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* ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' went through several different ideas. Early concepts included a hangout for horror-themed Disney villains, like the [[Lonesome Ghosts]] and [[The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad|the Headless Horseman]], having a Raven narrate the ride (abandoned when it was decided the Ghost Host would work better), and a Hatbox Ghost which carried around a severed head as a character (ditched due to the Imagineers deciding it didn't look good enough). Other concepts from the 1950s included several much darker walkthrough attractions, a version where Walt himself narrated, and several very long illusions including a ghost flooding a room.
* There were many locations Disney was going to originally build Disneyland before he decided to locate in California. One of the places he really had his heart set on was none other than... Flagstaff, Arizona (no, really). He loved the weather the place got during the summer, but then he came and visited during the winter, felt the harsh snowy weather, and subsequently changed his mind.
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* At Walt Disney World in Florida, the [[wikipedia:Western River Expedition|Western River Expedition]] was intended as the Wild West version of Pirates of the Caribbean and was to be exclusive to the park, thus making the California park the only one with the pirates. But early visitors to the Magic Kingdom were upset that Pirates of the Caribbean wasn't included in the lineup, so getting a Florida version of Pirates up and running became top priority, and the new ride never came to pass.
* Several more countries were considered for Epcot's World Showcase, including a country from Africa. This one was scrapped because the only country willing to back it was South Africa, which was under apartheid in the 1980s. Two years after the park opened, Morocco was added to the lineup.
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* Tom Siddell mentioned in [http://www.brokenfrontier.com/lowdown/details.php?id=1180 an interview] that ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' is actually a [[Lighter and Softer]] take on his original idea. If you read much of the comic you'll realize this is saying something.
{{quote|"''Gunnerkrigg Court'' was originally going to be more adult when I started working on it, but by the time I finished the first chapter I realized it would work better if I made it more accessible to a wider audience."}}
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** Way back when Channel Awesome was in its infancy and the Nostalgia Critic was their only feature, site execs Mike Michaud and Bhargav Dronamraju planned a [[Paranormal Investigation]] series in the vein of ''[[Ghost Hunters]]''.
* The first season of ''[[Red vs. Blue]]'', and by extension the ''entire series'', was originally supposed to unfold in a dramatically different fashion than the finished product. DVD Audio Comentary for the first season reveals that, as originally envisioned, the entire project would only have been six to nine episodes in length, which had all been very loosely planned in advance. Additionally, the format of the first two episodes (The Reds talking at their base while the Blues observe them through the sniper rifle and [[Deadpan Snarker|make snarky comments]]) was supposed to be maintained until the end. However, by the third episode the expanding script had already pulled the Blues to their own base, and when they reached the tenth episode the writers realized they had not gotten to almost any of the jokes they had planned for the "final" ninth episode (Specifically, putting Donut in the pink armor). The episodes continued to be written until the immediate story was completed, with a total of nineteen episodes which were subsequently billed as "Season One." Continuing the leftover plots points from those episodes lead into four more seasons, as well as several sequel series, and are still ongoing.
:The characters themselves were also supposed to evolve differently, and their portrayals in their first appearances (Even throughout the entire first season) contrast ''heavily'' [[Characterization Marches On|with their final forms]]. Caboose, the [[Breakout Character]] legendary for his [[Cloudcuckoolander|severely warped mind and personality]], was originally a rather bland character who was introduced to the series simply to serve as a catalyst to get Church angry. Donut, who became almost as widely known for his [[Camp Gay|armor-induced personality]], was one of the "normal" characters of the series, and as a whole the entire cast was saner and more likely to at least ''notice'' the [[Idiot Ball]], even if they could not quite let go of it. Fan reaction to individual points of personality that each character showed [[Flanderization|lead the writers to magnify and focus]] on those points, which eventually resulted in the insanity of the series itself.▼
▲The characters themselves were also supposed to evolve differently, and their portrayals in their first appearances (Even throughout the entire first season) contrast ''heavily'' [[Characterization Marches On|with their final forms]]. Caboose, the [[Breakout Character]] legendary for his [[Cloudcuckoolander|severely warped mind and personality]], was originally a rather bland character who was introduced to the series simply to serve as a catalyst to get Church angry. Donut, who became almost as widely known for his [[Camp Gay|armor-induced personality]], was one of the "normal" characters of the series, and as a whole the entire cast was saner and more likely to at least ''notice'' the [[Idiot Ball]], even if they could not quite let go of it. Fan reaction to individual points of personality that each character showed [[Flanderization|lead the writers to magnify and focus]] on those points, which eventually resulted in the insanity of the series itself.
* Pops up from time to time in ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' as a result of either an [[Aborted Arc]], handlers scrapping the idea, characters' deaths before the idea could be executed, mods disapproving, and other causes. Examples noted on the wiki include [[Malevolent Masked Man|Blood Boy]] getting a facial reconstruction in pre-game, a ''lot'' of things about Cillian Crowe that were planned but never carried out, Adam Dodd [[Taking the Bullet]] for Amanda Jones, Walter Smith being an [[Evil Counterpart]] to a character that never made it into the game, and others.
* [[YouTube]] was originally conceived of as a ''[http://pausestoprewind.com/2009/10/youtube-a-dating-site/ dating site]''. Indeed, the site was originally called "[http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2006-10-11-youtube-karim_x.htm Tune In Hook Up]", and would have essentially been a video version of HotOrNot.com (the original site layout was also designed with this in mind). The site creators redeveloped the site, however, and launched it in 2005...and history was made.
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