Dumbo

Trivia: When Dumbo receives a bath from his mother, the soap bubbles form a "Hidden Mickey."

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Trivia: When Timothy Mouse falls into a bucket of champagne, he emerges drunk and hiccups pink bubbles, which form a "Hidden Mickey."

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Trivia: The sequence with the multi-coloured elephants was based on an unused plan from Fantasia.

Trivia: This was the first Disney film to be released on video cassette.

Trivia: Timothy Q. Mouse's name is never spoken in the film. The only time his name is mentioned is in a newspaper photograph signing Dumbo's contract towards the end.

Trivia: Dumbo is the only character in this film who does not speak.

Trivia: Mrs Jumbo only ever speaks once in the whole film, when she says Dumbo's original name.

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Mistakes

Continuity mistake: When the elephants in the circus are making a pyramid on top of a ball, as it changes from shot to shot the colour of the blankets on their backs changes, and one of the elephants changes from grey to blue.

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Quotes

Ringmaster: Ladies and gentlemen! We will now present for your entertainment the most stupendous, magnificent, super-colossal spectacle! On this tiny, little, insignificant ball, we will construct for you a pyramid! Not of wood, not of stone.
Prissy: To hear him talk, you'd think he was going to do it.
Elephant Matriarch: The stuffed shirt.
Ringmaster: ...pyramid, of ponderous, pulsating, pulchritudinous pachyderms! I give you the elephants.

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