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I have to disagree with number four,Simba didn't lose his mother Sarabi,when he was a cub,she was alive at the very end of TLK 1.

Duh, there has been a whole controversy over how similar the movies both are since The Lion King first came out. This has been brought-up many times in popular culture like in the Simpsons episode "Round Springfield".

Personally, I do believe that there is some merit to the whole controversy and that The Lion King is kind of a rip-off of Kimba(I still do love The Lion King though.)

The worst part is like with other Disney movies they never really give credit to the things they are based off of and that's just wrong. Disney is pretty good but they need some original ides of their own and not just copying everything out there.

well you don't have to be so rude and some people don't watch the simpsons ever thought of that

and for the first person i didn't say she died i just said they lost there mom cause kimba's mother didn't die either

Hey, I'm not trying to be rude. There are many times in pop culture where that topic has been brought up and I am merely just citing one example.

ok sorry but you know simba didn't lose his mother but they did both run away i know my movies.

See here for better examples.
http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm

some of those are stupid examples

Well, then, no offence, You don't need to go off topic about it. -_-
Ok, shall we go back on topic?

your the one that got every one off topic so shall we get back to the kimba vs. simba topic and not that you have "better examples"

Are there even examples in this topic?
Imformation found here: http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
Spoiler alert.
The qoute which whitewolf17 made, you only had 5, but I will point some more out.
The plot line of Kimba and Simba are very much alike.
The Plot: Caser, Kimba's father was a King (In this case the Jungle)
He died, in which in this ment, Kimba was the ruler. And Kimba's mother died, making him an orphan.
Kimba was a weakling, but toughend up to become King.
TLK: Simba is a young cub, who couldn't wait to be king, but due to Scar (His uncle, in Kimba Scar is a rival) His father died.
Now Simba is required to be King.
Simlair sences :



Fact: The rights to Kimba the White Lion were tied up in legal battles for many years, beginning when the original production company, Mushi Productions, went bankrupt in 1973. NBC was forced by the FCC to sell its rights before its original contract expired in 1978. Nobody knew who had the US rights to Kimba from 1978 on. However, there was some sort of action in 1993 that led to the production of a new English-language version of Kimba -- the "1993 version" that has been shown around the world and is now on the air in the U.S.


Hearsay (although heard from several sources): Disney was right in the thick of the battle to obtain rights to Kimba.


Pieced together from various reports: Right Stuf International was prepared to release Kimba to home video in 1993, but this was delayed by the court action. And around the same time Disney announced they were delaying the release of Lion King.
Disney is not accustomed to losing its legal battles. So, now add this speculation into the picture: What if at one point the outcome was such a "sure thing" that it was considered safe to go ahead with the movie re-make idea?
Fact: During production of The Lion King, Disney's promotional people were talking in terms of "the remake of Kimba The White Lion that we're doing".


Reported Fact (I have not yet verified this): During that same time period, a report in TV Guide stated that Disney was remaking Kimba The White Lion.


Fact: Matthew Broderick stated that he understood he was being hired as a voice actor for a remake of Kimba The White Lion.


Fact: In early production stages, Simba was white.


Fact: Disney went through this "we have the rights--oops, no we don't" scenario on another occasion, with The Muppets.

Both title characters turn to eating bugs to save their herbivore friends. In The Lion King, they blow past this idea in under a minute, but it was a major plot element in Kimba; the meat eaters tried eating plants until they hit on the idea of eating bugs.
And more... the patch of thorns... (This scene called the matching scene from Kimba immediately to my mind. I couldn't believe how much alike they were.)
"There is no doubt in my mind
that The Lion King is a copy of Kimba."
-- Billie Lou Watt,
original voice of Kimba the White Lion
"I said to my wife, 'Don't tell me that the father lion is going to appear in the clouds.' And he did! I couldn't believe it!"
--Fred Ladd,
executive producer of Kimba The White Lion, on seeing The Lion King for the first time
Again: Imformation was found here:http://www.kimbawlion.com/rant2.htm
"Both were brave" isn't a simluarity, any one can be brave,
Simba's mother didn't die.
So only 3 examples isn't enough.

Yeah, I don't wanna quote all the stuff that Kohaku said but I think that just blows your argument right out of the water Vitani; unless ya can come up with some evidence of your own.

Off topic: @Kohaku: I love that Zoids avatar ya got it's so awesome!! Zoids is the best!!(especially chaotic century)