In a poll, USA TODAY readers voted Jacksonville's zoo among the Top 10 in the U.S. The zoo's Land of the Tigers exhibit was voted one of the nation's best zoo exhibits in 10BEST's 2023 poll.

In the book we get a sense of how Mickey was having a hard time back on his original planet of Midgard and needed to escape due to some debts, though this is changed in the film to be Earth.