The 5 Fantastic Stories

The Five Fantastic Stories (or The 5 Fantastic Stories) is a 1962 animated package film by Walt Disney Productions and released on October 4th 1962.
==Sypnosis==
Hosted by Jiminy Cricket from Pinocchio, is about 5 animated shorts featuring anthropormorthic animals in each short, similar to Fun and Fancy Free.
==Shorts featured==
*The Baseball Panda (Featuring James "Combo" the Panda)
*The Circus Cat (With Alphie the Cat)
*Gummyland (With Gus the Gator)
*Fantastic Mr.Gil (With Gil the Shark)
*Snowy Adventures (With Peck the Genius Penguin)
==Trivia==
*The characters of the package film were bought by pocket.watch Productions in 2016, a few of the characters' names were changed such as: James the Panda was changed to Combo (removing James and the from the name), Alphie's name was changed to Alpha and added Lexa to the name, with Gus, Gil and Peck they added Gummy in Gus' name, Big in Gil's name and Peck remained the same. Despite this, the package film was still owned by Disney entirely.
*Two other shorts, featuring Donald Duck and Pedro from Saludos Amigos were proposed to Walt Disney during production of the film, but later got scrapped because Walt didn't really want alot of shorts in the film, each short in fact is 15 minutes and makes the final version 85 minutes, if they added the two other shorts it would make it into 115 minutes.
*Another short was going to feature Bongo from Fun and Fancy Free where he discovers Chicago, but it was scrapped.
*Originally for the movie, there were going to be a few already released shorts in the movie, the ones mentioned include:
#The Brave Enginner
#Lambert the Sheepiesh Lion
#Football (Now and Then)
#Ben and Me
#Toot, Whistle, Plunk and Boom
#Goliath II
#Paul Bunyan
#The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
#The Wind in the Willows
#The Flying Gauchito
#Mickey and the Beanstalk
However, all of these were rejected in favor of original ideas for the feature.
*The characters were supposed to be in a scrapped animated movie set for a 1943 release date, named: The 5 Fabulous Characters, however during production in late-1941,due to the attack on Pearl Harbor, it had to be put on hold and was scrapped during the production of The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad.
*The movie was supposed to be a sequel to Fun and Fancy Free, but was scrapped immediately due to the studio not being too confortable making sequels.
Category:Animated Films
Category:American animated films
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Category:Fan-made films
Category:Package films
Category:1962 films
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