60 Fun Facts About Ice Age

Which animation studio made the first five Ice Age films?

The 2002 original was the studio's debut feature; Disney closed it in 2021.

What kind of animal is Manny?

He spends the first film convinced he is the last of his kind.

Who voices Manny?

The Everybody Loves Raymond star has voiced him in every film.

What kind of animal is Sid?

He is a Megalonyx-style ground sloth, though he moves like anything but.

Who voices Sid?

He found the voice after learning sloths store food in their cheek pouches, and recorded with a mouthful of food.

What inspired the lisping voice the actor gave Sid?

He auditioned some thirty voices before settling on that one.

Diego is what species?

Smilodon is the sabre-toothed cat; his pack leader Soto and packmate Zeke are Smilodons too.

Who voices Diego?

Leary's growl fits a character who spends most of film one planning to betray his friends.

Which comedian voices Zeke, one of Soto's sabre-toothed pack?

It was a small early voice role, years before Kung Fu Panda.

What is the name of the human baby the herd carries in the first film?

Voice actress Tara Strong supplied his gurgles.

What is the herd's goal in the first film?

Sid, Manny and Diego form a very reluctant family on the way.

What does Manny remember in his cave-painting flashback?

It explains why he is so cold toward the baby at first.

What finally makes Diego switch sides completely?

He then takes a mortal-looking blow from Soto, only to turn up alive at the end.

The first Ice Age lost the Best Animated Feature Oscar to which film?

It was only the second year the category existed.

On what date was the first Ice Age released in the United States?

It opened in early spring, and every sequel kept a spring or summer slot.

Roughly how much did the first Ice Age gross worldwide?

That made it a hit on a budget of about $60 million.

The first Ice Age was originally conceived by Fox Animation Studios as what?

When Fox's 2D studio closed, the project moved to Blue Sky and became CGI.

What approval rating did Ice Age hold on Rotten Tomatoes as of 2025?

Critics liked the trio's chemistry and Scrat far more than the sequels that followed.

What kind of creature is Scrat?

He is a long-snouted, rat-like squirrel with fangs and no dialogue.

Who provides Scrat's vocal effects?

Wedge co-founded Blue Sky and directed the first film, then squeaked and screamed as Scrat in every one.

How did Scrat get his name?

Michael J. Wilson's daughter Flora coined it.

What is Scrat forever trying to bury?

His pursuit sets off avalanches, floods and, eventually, continental drift.

A real fossil mammal with long fangs, discovered in 2011, was compared to Scrat. What was it called?

Palaeontologist Guillermo Rougier said the resemblance was only superficial, but the nickname stuck.

What is the name of Scrat's female counterpart introduced in the third film?

She is a flying squirrel and both his love interest and his rival for the acorn.

What happens to Scrat in the 2022 farewell short released after Blue Sky closed?

After two decades of failure, the animators let him win in peace.

Who directed Ice Age: The Meltdown?

He also directed Dawn of the Dinosaurs and later Rio.

In The Meltdown, Ellie is a mammoth who believes she is what?

She was raised by opossums Crash and Eddie, and hangs from trees by her tail to prove it.

Who voices Ellie?

She joined in the second film and stayed for the rest of the series.

Which pair of actors voice the opossum brothers Crash and Eddie?

Peck was still on Drake & Josh at the time.

What is the danger the herd flees in The Meltdown?

The only hope is a boat waiting at the far end of the valley.

Which two sea reptiles are freed by the melting ice in The Meltdown?

One is a Metriorhynchus and the other a Globidens, both real prehistoric marine reptiles.

Which Arrested Development actor voices the Lone Gunslinger vulture in The Meltdown?

His vulture leads a flock singing 'Food, Glorious Food' from Oliver! about the doomed animals.

What proves Manny is not the last mammoth at the end of The Meltdown?

Manny still chooses Ellie over the herd.

Roughly how much did The Meltdown gross worldwide?

It set a record for the biggest March opening weekend ever at the time.

Who voices Buck, the one-eyed dinosaur-hunting weasel?

Buck later got his own streaming spin-off, The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild.

Which creature took Buck's missing eye?

Buck wears one of Rudy's teeth as a knife.

How many dinosaur eggs does Sid adopt in Dawn of the Dinosaurs?

He names the hatchlings Egbert, Shelly and Yoko before their real mother comes calling.

What do Manny and Ellie name their newborn daughter?

She grows into a rebellious teenager by the fourth film.

Where does the herd end up in the third film?

An icy cave leads down to a jungle where the dinosaurs never went extinct.

Roughly how much did Dawn of the Dinosaurs gross worldwide, making it the franchise's biggest hit?

It was the highest-grossing animated film of 2009 and the third-highest of the year overall.

Who voices Captain Gutt, the pirate ape in Continental Drift?

Gutt is a Gigantopithecus, a real giant ape that lived alongside early humans.

Which pop star voices Shira, the sabre-tooth who falls for Diego?

Shira starts out as Gutt's first mate before switching sides.

Which comedian voices Sid's Granny, introduced in Continental Drift?

Her 'pet' turns out to be a giant whale named Precious.

Which rapper voices Ethan, the mammoth Manny's teenage daughter has a crush on?

Nicki Minaj voices Steffie, Ethan's girlfriend, in the same film.

Which Simpsons short played before Continental Drift in theaters?

The Maggie Simpson short earned an Oscar nomination of its own.

What approval rating did Continental Drift hold on Rotten Tomatoes as of 2025?

Critics turned on the series long before audiences did; it still grossed $877 million.

How does Scrat kick off the plot of Collision Course?

He finds an abandoned spaceship while trying to bury the acorn.

What was Collision Course's production budget?

It grossed $408.5 million, the lowest of the theatrical films.

Where did Collision Course have its world premiere in June 2016?

US theaters got it on July 22, 2016.

The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild skipped theaters in January 2022 and went straight to which streamer?

It was the first Ice Age film not made by Blue Sky.

What is the combined worldwide gross of the first five theatrical Ice Age films?

That puts it among the highest-grossing animated franchises ever made.

Which actor announced in September 2024, 'We're about to do Ice Age 6!'?

The sixth film, Ice Age: Boiling Point, is scheduled for February 2027.

Which title was announced for the sixth Ice Age film, dated for February 2027?

It was set for release on February 5, 2027 with the returning cast.

How many episodes are in the streaming series Scrat Tales?

Each short follows Scrat and his son, Baby Scrat, fighting over the acorn.

Which theme park hosts the dark ride Ice Age: Expedition Thin Ice?

The ride uses animatronics and projections to send guests through the melting valley.

Which 2006 Scrat short, bouncing him between eras after his nut, earned an Oscar nomination?

Directed by Chris Renaud and Michael Thurmeier, it first appeared on The Meltdown DVD.

Which villain steals and hides all the eggs in the TV special Ice Age: The Great Egg-Scapade?

The dastardly pirate bunny's twin brother Clint helps the herd in what becomes the world's first Easter egg hunt.

In the arena show Ice Age Live! A Mammoth Adventure, who kidnaps baby Peaches?

The show blended ice skating, aerial arts, puppetry and film and premiered at Wembley Arena in November 2012.

Which mobile game company released Ice Age Village in April 2012?

The village-building game even featured animals cut from the films, and its servers were shut down in March 2026.

Which studio handled the outsourced animation for The Ice Age Adventures of Buck Wild?

It was the first franchise film made without Blue Sky Studios, with Simon Pegg the only returning voice actor.