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* Due in large part (but not entirely) to [[World War Two]], the VW Beetle design was finalized for production in 1938 but the first cars delivered to retail customers weren't until 1947.
* Fiat has been teasing the return of their [[wikipedia:Alfa Romeo|Alfa Romeo]] brand to the United States since about 2003. Aside from a few [[wikipedia:Alfa Romeo 8C Competizione|8C Competizione supercars]] being sold to American collectors, nothing has come of it. Now that Fiat owns Chrysler, though, it should happen in 2013 at the earliest...
== Buildings ==
* The San Francisco 49ers have been trying to build a stadium for years. Their latest plan had been stalled for several years, and groundbreaking began April 19, 2012.
* The Ballpark Village shopping/entertainment/apartment complex in downtown St. Louis, designed to revitalize the area. Building began in 2005 with a planned completion date of July 2009. Around 2008, building stopped as financier Bill DeWitt refused to spend any more money on the project (and he is a multi-billionaire who makes a lot of money off of the St. Louis Cardinals, so his penny-pinching is completely inexcusable). Cut to late 2011, and it looks it will never be finished (due to DeWitt's frugality and the state basically neglecting the city and its needs).
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* ''Blue Planet'', a CGI sci-fi action movie planned by now-defunct Rainbow Studios (later aquired by [[THQ]]), with a video-game tie-in. A trailer was released, to widespread acclaim, which showcased the for-the-time high-quality CGI, parodies of Pixar's ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'' and ''[[A Bug's Life|A Bugs Life]]'' characters, and a soundtrack featuring "More Human Than Human" by [[Rob Zombie]]. Much of the already-shot footage was recycled for the time-in game, which was eventually released as ''[[Deadly Tide]]''.
* In the late 1990's, Fox and [[Matt Groening]] signed a deal to make three films based on ''[[The Simpsons]]''. The first film was released in 2007. Since then, absolutely ''nothing'' has been heard about the sequels (rumors have had one of the films be based on ''Itchy and Scratchy'').
* ''[[Frozen (Disney film)|Frozen]]'' languished in development hell since the 1930s, all the way back when [[Walt Disney]] himself wanted to adapt ''[[The Snow Queen]]''. One of Disney's original ideas was a [[Roger Rabbit Effect|live-action/animated hybrid]] [[biopic]] about [[Hans Christian Andersen]], with the [[MGM]]-produced live action segments interspersed with animated sequences based on Andersen's fairy tales. For one reason or another, the studio found it immensely difficult to adapt the ''Snow Queen'' tale and make it relatable to modern audiences, and Walt's original pitch eventually got scrapped when [[World War II]] came along and the studio busied themselves with wartime propaganda. A couple or so failed attempts later, one of them being a traditionally-animated version entitled ''Anna and the Snow Queen'' (the title of which would eventually be recycled as the title of the final film's Japanese dub), and we eventually end up with a very loose re-imagining of HCA's fairy tale with only tangential ties to the source material.
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