Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-35639545-20141227204623/@comment-24674051-20150331140022

No offense, but please, not the 100 acre woods. I love Winnie the Pooh, but I just don't see it working in the OUaT format. The talking Stuffed animals would have to be all CGI, and I know from watching Wonderland that the more fantastic creatures (White Rabbit and his family, Catterpiller, Bandersnatch, just to name a few) were cringeworthy. Not to mention the flying carpet. ABC simply does not have the budget to do a Winnie the Pooh (or Jungle Book, Lion King, or any number of other stories requireing Talking Animals) and do it well.

I could see Oz as a setting, it would be easier (although the flying monkeys are still somewhat cringeworthy), and not require near as much CGI. But part of the allure of OUaT is the mashup of multiple Fairy Tales. the Main show has the ultimate mashup of just about every fairy tale imaginable. Wonderland had primarily the 2 Lewis Carroll novels (WOnderland and Through the Looking Glass), with a dollop of Aladdin, a dash of Robin Hood, a pinch of Cinderella, and probably a couple of minor references to other things (like Snow White). What do you mash up with Oz to achieve the same effect?