![]() ![]() Some of the most fun the team had ever had was coming up with character designs for Song of the South, so why not do anthropomorphic animals again? And, after the failure of the Aristocats’ original story, the execs wanted to go back to Disney’s fairy tale roots. They needed a new idea if Disney animation was to survive, but what? Story man Ken Anderson had the solution. But Aristocats was the last project in the pipeline following their creator’s death. For example, Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland, and Peter Pan all came out more or less within a year of each other because their productions overlapped. Neither one panned out, and Reynard remained on the shelf until well after Walt’s death.ĭuring Walt’s lifetime, the animation department usually had multiple projects in the works at the same time. They came back to the Reynard stories as potential animated interludes for Treasure Island, where Long John Silver was to tell them to Jim Hawkins, and again as a potential villain for the Chanticleer project that was dropped for the Sword in the Stone. Not only that, but the stories were a little too high-brow and inaccessible for Disney’s normal, family-friendly fare. Walt considered the French folktale Reynard the Fox, but felt that a morally gray, thieving hero would be a bad role model for the kids in the audience. The story of Disney’s Robin Hood begins waaay back in the 1930’s as a potential follow-up to Snow White. All photos are from Animation Screencaps unless otherwise stated. The opinions expressed therein reflect those of the authors and are not to be viewed as factual documentation. ![]() The authors’ claim no ownership of this material. Any material, including images and/or video footage, are property of their respective companies, unless stated otherwise. ![]() Disclaimer: This blog is purely recreational and not for profit. ![]()
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