Trivia / Wakko's Wish

• Billing Displacement: Despite centering on Wakko (Jess Harnell), the films still credits Rob Paulsen as Yakko first.
• Box Office Bomb: A rare case for a straight to video film. The studio toyed with the possibility of sequels involving the Animaniacs, but the movie's disappointing returns in the home video market led them to pull the plug on this idea.
• Feelies: The video came with a rolling toy of Yakko, Wakko, and Dot on snowboards stuck under the plastic. Like with the VHS release of Quest for Camelot, the toy was under the plastic of the clamshell cover and difficult to remove.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Or in this case, the DVDs. Warner Bros. released the movie on VHS, but did not release it on DVD, even though they were already releasing movies on that format at the time. Eventually, it did become available on iTunes and had regularly appeared on HBO, Cartoon Network and (until it shutdown) The Hub. Finally, Warner Bros announced that they would be releasing the film on DVD on October 7th 2014, with a re-release occuring in October 2018 under a complete series boxset with all 99 Animaniacs episodes.
• Milestone Celebration: This movie is essentially Animaniacs' 100th episode.
• Swan Song: This was the final credit for composer Richard Stone and director Rusty Mills, before their respective deaths in 2001 and 2018.
• Trailer Delay: A rare teaser that appeared on the VHS release of Dennis The Menace Strikes Again gave a November 1998 release date. The film was actually released on December 31, 1999.
• What Could Have Been:
  • Before this film there were plans for an Animaniacs movie back in 1995. The idea was scrapped due to Warner Bros. pouring their money into the production of Space Jam instead.
  • Originally, the movie was planned to be theatrically released after very good test scores, but the idea was scrapped due to the last few animated movies WB had distributed (with the exception of Space Jam) doing poorly at the box office and Warner Bros. didn't want to spend money on advertising.
  • Plans for two sequels (This Means Warners, taking place in World War II, and Revolution Warners, during the Revolutionary War) were considered but due to a number of factors such as the death of composer Richard Stone, The diminishing returns of this movie, Steven Spielberg's then-growing disinterest in Warner Brothers (though it's been rekindled in recent years and has since directed Ready Player One for the studio, and overseen revivals of Animaniacs and Tiny Toons respectively), The demise in popularity of the Animaniacs franchise and the Steven Spielberg "animated universe" at the time thanks partly to Pokémon: The Series which lead to the shifting interest towards anime for Saturday Morning at the time, the AOL/Time Warner deal and other reasons, the ideas were scrapped.
• Working Title: It's a Wakko, Wakko, Wakko, Wakko Wish; The Warners and the Wishing Star; Wakko and the Wishing Star; Wakko's Wakko Wish.

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