Well, I haven't seen it yet but as a kid I read pretty much every Oz book ever so.. (I should really revisit them)
A lot of your concerns fail to consider if this will be the _only_ prequel. Every studio these days has sequelitis. Hell, we've progressed beyond "every blockbuster movie needs to become a trilogy" to "every blockbuster movie needs to become a five-plus film saga".
Therefore... the filmmakers _wouldn't_ introduce the Lion/Tin Man/Scarecrow backstories because, if the film is successful, they need more content for more James Franco-powered entries in their saga. Sounds cool that their influence can be felt though 
> Finally... where'd the fucking tin man come from? They ALMOST built one... Tinker was
> making all kinds of machinations, but no tin man to get rusted and stuck in a field.
IIRC Tin Man is not a full-on from-the-start mechanical man, so that would be wrong (or at least heavily revisionist). Instead he's a clumsy logger/forester/woodchopper human, who slowly has each body part replaced with mechanical parts as accidents happen. But it leaves him without a heart, so he can no longer love.
IMHO they should've just made the Gregory Maguire books into serious movies (not necessarily musicals) but whatever...
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