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The creators admitted that the animators of Aladdin saw a screening of a workprint of the then unfinished The Thief and Cobbler, as at the time the rights to the unfinished thief belonged to Disney which didn't have any plans to finish it. They don't hide that they did borrow some minor visual details (like the Genie's and Jafar's designs being partially based on Zigzag's, or Zigzag's parade looking like the beginning of the "Prince Ali" musical number) from this screening. But like for the Lion King/Kimba the White Lion controversy, some people claim that it was a total rip-off of  The Thief, which is clearly exaggerating.