•‘The Lion King’ was actually originally going to be called ‘King of the Jungle’ until someone realised that lions don’t live in jungles!!

• The Lion King is Disney’s 32nd feature length film.

• The Lion King is allegedly based on the cartoon series Kimba - due to the startling similarities between the two, I won't go into them, but there are many! Thanks Kovu NL!

• There are over 1,190 animation scenes in The Lion King, and over 1,000,000 drawings to make up the finished film (no, I did NOT count them!).

• When the TLK video first came out in the UK, it had already sold 26 million copies in America - enough tape to stretch to the moon and back 4 times!

• When TLK was released it sold 40 million copies, therefore making it the most popular children’s video in history!!! wooooooo!

• A 50 stone lion called Poncho was used by the Disney animators to help capture the characteristics of lions.

• The Lion King is the world’s second biggest films of all time.(However I do not know the 1st biggest, so don’t ask me! It’s probably Star Wars of something like that!).

• It took 4 years to complete The Lion King.

• More than a million people watched the film in the opening 3 days in England.

• The Lion King has grossed $1 billion world-wide!

• Books of the film have made several best seller lists

• Another name for Scar is Taka. This is due to the fact that someone once drew him as a cub, and named him Taka! Thanks KovuNL!

• The Lion King story is slightly similar to Shakespeare’s ‘Hamlet’. (According to a British newspaper, TLK has been dubbed ‘Hamlet with fur’!

• ‘Simba’ actually means ‘Lion’ in Swahili

• Apparently, the letters ‘SFX’ (as in ‘special effects’) can be seen in the floating seeds that Simba stirs up when he slumps to the ground (after talking about the stars with Timon and Pumbaa). I have heard that you can only really see this in the Laser Disk versions of the film. Some people also seem to think that it actually says ‘SEX’ but I very much doubt this as it is a Disney movie after all!

• As far as I know, the London version of The Lion King musical is fully booked up until May 2000 - perhaps longer. In the US you have to boom a year in advance to get good seats.

• The Lion King musical cost £6.5 million or £10 million, depending on what newspaper article you read!!

• There was a prediction that the Lion King Musical in London opened with a £20 million advance!

• The Broadway show has won many awards, including a Tony Award for the best musical in 1998, Theatrical Event of the Year at the Evening Standards theatre awards, and loads more!

• When a big hole was being dug under the Lyceum theatre’s stage to house the sweeping rise of Pride Rock, a Second World War incendiary was uncovered - in the end it turned out to be a hand grenade with the pin in place! Luckily, it did not pose any threat!

• The Lion King musical in London began its previews on 24th September.

• Roger Wright - the actor who plays adult Simba in the London version of the musical is 24 years old, 6ft 2in in height and is a Aries (not a Leo!). He was born in Hackney - See, I told you some of this info was kinda useless!!

• Demands for tickets in the US still remain so high that people have paid $275 on the black market for a $75 ticket!

• An extinct animal makes an appearance in Simba's Pride at the beginning. It is an Okapi, and was included in SP because it is one of the Producer's Favorite animals!

• Unjustified bit of infoWhen Simba and Nala are running from the hyenas, the word 'car' is etched on a piece of rock.--Ive never personally seen this, but if anyone has, could they email me and tell me if it exists or not?