Disney returns to making shorts

[Sotiris]

Tick Tock Tale is back on track!! The WDAS website has been updated with this new entry on their shorts section. There is a title card and 5 new images. It is being directed by Dean Wellins and produced by Dorothy McKim. Although a release date has not been given, it would make a lot of sense if they would release it in front of Tangled.

[slave2moonlight]

Has anyone noticed? Every once in a while, they air Goofy's Home Theater short on the Disney Channel now. I'm not sure if it's complete or edited, as I always catch i when it's already on. It comes on inbetween shows.

[PatrickvD]

Tick Tock Tale is back on track!! The WDAS website has been updated with this new entry on their shorts section. There is a title card and 5 new images. It is being directed by Dean Wellins and produced by Dorothy McKim. Although a release date has not been given, it would make a lot of sense if they would release it in front of Tangled.

I'd rather see one of the others that have been in development longer first. Most of these shorts appear to be stuck in some kind of development hell... or a vault...

[Sotiris]

I'd rather see one of the others that have been in development longer first. Most of these shorts appear to be stuck in some kind of development hell... or a vault...

Yeah, I would really wanna see The Ballad of Nessie myself whose fate remains undetermined. It is the only short that was supposed to be hand-drawn and the only one we don't know whether it is still in production or has been shelved.

[blackcauldron85]

Has anyone noticed? Every once in a while, they air Goofy's Home Theater short on the Disney Channel now. I'm not sure if it's complete or edited, as I always catch i when it's already on. It comes on inbetween shows.

Yeah, I noticed it on Disney Channel, too...Wikipedia says:

The three-minute "have a laugh!" version can be viewed on Disney's "have a laugh!" video page.

[SWillie!]

I'd rather see one of the others that have been in development longer first. Most of these shorts appear to be stuck in some kind of development hell... or a vault...

Yeah, I would really wanna see The Ballad of Nessie myself whose fate remains undetermined. It is the only short that was supposed to be hand-drawn and the only one we don't know whether it is still in production or has been shelved.

It's been mentioned on sites such as the TAG blog that it is indeed completely finished. They just apparently don't know what to do with it now. A few people have said it's no good, unfortunately. Nessie was definitely the one I was most looking forward to. I wish they would just pump out short like they did back in the day. Make a few of them a year with existing characters. That'd be great.

[Big Disney Fan]

What I'd like to see is maybe an actual release of "Trouble Shooters". It's a storyboarded concept for a Donald cartoon in which Donald is hooking up telephone wires, but runs afoul of a woodpecker living in a telephone pole. It was shown as a bonus on Chronological Donald 4.

[Isidro25]

What I'd like to see is maybe an actual release of "Trouble Shooters". It's a storyboarded concept for a Donald cartoon in which Donald is hooking up telephone wires, but runs afoul of a woodpecker living in a telephone pole. It was shown as a bonus on Chronological Donald 4.

While I'm all up for more material starring my favorite Disney character, I disagree. "Trouble Shooters" was entertaining as an extra, but it suffers from slow timing and a concept we have seen a lot in the Duck mythos already. I'd much rather have an all-new Donald Duck short with more creativity thrown in.

[Neal]

Tick Tock Tale was shown at Annecy. I assume it had a fairly long production time - it was supposed to premiere with tPatF but missed that deadline, but now only showed for the first time a month or so ago at the Annecy Festival.

[blackcauldron85]

The plot of Tick Tock Tale:

http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -tell.html

...The story concerns a lonely, aging clock in a clock shop that is shunned by all the other, more modern pieces around him/it. One day a thief comes into the equation and changes everyone's perspective of what this little clock is and perhaps capable of...

[blackcauldron85]

Look for their latest effort, “Tick Tock Tale” (which is this cute little short about an old, marked-down alarm clock who winds up foiling a robbery attempt at a watch shop), to turn up in front of “Tangled” sometime later this year.

http://jimhillmedia.com/blogs/jim_hill/ ... horts.aspx

[Heil Donald Duck]

What I'd like to see is maybe an actual release of "Trouble Shooters". It's a storyboarded concept for a Donald cartoon in which Donald is hooking up telephone wires, but runs afoul of a woodpecker living in a telephone pole. It was shown as a bonus on Chronological Donald 4.

While I'm all up for more material starring my favorite Disney character, I disagree. "Trouble Shooters" was entertaining as an extra, but it suffers from slow timing and a concept we have seen a lot in the Duck mythos already. I'd much rather have an all-new Donald Duck short with more creativity thrown in.

I dont have any problem if they wants finnish projects that stailed in the past. If only we would have complete record of such animated projects.

[Isidro25]

While I'm all up for more material starring my favorite Disney character, I disagree. "Trouble Shooters" was entertaining as an extra, but it suffers from slow timing and a concept we have seen a lot in the Duck mythos already. I'd much rather have an all-new Donald Duck short with more creativity thrown in.

I dont have any problem if they wants finnish projects that stailed in the past. If only we would have complete record of such animated projects.

Resurrecting projects that showed promise is a great idea, but "Trouble Shooters" is average at best, really, with a plot we've seen thousands of times already in Donald's filmography. If we're going by resurrecting projects from the Duck, why not some toons that are actually interesting?

Donald Munchausen (April 1938)
Donald tells his nephews a tall tale a la Baron Munchausen, about his adventures as a National Geographic photographer in Africa. He claims to have discovered a lost world of prehistoric creatures, and to have beaten King Kong in feats of strength.

Traveling Salesman Donald (c. 1940)
Donald is a traveling salesman who cons bartender Pete into buying a phony pearl, then becomes the victim of Pete's energetic revenge. The tables are turned when Pete accidentally knocks down a pillar supporting the second story of his saloon and must hold up a heavy safe to keep from being crushed.

La Loca Mariposa (1944)
Donald is a butterfly collector trying to catch giant butterflies in Venezuela

Donald's Unmade WWII Shorts
It's a shame that, because of the topic they deal with, these will likely never, ever be anything but a curiosity in the Disney Archives, since the WWII shorts starring Donald that didn't make the cut were some of the most original and tantalizing ones. They are...
GUERRILLA DUCK -After all of that Basic Training, Donald was to be removed from active duty after wiping out a Japanese airfield in Commando Duck, yet he's called into action again to intercept a Japanese troop carrier.
MADAME XX - On a mission to deliver secret plans to the war office, private Donald Duck is waylaid by the notorious foreign spy Madame XX. She steals the plans and escapes in a motorboat, but Donald is right behind her, his foot tangled in a rope attached to the boat's stern.
DONALD'S TANK - While cleaning an armored tank, Donald accidentally explodes some grenades near his sergeant, Black Pete. To escape Pete's wrath, he takes off in the tank, crashing through the officer's mess and separating a general from his T-bone steak. Donald's problems are compounded when an experimental television monitor inside the tank is activated, and he confuses its telecast for scenes of the passing terrain. Straying across the French line, he spoils a surprise attack on Adolf Hitler's Panzer Division


I would prefer any of these above yet another encounter between Donald and a pesky animal.

EDIT: There's even one that is in a more advanced stage than Trouble Shooters and is way more interesting/entertaining. I'm talking about Caxanga[/url]

[blackcauldron85]

Tic Toc Tale, New Disney Short to Headline at Ottawa
http://www.laughingplace.com/Latest-ID-75183.asp

Maybe we'll see it in front of Tangled?

[blackcauldron85]

SPECULATION: DISNEY’S ‘THE BALLAD OF NESSIE’ MAY BE IN THEATERS ALONGSIDE ‘WINNIE THE POOH,’ SUMMER 2011
http://www.stitchkingdom.com/disney-new ... mmer-2011/
(via disneyreport.com)

[Sotiris]

The synopsis for The Ballad of Nessie has been released!

In the bonny blue Highlands
Where the bagpipes play
Lives the creature called Nessie
…But it wasn’t always this way.

So begins the story of Nessie, the friendly Loch Ness monster who lives peacefully in a beautiful Scottish moor until one day, a developer named MacFroogle decides to build a mini-golf empire right on top of her home. Nessie roams the countryside in vain for a new place to live, and when she thinks all is lost, she begins to cry. She cries and cries and cries, until she sheds so many tears that she creates a new moor, providing a perfect home for her and her best friend, a duck named MacQuack. This charming jacketed gift book that retells the Disney Animation Studios short, The Ballad of Nessie, is sure to become an instant classic!

Source: http://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Nessie-Kie ... 423122186/

[PatrickvD]

That sounds really funny. Sounds like they're among for an 'Ugly Duckling' and 'Lambert' type of short. That will work really well alongside Winnie the Pooh.

[blackcauldron85]

^ Great find on that storybook! It sounds really cute! I can't wait until we see Nessie's design!

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A short video preview of Tick Tock Tale:

http://blueskydisney.blogspot.com/2010/ ... -tick.html

(It says a couple of previews, but I only found one...)

That also looks quite awesome!

[Sotiris]

Cover for The Ballad of Nessie storybook.


Source: https://www.amazon.com/Ballad-Nessie-Ki ... 423122186/

[Mickeyfan1990]

I like the design of the charcter. It looks cute.