Ron Dias Toontown Concept Art

I was writing a different article when I stumbled upon some concept art for Toontown in Who Framed Roger Rabbit that evidently went unused.

The late Ron Dias designed them. Per Cartoon Brew he worked at Disney, Hanna-Barbera, Bakshi Productions, DePatie-Freleng, UPA and Bluth Entertainment--a background legend, obviously.

He apparently was doing the alleyway scene, since these have a noir look to them. 

I like these. The movie went with those anthro-buildings from Disney's The Little House.

The final image has some interesting stuff. First of all, in that poster, that appears to be Tex Avery's George holding a bomb, evidently advertising them (in the film you can see Lampwick advertising exploding cigars):

Unfortunately, it appears to be plagiarized from Preston Blair's Animation 1. In fact, in the original printing (at right), it was unmistakably George (the first edition had Disney and MGM characters, which of course Blair did away with in subsequent versions).

There's also a wanted poster for Bugs--probably for stealing the king's carrots:

I won't say it's a shame they didn't show up in the actual film, because the Toontown scene itself is like nothing I've seen in an animated film. I never get tired of watching it.