50 Fun Facts About Disney Baby

How is baby Dumbo delivered to his mother in the 1941 film?

A belated stork catches up with the circus train and drops off Jumbo Jr., whose ears earn him the cruel nickname.

What is Dumbo's real name?

His mother Mrs. Jumbo speaks only once in the whole film, to give him his name, and sings him the lullaby 'Baby Mine'.

Which lullaby, sung by Mrs. Jumbo, earned Dumbo an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song?

Frank Churchill and Ned Washington wrote it, and Mrs. Jumbo sings it through the bars of the wagon where she is locked up.

Which friend teaches the newborn fawn Bambi to walk and speak?

Bambi's misnaming of a young skunk as 'Flower' so flatters him that he keeps the name.

What species is Bambi in the Disney film?

He was a European roe deer in the original book, but Disney based him on a mule deer from Arrowhead, California.

Who presents newborn Simba to the animals of the Pride Lands?

The mandrill is the kingdom's shaman and later presents Simba's own daughter Kiara the same way in the sequel.

What is the name of Simba and Nala's cub, presented at the start of The Lion King II?

She grows up to fall for Kovu, a lion from Scar's exiled followers, the Outsiders.

Which gorilla finds and adopts the shipwrecked human infant Tarzan?

Her own baby had been killed by the same big cat that killed Tarzan's parents.

In Hercules, why does the baby keep his god-like strength after Pain and Panic feed him the potion?

A farming couple passing by scared the demons off, and the couple, Amphitryon and Alcmene, adopted him.

Which of Hercules's childhood friends is a winged horse?

Zeus sends the two of them off to the satyr Philoctetes when Hercules learns of his origins.

Why does Mother Gothel steal baby Rapunzel from her cradle in Tangled?

Gothel had first tried to snip a lock, but the cut hair turned brown and lost its power, so she took the whole child.

What do Rapunzel's parents release every year on her birthday, hoping to guide her home?

Rapunzel grows up watching the lights from her tower and asks to see them on the eve of her 18th birthday.

At baby Aurora's christening, what gifts do Flora and Fauna give her before Maleficent arrives?

Merryweather saves her own gift to soften the curse from death into a deep sleep broken by true love's kiss.

What name do the three good fairies give Aurora while raising her in hiding?

They live as peasants in a forest cottage, giving up magic until her sixteenth birthday.

To whom is baby Aurora betrothed at her christening?

He is the son of King Hubert, and the match is meant to unite the two kingdoms.

In The Jungle Book, who discovers the orphaned baby Mowgli and brings him to the wolves?

Ten years later the wise panther is the one who tries to escort the man-cub to the Man-Village when Shere Khan returns.

How old is Boo, the little girl who wanders into the monster world in Monsters, Inc.?

She calls Sulley 'Kitty', and her real name in the tie-in book is Mary Gibbs, after the daughter of a Pixar story artist who voiced her.

What does Boo call Sulley?

She fears no monster except Randall, the scarer assigned to her door.

What is the name of the baby in The Incredibles?

He is left with a babysitter when the family flies to Nomanisan, and a DVD short shows what she went through.

What is the name of the Parr baby's babysitter in The Incredibles?

Bret Parker voices her, and her ordeal with the baby's powers became its own short film on the DVD.

How many puppies does Perdita give birth to in One Hundred and One Dalmatians?

Cruella de Vil's henchmen also buy 84 more from shops, giving the famous total of 101 with Pongo and Perdita.

In Finding Nemo, how many of Marlin and Coral's eggs survive the barracuda attack?

Marlin names the survivor Nemo and becomes hopelessly overprotective, warning his teacher about the boy's small fin.

In Lady and the Tramp, what does Tramp warn Lady that babies often do?

Lady is won over once she meets the baby, and later saves him from a rat that climbs into his bedroom.

In Encanto, at what age does each Madrigal child receive a magical gift?

Mirabel is the one grandchild who inexplicably receives no gift; Abuela Alma had fled her village carrying infant triplets.

Alma Madrigal flees her home in Encanto carrying which infants?

Her husband Pedro is killed, and the candle she carries gains the magic that creates Casita.

In Frozen, why do the royal parents take young Anna to the trolls?

Grand Pabbie heals her and erases her memories of Elsa's magic, and the castle gates are closed for years.

In Moana, who chooses the toddler Moana to one day return the heart of Te Fiti?

Her parents Tui and Sina try to keep her away from the water for the next sixteen years.

How old is Grogu, the 'Baby Yoda' of The Mandalorian, in the show's first episode?

His species ages so slowly that he still looks like an infant, and his name wasn't revealed until Chapter 13.

In which episode of The Mandalorian was Grogu's name finally revealed?

The same episode explained he was raised at the Jedi Temple on Coruscant during the Clone Wars.

Who voices Baby Groot in Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2?

Director James Gunn considers Baby Groot the son of the original Groot, and did the character's motion reference himself.

Why is Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 set only a few months after the first film?

Gunn had originally intended Groot to be fully grown again by the sequel, then decided to keep him small.

Which cigar-chomping cartoon infant is Roger Rabbit's co-star in Who Framed Roger Rabbit?

Lou Hirsch auditioned for a human role but ended up voicing the baby with what he called a Wallace Beery growl; early scripts even made Herman the villain.

Which infant-video company did Disney own from November 2001 until 2013?

Julie Aigner-Clark started it in her Georgia home in 1996 with $15,000 of savings and one VHS tape.

Which of A. A. Milne's characters is a baby kangaroo who rides in his mother's pouch?

Kanga and Roo were among Christopher Robin Milne's real toys, along with Piglet, Eeyore and Tigger.

In Peter Pan, which of the Darling children is the youngest, still clutching a teddy bear?

He and John act out Peter Pan stories told by their sister Wendy in the nursery of their Edwardian London home.

At the end of the 1953 film, what happens when the Darlings invite Peter's orphan gang to be adopted?

Peter himself refuses to grow up, and flies the pirate ship back to London on Tinker Bell's pixie dust.

Which sequel follows Ariel and Eric's daughter Melody, who longs to swim in the sea?

Pat Carroll, the voice of Ursula, returned as her sister Morgana, and Tara Strong voiced Melody.

How long is Dumbo, one of Disney's shortest animated features?

It was made cheaply to recoup the losses of Pinocchio and Fantasia.

Which 2006 direct-to-video film follows the young fawn and his father after his mother's death?

It premiered in Argentine cinemas before going straight to video in the US.

Which Pixar short, made for The Incredibles DVD, shows the babysitter's chaotic night with the Parr baby?

It appeared on the 2005 collector's edition alongside Mr. Incredible and Pals and the theatrical short Boundin'.

Which predator kills baby Tarzan's parents?

Sabor later ambushes the gorillas and is killed by the grown Tarzan, earning Kerchak's reluctant respect.

Which of these animated baby movies is NOT a Disney production?

Storks, in which a delivery stork accidentally creates a baby, was made by Warner Animation Group in 2016.

What is the name of the circus train that carries baby Dumbo and the other animals?

A belated stork catches up with the train the spring after the other babies were delivered, bringing Mrs. Jumbo her long-awaited baby.

Which actor, later the voice of Winnie the Pooh, played Mr. Stork who delivers Dumbo?

Cliff Edwards, who was Jiminy Cricket, voiced the lead crow instead.

Dumbo's story was originally written by Helen Aberson and Harold Pearl for what kind of product?

Helen Durney illustrated the prototype; Disney turned the slim story into a deliberately simple film to recoup the losses of Pinocchio and Fantasia.

Apart from his mother, who is baby Dumbo's only true friend at the circus?

The friendship parodies the stereotype that elephants fear mice; Timothy scares off the adult elephants who shun the 'freak'.

In Meet the Robinsons, orphan inventor Lewis builds a Memory Scanner to find whom?

He was left at the orphanage as an infant; the film is based on William Joyce's 1990 book A Day with Wilbur Robinson.

What are the names of Merida's mischievous triplet little brothers in Brave?

They help her evade their father and the clans after Queen Elinor is turned into a bear, and stow away on a boat at the end.

In Disney's Peter Pan, why does Mr. Darling chain Nana outside the nursery?

The same night he tells Wendy she must move out of the nursery because 'sooner or later, people have to grow up'.

In Lilo & Stitch, what does Lilo pretend the alien Experiment 626 is when she adopts him?

Orphaned Lilo is raised by her older sister Nani; she renames the chaos-loving creature Stitch.