In Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, there is a ride called The Magic Carpets of Aladdin in Adventureland, which simulates flight on a carpet. In the second installment, it plays a more key role. Sora frees it, at which point it acts as a transport between the city of Agrabah and the Cave of Wonders. It is also in the Kingdom Hearts video game in the Agrabah world.
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It appears in episodes of TV series, both as a means of travel and a reacting character to the events of the stories. According to film critic Leonard Maltin, this made Carpet's animation one of the best collaborations between traditional and technologically advanced animation to date. Computer artist Tina Price took Cartwright's outlined form and super-imposed the Persian design that could stretch, squash, and roll up without changing. Instead, Cartwright used body language to make Carpet more flexible, and almost human. Animator Randy Cartwright refused to resort to the anthropomorphic style of simply putting a face on a carpet. Advances in CGI had progressed so much since animating the ballroom sequence in Beauty and the Beast, that the texture and pattern of Carpet was much easier to accomplish no matter which way it moved.
The unique design of Carpet was solely maintained through CGI. It is playful, as it reacts with Abu, intelligent, as it beats Genie at chess (and most other things), and helpful, as it helps Aladdin romance Princess Jasmine during the song " A Whole New World." It sometimes uses its tassels as hands and feet to accentuate its feelings. It is genderless, but is often assumed to be male by Genie and other characters. It is a character without a voice, and expresses itself entirely through pantomime and movements. The Magic Carpet is an ancient carpet that was found by Aladdin in the Cave of Wonders' treasure room. Genderless (referred to with masculine pronouns) In the 2019 film, Abu is featured as a Tufted capuchin. Abu is usually found in the audience, sometimes playing with Iago or dancing along to the musical performances on stage. He can also be seen in House of Mouse as one of the many Disney characters that come to watch cartoons. Ību also appears in Kingdom Hearts and Kingdom Hearts II, playing a large role in the latter with his kleptomaniac habits getting him into trouble during Sora's first return visit to Agrabah. The character is based on the similarly named Abu the thief, played by Sabu Dastagir in the 1940 version of The Thief of Bagdad. The animators filmed monkeys at the San Francisco Zoo to study the movements Abu would have. In the 2019 film, Iago mostly talks like a parrot at different parts.Ību (vocal effects provided by Frank Welker) is Aladdin's kleptomaniac monkey partner with a high-pitched voice and can talk a little. In animation, including the original film, the parrot is voiced by Gilbert Gottfried.
Iago appears frequently as an antagonist in the Sega video game Disney's Aladdin, where he is usually to be found flying at a high level, although he is easily dispatched and de-feathered with one blow from a sabre or thrown apple. The red-plumed sentient bird is comical and sarcastic, and appears as a sort of cantankerous counterpart to Aladdin's monkey, Abu. Iago (voiced by Gilbert Gottfried in the most cases, Alan Tudyk in the live-action film) is the pet and sidekick to Jafar, and later Aladdin, after a reformation. He does fall in love with Dalia.Īfter Williams' death in 2014, a dedicated drawing of the Genie appeared at the end of the first film on television programs. In the 2019 film, the Genie is shown to have his usual blue form and his human disguise. Jim Meskimen took over the role in Disney Think Fast (2008) and Kinect: Disneyland Adventures (2011) and currently voices him after Williams' death in 2014. Genie (voiced by Robin Williams in the first and third film, Dan Castellaneta in the second film, TV series, and Kingdom Hearts, Jim Meskimen in later projects, portrayed by Will Smith in the live-action film) is a jinn and is never given a proper name.įollowing a contract dispute between Williams and the Walt Disney Company, Dan Castellaneta voiced the Genie throughout the direct-to-video feature The Return of Jafar, as well as the television series, before Williams reprised the role for the final installment Aladdin and the King of Thieves, as well as for the character's own mini-series, Great Minds Think for Themselves.
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