ZX version - inspiration sources

Hello folks,

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I've always asked myself about the inspiration sources that were used in the game.

From my point of view, the game was inspired from Jack and the Beanstalk (for the puzzle with the merchant, planting the bean, growing the giant beanstalk, walking on the clouds then entering the castle in the clouds and saving the princess), Crocodile Dundee movie (for the puzzle with the rope on the alligator) and something that I don't remember or recall well with an up-side-down world fountain.

What other inspiration sources (fantasy book stories) do you think Fantasy World Dizzy used?

Best regards!

The phrase "Ping! And as if by magic, the shopkeeper appeared.", which appears in the upside-down world, is a recurring phrase from the popular 70s kids TV cartoon, Mr Benn.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr_Benn

The treehouse village concept had previously appeared in Treasure Island (and would recur in virtually every other Dizzy game) but has been said by the Olivers to come from their liking of the Ewok village in Return of the Jedi.

I believe the twins have also mentioned really liking dragons and putting them in games whenever they can. Dragons of course appear in all kinds of mythological and fantasy fiction sources.