Copyright renewal.

Money.

For the new generation.

We might remember the animation fondly but by today’s standards it’s not amazing.

Also the pacing of kids entertainment is very different to when we were young. Our films might as well be in slow motion to them haha

I still maintain that was actually an early “draft” model that was revealed just to soften the blow of the reveal of the “”“reworked”“” abomination that we ended up getting (which had actually been the real “final” model all along).