History WhatCouldHaveBeen / InsideOut

** After the success of the film, there was a proposal to retheme ''Journey into Imagination'' into a ride based off of the movie. The plan was discarded after Pete Docter, the film's director, balked at the idea, as he didn't want an ''Inside Out'' ride to come at the expense of Figment. A new 3D movie themed to the film was rumored to have been floated as a replacement for the ''Film/CaptainEO'' revival, but instead the Magic Eye Theater currently hosts the Disney-Pixar Short Film Festival.

* SteppingOutToReact: In one deleted scene, Fear is in charge after Joy goes missing, which is even more stressful for all concerned because none of the other emotions have been in charge for long before. After things go awry, Fear announces that everything went well and he needs to go do something... which turns out to be screaming.
-->'''Fear''': All right, back to work, everyone!

* Sadness was originally going to have a more monstrous and furry appearance (most early concept art has her looking similar to a large blue mattress), but was changed to a more human design to make her more sympathetic and non-threatening for audiences. Additionally, the character was initially going to be more demonstrative and constantly wailing, but they decided that would not only get old quick, but that sadness was better displayed with a more somber, dialed-down characterization a la TheEeyore. She was also originally sketched as wearing pajamas (the idea being that sad people often don't feel like changing), which eventually evolved into the sweater she wears in the final product.
* They were originally going to have 27 emotions in all, but reverted to five to make it less complicated. Concept art for some of them can be found [[http://www.slashfilm.com/inside-out-concept-art-emotions/ here]].

* An early concept art has the emotions literally plugged into Riley's mind as they monitored Riley's physical state, as shown on the page image.

* There originally was an antagonistic force/character known as "Gloom". However, it ended up being too close to depression for comfort, and Docter didn't want to demean real depression sufferers by having their condition be defeated at the end of the movie, since real depression never just goes away like that. Gloom was therefore cut to avoid UnfortunateImplications, and his role as the [[AnthropomorphicPersonification personification]] of Riley's mental breakdown was taken by a literal breakdown, with Riley's personality islands crashing down into the memory dump whenever Riley does something directly counter to the island's intent (Not responding to her father's attempts at lightening the mood kills Goofball Island, performing badly and [[RageQuit Rage Quitting]] at hockey practice is what does Hockey Island in, Friendship Island crumbles when she finds out Meg has a new friend, stealing her mom's credit card breaks Honesty Island, and Family Island slowly crumbles as she becomes more distant from her parents, culminating in her running away from home).

* They were originally going to have [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters 27 emotions in all]], but reverted to five to make it less complicated. Concept art for some of them can be found [[http://www.slashfilm.com/inside-out-concept-art-emotions/ here]].

* Disgust originally had a purple dress, and a slightly longer hair style. It's unknown why this was changed, although it's probably so that each character has their own individual color scheme. A maquette of her displayed at the former Disney Art of Animation exhibit showed one potential design would have had RapunzelHair.

* [[http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2015/06/22/imaginary-friends-gloopy-gloom-and-scary-balloon-animals-what-was-left-out-of-inside-out/ The earliest concepts]] started with Riley waking up in Headquarters itself and meeting her emotions and another concept where Joy, served as an entity that hung around Riley's shoulder. The author of the fanfic Fanfic/{{Intercom}} took the first idea and ran with it.

* In an early draft, Fear (originally called Freddie) was supposed to be Joy's sidekick, not Sadness. One of the reasons this was changed was because it made more sense for Anger, Fear, and Disgust to exist during Riley's culture shocks, another was that the writing team couldn't get much mileage out of the idea aside from a few jokes. A third was to remove the idea of shipping between Joy and Fear—not that that hasn't stopped [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Starnerve]] from being [[FanPreferredCouple one of the most popular ships in the fandom]].

* In an early draft, Fear (originally called Freddie) was supposed to be Joy's sidekick, not Sadness. One of the reasons this was changed was because it made more sense for Anger, Fear, and Disgust to exist during Riley's culture shocks. Another reason was to remove the idea of shipping between Joy and Fear—not that that hasn't stopped [[IdiosyncraticShipNaming Starnerve]] from being [[FanPreferredCouple one of the most popular ships in the fandom]].

** In one article it's stated they would be paired up. Likely in the adventure pairing sense, but there may also have been a few ShipTease moments.

* There was going to be a sixth emotion, Surprise, but they decided that was too close to Fear. Doubles as a case of ShownTheirWork, as joy, sadness, anger, fear, disgust ''and'' surprise are all part of the psychological principle of "the six basic/universal emotions".

* A few other plot lines for Riley were considered, including her wanting to be the turkey in a Thanksgiving play, and her trying to decide which kind of chips to bring to a party (the story line was meant to show how small things could be a big deal inside her head).

** One of those particular Joy-Fear drafts involved [[http://screencrush.com/bill-hader-pixar-inside-out-interview/ Riley getting knocked unconscious in the woods]] and the movie mostly taking place in her head. Hader protested that worrying about Riley would really distract from the journey.

* The movie's original name was supposed to be "Brainstorm".

* The Pixar team [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6xjtJF9604/VZ2AH6l6LXI/AAAAAAAAZOA/jUcjZ32dwZI/s1600/IObrainstorm02.jpg originally]] had Creator/HayleyMills of ''Film/{{The Parent Trap|1961}}'' fame in mind for the role of Joy. Mills also played the trope namer for ''Main/ThePollyanna'', a character known for her relentless optimism.

The basic idea for the movie is 'Anthropomorphic Emotions' used to make a deep analysis of emotional psychology. With that in mind, is it all that surprising how many different concepts the movie went through to reach its final stage?

* Two actors considered for the role of Bing Bong before Richard Kind were comedians Creator/DaveChappelle and Kevin Meaney. Ironically, Paula Poundstone, who played one of the two Forgetters, collaborated with Kevin Meaney in previous years. Also, had Meaney been chosen for the role, [[spoiler:Bing Bong's death]] would have a bigger HarsherInHindsight undertone to it as [[spoiler:Meaney would die in 2016 of a heart attack]].
* The emotions were originally drawn [[https://i.pinimg.com/originals/f8/ac/87/f8ac87e154009a0f679662329700862d.jpg quite differently]].

* The Pixar team [[http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-y6xjtJF9604/VZ2AH6l6LXI/AAAAAAAAZOA/jUcjZ32dwZI/s1600/IObrainstorm02.jpg originally]] had Creator/HayleyMills of ''Film/TheParentTrap'' fame in mind for the role of Joy. Mills also played the trope namer for ''Main/ThePollyanna'', a character known for her relentless optimism.

* [[http://blogs.disney.com/insider/2015/06/22/imaginary-friends-gloopy-gloom-and-scary-balloon-animals-what-was-left-out-of-inside-out/ The earliest concepts]] started with Riley waking up in Headquarters itself and meeting her emotions and another concept where Joy, served as an entity that hung around Riley's shoulder.

* Two actors considered for the role of Bing Bong before Richard Kind were comedians Creator/DaveChappelle and Kevin Meaney. Ironically, Creator/PaulaPoundstone, who played one of the two Forgetters, collaborated with Kevin Meaney in previous years. Also, had Meaney been chosen for the role, [[spoiler:Bing Bong's death]] would have a bigger HarsherInHindsight undertone to it as [[spoiler:Meaney would die in 2016 of a heart attack]].

* Two actors considered for the role of Bing Bong before Creator/RichardKind were comedians Creator/DaveChappelle and Creator/KevinMeaney. Ironically, Creator/PaulaPoundstone, who played one of the two Forgetters, collaborated with Kevin Meaney in previous years. Also, had Meaney been chosen for the role, [[spoiler:Bing Bong's death]] would have a bigger HarsherInHindsight undertone to it as [[spoiler:Meaney would die in 2016 of undisclosed causes]].

* Two actors considered for the role of Bing Bong before Creator/RichardKind were comedians Creator/DaveChapelle and Creator/KevinMeaney. Ironically, Creator/PaulaPoundstone, who played one of the two Forgetters, collaborated with Kevin Meaney in previous years. Also, had Meaney been chosen for the role, [[spoiler:Bing Bong's death]] would have a bigger HarsherInHindsight undertone to it as [[spoiler:Meaney would die in 2016 of undisclosed causes]].

* Two actors considered for the role of Bing Bong before Richard Kind were comedians Dave Chapelle and Kevin Meaney. Ironically, Paula Poundstone, who played one of the two Forgetters, collaborated with Kevin Meaney in previous years. Also, had Meaney been chosen for the role, [[spoiler:Bing Bong's death]] would have a bigger HarsherInHindsight undertone to it as [[spoiler:Meaney would die in 2016 of undisclosed causes]].

The basic idea for the movie is 'Anthormophic Emotions' right beside a deep analysis of emotional psychology. With that in mind, is it all that surprising how many different concepts the movie went through to reach its final stage?

* Disgust originally had a purple dress, and a slightly longer hair style. It's unknown why this was changed, although it's probably so that each character has their own individual color scheme. A mauqette of her displayed at the former Disney Art of Animation exhibit showed one potential design would have had RapunzelHair.