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You Won’t Believe What The Minions Were Originally Planned To Be

This would have changed everything.

Chances are that you’ve heard of Minions.

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Love or hate them, they’re incredibly successful and well known, from the Pixar animation Despicable Me. Their yellow skin, cute voices and funny mannerisms is what has made them so incredibly popular, however, they were intended to be so different.

The team that created the Minions for Despicable Me were character designer Eric Guillon and directors Pierre Coffin and Chris Renaud. 

They have just shared the original concept drawings for the characters, which shows them as robots! But they first began as factory workers…
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(Credit: Character Designs by Eric Guillon.)
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(Credit: Character Designs by Eric Guillon.)

As the story evolved, the humans turned into robots. They believed that the idea of robots made them naive and amusing when knocked around.

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(Credit: Character Designs by Eric Guillon.)

After a while, they all settled on the robot-esque characters of the Minions we know today.

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(Credit: Character Designs by Eric Guillon.)

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