Wakko's Wish is a 1999 direct-to-video animated film based on the Warner Bros. animated television series Animaniacs. The film relocates all the Animaniacs characters to a quasi-medieval fairy tale world and portrays their race to find a shooting star that will grant them a wish. Although Wakko’s Wish had been rated highly amongst children and adults in test-screenings, Warner Bros. decided to release it direct-to-video rather than spending money on marketing a wide release. Wakko's Wish was released on VHS in December 21, 1999 by Warner Home Video (there was no DVD release, and there are no current plans for Warner Bros. to re-release the film on DVD). While the film is most often broadcast during the Christmas season, though the holiday is not a factor in its plot.
The song that the townspeople sing when Wakko's train returns is a parody of "The Wells Fargo Wagon" from Meredith Wilson's Music Man, The (1962).
