The series is based off the famous NES and Gameboy advance remake Kirby's Adventure. However King dedede's personality is based of his appearance in Kirby's Dream Land were he is a greedy king stealing and abusing the lands citizens, but in Kirby's Adventure he is trying to protect the planet from the villain nightmare and cares for his country.
For unknown reasons King Dedede's car was edited in the English dub in the original Japanese Version it had military camouflage colors in the English dub it was orange and yellow possibly to identify the vehicle more strongly with King Dedede and to avoid the use of military imagery and gun references, this was done to the car in every episode it appears in especially cameos.