When You Wish Upon a Nightmare - WDAS Collapses in the 80s
Well, it butterflies away the ones based on pre-established Disney properties, at least. The others can still potentially air on other networks.
How will The Wuzzles and Adventures of the Gummi Bears be affected by WDAS shutting down?
Either they get broadcasted for far shorter (one season so unchanged for the Wuzzles) or they just don't exist
As the writer for a timeline like that, here's a couple things to note.
1. If something bad isn't specifically butterflied, assume it still happens in one of those timelines (ex. Oklahoma City Bombings, Hurricane Katrina and any deaths that I don't mentioned as being butterflied still occur in my timeline). We usually just like to focus on the happier parts of the TLs we create.
2. Some of those timelines could also have changes that are not as positive as other ones they make (ex. ADD has President Bundy and ).
But this is just what goes on with my process. I'm not saying the sky isn't brighter in RWAM, I'm just saying the dark clouds aren't in focus..... at least, not quite yet.
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This is actually unironically a good idea even if Disney animation has collapsed at least nintendo will become what Disney failed to be
Cool. Maybe Nintendo could revitalize their animation department?
Perhaps, this is non-canon after all so I haven't given this much thought
Ngl I now kinda want to see a "Nintendo buying Disney" timeline.
It'll be interesting but also very time consuming, maybe somebody else could take up the mantle for this idea.
Chapter 4: Collapse
Chapter 4: Collapse
Many persisted that Walt Disney Animation Studios would prevail in this crisis and stay afloat, yet others knew that classic Disney films will soon be a thing of the past. After three consecutive failures with "The Black Cauldron" becoming the final nail in the coffin, the collapse of Walt Disney Animation Studios was pretty much inevitable, even if one could argue that the stage had been set since 1980. Studio chairman Roy E. Disney was a huge advocate of keeping the animation studio alive and try to put it back on its feet, Disney believed that if the studio could be restructured correctly, it would survive past the ongoing disaster. Meanwhile Michael Eisner saw the writing on the wall and planned on the animation studio's closure by the end of the year, the damage was done and there was no way it could be repaired in such a short amount of time. In his own words: "This isn't one of those fairytale films we make, this is reality and the damage was done."
Both parties were at odds with each other and needless to say, Disney couldn't figure out a suitable treatment and recovery for WDAS in time, all he could wass delay the inevitable through meetings and negotiation attempts. On July 2nd 1986, Walt Disney Animation Studios closed its doors for good. From this point forward, the only animated works to come out of Walt Disney Productions were distributed films and occasional re-releases. As for ongoing television works such as "The Wuzzles" and "Adventures of the Gummi Bears", production was halted and "Adventures of the Gummi Bears" became lost media for several decades, only "The Wuzzles" ended up seeing the light of day due to its short run on television and it being completed by the time "The Black Cauldron" released. Walt Disney Productions solely focused on theme parks, merchandising and producing live-action films of varying quality.
Administration-wise, Roy Disney was having none of this. Disney sought to launch a similar campaign to remove Eisner as he did with Ron Miller, yet it never went far as many within the company opposed having Eisner fired. At the very least, Eisner showed competence in managing the theme parks. For better or for worse, Eisner was here to stay. Jeffrey Katzenberg however had experienced a fallout with Eisner during the discussions regarding WDAS. Like Disney, Katzenberg was an advocate for keeping animation at Disney alive. After all animated work ended at Disney, Katzenberg left Walt Disney Productions for greener pastures. Katzenberg managed to snatch John Lasseter and a few other animators with him, Katzenberg then formed his own animation studio Dreamworks Animation in late 1986. Dreamworks focused on television commercials before striking gold with 1988's "Oliver and Company", but that's a different story. For now, the animation industry had lost its major and biggest player, and there was a huge void for everybody else to fill. Fortunately, audiences didn't have to wait long for the animation industry to deliver.
So Chapter 4 basically covers the collapse and immediate aftermath, hence why it's shorter compared to Chapters 1-3. I'm not sure if the next few entries in TTL would also be the same length just yet, depends on how much I can write about whatever the topics might be.
And Chapter 5 might not be for a while, I'll have to think of where the animation industry would go with Disney out of the picture
And Chapter 5 might not be for a while, I'll have to think of where the animation industry would go with Disney out of the picture
I could help come up ideas for it if you want.
Also, will The Brave Little Toaster still exist ITTL?
If it does exist, it probably wouldn't be made nor released under Walt Disney Productions. Maybe TTL's DreamWorks
Well IRL it was pitched to Disney but moved over to another studio while Disney distributed it and John Lasseter was pitching it along with Glen Keane so maybe Lasseter and Keane can make it at this version of dreamworks