50 Fun Facts About Tangled

Who provides the voice of Rapunzel in Tangled?

Menzel and Bell both auditioned and were later cast as Elsa and Anna in Frozen; Moore said the part fulfilled her 'ultimate childhood dream'.

Flynn Rider is an alias. What is his real name?

The name Flynn Rider was borrowed from swashbuckler Errol Flynn; the character was originally written as a British farmer.

Rapunzel's pet chameleon is called what?

He and the palace horse Maximus are the film's two non-speaking animal sidekicks; in the wedding short they serve as flower boy and ring bearer.

What is the name of the kingdom Rapunzel was stolen from as a baby?

The kingdom's soldiers took Gothel's magic flower to heal the pregnant queen, which is how the magic ended up in Rapunzel's hair.

Every year on Rapunzel's birthday the king and queen do what?

Animator John Ripa's idea of the floating lanterns solved the story problem of why Rapunzel would ever want to leave the tower.

What does Flynn steal from the palace that Rapunzel later hides in her tower?

He double-crosses the Stabbington brothers to keep it and is chased by Maximus, the head guard's horse.

Flynn tries to scare Rapunzel back to her tower by taking her to which rough pub?

The thugs there turn out to have dreams of their own, which sets up the song 'I've Got a Dream'.

Which household object does Rapunzel famously use as a weapon?

The pan later gets adopted by the palace guards; critics ranked her among the more feminist Disney princesses partly on its account.

Roughly how long is Rapunzel's hair in the film?

Animating it needed an upgraded version of a hair-simulation program called Dynamic Wires, first built for Bolt.

What happens to Rapunzel's hair when it is cut?

Gothel discovered this when she snipped a lock from the baby princess, which is why she stole the whole child instead.

The magic in Rapunzel's hair originally came from a flower created by what?

The TV series later reveals the Sundrop has a counterpart, the Moonstone Opal, whose black rocks drive the plot.

Which actress voices Mother Gothel, in her voice-acting debut?

A Broadway star, Murphy prepared as if for a stage audition and invented extra backstory for the character; Gothel's look was partly modelled on Cher.

Gothel's big song, in which she warns Rapunzel about the outside world, is called what?

The line 'getting kind of chubby' was lifted from real interviews the writers did about manipulative parents.

How does Mother Gothel meet her end?

Eugene cuts Rapunzel's hair to free her, the magic dies, and Pascal trips the disintegrating Gothel out of the tower window.

Tangled is based on a fairy tale published in 1812 by which collectors of German folk stories?

Walt Disney himself tried to adapt it in the 1930s and 40s but judged the story too 'small'.

What kind of plant is the 'rapunzel' Rapunzel's pregnant mother craved from the witch's garden?

The witch, Dame Gothel, takes the child as payment for the stolen greens, a detail Disney replaced with the magic flower.

The Grimms' Rapunzel grew from which 1698 French tale by Charlotte-Rose de La Force?

That in turn came from Basile's Italian 'Petrosinella' of 1634; all three heroines are named after garden greens.

Tangled was which number in the official count of Walt Disney Animation Studios features?

The DVD even included a '50th Animated Feature Countdown' bonus; The Princess and the Frog was number 49.

Tangled's estimated production cost of about $260 million earned it what distinction at the time?

Six years in production and a wholesale restart under John Lasseter drove the bill up; it still turned a profit with $592.5 million worldwide.

Which veteran Disney animator first conceived Tangled and originally wanted it hand-drawn?

Keane, the animator behind Ariel and the Beast, ran a 'Best of Both Worlds' seminar to work out how CGI could keep the hand-drawn Disney feel.

Under what working title was the film first announced in 2003, described as 'a Shrek-like version'?

It was shelved, restarted, shortened to Rapunzel, and only became Tangled shortly before release.

Why did Disney change the film's title from Rapunzel to Tangled shortly before release?

The Princess and the Frog had underperformed with the word 'princess' in its title, and the campaign leaned hard on Flynn Rider to balance things.

Tangled's painterly look was modelled on which French Rococo artist, especially his work The Swing?

The film is CGI but used non-photorealistic rendering to look like oil on canvas, a style Keane called 'romantic and lush'.

Which duo directed Tangled, having previously made Bolt together?

They replaced Glen Keane and Dean Wellins in 2008; Howard went on to co-direct Zootopia.

Who composed the songs for Tangled, working with lyricist Glenn Slater?

It brought Menken his nineteenth Oscar nomination; Grace Potter wrote and sang the closing-credits song 'Something That I Want' herself.

The love duet 'I See the Light' lost the Academy Award for Best Original Song to which song?

Randy Newman's Pixar song took the Oscar; 'I See the Light' consoled itself with the Grammy for Best Song Written for Visual Media.

Zachary Levi decided to audition for Flynn Rider only after learning what?

'I See the Light' was his musical debut; he later admitted he thought his performance sounded 'incredibly nasally'.

What was the famous studio session where Tangled staff brought photos of hunky actors to design Flynn called?

The team felt Flynn 'needed to be up to Rapunzel's level'; his final look draws on Errol Flynn, Gene Kelly, Han Solo and Indiana Jones.

Which sitcom actor voices the Hook Hand Thug, who dreams of being a concert pianist?

Jeffrey Tambor is Big Nose Thug and Ron Perlman voices one of the Stabbington brothers; the other Stabbington never speaks.

Rapunzel was made an official Disney Princess in October 2011. She was the first princess to be what?

She was also the first European princess in twenty years, since Belle, and the first drawn with freckles.

Rapunzel was drawn with a facial feature no Disney princess had before her. What?

Glen Keane also gave her unusually large eyes to convey what he called her 'irrepressible quality'.

The 2012 short Tangled Ever After centres on Rapunzel and Eugene's wedding. What goes wrong?

The horse reacts to one of Pascal's flower petals, and the two animals chase the rings across the kingdom while the vows are said.

Tangled Ever After premiered in January 2012 ahead of which Disney classic's 3D re-release?

It later turned up as a bonus on the Cinderella Diamond Edition and on Disney Channel before The Princess and the Frog.

Rapunzel and Eugene make a cameo in Frozen at what event?

They can be spotted among the guests arriving at Arendelle, a favourite fan-theory link between the two kingdoms.

The TV series that followed the film began in 2017 under one title and was later renamed what?

It launched with the TV movie Tangled: Before Ever After and ran three seasons on Disney Channel, ending in March 2020.

In the series, Rapunzel's handmaiden and closest friend, who eventually betrays her, is called what?

She is the adopted daughter of the Captain of the Guards, voiced by Eden Espinosa, and takes the Moonstone's power at the end of season two.

Varian, the young alchemist in the series, is voiced by which Broadway star?

The series brought back the film's two leads and added a cast that included Clancy Brown as King Frederic and Julie Bowen as Queen Arianna.

In the series, what mysteriously restores Rapunzel's long blonde hair?

The rocks are created by the Moonstone Opal, the Sundrop's counterpart, and they point the way to the Dark Kingdom.

A world based on Tangled, set in Rapunzel's home realm, appears in which 2019 video game?

Zachary Levi returned to voice Flynn for the game, released on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Tangled: The Musical, an abridged stage version with three new songs, premiered in 2015 where?

It opened on the Disney Magic in November 2015 with the new songs again written by Menken and Slater.

Tangled's $48.8 million opening beat which film's record for Walt Disney Animation Studios?

It still came second that weekend to Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1, and its record fell in turn to Wreck-It Ralph and Frozen.

A live-action Tangled directed by Michael Gracey is scheduled for which year?

Teagan Croft and Milo Manheim are set to star; Gracey previously directed The Greatest Showman.

What is the name of the palace guard's horse who relentlessly pursues Flynn Rider?

The horse never speaks but steals scenes; Rapunzel brokers a truce between him and Flynn.

Who were Flynn Rider's partners in crime, whom he betrays after the palace heist?

Ron Perlman voices the speaking brother; Mother Gothel later recruits the pair to recapture Rapunzel.

Roughly how much did Tangled gross worldwide, ranking it eighth among 2010 releases?

The film premiered at the El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles on November 14, 2010.

Which singer's 'exotic and Gothic' look inspired the visual design of Mother Gothel?

Director Byron Howard called her 'one of the people we looked at visually, as far as what gives you a striking character'.

Who wrote the screenplay for Tangled?

He later created the TV drama This Is Us; the original Rapunzel adaptation had been attempted by Walt Disney himself in the 1930s and 40s.

Which Bond-villain actor voiced the thug Vlad in his final film role?

Kiel, famous as Jaws in The Spy Who Loved Me and Moonraker, died in 2014.

Animator John Ripa solved a story problem by proposing which now-famous element?

The lanterns gave Rapunzel a concrete reason to leave the tower on her eighteenth birthday.

What was the name of the hair-simulation program, first built for Bolt, that finally made Rapunzel's hair work?

Engineer Kelly Ward spent six years on hair software, and as late as January 2010 the directors were unsure the 70-foot mane would work.