Alice's Wonderland Bakery

The series revolves around Alice, the great-granddaughter of the original Alice Pleasance Liddell, who is a young baker working at the Wonderland Bakery. As she explores the kingdom on various culinary adventures, she is accompanied by Fergie the white rabbit, Hattie, and Rosa—the Princess of Hearts.

The teapot-shaped Wonderland Bakery has a kitchen where some of the equipment are animated, namely the oven and the mixer. The bakery also has a pantry which is vertical tunnel where the ingredients are on shelves on the sides, and anyone who enters will mostly float inside as if they are in space. The desserts (and to lesser-extent foods) the characters make are mostly magical, resulting either troublesome or pleasant effects.

Alice's Wonderland Bakery is based on the 1951 Disney film Alice in Wonderland.

Alice's Wonderland Bakery is based on Disney's animated feature Alice in Wonderland (1951), which in turn is based on the Alice book series by Lewis Caroll. In the film, there is a scene in which the Mad Hatter hosts a tea party with teapots that pipe music, hats producing three-layers frosted cakes, and exploding firework candles in the sky. Disney Television Animation decided to produce a heritage project based upon the scene,[33] which would also take inspiration from the sense of connection brought by food.[3] Creator Chelsea Beyl said: "I started thinking about all the whimsy, the comedy, and the peculiar characters that are in the original movie and thought, 'Wow, preschoolers are going to love this' ... It's silly. And then we're combining all that with baking, which, of course, kids love to do as well."[33] In May 2021, Disney Junior greenlit to series, to air on the network in 2022.[3]

According to co-executive producer and art director Frank Montagna, the shift in storytelling from a 1950s 2D-animated film to a 2022 computer-animated preschool TV series was unexpectedly simple. He stated that there are many enjoyable activities in Wonderland, such as the tea parties, cards, and mazes. The team removed the frightening elements from the original film and kept the entertaining ones. Throughout the book and the film, there are references to the words "Eat me" and "Drink me". Because of this, Montaga came up with the idea of fusing Alice in Wonderland with a bakery when Beyl initially presented the show to him. The show highlights the importance of food, which is used as a form of creativity and self-expression; Alice makes friends and learns of other cultures through food.[33] Beyl stated that "food [is] essentially [Alice's] superpower ... [and] how she connects with all these curious and peculiar characters". The series pays homage to the original Alice, who is always thinking, by having its version of Alice constantly trying to figure out things.[34]

It did not take Montagna long to come up with the design for Alice's Wonderland Bakery since the original Alice in Wonderland "has always been such a core part of [his] being". Since the original designs were so shaped-driven and everything was already round, bouncy, and rubbery, he found converting them into 3D models rather easy. The team at ICON Creative Studio, according to Montagna, worked tirelessly to give the show a "bouncy and rubbery" feel, particularly with the Cheshire Cat—the only character from the 1951 film to appear in the series. Montagna believed that the team truly needed him to embody his role from the original film. Since television computer animation budgets were rather small, many factors needed to be considered carefully. For the character to be correctly rigged, the team would need to be very clear about how they wanted the character to look.[33]

The team wanted the characters to truly reflect the children of that time, which also required giving them origins that Carroll may never have imagined.[34] Beyl sought to reimagine some characters from the original film to enrich Wonderland with a wider range of cultures. The Hatter family's character design, kitchen—as well as the recipes Alice and Hattie cook together—are drawn from Japanese culture. Meanwhile, several aspects of the Hearts family were influenced by Cuban cuisine and culture, including their dialogue (which includes Spanish words), clothing, palace, and set design.[33] The show later introduces a Persian-influenced caterpillar family. Certain characters are also gender flipped. Numerous foods from different cultures are featured in the series; these include: pastelitos (Cuban), mochi (Japanese), carrot calzone, grape gazpacho, huevos habaneros and kuku sib zamini (Persian).[34]

The series references several iterations of Alice in Wonderland, including the 2010 film directed by Tim Burton. The White Rabbit hole served as the model for Alice's pantry, which features an endless supply of food items. For the ingredients, the team aimed to combine wacky Wonderland-style elements with real-world meals. Examples of this are "Bread and Butterflies", "Disa-pears", and "Rea-pears". Since nothing is impossible in Wonderland, the team were able to incorporate many unrealistic ideas of food into the show, including an upside-down cake.[33]

The series originally premiered on February 9, 2022. On the same day, first six episodes were released early on on-demand and Disney+.[37][4] The first season is streamable on Disney+, FuboTV, and Amazon Prime Video.[1] The show was renewed for a second season in April 2022.[38][39]

• Alice in Wonderland (franchise)
• Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
• Through the Looking Glass

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