It is a character without a voice, and expresses itself entirely through pantomime and movements. It is genderless, but is often assumed to be male by Genie and other characters. It is playful, as it reacts with Abu, intelligent, as it beats Genie at chess (and most other things), and helpful, as it helps Aladdin romance Princess Jasmine during the song "A Whole New World". It sometimes uses its tassels as hands and feet to accentuate its feelings. The unique design of Carpet was solely maintained through CGI. Advances in CGI had progressed so much since animating the ballroom sequence in "Beauty and the Beast" that the texture and pattern of Carpet was much easier to accomplish no matter which way it moved. Animator Randy Cartwright refused to resort to the anthropomorphic style of simply putting a face on a carpet. Instead, Cartwright used body language to make Carpet more flexible, and almost human. Computer artist Tina Price took Cartwright's outlined form and super-imposed the Persian design that could stretch, squash, and roll up without changing. According to movie critic Leonard Maltin, this made Carpet's animation one of the best collaborations between traditional and technologically advanced animation to date. It appears in episodes of the animated series, both as a means of travel and a reacting character to the events of the stories. It is also in the "Kingdom Hearts" video game in the Agrabah world. Sora frees it, at which point it acts as a transport between the city of Agrabah and the Cave of Wonders. In the second installment, it plays a more key role. In Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom, there is a ride called The Magic Carpets of Aladdin in Adventureland, which simulates flight on a carpet. There are two others versions in the world : Flying Carpets Over Agrabah in Toon Studio at the park Walt Disney Studios Park in France and Jasmine's Flying Carpets is located in Arabian Coast at the park Tokyo DisneySea. Carpet appears in the 2019 film. The Sultan (real name: Hamed Bobolonius II; voiced by Douglas Seale in the first film, Val Bettin in the sequels and the TV series, by Jeff Bennett in ""; portrayed by Navid Negahban in the live-action film) is Princess Jasmine's father and the pompous but kind ruler of Agrabah. Some aspects of the character were inspired in the Wizard of Oz, to create a bumbling authority figure.