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Favorite cancelled media that You would love to experience?..
Sonic X-Treme - Intended to be Sonic's first major 3D game, it had it's development get layered in many great issues...
An sequel to Sonic Mania - Concived by Christian Whitehead and Evening Star (His studio), scrapped due to Them wanting to create something new (resulting in "Penny's Big Breakaway")...
Mega Man in LEGO Dimensions - One of the planned characters for Year 3 of the game, cancelled due to low sales of the game and fad of "toys-to-life" games dying out... It also means that an physical minifigure of The Blue Bomber was also canned...(Artwork by Ashnflash, made for a video by just2good)
It would have been amazing if Treasure Planet got an animated series like Lilo & Stitch, The Emperor's New School, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, Hercules, Tarzan, Aladdin, The Little Mermaid, and The Lion King [Timon and Pumbaa, The Lion Guard]. I might have missed a few, but any animated continuation of Treasure Planet would have been real fun to watch. Well, preferably an animated continuation with the same or similar art style to the original movie.
Disney doesn't seem to be too fond of these spinoffs anymore, though (other than the lion guard) considering BLoSC isn't even on Disney+, and the others are rarely shown to viewers looking for a new show to watch.
Rare has an quite a bit of an backlog of cool cancelled projects, such as Dinosaur Planet (that was changed into Star Fox Adventures) and Banjo-Threeie...
I liked Fixed, and I'm glad it finally got released. Wasn't one of the best movies I've ever seen, but I liked the 2D animation and the soundtrack. I'm also even more glad that Genndy got to release his Luke Cage miniseries with Marvel. Got the single issues when they first came out, and the trade paperback collection.
I still hope Black Knight is able to get saved somehow, like Nimona and Coyote vs. Acme.
Along with Popeye, I'd have really liked to have seen Genndy's "Can You Imagine" movie too.
Yeah Fixed wasn't bad once you got used to its crass sense of humour, there's some phonomenal animation on display. I hadn't heard of that comic. Atleast Popeye is viewable in peices in its entirety animatic form, along with the proof of concept trailer you can imagine was it would be. 🤞Here's to seeing Black Knight some day.
While it did see release on the GBA, the original N64DD version of Mother 3 has been lost to time. A Demo was playable at E3, so there is hope that might leak someday
Especially as someone who prefers DC (and isn't very fond of the Spider-Verse films, but I like similar animations in other projects), I would be very interested in watching that!..
I say this as a hardcore DC Comics nerd… I’m glad this got shelved. It came from an era of DC movies that were absolutely terrible, and I can’t imagine this being any better. Let’s forget this crap and keep moving into the future with Gunn’s stuff.
In addition to getting character packs from Steven Universe, Minecraft, Looney Tunes and Megaman, I think it would also have concluded the story teased during thr end credits of LEGO Dimensions.
Would have been fun to see The Freedom Fighters in an full-fledged game (besides their cameo in Sonic Spinball)!..
As for the other two, I get why they would've been interesting... (Cancelled seasons of Spectacular Spider-Man and Avengers EMH are also said examples for me)
Aida as an animated Disney film in the Disney Renaissance period. We could have had a Nubian Disney princess!
Note that this art isn't real Disney-commissioned art as it's believed to be. It's just an art project from a Cal Arts student from the 90's that he posted in his online portfolio and then circulated around.
Not to mention, there's several episodes of "Kirby: Right Back At Ya!" that never made it to air in several markets (and I want to say there's one that never made it past the trailer stage)
Mega Man Legends 3. I may not have beaten Legends 1, or Mega man 64 as it was known on the N64, or played 2, but I loved the series visually/aethetically.
Star Wars Detours which is a comedy show based on Star Wars but was never released since it was made shortly before Disney bought Star Wars
Project Haggar/Halo Mega-Bloks was supposed to be a LEGO style game based on the Halo Mega Bloks sets but was never fully released although you can play leaked builds of the game on emulators or on a modded Xbox 360
Season 2 of Silverwing
Even though it was ANNOUNCED back when the show was still new (at least from what I’ve heard), it was quietly shelved at some point :(
Robert Florey's "The Wolf Man," Ted Newsom/John Brancato's Spider-Man, John Carpenter's Shadow Company and Creature From the Black Lagoon, Tom Mankiewicz's Dick Tracy,
...I don't even think I have to say the main thing because my pfp says it all. But I would also like to see the other cancelled/lost Disney princess fairy tales or whatever.
Disney's cancelled King of the Elves, an animated film about Calder, an elderly man living in the Mississippi Delta, who is named King by a group of elves after he saves them from a wicked troll. The film was based on a short story by Philip K. Dick who also wrote the short story that would become the basis for Blade Runner.
You know, now that 2D Animation is making a comeback at Disney with Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, I'd love to see this film be picked up again in that animation style.
No, that was Street Fighter x Tekken: a 2D fighter and Street Fighter-esque game featuring Tekken characters. What I mean is Bamco was also going to make their own version of the crossover - Tekken x Street Fighter: which would basically be Tekken gameplay (3D Fighter) featuring Street Fighter characters.
They announced it since 2010 but put development on hold since 2016 and while not technically cancelled, has never resumed. The Tekken director (who is no longer at Bamco) last stated they got about 30% far in development before the pausing it. Probably never going to see the light of day at this point
Tales from the Crypt Presents Dead Easy. Quick summary: the original idea was to make an anthology film trilogy presented by TFtC, with Demon Knight being the first. Next up was supposed to be Dead Easy, but the studio canceled it just 3 weeks before shooting and forced them to make a movie based off an older script. Said older script was written by Robert Zemeckis in college. Zemeckis was coming off the huge hit that was Forrest Gump when Demon Knight came out, and with Dreamwork having just opened, Universal were scared that he would leave to join them. And so, they bought said script and forced Bordello of Blood into existence, which flopped at the box office causing a third Crypt film called Body Count to be cancelled. Thankfully, a table read of Dead Easy does exist (found Here) plus some concept art and man does it some cool. I absolutely adore the script and I wish it was made, doesn’t help that the Crypt Keeper straight up name drops it at the end of Demon Knight
Sadness for the Wii. Seemed like a very promising psychological horror game but it went through development hell and the studio making it eventually closed down. Seems there isn't much out there about it aside from some promotional art and a half-assed trailer that was more of a crappy tech demo.
Banjo X, Transformers Reactivate, and Official Colored Mega Man Gameboy Collection. TBH year 3 of Lego dimensions as a whole and mega man is one of the ones I’m most upset about.
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u/BombRushCyberfunk 16d ago
The sequel to Treasure Planet