This is the first Disney Animated Canon movie since Meet the Robinsons without having Funko figures.
It's also the first Disney Animated Canon movie since Ralph Breaks the Internet without having Lego sets.
It's also the first Disney Animated Canon movie since Moana to not be promoted by McDonald's.
This is the most recent film in the Disney Animated Canon to be helmed by a single director, with the last film being Wreck-It Ralph ten years prior in 2012.
This is the second Disney Animated Canon film to be released on November 23, after Moana.
The Venture Ship during Encanto credits
On December 8, 2021, the official title was revealed to be Strange World after previously going under the working title of Searcher Clade.[1]
The Venture ship from the film appeared as an Easter egg during the end credits of Encanto, similar to the Ralph Easter egg during Moana's end credits and the butterflies from Encanto during Raya and the Last Dragon's end credits.
The Backson from Winnie the Pooh (which Don Hall also directed) appears in the end credits, as does Star from the upcoming Wish.
During the final shot of the comic book at the end of the film, a document with Atlantean language can be seen.
This is the first film in the Disney Animated Canon to be produced in a 2:39:1 aspect ratio since Raya and the Last Dragon.
The film was originally set for a theatrical release in France, but it was later moved to a Disney+ release as an original film due to Disney's opposition of the country's regulations on film release windows.[2] Locally, this makes it the first film produced by Walt Disney Animation Studios to go directly to streaming.
One type of creature in this film is obviously based on a type of extinct panarthropod known as Hallucigenia.
Two other creatures are based on two types of dinosaurs known as Alamosaurus and Haopterus.
With that being said, the creatures swinging/sticking to trees are based on a sea Asteroidea known as Linckia laevigata.
This is the first Disney Animated Canon film to have an openly gay main character.[3]
Because of this, Disney chose not to release the film in the Middle East (except Israel), Bangladesh, China, Ghana, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, the Maldives}}, Nepal, Nigeria, Pakistan, Tanzania, Turkey, Uganda, and Vietnam, over concerns that the film's LGBT themes would cause it to experience censorship or be banned from release altogether.[4]
Disney's decision to not release the film in Nepal and Vietnam may seem unusual, as both countries are not known to censor LGBT content and are becoming more tolerant of homosexuality,[5][6] with the former ruling in favor of same-sex marriage in 2023.[7]
Jake Gyllenhaal and Dennis Quaid had previously co-starred in the 200420th Century Fox film, The Day After Tomorrow. Coincidentally, they also played roles as father and son.
According to a recent assumption, reference points for the story include slight and imaginable inspiration from Template:WikipediaLink and Template:WikipediaLink stories.[8]
This is Jake Gyllenhaal's second Disney film after Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time.
This is Dennis Quaid's third Disney film after The Parent Trap and The Rookie.
This is Gabrielle Union's second Disney film after Cheaper by the Dozen.
This is the first animated film released under the Disney banner as well as the first film in the Disney Animated Canon to use the 2022 Disney logo.
This is the first film to use the Disney100 logo, although it first appeared on trailers for The Little Mermaid, Hocus Pocus 2, Disenchanted, and Elemental.
In addition, this is the first Disney Animated Canon film to feature the full 2022 Disney logo as a closing logo.
For the international versions, this is the first Disney Animated Canon film to feature the short 2022 Disney logo as a closing logo after international dubbing credits.
This film marks the fourth Disney Animated Canon film to not have post-credits scene after all the end credits have rolled, since Zootopia, Raya and the Last Dragon, and Encanto.
This is the second Disney Animated Canon film to be rated PG for action/peril and some thematic elements by the MPA after Frozen II.
This is the first Disney Animated Canon film in 4 years to have the Walt Disney Animation Studios' Steamboat Willie theme play in the opening logo since Ralph Breaks the Internet.
It's also their second animated film to utilize the shortened version of the Walt Disney Animation Studios logo after Wreck-It Ralph.
Both two films are the first Disney Animated Canon films to use the new logo, while Wreck-it Ralph is the first Disney Animated Canon film to use the modified 2011 logo, and Strange World is the first Disney Animated Canon film to use the 2022 logo.
However, Wreck-it Ralph used a completely modified WDAS logo in 8-bit, while Strange World just used the second half of original WDAS logo.
This is the first Disney Animated Canon film to have a CinemaScore lower than "A-". It received a "B" score.
Films released before Beauty and the Beast do not count, as those films never received any CinemaScore rank.
This is the second Disney Animated Canon film to stream on Disney+ just 30 days after its theatrical release after Encanto.
The theme of the movie is based on these three concepts: Age of Exploration, Age of Discovery, and Age of Renewable Energy.
To date, it is the first Walt Disney Animation Studios film to become a financial failure since 2011's Winnie the Pooh.
The film averts the classic Disney trope of having one or both parents be dead, with a fake out involving Searcher revealing that his mother is still alive, but is seeing someone else following Jaeger's disappearance.
When the Venture loses control and plunges down into the sinkhole, the sound of the alarm that goes off as it does so is the same sound used by the titular robot from WALL-E whenever he sees a sandstorm coming towards him. This also occurs when Meridian deliberately lets go of the ship's controls after Callisto Mal tells her to do so.
Additionally, the Venture's anchor has a strikingly similar design to one of WALL-E's hands.
When the Venture is about fall off the cliff after crash landing into the strange world, Meridian shouts "Not today!", which is the exact same line Buzz Lightyear uttered after he and Woody were launched in the air by Sid's rocket, "The Big One", in Toy Story.
When Searcher and Ethan got into a heated argument after he jumped off the Venture Ship, which it marked the second time in Disney animated films after Goofy and Max did in the Grand Canyon during the runaway car part in A Goofy Movie.
One of Penny's lost dog posters from Bolt can be seen after Callisto Mal burst in to stop Meridian from taking the Venture.
This was the last Disney film Burny Mattinson worked on before his death three months later.
