Trivia

The final Disney animated feature to simply end with a "The End; Walt Disney Productions" credit, as with all previous Disney animated films after Alice in Wonderland (1951). (All of the credits were at the beginning.) The next Disney animated feature, The Black Cauldron (1985), which was also directed by Richard Rich and Ted Berman, was the first one with closing credits.

Production was delayed a year after many of the young animators left to join Don Bluth's studio.

The Bear's snarl is the same snarl as Shere Khan the tiger from The Jungle Book (1967) and Brutus and Nero the crocodiles from The Rescuers (1977).

An uncredited Tim Burton did the character animation for the character Vixey. She was so different from the dark and Gothic-loving Burton's style that he initially only animated her with distant shots; the closeup of her was done when Burton "grew to like her."

This is the tenth Disney movie that Kurt Russell has acted in, as well as the only animated one.