Chapotraphouse

They kinda did

As with Woolverton's screenplay, several characters and plot elements were based on The Thief of Bagdad,[33][34] although the location of the film was changed from Baghdad to the fictional Arabian city of Agrabah due to the Gulf War.[35] Because the war prevented them from travelling to Baghdad for research, most of their research took place at the Saudi Arabian expo at the Los Angeles Convention Center.[36]