a star, channeling the famed music from Pinocchio, “Want Upon a Star.” (Extra on this music beneath.) And as Geppetto did earlier than her in Pinocchio, so did Tiana in The Princess and the Frog (2009). Solely in Want, the star comes alive.

A number of Disney movies: Star’s magic provides the forest animals close to Asha’s house the power to speak, channeling famend animal whisperer Snow White. However there have been many a Dolittle in Disney motion pictures, from Mowgli in The Jungle E book (1967) to Ariel in The Little Mermaid (1989) to Giselle in Enchanted (2007) to Antonio Madigral in Encanto (2021).

Bambi: Of these speaking animals, one is a charismatic rabbit who thumps his foot similar to, nicely, Thumper from Bambi.

Robin Hood: The bear, in the meantime, is known as John the Bear, a la Little John from Robin Hood (1973).

Bambi: We’re undecided if the deer is definitely named Bambi — that’d be a bit on the nostril, even for a film with 100-plus references — however that’s what John (jokingly?) calls him.

Pocahontas: There are sentient timber, too, simply in like in Pocahontas (1995).

Alice in Wonderland: The singing psychedelic flowers, in the meantime, really feel proper out of Alice in Wonderland.

Mickey Mouse: Star’s heart-shaped face masks is a nod to longtime Disney mascot Mickey Mouse, character designer Invoice Schwab confirmed to Variety.

Mickey Mouse: When Asha breaks into the king’s lair, Star’s magic hits a quill on his desk, coming alive to start out drawing Mickey’s unmistakable ears.

(Extra) Mickey Mouse: There are hidden Mickeys within the macaroon tower within the kitchen.

Peter Pan: The pixie mud that follows Star round is an homage to the golden glitter closely featured in Peter Pan (1953) and its numerous Tinkerbell spinoffs.

Frozen: “We love loopy,” the speaking mushrooms Asha and buddies encounter declare. That’s lifted from one of many opening traces (“I really like loopy!”) to the Frozen (2013) ballad, “Love Is an Open Door.”

Cinderella: Asha’s unique gown is embroidered with pumpkin seeds, a callback to the Fairy Godmother’s magic in Cinderella.

Cinderella: Later, she wears a periwinkle-blue cloak with a purple bow on it, the exact same get-up donned by the Fairy Godmother. She finally makes use of her wand to provide a cart legs, finishing her arc from wannabe Sorcerer’s Apprentice to full-stop Fairy Godmother.

Cinderella: Queen Elinor receives an important message from a useful mouse towards the top, referencing Cinderella’s key allies.

Peter Pan: In one of the apparent nods, one of many townsfolk needs to fly, and by the top of the story is launched by a green-clad fellow with a pointed cap who’s engaged on a flying machine. It’s clearly Peter Pan, which might make her Wendy?

Zootopia: Asha’s goat pal Valentino’s want, in the meantime, is that there’ll sometime be a secure haven for speaking animals who put on garments — seemingly a gag nodding at Zootopia (2016).

Disney (common): Fireworks arc excessive of the Rojas fort at one level, emulating Disney’s emblem.

Disney (common): Throughout the finish credit, character portraits from each single Disney Animation — in chronological order, starting with Snow White and ending with Splat from Unusual World (2022) — seem by means of the celebrities.

Disney (common): Sabino’s long-forgotten want is that he can encourage the youth; within the post-credits, he’s seen fiddling away at his mandolin, formulating the primary few notes of a well-recognized melody: “When You Want Upon a Star,” the monitor made well-known in Pinocchio that then grew to become the studio’s signature theme, enjoying over its manufacturing emblem initially of each movie because the Nineteen Eighties.

Want is now enjoying.

A model of this story was initially revealed Nov. 15, 2024. It has been up to date with a listing of Easter eggs.