Fantasia 2006 (partially lost production material for cancelled Disney animated sequel film; 2002-2004)

Poster for Fantasia 2000.

Status: Partially Lost

Fantasia 2006 was a planned third movie in the Fantasia series of films. The film started development in 2002 and had a release date of 2006. However, it was cancelled in 2004.

Development

Fantasia 2006 started production in 2002. It was to be the first movie in the Fantasia series to feature music from all around the world, not just classical European pieces. It was also to be the first movie in the series to include singing, which was going to be shown in several of the shorts. There was an unspecified number of shorts made, but it can be reasoned that it was probably six. A planned segment rumored to be included would have been set inside of Australia. It was also heavily rumored that there was going to be a British sequence sent in tone to music by The Beatles. The film was canned in 2004 after a series of under-performing films caused Disney to shut down their hand-drawn animation studios in Florida in the same year. Only 23 minutes of animation was produced, which were the four shorts that were released to the public.

List of Completed Shorts

Destino

Destino started out as a collaboration in 1945 between friends Walt Disney and Spanish surrealist Salvador Dalí. The short details a love story between Atlas and a human girl, who venture surrealistic, constantly-changing landscapes in an attempt to unite. Storyboards and 17 seconds of test animation were produced, both by Disney employee John Hench, and Dora Luz, a Mexican singer who had previously worked on The Three Caballeros, recorded the short's title song. Trouble arose in 1946 as financial troubles caused by the fallout of World War II put the project on a 58-year hiatus. In 2003, while working on Fantasia 2000, and then Fantasia 2006 Walt's son, Roy E. Disney decided to resurrect the project, constructing new animation based on the original storyboards, Gala Dalí's journals, and guidance from Hench. The 17-second test footage, featuring two tortoises bearing large, bizarre faces on their backs, is reused in the final product. For a while, the short has been released on home media once, as part of a limited release in 2010 of the original Fantasia.

On January 10th, 2020, Destino was made available to stream on Disney's new streaming service Disney+, thus making it the only planned short of Fantasia 2006 to currently be available to stream on the service so far.

Lorenzo

Lorenzo was created by Joe Grant, one of Disney's "9 Old Men", back in 1949. The main plot of Lorenzo was about the titular cat's tail becoming sentient and malevolent due to a hex placed on Lorenzo by a tailless cat he had mocked. There were storyboards that were produced for the short, but it was abandoned until 2004 when the people who worked on Fantasia 2006 thought it would be a good idea to resurrect the project. Lorenzo would later on get an Annie Award in 2005 for best animated short and an Oscar nomination. The short was released on the Blu-Ray of Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection.

One by One

One by One, the only one of the released shorts to have been conceived after Walt Disney's passing, started out as a song written for another Disney animated film, The Lion King. The song was cut from the main film but still made its way into the Broadway version of The Lion King. As the Broadway version became a big success, the piece of music was developed into a short for Fantasia 2006. The short starts out in South Africa, where some children are inspired to fly kites from a magical feather. The children go around the town they live in, collecting items to build and fly their kites. They all fly in unison, creating symbolism for peace. The short was packaged in the 2006 and 2012 DVD versions of The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride.

The Little Matchgirl

The Little Matchgirl is based on a story of the same name by Hans Christian Anderson. It follows the story of a little homeless girl selling matches on the cold streets during the wintertime. The short is set to the Nocturn movement from Russian composer Alexander Borodin’s “String Quartet No. 2 in D Major. Just like the poem, the short is very melancholy in tone. It has been released on the 2007 and 2013 home media releases of The Little Mermaid as well as on the Walt Disney Animation Studios Short Films Collection as a bonus feature.

Gallery

Destino

One by One

See Also

Fantasia

• Fantasia (partially lost original audio of Disney animated film; 1940)

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• The Incredibles (found full version of McDonald's Happy Meal commercial for Pixar animated film; 2004)
• The Incredibles (found online promotional trailers for Pixar animated film; 2004)
• Pixar (partially lost early CGI animated commercials from animation studio; 1989-1998)

Animation (Disney)

• Alice in Wonderland (partially lost original draft of Disney animated film; 1939)
• Aladdin (found Howard Ashman treatment of Disney animated film; 1988)
• American Dog (partially found original version of "Bolt" Disney animated film; 2007-2008)
• The Black Cauldron (partially found deleted scenes of Disney animated film; 1985)
• Chanticleer (partially found production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 1940s-mid 1960s)
• Chicken Little 2 (partially found production material of cancelled sequel to Disney animated comedy film; 2006)
• Disney Circle Seven Animation (partially lost production material of cancelled Pixar sequel films; 2004-2006)
• Dumbo II (partially found production material from cancelled Disney animated sequel film; 2000s)
• Fraidy Cat (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2004-2005)
• Frozen (partially found early drafts of Disney animated film; 1937-2012)
• Gigantic (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2013-2017)
• The Jungle Book (lost Bill Peet version of Disney animated film; 1963-1964)
• Kingdom of the Sun (partially found original version of "The Emperor's New Groove" Disney animated film; late 1990s)
• The Lion King II: Simba's Pride (partially found production material and deleted scenes of Disney animated sequel film; 1995-1998)
• Music Land (lost Disney animated anthology film; 1955)
• My Peoples (partially found production material of cancelled Disney animated film; late 1990s-early 2000s)
• The Search for Mickey Mouse (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2002)
• The Seven Dwarfs (partially found production material of cancelled direct-to-video prequel to "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" Disney animated film; 2000s)
• Tangled (partially found early drafts of Disney animated film; 2001-2010)
• Tinker Bell (partially found first draft of Disney animated film; 2007)
• Treasure Planet II (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated sequel film; 2002)
• Wild Life (lost production material for cancelled Disney animated film; late 1990s-2000)
• Zootopia (partially found pre-rewrite version of Disney animated film; early 2010s)

Animation (Pixar)

• A Tin Toy Christmas (lost production material of cancelled Pixar animated Christmas TV special; early 1990s)
• Cars 3 (lost deleted scene of Pixar animated sequel film; 2017)
• The Good Dinosaur (lost original version of Pixar animated film; 2011-2013)
• Inside Out (lost original Bing Bong death scene of Pixar animated film; 2015)
• Made in Point Richmond (found miscellaneous content from Pixar DVD; 1986-2000)
• Newt (partially found production material of cancelled Pixar animated film; early 2010s)
• Toy Story (partially found early test footage of Pixar animated film; 1992)
• Toy Story 4 (found original script of Pixar animated sequel film; 2013-2017)
• Toy Story & Toy Story 2 (partially found intermissions for 3D double feature re-release of Pixar animated films; 2009)
• Toy Story "Black Friday Reel" (partially found rough cut of Pixar animated film; 1993)
• Toy Story "Jessie" (found Patsy Montana Award acceptance speech animation of Pixar character; 2000)
• WALL·E (partially found original treatments of Pixar animated film; 1994-2008)

Audio

• Enchanted (lost deleted song from Disney live-action/animated fantasy comedy film; 2007)
• Jack Wagner (partially lost Disney Park background music collection from American actor; 1970s-2001)
• Mars Needs Moms (found Seth Green vocal performance of Disney motion-capture animated film; 2011)
• The Nightmare Before Christmas (lost original Vincent Price audio of Disney stop-motion animated film; early 1990s)
• Pinocchio (lost Mel Blanc's "Gideon the Cat" dialogue from Disney animated film; 1940)
• Toy Story 2 (partially found Bullseye dialogue test footage from Pixar animated sequel film; late 1990s)

Live Action

• 101 Dalmatians (found "Spotted Landmarks" teaser trailer of Disney live-action film; 1995-1996)
• Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey (found deleted scenes from Disney live-action film; 1993)
• Sleeping Beauty (partially found live action reference material for Disney animated film; 1959)
• Something Wicked This Way Comes (lost original cut of Disney dark fantasy film; 1982)
• Walt Disney (lost physical Mickey Mouse animation reference footage of animator; late 1930s)

Short Films

• Alice Comedies (partially lost series of Walt Disney animated short films; 1920s)
• Blowin' in the Wind (found Pixar animated short film; 1985)
• Lafflets (lost series of Walt Disney animated short films; 1922-1923)
• Language Arts Through Imagination (found series of Disney educational short films; 1988-1989)
• Mickey and Minnie Mouse (lost unauthorized pornographic animated short film; existence unconfirmed; 1936)
• Mickey's Man Friday (partially found production material of unproduced remake of Disney animated short film; 1939-1941)
• Oswald the Lucky Rabbit (partially lost series of Walt Disney animated short films; 1927-1928)
• Poor Papa (found "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit" Walt Disney animated short film; 1927)
• The Princess Academy (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated short film; 2009)
• Short Subject aka "Mickey Mouse in Vietnam" (found unofficial animated short film; 1968)
• Tales from Radiator Springs "To Protect and Serve" (lost episode of "Cars" animated miniseries; 2015)
• Totally Twisted Fairy Tales (partially found Disney animated short series; 1997)
• Uncle Walt (lost unauthorized Disney short film; 1964)

External Links

• The Wikipedia page for Destino.