Proposed Sequel
The 2001 60th anniversary DVD release featured a sneak peek of a direct-to-video sequel, Dumbo II. The preview showed sketches and storyboard ideas. The main story has to do with Dumbo and his new friends getting separated from the rest of the circus as they wander into the big city. Dumbo's new friends are Claude and Lolly the twin bears who leave chaos everywhere they go, Dot the curious zebra, Godfrey the hippo who is older and wants to do things for himself, and Penny the adventurous ostrich. Timothy returns as well. The story was supposed to be set on the day immediately following the end of the first Dumbo story. However, no further announcements have been made since and the project appears to have been canceled. With the appointment of John Lasseter as Chief Creative Officer of Walt Disney Animation Studios following the 2006 acquisition of Pixar, and the subsequent resignation of Sharon Morrill from the presidency of DisneyToon Studios, the studio announced it would no longer produce sequels to classic Disney films, the last such projects being The Little Mermaid: Ariel's Beginning, Tinker Bell, and its sequels, further affirming Dumbo II's apparent cancellation. Some of the backgrounds for the canceled sequel were recycled for The Fox and the Hound 2.
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