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3 unusual facts about Mister Geppetto


Dumbo the Flying Elephant

In a featurette of the ride, as shown on the DVD release of the film's 70th anniversary, the head Disney Imagineer, Tony Baxter even noted that the new ride looked like one of Gepetto's inventions.

Geppetto

Mister Geppetto, a fictional character, is the creator of Pinocchio in the 1883 novel, 1940 film and subsequent versions.

Walther Jervolino

Deeply influenced by the main protagonist of the 1883 children's novel The Adventures of Pinocchio, by Carlo Collodi, an Italian writer, he tried to imagine a different destiny for Pinocchio, which was guilty, according to Jervolino, of being a traitor towards his father, Geppetto.


Piccolino no Bōken

Set in a small village in the Tuscany district in Italy, the story starts with a poor old carpenter named Geppetto, who lives alone.


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