EN ROUTE TO THE CARIBBEAN · SINCE 1999
Saga / The Cutting Room

The Cutting Room

The islands that might have been. Thirteen files of notes, source discoveries and creators’ memories.

Original site illustration: an imaginary archive, not a LucasArts document.
Original site illustration: an imaginary archive, not a LucasArts document.
ARCHIVE OF ABANDONED ROUTES · 13 FILES

An adventure is not born in one piece. Before reaching our screen it passes through pencil rooms, changing jokes and dead ends. We open those drawers to discover its possible shapes, rather than a supposedly truer Monkey Island.

Before opening the drawers

Files discuss locations, puzzles and scenes. Choose the last game you finished: later contents and sources stay sealed. Your spoiler choice is not remembered on your next visit.

The drawers are sealed. Choose a game to begin.

ConfirmedDocumented but incompleteUnverified · not published as fact

Each artefact has a certainty level. Artistic reconstructions are labelled separately.

How we read the evidence

A notebook idea is not a programmed scene; an animation in a repository does not prove a planned role; an author’s memory comes with its uncertainties. Verification applies to the described artefact, not every explanation of its removal. Unverified rumours do not become filler entries.

New illustrations are artistic interpretations created with imagegen for this site, never authentic concept art. Historical scans, footage and documents are consulted at their sources; online availability is not republication permission.