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Sotiris wrote:Didn't Rich Moore say the original, extended princesses scene will be released on home video? Well, where is it? It's not listed among the deleted scenes.

D82 wrote:Disney has released the entire clip of the song "A Place Called Slaughter Race": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNq4VxhzaoQ

disneyprincess11 wrote: The Grandma is actually about Slaughter Race, which will be so fun to watch.

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I think Opposites and/or A Bubble of One could be about Felix/Calhoun.

Sotiris wrote:The film has been nominated for Best Animated Feature at the Oscars but not for Best Original Song.

D82 wrote:I found one song made for the film from Indonesia, though it's not a version of "In This Place" but a completely different one titled "Sebuah Lagu" from a group called Payung Teduh.

JeanGreyForever wrote:I'm seeing all these complaints about how Menken wasn't nominated at the Oscars, but I'm really curious as to how many of you legitimately felt that the song was Oscar-worthy material.

JeanGreyForever wrote:As in, if Menken hadn't been behind the song, would you still rank it as a classic alongside When You Wish Upon a Star, Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah, Under the Sea, A Whole New World, Let It Go, etc.?

Q: A lot of cameos in CGI but one in 2D, Humphrey the Bear. Why?

Rich Moore: At first we said 'Oh, it's because it's from a short or something' but the serious answer to that is that we wanted to pack the scene with as many Easter eggs as possible and when the idea came up to have Humphrey in the scene it was too late to build a CG model of him because it takes so long to build and rig CG models. We still have several 2D animators working at the studio and one of them is a legendary artist named Mark Henn who's been animating at Disney for almost forty years. And we said 'Mark, can you animate that cycle of picking up the litter dance that Humphrey does in the short so we can put it in the background?' He's like 'sure, I can do that!'. And he did it in about a week and finished that little piece of animation which would have been impossible to do in CG that quickly, to build something from the ground up. So, though it kind of breaks the rules of our world, I'm glad it's in there.

Phil Johnston: Although, there's another 2D element in that scene as well. Mickey at the top of the sorcerer's hat.

Rich Moore: There's big, wide shot where Mickey's dressed as the sorcerer's apprentice that was also hand-drawn. It was all in service to pack the scene with as much stuff as we could. I just thought of another one; Peter Pan's shadow in the scene with Grumpy. When Vanellope runs past Grumpy, in the background it's Peter Pan's shadow on the wall.

According to directors Rich Moore and Phil Johnston, everyone loves developing Easter eggs, though there never seem to be enough, and like with deleted scenes, you never know which will actually survive through to the final production. “Number one, planning for a film’s Easter eggs is literally just like planning on making actual Easter eggs… you should always buy more eggs than you think you’re going to need,” Moore explains. “Some are going to crack and you’re going to mess up the color on some, so you’re going to need a lot of eggs. For example, as we were planning how much stuff we wanted to throw into the “Oh My Disney” scene, by the time we were actually working on it in production, it felt like we needed more. It felt like we didn’t plan enough for it. It got to the point where we couldn’t build any more CG characters or we would have missed our deadline for finishing the movie. So, we started animating them in 2D, which we could do pretty quickly.”

Sotiris wrote: But plenty of Oscar-winning songs aren't Oscar-worthy.

In terms of lyrics no, but in terms of music, definitely. If you change the lyrics to play it straight and get a decent singer to perform it, it becomes a beautiful, sweet song that can easily stand next to other classic 'I Want' songs.

Disney Duster wrote:I must be the only one who really doesn't like "A Place Called Slaughter Race".

DisneyEra wrote:After 2 months this still has yet to match at least the original. Even with the inclusion of the Princesses, it didn't break out. With a $175 million budget, this is just unexpectable. Ask yourself, Would Gigantic have done any worse

DisneyEra wrote:After 2 months this still has yet to match at least the original. Even with the inclusion of the Princesses, it didn't break out.

Q: Are you guys going to do a third film?

Phil Johnston: I don't think so. I mean, never say never, but I think of these two films very much as two chapters in their lives. The friendship was born in the first film and it grows and then it goes through a big challenge in the second film and then resolves in even stronger place. So, to me the two chapters fit perfectly together right now. I don't know.

Rich Moore: However, we did think after the first one that that one was buttoned-up perfectly too so you never know.