Anecdotes

Two sequels and a television series were originally planned. When this movie made only eighteen million dollars at the box-office against a seventy million dollar budget, the sequel plans were cancelled.

When the Jester becomes frazzled (and a little more evil) his make-up transforms into the Joker's make-up from Batman.

Megan Hilty previously played Glinda in the Oz-based musical stage play "Wicked". Although she didn't originate the role; Kristin Chenoweth did.

The source novel, by Roger S. Baum, includes many characters from the original Oz series by his great-grandfather, L. Frank Baum. Most characters who would be unfamiliar to the public have been cut from this movie adaptation, but the Queen of the Field Mice and the Saw-Horse have non-speaking cameos during "Work with Me". The princess of the Dainty China City was infact in The Wizard of Oz; L Frank Baum's original book; but Wiser and Marshall Mellow were creations of Roger Baum the grandson. The fighting trees were in the Wizard of Oz as well; the original L Frank Baum book. The Candy County was from Roger Baum's Dorothy of Oz; and the Jester was from Dorothy of Oz; and the Candy Apple General was also from Dorothy of Oz; although Glinda and many of the Oz leaders that Jester imprisoned were Baum creations in the original novel.

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