Originally slated as Direct-To-Video, this feature was upgraded to theatrical release.
This is the last time Nikita Hopkins voices Roo, since he went through puberty later the same year this film released.
This is the first on-screen depiction of Heffalumps since Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day (1968).
This is the last theatrically released Winnie the Pooh film to feature John Fiedler as the voice of Piglet before his death 4 months later.
The trap Kanga is caught in includes a life preserver labeled HMS Ashdown; much of the Hundred Acre Wood is modeled on Ashdown Forest (and vice versa; there is now a feature known as the Heffalump Trap).