History WMG / Dumbo

!!The movie

!!The upcoming remake
[[WMG:The Pink Elephants on Parade sequence will be featured.]]
If the movie is directed by Tim Burton, then it will be recreated in his trademark StopMotion style.
* We do see a glimpse of one of the Pink Elephants in the first trailer, but it seems to be rendered in CGI rather than stop motion.

[[WMG: The ringmaster will go through AdaptationalVillainy.]]
Much like in ''VideoGame/DisneysVillainsRevenge''.

[[WMG:The Pink Elephants will be less whimsical and more ethereal.]]
Rather than dancing around to a catchy musical number, they'll be be floating around silently, maybe pulling {{Nightmare Face}}s or something, all to a more bleak, ominous soundtrack. The Pink Elephant we briefly see in the trailer seems like it won't be nearly as lively as the ones in the original movie.

[[WMG: The reason why Timothy Mouse doesn't appear in the '90s TV series ''Dumbo's Circus'' is that [[MayflyDecemberFriendship he died of old age]].]]

[[WMG:The ringmaster will go through AdaptationalVillainy.]]

Much like in ''VideoGame/DisneyVillainsRevenge''.

* [[spoiler:They may have been the Gamiliars of an elephant that wished, on some primitive level, to get out of the circus and became a Witch. The Dog Witch, Uhrmann, possibly indicates that Incubators also experimented on animals.]]

[[WMG: The Pink Elephants were [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Witches]], and that was a barrier Dumbo and Timothy stumbled into.]]

* [[spoiler:They may have been the Witch form of an elephant that wished, on some primitive level, to get out of the circus. The Dog Witch, Uhrmann, possibly indicates that Incubators also experimented on animals.]]

[[WMG: Dumbo's life will be put in danger by someone trying to pull an InsuranceScam.]]

There's really nothing in the film to support this except a case of FridgeBrilliance; imagine you're a funny-looking kid with big ears, and all your friends tease you about it -- not exactly a case of AllOfTheOtherReindeer, as they still hang out with you, but they never miss a chance to take a shot at you for it. Your ears [[MemeticMutation reach "meme" status among your peers]], and they make a running gag out of teasing you for your big ears. Then, you have the good fortune of seeing an elephant with HUGE ears. You immediately pick up on a chance to divert attention from you, and you point out the ears of the elephant. Some of the insults he uses might even be some that he heard from his friends. Now, whenever the other kids say "you have big ears", you can say "at least they're not as big as that one elephant's". The joke loses its humor, and dies out, and you're free of ridicule.

The original stork that was supposed to deliver Dumbo to the circus drank on the job one too many times and lost the elephant. When catching up to the rest of the flying V of storks, it got in trouble for losing the baby (and replacing it with BugsBunny), Long story short, the original stork was fired and a newbie stork was tasked to deliver a baby elephant to a moving train.

** The water ''did'' turn a greenish color, which would fit. And while it's since been debunked, many have claimed over the years that absinthe causes hallucinations.

** The water ''did'' turn a greenish color, which would fit.

[[WMG: The Pink Elephants were [[MadokaMagica Witches]], and that was a barrier Dumbo and Timothy stumbled into.]]

The original stork that was supposed to deliver Dumbo to the circus drank on the job one too many times and lost the elephant. When catching up to the rest of the flying V of storks, it got in trouble for losing the baby (and replacing it with Bugs Bunny), Long story short, the original stork was fired and a newbie stork was tasked to deliver a baby elephant to a moving train.

** Absinthe, perhaps? I've heard it be called the strongest drink there is. That could account for still being fairly strong even after dilution.