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7 unusual facts about Don Bluth


Dragon's Lair 3D: Return to the Lair

Animator and director Don Bluth, who produced the cartoon animation for the arcade original, also produced two new animated sequences for the opening and ending of the game.

John P. Finnegan

He voiced the villanous character Warren T. Rat in the 1986 Don Bluth film An American Tail.

Ninja Hayate

Like earlier laserdisc games such as Don Bluth's Dragon's Lair, Ninja Hayate contains traps and creatures that requires players to dodge or attack them at specific moments, by watching for the warning buzzer (like Dragon's Lair) in addition to flashing objects (e.g. arrows, buttons, light, etc.).

Space Ace

The animation for Space Ace was produced by the same team that tackled the earlier Dragon's Lair, headed by ex-Disney animator Don Bluth.

Space Ace is a laserdisc video game produced by Don Bluth Studios, Cinematronics and Advanced Microcomputer Systems (later renamed RDI Video Systems).

Tapper

On February 3, 2011, Warner Bros. Digital Distribution announced that they are working with Don Bluth and his game development company Square One Studios to release a modern reinterpretation of the game titled Tapper World Tour.

Tapper World Tour

Digital Distribution announced Tapper World Tour in February 2011 and is working with famous animator Don Bluth and his game development company Square One Studios.


I'm Mad

The short made its debut on March 30, 1994, as part of the theatrical release of Don Bluth's animated film Thumbelina and David S. Ward's Major League II, and was eventually integrated into the television series as a part of Episode 69.

Michael Nunes

Michael John Nunes (born March 6, 1982 in Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actor who played L'il Bee in Thumbelina (1994) and Beany in The Pebble and the Penguin (1995), before Don Bluth and Gary Goldman went to 20th Century Fox to direct the film Anastasia.

National Institute of Mental Health

The novel was later adapted into a critically acclaimed animated feature film entitled The Secret of NIMH by animator and director Don Bluth.

Randy Fullmer

In 1983 and 1984, Fullmer worked for Don Bluth Studios, creating special effects for Dragon's Lair and Space Ace, the first video games to be produced on laserdisc.


see also

Digital Leisure

In addition to the Don Bluth titles, the company acquired the North American rights to publish Tender Loving Care, an interactive movie on DVD-ROM and CD-ROM featuring Academy Award nominee John Hurt in early 1999.

The Land Before Time

This is the only Don Bluth film of the 1980s in which Dom DeLuise did not participate (instead, he starred in Disney's Oliver & Company that same year), and the only film in The Land Before Time series that is not a musical, as well as the only one to be released theatrically worldwide.