Been a big fan of "The Disney Villains Retrospective" series by Youtube user Colin Lookback. A channel dedicated to discussing lesser-known media with my favorite being his videos covering obscure Disney material. Just watched his latest episode dedicated to The Great Mouse Detective and as I was rewatching the video it suddenly dawned on me how much of a missed opportunity Disney+ would had been to revisiting "Creating Animated Shows based on Disney Animated Films".
While I'm glad to have Disney+, it really hit me on how big of a missed opportunity the service would had been for a couple actually decent Disney+ Original Shows that actually did Original Shows and Original Films that were based on some of Disney's lesser-known, forgettable, and animated films that were sometimes viewed as "Meh" from the public.
I recently discovered that The Great Mouse Detective had a one-off comic that took place after the film that starred Olivia Flaversham and a reformed Fidget going on mysteries across London in 1897. It was written and drawn by Elizabeth Watasin.
According to the writer, it was planned to gain a few more issues before Disney Adventures was discontinued. While the comic doesn't explain how Fidget and Olivia became friends after the events of the original film. I could see this idea to actually be perfect for an episodic Disney+ show. Also Olivia looks so cute in that comic!
There was also a cancelled animated series starring Marie, Toulouse, and Berlioz from The Aristocats that was planned back in 2003 that was aiming to air on Toon Disney (now Disney XD). The series focused on the kittens as now young teenagers but never made it past the drawing board with only four pieces of concept art that's floating around online. In the era of Disney+ I would had loved to see somebody at Disney to someday revisit this idea as a proper series similar to "101 Dalmatians: the Series" from 1997.
There's also the ongoing children's graphic novel series called "The Aristokittens" which stars Duchess' kittens running an animal cafe in Paris that took place after the events of the movie. It manages to flesh out Toulouse and Berlioz's personalities and giving Marie more depth and develops her from a tattletail kitten into a compassionate and kindhearted kitten with a few bits of snarkiness. I currently own four physical copies of the novels and it has so much potential as a show.
My point is, while Disney+ has mostly been pumping out mostly mediocre Original Content (mainly focused on Star Wars and Marvel) for Shows and TV. I wish they focused on doing actually decent Disney+ content that was more focused on Disney Animated Films that were adapted as a show or film. I could see a couple of Disney's less popular or obscure films from the past that deserves to flesh out the film's universe and bringing back a few unused concepts from the films themselves. The only Disney+ shows that are actually based on Disney Films is Tiana and Moana. What a huge missed opportunity!
less his first time. My daughter was laughing and smiling the whole time.
