What if Bill Kroyer stayed at Disney?


 * Note: this is interconnected to both What if Richard Rich stayed at Disney? and What if Don Bluth returned to Disney?.

Bill Kroyer began his animation career in 1975 by working in a small commercial studio. In 1977, he finally ended up at Disney Studios as animator on The Fox and the Hound but left Disney later because he did not want to work on The Black Cauldron. It was then he met future Tron director Steven Lisberger, who was working on Animalympics. After Animalympics was completed, Lisberger developed Tron and sold it to Disney.

After Tron was finished, Kroyer decided to stay with computer animation instead of traditional animation and worked at Robert Abel and Associates and Digital Productions. In 1986, he and his wife, Sue, started Kroyer Films to combine computer animation with hand-drawn animation. They made a short film titled Technological Threat; it was nominated for an Academy Award in 1988 and preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

But in alternate timeline, what if Kroyer stayed at Disney?

Changes

 * Kroyer Films wouldn't exist.
 * Bill Kroyer also would've been a co-director of The Black Cauldron (which would've been his directorial debut), The Brave Little Toaster (which would've been fully produced by Disney in this AU), Oliver & Company, The Prince and the Pauper, A Goofy Movie (which would’ve been a theatrical film instead), Hercules, Tarzan, Return to Never Land, Home on the Range, Chicken Little, Meet the Robinsons, Tinker Bell (which would've been traditionally-animated theatrical film instead of CGI direct-to-video film), and The Princess and the Frog.
 * DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990) would've been a theatrical film instead and being box office hit in this AU.
 * FernGully: The Last Rainforest would be part of the Disney Renaissance era.
 * In this AU, all Tinker Bell sequels would be heavily changed into traditional-animated television series, with Pixie Hollow Games (2011) and Pixie Hollow Bake Off (2013) serving as its television specials.
 * The Black Cauldron (1985), Hercules (1997), and Home on the Range (2004) would perform much better at the box office.
 * Kroyer would be CCO of Walt Disney Animation Studios instead of John Lasseter, and would serve as the executive producer from 2006 until his departure in 2018.
 * Tangled, Frozen, Big Hero 6, Zootopia, Moana, Raya and the Last Dragon, Encanto, and Strange World would be traditionally-animated films instead of CGI films.

Films

 * The Black Cauldron (1985)
 * The Great Mouse Detective (1986) (co-written)
 * The Brave Little Toaster (1987)
 * Oliver & Company (1988)
 * DuckTales the Movie: Treasure of the Lost Lamp (1990)
 * The Prince and the Pauper (1990)
 * FernGully: The Last Rainforest (1992)
 * A Goofy Movie (1995)
 * Hercules (1997)
 * FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue (1998)
 * Tarzan (1999)
 * An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)
 * Return to Never Land (2002)
 * Home on the Range (2004)
 * Mickey, Donald, Goofy: The Three Musketeers (2004)
 * Chicken Little (2005)
 * Meet the Robinsons (2007)
 * Tinker Bell (2008)
 * The Princess and the Frog (2009)

TV shows

 * House of Mouse (2001-2003)
 * "House of Crime" (Hexxus appears along with the caged villains)
 * "Pete's House of Villains" (Hexxus appears as one of the villains working to Pete)
 * Mickey's House of Villains (Hexxus is part of the villains who join the song "It's Our House Now")


 * Tinker Bell (2008-2018)

Shorts

 * Technological Threat (1988)
 * Runaway Brain (1995)

Other media

 * Kingdom Hearts
 * As Told by Emoji
 * Disney Magic Kingdoms
 * Ralph Breaks the Internet (FernGully: The Last Rainforest and The Brave Little Toaster screencaps at the Disney Animation pavilion)