I hit the jackpot.

So, I mentioned on Is hand-drawn animation dead? that Disney originally planned "Swan Lake" as a Disney movie where SuperAurora asked for concept art. (http://www.dvdizzy.com/forum/viewtopic. ... 203#573203) I looked it up and couldn't find the concept art, but instead I stumbled on the List of unreleased Disney animated shorts and feature films. Not only I found Swan Lake there, but I found a lot of interesting and shocking ones. All I have to say is some of your dream Disney movies are in the list! Here are the highlights (You will recongize some of them):
Wait a minute! Chanticleer=1938-
Snow White Returns - A Sequel to Snow White and the Seven Dwarves (1937). (If you got the newest DVD edition of Snow White, you should know that).
1939-Jabberwocky–Nonsense world of Lewis Carol is brought to life
The Wizard of Oz- Originally Walt Disney's follow-up to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs but the film rights were lost out to Samuel Goldwyn, who originally intended to make it as a standard musical comedy, with Eddie Cantor as his star. However, Goldwyn ended up selling the rights to MGM.
So if Disney got the rights, there would be no....
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1941-
Don Quixote – This proposed feature film would have been of similar artistic as Bambi. It is about man named Alonso Quixano (or Quijano), a retired country gentleman nearing 50 years of age, lives in an unnamed section of La Mancha with his niece and a housekeeper. He has become obsessed with books of chivalry, and believes their every word to be true, despite the fact that many of the events in them are clearly impossible. Quixano eventually appears to other people to have lost his mind from little sleep and food and because of so much reading
Chanticleer - proposed feature film about a rooster who believes his crowing makes the sun rise




Anyway....
Epic Mickey anyone?1943-The Gremlins (film) – A feature film project based on novel by Roald Dahl of the same name about Gremlins that wreck airplanes


They need to make this again for EM!
1943-The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen – The film was meant to be a co-production with Samuel Goldwyn, who also wanted to make a film about Andersen's live. It was decided at some point that the part of the film would be shot in live action, with animated segments depicting some of Andersen’s tales. These included The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Emperor's Nightingale, Through the Picture Frame, The Little Fir-Tree, The Steadfast Tin Soldier and The Little Mermaid.[1]
Chicken Little - Sky is falling on Donald, Goofy and Mickey.
Bambi's Children - Sequel to the original Bambi film. This film would have dealt with Bambi's adult life (This should have been Bambi 2. Just saying)
1946-Carnival also known as Surprise Package and Cuban Carnival – A proposed third South of Boarder Disney feature film. The segment would have been as follow - Brazilian Rhapsody an extended version of what would later become Blame it on the Samba and this segment was released as part of Melody Time in 1948. "The Laughing Gauchito" is that the character we first saw in The Three Caballeros, learned he has an ability to shatter voice with his laugh. He becomes a star, but his fame ends when his voice deepens, due to the effect of that he is now a man. San Blas Boy is about a boy named Chico and his dog Kiki who are lost in a storm. Cape Dance was a surreal colourful fantasy and finally Rancho in the Sky, and four others featuring Donald, Jose and their teacher and love object, Aurora the Parrot (Guess that's where Sleeping Beauty's name came from?)
1967-Hansel and Gretel – This proposed feature was to be an adaptation of Brothers Grimm's tale "Hansel and Gretel", involving a brother and a sister threatened by a cannibalistic witch living deep in the forest in a house constructed of cake and gingerbread
1972-Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH (Oh, hi Don Bluth!)
1980
Where the Wild Things Are (FOOTAGE *points down*)
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Musicana - An early version of what eventually became Fantasia 2000. Some segments of the planned film were to be titled "Finlandia", involving a fight between the Ice God and Sun Goddess; an African segment about a curious monkey and a Rain God that includes many hippos, lions and elephants; "The Emperor's Nightingale", based on the Andersen story and which would have starred Mickey Mouse as the keeper of the nightingale; a southern jazz story called "By the Bayou" which included many frogs, including caricatures of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong; a segment set in the Andes with a beautiful girl/bird; and a version of "Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves" featuring tropical birds. It was cut due to financial issues and in favor of The Black Cauldron and Mickey's Christmas Carol.
1984-The Brave Little Toaster (http://www.ask.com/wiki/The_Brave_Littl ... Production 4 more info)
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1988
Army Ants (AKA.....)
1990
Who Discovered Roger Rabbit - The shelved proposed prequel to the 1988 Disney/Amblin film, Who Framed Roger Rabbit. The film, which previously went by the working title, Roger Rabbit Two: The Toon Platoon, was set in 1941 and the Second World War, and would have had Roger Rabbit and Baby Herman going on a journey through the perils of the war in search of Roger's birth mother and birth father, in the midst of the Americas. It also would have been a musical, also would have been a direct-to-video release.
1992
Homer's Odyssey[13]
Sinbad the Sailor - Was scrapped after Aladdin was released.[13]
1993
Swan Lake - Later retooled into The Swan Princess by former Disney animator and animation director Richard Rich, who had been working on and proposed a pitch to Disney about the said film.[13]
1994
Mickey Mouse: The Movie - A feature-length Mickey Mouse film was in pre-production at DisneyToon Studios for a while, until the plan was eventually dropped one year later. (Will this be the Mickey Mouse movie coming out in 2014-2016?!?!)
Untitled fourth Roger Rabbit cartoon short - A fourth, as-yet-untitled, Roger Rabbit cartoon short based on Who Framed Roger Rabbit was planned for release in 1995, to coincide with the release of Toy Story preceding that proposed feature film in the process. It was canceled after pre-production ended and before production could begin, and was replaced in the preceding gap with a rerun of Rollercoaster Rabbit.[citation needed]
1995
The Rescuers III - A third Rescuers film was planned, to released straight-to-video rather than theatrically, but due to the sudden death of Eva Gabor, the voice of Miss Bianca, were eventually altogether scrapped the prepared plans for the film, and all future Rescuers installments in the would-be franchise, and even into a proposed television series adaptation.
Kingdom of the Sun (a. k. a. Kingdom in the Sun) - A very early, serious traditional musical version of what eventually became...
Dumbo II - At one point, Disney planned a proposed direct-to-video sequel to Dumbo, which after its announcement, and its early pre-production status, with concept art already prepared for the film, for some mysterious reasons, was aborted before it began production, and the development of the film was never revived. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEOs2zR6jD8)
Atlantis II: Shards of Chaos - The original proposed direct-to-video sequel to Atlantis: The Lost Empire, it ultimately eventually became Atlantis: Milo's Return, just two years after the film was scrapped along with plans for a television series spin-off of Atlantis.[citation needed]
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Sequel) - At one point, Disney had planned to do a sequel to Tim Burton's Nightmare, but instead of using traditional stop-motion animation, the sequel would have use computer animation instead. Burton, however, convinced Disney to drop the idea, as he was very protective of the Nightmare franchise, and did not want a continuation of Jack Skellington's chronicles outside Halloween World.[17][18][19]
2006
Fantasia III - Also known as Fantasia 2006, this would have been the third film installment in the Fantasia franchise, until the plans were eventually altogether dropped, and proposed segments from that abandoned film was instead produced and released as individual stand-alone Disney animated shorts.[citation needed]
Mulan III - At one point, a third film in the Mulan film series was planned; like the first sequel this proposed second sequel to Mulan would have ultimately gone direct-to-DVD. The production was eventually canceled, and was never finished after that.[citation needed]
2007
The Aristocats II - The canceled proposed direct-to-video sequel to the original 1970 film.[20][21]
Chicken Little: The Ugly Duckling Story - The proposed direct-to-DVD sequel to Chicken Little.[20][21]
Meet the Robinsons: First Date - The canceled direct-to-DVD sequel to Meet the Robinsons. It would have further chronicled Cornelius Robinson's new-found life, as a teenager, growing up, going on his first date.[20][21]
Disney's Dwarfs - At one point, Disney was developing a sort-of Lord of the Rings-like franchise series of direct-to-DVD films, that which would chronicled the adventures of the Seven Dwarfs before they met Snow White. The proposed project didn't go through, and the planned resulting series was ultimately canceled. (What the heck??? O__O)
And of course....
2010
Newt - The first canceled proposed project from Disney/Pixar. It would have concerned the exploits of two blue-footed newts, one male and one female, trying to find each other and then bonding themselves, and eventually made to prevent the extinction of their newt race, as well as trying to avoid the need to hate and stop caring about each other in the process. It was planned to be released in 2012.[22][23]