baltoseppala
Thank you, Byron, for taking the time to answer our questions, and I hope we haven't been too repetitive with what we have asked, given questions you've been asked so many times before! I know and appreciate that you are so willing to reach out to and connect with the fans, and everyone is really grateful for that!
My question pertains to some of (or at least one of) the foundations of the movie. It is well known by now that you have stated that you consider the Disney movie Robin Hood to have been a big influence in the design of Zootopia. But when it comes right down to it, just how much of a connection can we presume exists between the two movie universes? I mean, would it be unreasonable to consider the Robin Hood universe an historical period existing hundreds of years before the Zootopia culture, but within the same universe? Sort of a medieval history of Zootopia's world? I know that England is specifically referenced in the Robin Hood movie as the setting (as well as Sherwood Forest, Nottingham and London), but is it out of sorts to presume that those places could also exist on a different part of the same planet on which Zootopia does (an alternate Earth)?
Or is that all taking things just a bit too far in assumptions?