King Leonidas

King Leonidas
Background information
Feature films	Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Shows	House of Mouse
Park attractions	Main Street Electrical Parade
Animators	Milt Kahl Andreas Deja
Designer	Ken Anderson
Voice	Lennie Weinrib
Inspiration	Prince John
Character information
Occupation	King Soccer player
Home	The Isle of Naboombu
Likes	Soccer, making up rules as the game goes along
Dislikes	Games being cancelled, having his medallion stolen
Powers and abilities	Big roar

King Leonidas is an antagonist and also the king of the Isle of Naboombu from Disney's 1971 animated film, Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Background

Personality

Like all lions, King Leonidas is arrogant. Even though he is not completely evil, he is sensitive and temperamental. Also, he possesses a deep love for the game of soccer, as seen when the royal championships on his Island could not continue when a suitable referee couldn't be found. He was extremely aggressive and roared at everything that moved.

Physical appearance

King Leonidas looks similar to Prince John from Robin Hood, but has a mane, a royal gold crown, and wears a king's red robe.

Abilities

King Leonidas' voice is quite powerful, which can be expected from a royal lion. His yell to 'stop that ball' is powerful enough to blow everyone away to the net from its hurricane-like force.

Appearances

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

He has an anti-human attitude, which may have stemmed from the fairy tale that animals staged a coup on the Isle of Naboombu, killing the original leader, the human wizard Astoroth. He wears the Star of Astoroth, a talisman that is needed to bring inanimate objects to life. After suffering much pummeling and stampeding at a soccer game, Mr. Brown succeeds at grabbing the Star of Astoroth from him. After being alerted by his secretary bird, an enraged Leonidas tries to pursue Mr. Brown, Miss Price, and the children, but he is foiled when he is turned into a rabbit, albeit one with a lion's tail, by Miss Price. He is last seen scurrying away. As Miss Price's rabbit spells are temporary, he presumably returned to his lion form soon after.

House of Mouse

King Leonidas appeared in cameo with his servant The Secretary Bird from House of Mouse.

Disney Parks

Disneyland

King Leonidas appeared in the Main Street Electrical Parade in his own float. The costume is actually a reskinned version of the Tigger costume.

Trivia

• King Leonidas as a rabbit has a similar look to Skippy from Robin Hood.

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Media Bedknobs and Broomsticks (Soundtrack/Video) • Musical Characters Miss Eglantine Price • Professor Emelius Browne • Charlie Rawlins • Carrie Rawlins • Paul Rawlins • Mrs. Hobday • General Teagler • Bookman • Swinburne • Mr. Jelk • Cosmic Creepers • Colonel Heller • Nazis • Astoroth • Mr. Codfish • King Leonidas • Secretary Bird • Fisherman Bear • Knights Songs The Soldiers of the Old Home Guard • The Age of Not Believing • With a Flair • A Step in the Right Direction • Eglantine • Portobello Road • The Beautiful Briny • Blow the Man Down • Substitutiary Locomotion • Nobody's Problem Locations London • The Isle of Naboombu • Pepperinge Eye Objects Bedknob • Isle of Naboombu • Star of Astoroth • Spells of Astoroth