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Hyacinth Hippo is a character from Disney's 1940 movie Fantasia. She is a hippopotamus who appears in the segment Dance of the Hours. She represents the hours of noon day.
Fantasia
Hyacinth Hippo is the lead of the dancers of the daytime and symbolizes Laura Adorno of the opera. This is deduced by the fact that she is wooed by Ben Ali Gator (who symbolizes Enzo Grimaldo) and by her deep sleep, as in the opera Laura also is sent into a deep sleep.
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
She makes a couple of cameo appearances in the film. Her only line is "Oh, excuse me," when she passed Eddie Valiant. When she sat on a bench to have lunch, it broke due to her sheer mass, sending a person already sitting on it flying up into the atmosphere, but several people helped her up. She, along with half of the Fantasia cast and Dumbo, are on loan to Maroon Cartoons from Disney. She later has a cameo appearance during the final scene with other Toons.
House of Mouse
She makes cameo appearances in the series. She had a few appearances specifically in the episode "Ladies' Night" where she acts as the club's temporary bouncer and whenever Mortimer Mouse arrives, she jumps on him, which is the episode's running gag.
Disneyland Resort
Hyacinth's likeness can be seen at the Disneyland Hotel's Fantasia shop.
Walt Disney World
She made an appearance in the Christmas show, Twas the Night Before Christmas which was located in the Magic Kingdom, but has recently been retired. Currently, a poster of Hyacinth can be seen in the Storybook Circus area, also in the Magic Kingdom. A topiary was also created for use during the Flower and Garden Festival at Epcot, while statues of her can be seen at the Fantasia Gardens Miniature Golf course. In the Disney's Hollywood Studios version of Fantasmic!, Hyacinth can be seen during the bubble montage.
Disneyland Paris
Hyacinth's biggest role in the parks would have to be in Disneyland Paris' Toon Circus where she performed trapeze acts she was certainly the biggest star.
The Hippos are the servants and back-up dancers of Hyacinth Hippo in the 1940 feature film Fantasia. They are seen attending their boss, Hyacinth Hippo, as she is prepared for the noon, and dances until she gets tired. They help her to a couch, and disappear, and are not seen until the end of...
TV Guide awarded the film four stars, calling it "the most ambitious animated feature ever to come out of the Disney studios", noting how the film "integrates famous works of classical music with wildly uneven but extraordinarily imaginative visuals that run the gamut from dancing hippos to the purely abstract".
The ballet was used in full in the Walt Disney animated film Fantasia (1940), albeit with ballet-dancing hippos (complete with tutus), ostriches, alligators and elephants including Madame Upanova, Hyacinth Hippo, Elephanchine, and Ben Ali Gator.
