Burton's ALICE props to tour in huge, worldwide exhibit

Jim Hill has broken the news that a stunning exhibit of props from Tim Burton's Alice in Wonderland re-imagining will soon be touring around the globe. The exhibit made its debut during Comic-Con, and Hill's site now has a gallery of truly stunning photos. Here, for instance, is a giant Alice in the show. That room's not a tiny diorama with an Alice figure in it; it's a full-size room, with a giant Alice.


Hill also offers up a few plot spoilers from the film, revealing some changes to the original story that are guaranteed to piss-off Alice purists in a big way.

It seems that in this version, the story builds to the grown Alice and the Mad Hatter taking up swords against the Jabberwock in what Disney is calling "the final battle for Wonderland." I'm not a total purist (I love Disney's 1951 Alice cartoon, for instance) and I'm willing to wait and see how Burton handles it, but I do suspect that ending the film with an epic battle is probably a mistake. It's hard enough to imagine Alice strapping on armor, a big battle simply doesn't suit her whimsical, dreamy nature... But it's dead wrong for the Mad Hatter, a totally nonsensical character who has always been more of an obstacle for Alice than an ally. The Cheshire Cat, the White Knight, even Humpty freakin' Dumpty I could maybe see fighting beside Alice. But the Mad Hatter would just smear jam on his shield or do something totally crazy like that, and then he'd wander off the field of battle and leave Alice all alone to face the Jaws That Bite and the Claws That Catch.

(Burton better get used to crabbing like this. If he thought he caught hell from the Planet of the Apes nerds, just wait until the Lewis Carroll geeks get get done with his ass.)

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