Talk:The Good Dinosaur/@comment-26945139-20151201201121/@comment-15571222-20151209190041

All those characters were originally meant to appear in the film, until director Bob Peterson was removed and substituted by Peter Sohn. In Bob Peterson's version of "The Good Dinosaur", they lived with Arlo in the farm ruled by the herbivorous dinosaurs and each one of them had a specific job in the crops. Because Bob Peterson was removed from the film very late in production ("The Good Dinosaur" was originally meant to be released in May 2014), and the toy makers already had started mass production of the characters, it was decided to release Will, Jack, Mary Alice, Vivian and Sam anyway into the market in order to minimize financial loss and avoid breach of contracts (Disney already had lost millions throwing away toys and other products that depicted the old designs of Arlo and Spot and some other characters, like the deleted Arlo's third sibling).

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