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List of unproduced Disney animated projects

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This is a list of unmade and/or unreleased animated projects by The Walt Disney Company. These include feature films, short films, and television series/specials, stemming from Walt Disney Animation Studios, Pixar, Disney Television Animation, and other animation studios owned by The Walt Disney Company. Some of these projects stem from simply Walt Disney Pictures. NOTOC

Contents:

1930s

1933

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1934

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse
"Station Agent"
Pluto

1935

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse
"The Sea Monster"
"Mickey's Sea Monster"
Silly Symphonies

1936

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse
"The Deer Hunt"
"Desert Prospectors"
"The Emperor's New Clothes"
"The Love Nest"
"Mickey's Bakery"
"Mickey's Sunken Treasure"
"Mickey's Treasure Hunt"
"Navy Mickey" also known as "Mickey in the Navy"
"North West Mounted"
"Royal Mounted Police"
"Mickey of the Mounted"
"Mickey Gets His Man"
"Mickey the Mountie"
Silly Symphonies
"Struebel Peter"
"Slovenly Peter"
Silly Symphonies
Mickey, Donald & Goofy
Silly Symphonies
Feature film

1937

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
"Lumberjack Donald"
"Nightwatchman Donald"
Mickey, Donald & Goofy
Mickey Mouse
Mickey, Donald & Goofy
"Jungle Mickey"
"The Legionaires"
Mickey Mouse
"Sargasso Sea"
Silly Symphonies
"Minnehaha"
Feature film

1938

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
"Donald Munchausen"
"Donald's Shooting Gallery"
"Lost Prospectors"
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
Donald Duck
"Mickey's Nephews"
"Mickey's Toothache"
"Movie Makers"
"Pilgrim Mickey"
"The Salvagers"
"Spring Cleaning"
"Tanglefoot"
"20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"
Pluto
Silly Symphony Featurette
Feature film

1939

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
"Donald's Elephant"
"Donald's Outboard Motor"
"Donald's Stratosphere Flight"
"Haunted Castle"
"Museum Keeper"
"Old Masters"
"Donald and the Old Masters"
"Tree Surgeon"
Mickey Mouse
"The Band Concert"
"Ice Antics"
"Mickey's Man Friday"
"Mickey's Revival Party"
"Miracle Master"
"Morgan's Ghost"
"Pieces of Eight"
"Three Buccaneers"
"Mountain Carvers"
Pluto
"Pluto's Pal Bobo"
Silly Symphonies
"Grasshopper and the Ants"
"Lullaby Land"
"Santa's Workshop"
Short film
Jabberwocky

1940s

1940

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
Short film
Fantasia

1941

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
Donald & Goofy
Donald Duck
Health for America
Mickey Mouse
Feature film
Don Quixote
The Hound of Florence
Inspector Bones

1942

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
"Guerilla Duck"
"Madame XX"
"A Brazilian Symphony: Caxangá"
Goofy
Wartime
Short film
Chichicastenango
A House Divided
The Lady with the Rad Pomom
Lima Story
Goofy
Short film
Feature film

Note: Disney studios produced an animated sequence for Samuel Goldwyn's film Up in Arms, which was unused in the final version of the film.

1943

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Goofy
"How to Be a Commando"
Mickey Mouse
Pluto
Private Snafu
Wartime
Democracy
Melting Pot
The Square World
Bambi
Feature film
The Tales of Hans Christian Andersen

1944

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
Mickey Mouse
Pluto

1945

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1946

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
"Share and Share Alike"
"Trouble Shooters"
(n/a)
Fiesta of the Flowers
On the Trail
Feature film
(n/a)

1947

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
Goofy
Goofy
Mickey Mouse
Short Film

Note: Fun and Fancy Free, released in 1947, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.

1948

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Pluto
"Scrambled Eggs"
Feature film

1949

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Hiawatha

Note: The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, released in 1949, was originally planned to be two separate feature films.

1950s

1951

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse
"The Talking Dog"
Feature film

1955

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Donald Duck
Feature film

1959

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
(n/a)
Short film

1960s

1960

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Chanticleer

1963

SeriesTitleDescription
Feature filmGoldilocks and the Three BearsThis proposed feature was to be an adaptation of "Goldilocks and the Three Bears", involving a little girl who breaks into the bears' house.
Little Red Riding HoodThis proposed feature was to be an adaptation of the Charles Perrault's tale "Little Red Riding Hood", involving a little girl who tries to travel to her grandmother, but she is pursued by a wolf.

1967

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1969

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Hootsie the Owl
Wise Little Owl

1970s

1973

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1976

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1980s

1980

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
The Little Broomstick

1981

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1983

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse
Feature film

1985

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1986

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1988

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Winnie the Pooh

1989

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse

1990s

1990

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Roger Rabbit
Goofy
Horace Horsecollar

1991

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Puss in Boots
Tiny the Alligator
Short film

1992

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Mickey Mouse
Mickey's Arabian Nights
Tourist Trap
Feature film
Sinbad the Sailor
Song of the Sea
Swan Lake
Silly Hillbillies on Mars

1993

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
A Princess of Mars

1994

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Roger Rabbit

1996

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

1998

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
(n/a)

1999

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Pepper Ann

2000s

2000

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Wild Life

2001

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Atlantis
Team Atlantis
Feature film
Dumbo
Hercules
Feature film
The Frog Prince
The Nightmare Before Christmas

2002

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
The Emperor's Nightingale
The Fool's Errand
Mickey Mouse
Treasure Planet
(n/a)

2003

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Brother Bear
The Jungle Book
Mowgli and Baloo's Jungle Jams
Feature film
Tam Lin
The Prince and the Pig
The Three Pigs
Uncle Stiltskin
Which Witch?

2004

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Mulan

2005

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Winnie the Pooh
Feature film
Fraidy Cat
Mr. Popper's Penguins
Winnie the Pooh
Aladdin
Toy Story
Monsters, Inc.
Finding Nemo
Tron

2006

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Fantasia
The Brave Little Toaster
Chicken Little

2007

In June 2007, Disneytoon Studios president Sharon Morrill stepped down, and the animation studio units under the Walt Disney Company underwent corporate restructuring as the Pixar leadership assumed more control. Thus, most sequels, plus a prequel series, out of DisneyToon Studios were cancelled.

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
The Aristocats
Chicken Little
Meet the Robinsons
Pet Project
Snow White
Pinocchio
Disney Princess

2008

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
(n/a)

2010s

2010

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
ShadeMaker
Calling All Robots
The Nutcracker
Untitled Lee Unkrich Pixar film
Disney Princess

2011

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
Special
Mickey Mouse
Phineas and Ferb
Feature film

2012

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film
The Graveyard Book

2013

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Toy Story
Cars
Prep & Landing

2014

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Tinker Bell
Tink Meets Peter
The Haunted Mansion
Winnie the Pooh

2016

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Series

2017

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Feature film

2018

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Cars
Metro

2019

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Goof Troop
Doug

2020s

2020

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
The Princess and the Frog

2021

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

2022

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
The Rescuers
The Great Mouse Detective

2023

Seriesstyle="width:100pt;"TitleDescription
Win or Lose

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  182. (January 5, 2023). "The Winnie The Pooh pilot by @CartoonSaloon has been found. The 2014 pilot was a collab between CS & @DisneyTVA, sadly it was passed by new Disney ABC leadership alongside Disney XD's "Welcome To Simpleton" & "Very Important House" on 2015".
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  196. "Awhile ago I did some Rescue Rangers fan art and everyone dug it, but I wanted to do more! So here's some Goof Troop!".
  197. "At the time we didn't say it but this was a pitch for Disney that ultimately didn't happen. But we'd still love to play with those characters so Disney if you're listening we're right here lol".
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  200. "I recently shared some old news with a podcast host that I was at one time developing a spinoff of Disney's Doug titled, 'Doug's Kids'. Articles have suddenly taken it out of context and ran it as an official announcement. It was an idea that came from a Disney executive who has since left the company, ... but it is nice to dream!! ❤️ -Jim Jinkins".
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  210. (July 7, 2019). "REPORT: Disney+ Developing Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Animated Series". CBR.
  211. (December 26, 2021). "Iger was very serious about it. The Legend of the Three Caballeros team was going to follow up with an Oswald show for steaming. Scripts written, designs done, animation test in hand, and a pilot in production. It was beautiful! Then we got broken up and scattered to the wind.".
  212. (December 26, 2021). "Hey gang! Don't be sad about this. Oswald has A LOT of love within Disney. I just wanted to share how serious that love is. I'm sure there will be an Oswald project coming your way in the near future.".
  213. (December 28, 2021). "Lots of people jumping to conclusions here. No one is saying there is no Oswald content in development. Just saying MY TEAM'S version has not been in development for a few years. I wanted to share how passionate and serious myself and the folks at Disney are about Oswald.".
  214. Andreeva, Nellie. (March 7, 2025). "Oswald The Lucky Rabbit TV Series From Jon Favreau In Works At Disney+".
  215. "Uh oh! Someone found our Oswald development. There are technically 2 versions here 3D and 2D. We did the 3D first and pivoted to 2D to make the world characters more expansive".
  216. "A while ago, I had a pitch for the Rescue aid Society. Influenced by the Rescuers movies, this was an updated R.A.S more akin to the kingsman or Mission Impossible. It was never meant to be, heres some ruff images from the pitch".
  217. (October 2025). "Yes. You have very awesome detective skills 😉".
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  219. Reynolds, Maca. (2023-07-08). "Pixar's Win or Lose Follow-Up Project Reportedly Canceled".
  220. Cimaglio, Zachary. (2023-07-07). "Disney+ Quietly Cancels Animated Pixar Spinoff Series".
  221. Taylor, Drew. (2025-08-04). "The Disney+ Curse: How the Streaming Service Hurt Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar Brands".
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