Hey, this is Zecora here and with the new year coming up, I thought about on giving you guys a little behind the scenes on the stories, mostly the Disney/Thomas crossover and Zootopia/Ace Attorney crossover. So pretty much I'm just going to tell you some ideas that I originally had for some parts of the stories that were either, changed, altered, or not used at all. And I'll try to do this at the end of very year, no promise, it all depends on well this is received. If you like it, I'll do more, but will see.

This is just something that I thought of for a while and just an experiment, so the way this will work is that this will be divided up to two parts. The first part will be discussing the Disney/Thomas crossover and how the idea started and then I'll go over some changes that happened during the process and what I've learned from it, then the next part will be the Zootopia/Ace Attorney crossover and those changes that happened. Like I said, for the most part, this will be a two-parter, might be more, but honestly I don't think this will be that long, in fact I think this might be one of my more shorter stories, even though it's not a story. But with that said let's get started.

First, I should probably start on how the Disney/Thomas crossover idea came to be. When I first started on this site, I had a story for Hamtaro, it was a Stan/Flora shipping story, that was like two years ago, was August 1st, and this was just something I wanted to do for awhile I wasn't expecting to turn this into a hobby, but after that, I've deiced to do another Hamtaro story, by adapting the anime in the style of the railway series, but after trying to write chapter three, I just couldn't think of any new ideas, so that project is dead. It's still up it's only got two chapters, but that's all there. So I tried to do my first attempt had a crossover, my first one was a cross-over of My Little Pony/Yu-gi-oh and its basically the plot of both the duelist kingdom arc and the first half of second season of MLP, or was supposed to be, but again after writing the second chapter and thinking about I've realize that it would be too much work and there's a lot of episodes and story arc that it would be too much for me. So I've basically took a long hiatus for a while, and then after reading a few Oliver and Company fanfics, I've decided to go back into writing again and after writing more stories, I've made two stories of Oliver and Company based on two episodes from Thomas the Tank Engine. Finally I started to think, "You know, let's try another crossover story."

So I was thinking, "What crossover story should I try?" Then after reading MLPRWSandPowerpuffgirlsfan's MLP and Thomas crossover of the railway series I've decided to try something like that, but with Disney characters. So then I thought of what characters I wanted in the story along with what engine would be best suited for them. So Tramp would be with Gordon, Jock with James, ect. Now there are a few differences between this and MLP's version of the series, one is that I've combined both the T.V. series style and the railway series style with the series, plus instead being like a giant long fanfic with lots of chapters, I've decided to give at least 4 or 5 chapters a story. Sometimes it'll be a one-shot, but for the most part I want to at least give each story its own sort of arc with itself. So with that said, let's get to the making of each of the stories and some stuff that was changed in the middle of the writing process.

[The Three Railway Engines and Dogs]

So with this one the only thing that was a major change was two things, one is the setting on the overall structure. I had one idea of the family of Lady and Tramp moving to London and they happened to come across the North Western Railway and working with each of the engines, but I was like, "Okay, but how would this work for other characters like Jock and Trusty?" And I got nothing, so watching the movie and knowing that Tramp lived in a train yard for awhile, I've decided to have it where Tramp had worked with Sir Topham Hatt, aka The Fat Controller before, and deiced to bring Lady along and showed her where he used to work, and that seem much better for me. Now, the one thing that was sort of a problem that I didn't realize, and I'm surprise no one has pointed it out yet, is that I've made it seem like Lady and Tramp live in London, where actually in the movie they live in Midwestern, but it's not that big of deal.

The second thing was the whole humans understand animals. I was thinking on making to where everyone can talk to the dogs like it was no problem, but I was thinking to myself that there are some people like Jim and Roger that understand the dogs, but they don't talk to them like if they were human, so I've deiced to have this thing where there are some people that can talk to dogs like its nothing to them, while the others don't understand them verbally, but can get an idea on what they're thinking and how they're feeling.

Another thing that's a minor change, at least to me, is that I was thinking on going all out railway series, meaning if I was, you would not have seen James yet, because he doesn't show up until Thomas the Tank Engine, but I've deiced to mix in both the railway series and the T.V. series in the series so that's why you see James early on.

[Thomas and Scamp]

Now the one thing about this story that would set up the series in every first chapter is that I would make some time for an introduction on one for the Disney characters, sometimes I'll start off the story the same way it starts off from the original source material, like James the Red Engine and Tank Engine Thomas where it just starts off the same way it starts in the book, because we know these engines already. With this one, though, I've deiced to give the viewers a little introduction to both Scamp and Thomas, so that way they get an idea on how Scamp got the job in the first place. The whole scene about meeting Thomas is taken from the special, "The Adventure Begins". Another I've deiced to do in this series is give each of the characters some more depth to them, and you'll see some more character growth later on in the series. Now I've never seen Lady and the Tramp II, but I've read and gotten the idea on some of the characters from that movie, so I basically gave Scamp is little troublemaker personally, but also give him a somewhat stubborn, but means well character. In terms of picking his two sisters for Annie and Clarabel, I knew that Danielle was going to be one of them, seeing how she played a little role in the story; Collette was just something out of the bloom.

[James the Red Engine]

There isn't really any major changes I can think of on the top of my head with this, I'm sure they're might have been some, but nothing big or anything. I can tell you this was a difficult one for me. It was mostly due to fact that I couldn't think of anything to give to Jock. I could give something to Scamp and the others no problem, but I couldn't think of anything for Jock that he could play a part of to James. And I think it's because there isn't really a real story in the railway series, it's pretty just what you read is what you get, it didn't give me that much to work from. It's not bad, but I wish I couldn't have done something more with this, but what's you going do?

[Tank Engine Thomas and Scamp Again]

Again nothing anything major with this, the only that changed was I was trying to deiced what sort of Disney character could I give to Terrence. At first I was thinking of Spot that chicken from the 101 Dalmatians T.V. series, but I've deiced to not got give him any Disney character, since he's not use that much in both T.V series and Railway Series. And in terms of Angel, again I was debating whether or not to give Bertie a Disney character, but I've deiced to give him one after all. I was thinking Patch, but deiced to go with Angel, since I'm not really adapting Lady and the Tramp II's story, plus it makes somewhat sense to have her with Bertie, because Scamp works on the branch line and Thomas does work with Bertie occasionally, so it works.

[Scamp and Angel]

This story was something I thought while writing Tank Engine Thomas, I knew that I wanted to write an original story that'll tie together or add up to the main series. I didn't just want this to be a series of just the railway series, but with Disney characters. So I've deiced to build into Scamp and Angel's friendship a little bit more. I had one idea of Angel tagging along with Scamp and Thomas or other way around with Scamp tagging along with Angel and Bertie, but I've deiced the park one was little more easy and simple to do. I will say I had a bit of a though time writing it, I had so many ideas for this that I could have put them all in that one story, but I didn't want it to over stay it's welcome so I've kept at a nice pace as I can. I will say I wish I could have written the ending and middle part a bit better, not to say it was bad, but it was a bit too rush or jumble, at least to me, but I will say that this is not the last time that you'll get an original story, I do have more planned involving with the other characters later, and I do have plans for Angel and Scamp as well, so look out for that.

[Troublesome Engines]

Again, not much changes with this one, the only I thought was how was I going to introduce Lucky with the audience and if I was going to use Dumbo or not, cause I was thinking on just leaving it with just a random elephant, but I'd remembered that Dumbo was also a circus elephant, so I changed it to Dumbo.

[Henry and Pogo]

In Percy and the Trousers, I was thinking of including Thomas and Scamp into the story, and have it set up in the set like the beginning of "A Scarf for Percy", but deiced to just leave Percy and Henry, because I felt it wasn't needed honestly.

[Toby the Tram Engine]

The hardest part for this story was figuring out how I was going to include Trusty and Annette into the story. There were many parts I could do, I was thinking of having them just be a part of Toby's tramline and then have them work for the Fat Controller, but I felt that was too lazy, so I had to be careful on how to write about Trusty's owner passing away, because I'm not a expert on many subjects, I have a understanding knowledge, but not much. After that the rest of the story was alright. It was just eh.

And I think this is a good place to wrap it up, there's not much change on Gordon and Tramp or Thomas' Christmas Party, other than the intro and some scene changes. So that's all for the behind the scenes of Disney and Thomas.

Before we get to the next part I will say what you can expect for the next year with these stories. There'll definitely be more Disney characters, I've already got some plan for the story, but that could change, who knows, but I do have some plan, as well as for some more original scenes and possibly a whole story for them who knows. That's all for part one and stay for part two which will be out, right now.