Results: Meet Bahati, The Lion Cub Used As The Model For Simba In New "The Lion King"
Published on 07/30/2019
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If you have seen Disney's "The Lion King" you will know how realistic the computer-generated film was. In fact, there was only one real scene in the entire movie, in the opening sequence. And while Donald Glover may have bought Simba to life, the CGI version of the cub was inspired by a real-life baby lion: Bahti, who resides in the Dallas zoo. When Bahati was a month-old, the zoo said it shared photos and videos of her with Disney as a model for the movement and behavior of baby Simba. 'Bahati' means 'lucky one' in Swahili, and the cub's birth was considered to be just that. Before Bahati, the cub's mother had only previously delivered still-born babies. According to the Dallas Zoo, Bahati was the first lion cub born at the zoo in over 40 years. Weighting a mere three pounds via c-section, she now weighs a healthy 165 pounds. Can you see how she inspired the character of Simba?
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Did you know that these famous cartoon characters were inspired by these real life characters?
Yogi Bear was inspired (in part) by Art Carney—more specifically, Carney's The Honeymooners character, Ed Norton
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Popeye the Sailor Man was inspired by Chester, Illinois's Frank "Rocky" Fiegel, a local fighter
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Disney's Aladdin was inspired by actor Tom Cruise
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Disney's Ursula from The Little Mermaid was inspired by Divine
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Chuckie Finster of the Rugrats was inspired by Devo's Mark Mothersbaugh —who actually provided the music for Rugrats
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American Dad's Roger Smith was inspired by comedian Paul Lynde.
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How about these inspirations -- how many did you know about?
Elmer Fudd was inspired by Robert "Believe it or Not!" Ripley
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Who Framed Roger Rabbit vixen Jessica Rabbit was inspired by vixen and Frank Sinatra "date" Vikki Dougan
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Disney's The Little Mermaid was inspired by actress Alyssa Milano, with the red hair inspired by astronaut Sally Ride
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Tintin was inspired by Palle Huld, a truly remarkable boy of only 15. Huld had been the winner of a competition run by a Danish newspaper in 1928, where applicants were challenged to reenact Phileas Fogg's journey from the 1873 novel "Around the World in 80 Days" by train and passenger liner.
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South Park's Eric Cartman was inspired by the chauvinistic Archie Bunker character in "All In The Family"
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DC Comics anti-heroine Harley Quinn was inspired by "Days of our Lives" actress Arleen Sorkin
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Some inspirations have been in question for some time. Have you heard about any of these?
Cartoon character Betty Boop, was often thought to be inspired by actress and singer Helen Kane. However, that claim was contested by Esther Jones, or stage name Baby Esther, a black singer at Harlem's famous Cotton Club.
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Lewis Carroll always denied that the characters in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and Through the Looking-Glass and What Alice Found There (1871) were based on real people, which led many to surmise that they were based on many different people, and even on drug hallucinations, although Carroll wasn't thought to have been a recreational drug user, and the references may say more about the people making them than the author.
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Disney's Mickey Mouse has been thought to be inspired by Charlie Chaplin, Disney's real pet mouse, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, or even, strangely enough a racist caricature called "Jigaboo"
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