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Next, here's Scales the Dragon! He lives in a cave, loves rock n roll, and was created for a never-aired Jim Henson show about Ariel and friends
He did see the light of day in a series of picturebooks, where he had kids everywhere asking 'wait... who is Scales??'
We all love Sebastian and Scuttle, but how about some love for the forgotten characters of Little Mermaid lore?
Here's a thread of our faves, starting with Benjamin the Manatee, the mild-mannered henchman from Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning. Look at his little hat!
The pieces were by famed Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen, who Walt asked to work on the Mermaid idea after his iconic work on Fantasia's 'Night on Bald Mountain' sequence
When Disney's animators were working on Little Mermaid in the 1980s, they unearthed this eerily beautiful concept art from Walt's first attempt at adapting the story in the 1940s
@jamesanstee Happy birthday! May Fidget bring you everything from your birthday list 🎉
Are you ready for the most gruesome artwork ever produced for a Disney movie?
These are the four remaining frames of animation created for the cut scene in which the Horned King's undead army attacks his human guards
Removed with good reason?
In the early 2000s an Aristocats TV series made it to the early stages of development. You can tell it was the early 2000s because of, well, everything
The designs might be controversial, but we appreciate that they left Roquefort basically untouched. He's perfect as he is!
Did you know that The Aristocats has one of the wildest spin-offs in Disney history?
Miriya and Marie is a manga about everyone's favourite Parisian kitten taking a Japanese schoolgirl back in time to train her as a witch. No, we didn't make this up.
Let's have a look at some of the cool concept art for Lady and the Tramp
First up is Eyvind Earle, who styled the 'Bella Notte' sequence. The keen use of colour, shape and Cinemascope scale makes it almost a dry-run for his masterpiece, Sleeping Beauty. More on that next week!
Also, check out David Hall's work on the film from over a decade prior to Blair
He had a much darker take on Wonderland, with Alice's journey through the rabbit hole moving from a grimy, claustrophic tunnel right through to surreal cosmic horror in a single scene