Thread:DonaldoC1997/@comment-27855996-20170106151039

Hi, I have a idea for a alternative universe version of a Disney film (http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyo9pw_the-wind-in-the-willows_kids).

The Wind in the Willows is a segment in the 1949 The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad. Walt Disney wanted to make The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame into a full length film, but like all his other prospective films, had to be put on the shelf for a while. Like Bongo and Mickey and the Beanstalk, The Wind and the Willows would be used instead for a short instead of a full length. My idea is what happened if The Wind and the Willows were a full length instead of a short, and completed in the 1950's (like Cinderella, Alice in Wonderland and Peter Pan), while the second segment of TAoIaMT, The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is put instead in Melody Time (since it was more musical).

The film could remain as its final version, but with a few scenes begin part of the book, such as Mole beign the key protagonist, and meeting Ratty and Toad after he exits his home, but remain the same changes (like Toad being framed for car theif), with some new ones (Angus MacBadger being a minor character, appearing only in the Wild Wood scene, the "Dulce Domum", "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" (with Otter and his son abselt) and "Wayfarer's All" chapters are included, although the events of "Wayfarer's All" occurs before the events of "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", and Ratty actually leaves the Riverbank, only to be found later by Mole)

Here are the plot for the page:

Fed up with spring cleaning, Mole ventures out of his underground home. He goes for a walk in the countryside and soon comes to a river where he meets and befriends Ratty (who lives there). Ratty takes Mole on a picnic. Ratty starts to warn Mole of the Wild Wood and its inhabitants. Ratty then takes Mole to visit their friend J. Thaddeus Toad at Toad Hall, and Toad asks them to come with him on a caravan trip on the Open Road. Ratty really misses his home on the river but does not want to disappoint his friends.

Later that day, a passing motor car causes the caravan to overturn into a ditch. Ratty threatens to have the law on the car driver, while Mole calms the horse, but Toad becomes entranced by the new machine, having been taken over by "motor-mania."

As time goes by, Ratty and Mole can do nothing but look on as Toad buys and then almost immediately crashes his cars one after another. In winter, Ratty and Mole are extremely worried and they decide to call on Angus MacBadger, a friend of Toad's late father, to see if he has any suggestions; if there's anyone Toad will listen to, it's MacBadger. But Ratty fell asleep, refusing to take Mole to the Wild Wood.

Mole then decides to go alone to the Wild Wood to see Badger. He asks a gang of weasels for directions to MacBadger's house, but they tells Mole the wrong way to go and he becomes scared and lost. His cry for Ratty echoed, and back at the river bank; it wakes him up. Ratty soon notices Mole's absence and finds a note written by Mole telling him where he has gone. Rat takes some pistols and a cudgel and hurries along to the Wild Wood to find him. After Ratty finds Mole, they literally stumble across MacBadger's house and knocks on the door. MacBadger, annoyed at his relaxing night being disturbed, opens the door and gets ready to tell off whoever it is who has interrupted his rest, but on seeing that it is Ratty and Mole outside, he lets them in. They warm themselves in front of the fire and Badger offers them each a hot drink. They discuss Toad's careless driving, which MacBadger tell them he could not doing nothing about it, but he suggets Ratty and Mole they will to talk with Toad instead.

After they leave MacBadger's house, Ratty and Mole turn up at Toad Hall and try to tell Toad that what he is doing is wrong, and attempt to make him promise that he will never go near a motor car again. But Toad won't listen them, which Ratty and Mole put him under house arrest until he comes to his senses. However, Toad still longs for the open road, and tricks Mole into leaving him alone in the house. He secretly escapes his exile.

When Ratty comes, he explains Mole what happened, but Mole beings crying, since he becomes homesick and he and Ratty visit Mole's house, and spend Christmas there. Some Caroling field mice turn up and after they have finish their song, Ratty and Mole invite them inside for a Christmas feast, but they don't have very good news to share. When the field mice tells Ratty and Mole that Toad has been arrested and charged with car theft, they were consumed with guilt for their friend.

At his trial, Toad represents himself and calls his horse Cyril Proudbottom as his first witness. Cyril testifies that the car which Toad was accused of stealing was the very same one that had already been stolen by a gang of weasels (who were the same ones who tricked Mole in the Wild Wood). Toad had entered a tavern where the car was parked and offered to buy the car from the weasels. However, since Toad had no money, he instead offered to trade Toad Hall for the car. Toad then calls the Cheif Weasel (the leader of the weasels) as a witness to the agreement; however, when told by Toad to tell the court what actually happened, the Cheif Weasel falsely testifies that Toad had tried to sell the stolen car. Toad is found guilty on the spot and sentenced to twenty years in the Tower of London. Ratty and Mole make every effort to appeal his case, but with no success.

Fortunately for Toad, the jailer's daughter (a squirrel) takes pity on him and helps him escape in the guise of a washerwoman. At first hitching a ride on a train, Toad finds the police in hot pursuit but is aided in his getaway by the engine driver. His next reprieve comes from a barge possum, but when he bungles a load of laundry, he angrily reveals himself to the barge possum and finds himself back on the road with Cyril. Pursued by policemen, he runs accidentally into a river.

In the meantime, Mole discovers the weasels have take over Toad Hall and are in possession of the deed, revelaing Toad is innocent, at the same time, an old wayfarer visits Ratty and tells him all about the world beyond the riverbank. Overcome with wanderlust, Ratty follows him, but aborts his adventure when he finds Mole is lost in the woods shearching him. they encounter each other, ostensibly with the help of a mystical wood-spirit called Pan (which MacBadger told him of).

When Mole beigns talking with Rat, Toad appears, which Mole tells Ratty what happened, which Ratty says sorry to Toad for thinking he was the true theif. Knowing that the deed bearing Toad and the Cheif Weasel's signature would prove Toad's innocence, the three friends sneak into Toad Hall and take the document after a grueling chase around the estate.

The film then ends with Toad regaining his house while it implied the weasels have been arrested and imprisoned. As Ratty and Mole celebrate the New Year with a toast to Toad, who they believe has completely reformed, Toad recklessly fly past on a Wright Flyer, as he has not truly reformed and developed a mania for airplanes, which Mole says "Good' ol Toad". 