[2] The film was dedicated to animator George Jackson, who had worked on numerous Cosgrove Hall Productions projects prior to his death in 1986.

After the Bloodbottler leaves, the BFG makes her a new dress out of her blanket to replace her heavily soiled nightgown and treats her to a delicious and remarkable drink called "frobscottle".

Because the dream included foreknowledge of Sophie's presence, the Queen believes her story, and speaks with the BFG.

All nine of the evil giants are then all transported via helicopters to London, where they are imprisoned in a deep metal pit and forced to eat snozzcumbers for the rest of their lives.

Contrary to the book's ending, the BFG stays in Giant Country instead of moving to England, and Sophie returns with him, becoming his assistant at the distribution of dreams.

[5]During production of the film, which took over 3 years, 750,000 cels were used against watercolour backgrounds designed by a team led by DC Thomson cartoonist John Geering.

[4] Writing in The Sunday Times before its broadcast, Patrick Stoddart called it a "delight", and wrote that it "puts its already celebrated British animators, Cosgrove Hall, into the Disney class".

[citation needed] In 2016, Louisa Mellor, of the Den of Geek website, warmly appraised the film in comparison to Steven Spielberg's then just-released adaptation, saying, "Cosgrove Hall's twenty-seven year old animated feature may be less of a technical feat than the latter and was certainly made for a fraction of the budget, but that doesn't make it any less a whoppsy-whiffling, razztwizzling tribute to a terrific story.

On 10 September 2012, Fremantle Home Entertainment released a remastered version of the film on DVD and Blu-ray Disc.

On 11 July 2016, the film was re-released on DVD and Blu-ray Disc, but by Universal Pictures Home Entertainment in the United Kingdom.

Keith Hopwood's and Malcolm Rowe's original score to The BFG was released on 11 July 2016 by Pluto Music Limited and FremantleMedia.