The last Animagic special produced by Rankin-Bass.
It is explained that Claus means "little one" in fairy language. In the book, Necile adds the first part of her name to his, making him "Necile's little one" or "Ne-Claus," which becomes "Nicholas."
The king Awgwa appears to be a generic gorilla puppet with horns and fangs added on.
Queen Zurline of the Wood Nymphs is similar to Queens Lulea and Lurline of the Fairies in L. Frank Baum's other stories. All three live in the Forest of Burzee. Some Baum experts believe that all three queens are in fact the same character. (The name change may be mere forgetfulness, as Baum's stories have been noted by literary critics for their poor editing.) Baum sometimes suggested that the Fairy Queen of Burzee is the mother of Queen Ozma of Oz, who appears in all the Wizard of Oz sequels, although he was not consistent in stating this.
L. Frank Baum introduced the Forest of Burzee in his short piece "The Runaway Shadows or A Trick of Jack Frost" (1901). It reappeared in The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus (1902), "A Kidnapped Santa Claus" (1904, essentially a retelling of the Awgwa crisis with slightly different villains), "Nelebel's Fairyland" (1905), and Queen Zixi of Ix (1905). He later determined Burzee to be set in a shared universe with his Wizard of Oz tales, and embassies are often sent between the two fairylands (with Santa Claus himself as ambassador to Oz at one point). It first appeared in films in The Magic Cloak (1914).