Toyland/Production/development history

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Development[]

In 1937, Dora Wilson planned to pitch a short cartoon for the Joey Kangaroo’s Funny Adventures short series, starring Joey Kangaroo, which would be based on her favorite opera when she was two-years-old, Babes in Toyland by Victor Herbert and Glen MacDonough, under the title Joey in Toyland. The plot of the short would’ve focus on young Joey dreaming of entering Toyland. In 1938, Dora Wilson switched plans by switching the animated Babes in Toyland short project into an animated feature film after the release and the success of Walt Disney’s 1937 film Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the same time where she first pitched Headin' South.

In 1939, after joining the collaborative venture with MGM's animation studio, Wilson pitched her Babes in Toyland feature project as a stand-alone follow-up to the 1934 Laurel and Hardy musical film that she saw that would combine with live actors in an animated world, with hand-drawn animated characters, along with replacing Joey Kangaroo with two of the characters from Herbert's play, Jane and Alan, and adding the story's original plotline.

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