History WhatCouldHaveBeen / Tangled

* The film was originally meant to look like a "[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Rapunzel-Disney.jpg watercolor painting come to life]]" feel heavily influenced by Rococo artwork like Fragonard's "The Swing." His daughter and fellow Disney artist Claire did several production design paintings in this style. The technology however was, and still is, considered too new and too expensive for a feature film. The same technology has been used in shorts though, most famously ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'', and a similar watercolor style would be used for ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.

* ''Tangled'' was originally meant to look like a "[[http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/1/1c/Rapunzel-Disney.jpg watercolor painting come to life]]" feel heavily influenced by Rococo artwork like Fragonard's "The Swing." His daughter and fellow Disney artist Claire did several production design paintings in this style. The technology however was, and still is, considered too new and too expensive for a feature film. The same technology has been used in shorts though, most famously ''WesternAnimation/{{Paperman}}'', and a similar watercolor style would be used for ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries''.

* Glen Keane wanted the kingdom to appear more ethnically diverse, with a few scattered nonwhite citizens, at the behest of fellow animator and friend Bruce W. Smith. [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment For whatever reason]], it didn't happen. ''WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries'' appears to be amending this.

** Rapunzel was meant to marry Bastion at the end. In the final film, Flynn and Rapunzel are engaged at the end, but not married yet (they instead got married an unknown time later in ''Disney/TangledEverAfter'').

* As mentioned, before there was Flynn Rider there was [[http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lxq9o6TbxH1r7rt7jo1_1280.jpg "Bastion".]] He was scrapped because they wanted a more attractive male character to appeal to women, though Kristoff from ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'' [[{{expy}} greatly resembles]] him. He was a GentleGiant in sharp contrast to the street savvy Flynn. Bastion was orphaned at a young age and forced into a life of thievery to survive, though he hated it. He was later edited into a Jack Sparrow-esque design before becoming Flynn.

* Disney had plans to make a ''Tangled 2'' after the first film made nearly $600 million at the box office, and apparently got far enough in the planning stages that [[http://collider.com/mandy-moore-tron-uprising-tangled-2-sequel/ Mandy Moore was told about it]]. It was canned when the film makers ultimately concluded that [[http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/tangled/33887/exclusive-why-disney-never-made-tangled-2 there was really nowhere to take the story]] after [[spoiler:Rapunzel lost her magic hair]]. A follow-up short ''Disney/TangledEverAfter'' was made in its place.

* The original voice choices for Gothel and Rapunzel were Creator/GreyDelisle and Creator/KristinChenoweth. Rapunzel could have also been Creator/KristenBell or Creator/IdinaMenzel. While those two were passed over, their audition tapes were taken into consideration and they were subsequently cast as the leads in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. Eden Espinosa also auditioned for Rapunzel, and was later cast as Cassandra in [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries the TV series]].

* In the original trailer, it was planned that Rapunzel's hair, in addition to {{healing|Hands}}, to be able to [[PrehensileHair move on its own and act like another appendage]] similar to The Creator/MarvelComics' character Medusa, which Disney later bought as ''Disney/{{Tangled}}'' was nearing its final stages.
* The film was highly publicized as the final Franchise/DisneyPrincess film due to the company wanting to move on from their classic fairy-tale style. ''Tangled'' contained many {{Shout Out}}s to previous films as a result. Disney however ultimately decided against the decision and thus we got films like ''WesternAnimation/{{Brave}}'' and ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''. That said, while Disney has certainly made subsequent films featuring princesses, none of them have been added to the official Disney Princess lineup, meaning that ''Tangled'' is indeed, for the time being, the final Disney Princess film.

* The original voice choices for Gothel and Rapunzel were Creator/GreyDelisle and Creator/KristinChenoweth. Rapunzel could have also been Creator/KristenBell or Creator/IdinaMenzel. While those two were passed over, their audition tapes were taken into consideration and they were subsequently cast as the leads in ''Disney/{{Frozen}}''.

* A gypsy and her fortune-telling monkey had a scene that were removed from the film. Oddly, references to it [[DevelopmentGag stay in the credits]]. The "gypsy with a fortune-telling monkey" concept would eventually be reused for the episode "[[Recap/TangledTheSeriesS2E06VigorTheVisionary Vigor the Visionary]]" in [[WesternAnimation/TangledTheSeries the TV series]].

-->''Mother Gothel stole Rapunzel from her rightful parents eighteen years ago, and has kept her locked in a tower ever since so that the world won’t steal the power from her magical hair. As for the power of that hair, Mother Gothel keeps herself young and ageless. While it’s easy to see Mother Gothel as a Mommy Dearest villain (and she is), she’s more complex than that. She really does LOVE Rapunzel, or at least thinks she does. She sees herself as Rapunzel’s protector and believes, that she has to live forever because no one will ever be able to protect or love Rapunzel the way that she can. Thus, we have the most co-dependent mother-daughter relationship in history. And when the teenage girl begins to separate herself, Mother Gothel slowly descends into madness’s and will stop at nothing to get her little girl back in her tower.''

* Flynn was originally intended to be a [[RebelPrince wayward prince]] hanging out with a group of bandits. Later on he was a sort of "bandit prince" and leader of a group of rogues (the rogues themselves eventually became the Snuggly Duckling thugs). His surname in canon implies he's a royal bastard, but it's not explicitly mentioned.