And as it turns out, Sierra (in its Vivendi incarnation) actually planned on giving the King’s Quest series a similar makeover to the one they gave Larry. Adventuregamers has a story on this, with two concept images:
http://www.adventuregamers.com/blogitem.php?id=26
Thank god they didn’t go ahead with this one… still, I wonder if Ken or Roberta ever heard of Vivendi’s intentions to ressurect the franchise back then.