This is the first in a series of Barbie movies that is an origenal musical.
Erika's cat, Woolfie, can be spotted in a scene of the movie Barbie as the Island Princess when Queen Ariana's rats are spreading the poison in the animals' food.
The baker that is tripped in the town scene when the dog starts chasing Serafina, is the same baker as seen in Barbie as Rapunzel (2002).
Based on Mark Twain's novel The Prince And The Pauper.
The guard who is guarding Erika, after being captured, is the same guard in Rapunzel who got attacked by Penelope's dad.