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How the Robinsons’ Zany Future Went from Page to Screen

The 2007 film Meet the Robinsons painted a madcap future packed with whimsical technologies and eccentric people. Artist William Joyce has shared the oddball concept art that shaped the movie's retrofuturistic world.

Joyce wrote and illustrated the book A Day with Wilbur Robinson, which was eventually optioned by Disney and turned into a film about an orphaned boy genius who travels to a bizarre and wondrous future to foil the plans of the Bowler Hat Guy, who wants to keep this future from every happening. Joyce also provided concept art for movie, and shows them side-by-side with Disney's final products:


[William Joyce]

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