The Iron Giant [1999] (1 disc)

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• Excluding the yells and groans, The Iron Giant only said a total of 53 words.
• In order to better blend the computer-generated Giant into the traditionally animated film, technicians came up with a program that gave the Giant's lines a slight "wobble", in order to match the natural line imperfections found in hand-drawn animation.
• Was originally meant to be a musical. ^[?] Pete Townshend and ^[?] Des McAnuff developed it as a stage musical, using songs from ^[?] Pete Townshend's concept album The Iron Man (much like the stage version of ^[?] The Who's Tommy). ^[?] Des McAnuff decided it would work better as an animated feature and pitched it to Warner Bros.
• First traditionally-animated feature to have a major character - the title character - who is fully computer-generated.
• The three tendrils emanating from the Iron Giant in battle form are inspired by The War of the Worlds.
• On the wall in Hogarth's bedroom is a poster for the film Forbidden Planet.
• The last name for Annie and Hogarth, Hughes, is an homage to Ted Hughes, author of the original children's book upon which the movie is based.
• Executive-produced by ^[?] Pete Townshend of The Who. ^[?] Pete Townshend also produced a concept album based on the same book as the film.
• When Hogarth first shows the Giant his Superman comics, the theme music from the ^[?] Max Fleischer [Superman] cartoons of the 1940's is heard in the background.
• Peter Cullen, Sean Connery, Frank Welker, and James Earl Jones were considered to voice the role of The Iron Giant, but it went over to Vin Diesel instead.