Oddly enough, the Muslim bedouins/nomads have been kept in the scene containing the French Foreign Legion in «Where’s Wally in Hollywood». (The revised scene first appeared in «The Incredible Paper Chase»). In the revised edition the Arabs have been replaced with what looks like Renaissance style western soldiers. This scene was originally featured in «The Ultimate Fun Book» and depicted a military parade with what looked like Arab soldiers. This pun has been completely lost in what has become just a cove with a bunch of pirates and ghosts, instead of Arabs and genies. In the original Wally-Hollywood version of this classical folk tale from «One Thousand and One Nights», Ali Baba and his forty thieves were comically misinterpreted as Ali Barber and the forty thousand thieves. Now, however, the world features «dragon flyers» and building styles no longer reminiscent of Arabic domes and aesthetics. This scene consisted of a classical adventure world with Arab architecture and flying carpets. The changes in this particular scene primarily consist of three elements: The locale is moved from the Middle East to Europe (although the sand in the desert stays), the crusaders have had their red crosses replaced with several blue coats of arms, and the Muslims are switched with some other, western soldiers.
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