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Kevin Kline was in the process of getting over a cold when "It's Tough to be a God" was recorded.
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Kenneth Branagh was caught on tape in the studio trying to sing The Trail We Blaze like Elton John.
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The Road to El Dorado took over four long years to make.
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Kline and Branagh did their voice recordings of Tulio and Miguel together, a very rare thing in animated film recordings.
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Kline's and Branagh's add-libs were very useful in the making of the film.
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The Road to El Dorado is the first animated film to ever have side-kick-type characters as the two main heros.
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Tulio's quote, "Holy ship!" was thought up by one of the storyboard writers.
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The very important line in the plot, "Forget Miguel", was not in the script. It was an add-lib by Kevin Kline at the recording as was the humorous line, "Tzek, you've lost me".
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The directors had a choice of three different ways to end The Road to El Dorado. They went with the simplest ending of the three.
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In the beginning of the scene, "A Proper Tribute", Tulio gets up and falls backwards out of the...er...cart thing. It's very similar to Kevin Kline falling backwards out of the President's desk chair in the Warner Bros. film, "Dave".
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Most people in the 16th century did not wear underwear.
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When Altivo jumped in the bowl of wine in "It's Tough to be a God", he had the same hairdo as when he jumped off Cortes' ship. Look at the pix to see for yourself.
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The warrior that said "I'm okay!", got stomped on the jaguar, then said "I'm still okay!" was really supposed to have been killed when the jaguar stomped on him.
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The scene where Miguel and Tulio were entering El Dorado through the water tunnel was supposed to be twice as long as it was in the film.
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There was supposed to be a villian song (possibly "Trust Me" from The Road to El Dorado album) in the scene where Tzekel-Kan conjured the stone jaguar to life.
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More than 485 artists from more than 30 different countries devoted four and a half years to the making of "The Road to El Dorado".
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Approximately 87,957 pencils and erasers were used throughout the course of the production.
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Miguel has two hands on his right arm when he and Tulio were throwing rocks at the jaguar. See the screen capture below.
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