steet :

You mentioned this aborted "project" in your previous replies.
Can you tell us a little more about it? I know it's been a long time, but surely you remember a few things...

What characters were meant to be part of it? What kind of stories were there? (A big "melting pot" like "Disney's House of Mouse?")

Did some elements of it get used for other series? (except for Baloo that you mentioned already)

Jymn Magon :

Ah, yes... "B Players." The premise was very "Roger Rabbit" in natural, playing on the assumption that toons and humans exist in the same world. So the B Players were toon characters that had done a bunch of animated shorts or maybe just one Disney movie, and then never worked again. So they were hanging around the backlot at Disney waiting for the next gig. The main characters were Baloo (who was basically the same bear in Robin Hood) and a newcomer named Ricky Rat (Mickey's cousin). The two decide to rally the other B Players into convincing the studio heads (like Eisner) to let them do another movie. So every week they were rushing around trying to get work somewhere - like a bar band in Tulsa or stunt folk in a John Woo film. (Bad examples, but you get the idea.) The execs never quite got the concept, but I thought it was cute. (We even named our company softball team "The B Players" later on.)

Other characters were Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, and some others I can remember right now.

Jymn

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Jymn Magon	August 05, 2009

No, it was going to be all animated (which was part of the problem with pitching the show). "How do we know the humans are meant to be humans if they are actually cartoons?" It's funny that Bonkers! got made years later with basically the same dynamics - a cartoon character working in a human world. They made the differentiation work. (It would have worked on B Players, as well.) Jymn

Steet	July 29, 2009
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Ah, I see...Was it going to be part live / part animated like Roger Rabbit too? It seemed an interesting premise, although I'm not sure if there was enough content to make 65 episodes AND not get repetitive? Anyway, thanks pretty much for the info

Jymn Magon	July 28, 2009

Ah, yes... "B Players." The premise was very "Roger Rabbit" in natural, playing on the assumption that toons and humans exist in the same world. So the B Players were toon characters that had done a bunch of animated shorts or maybe just one Disney movie, and then never worked again. So they were hanging around the backlot at Disney waiting for the next gig. The main characters were Baloo (who was basically the same bear in Robin Hood) and a newcomer named Ricky Rat (Mickey's cousin). The two decide to rally the other B Players into convincing the studio heads (like Eisner) to let them do another movie. So every week they were rushing around trying to get work somewhere - like a bar band in Tulsa or stunt folk in a John Woo film. (Bad examples, but you get the idea.) The execs never quite got the concept, but I thought it was cute. (We even named our company softball team "The B Players" later on.) Other characters were Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, and some others I can remember right now. Jymn