Disney is finally ready to bring back the mouse. Mickey Mouse, who made his debut in the 1928 black and white animated short film Steamboat Willie has appeared in hundreds of films over the years. But in recent years, the character has been primarily slumming in preschool television programing — the Mouse has only starred in three films since 1980.
But that is about to change. Disney has released a sneak preview of a new short film Croissant de Triomphe, which tells the story of what happens when Minnie’s cafe runs out of croissants, and Mickey must deliver them to her fast, fighting wild traffic and other obstacles across Paris.
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Despite the character’s locked-in-stone status as an animation icon, Mickey Mouse has forever been a star of shorts, television and comics. While there have been some direct to video films starring Mickey, he’s never starred in his own theatrical feature.
Now it looks like one could happen. Not quickly or soon, because that’s not the pace of animation. But still: a Mickey feature in theaters would be a pretty big deal. Read More »
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What happens when Disney’s classic animated character’s Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck get mashed up with Quentin Tarantino‘s violent R-rated classic Pulp Fiction. Watch the video, embedded after the jump.
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Wayne Allwine, best known as the voice of Mickey Mouse since 1977, passed away on Sunday night due to complications from diabetes. at age 62.
Allwine’s first appearance as Mickey was voicing the animated lead-ins for The New Mickey Mouse Club in 1977, and he has provided the voice for Mickey Mouse ever since. Coincidentally, he was married to Russi Taylor, the current voice of Minnie Mouse. You can read more about Wayne Allwine on the Disney Legends website.
After the jump I’ve included an interview with Allwine and Taylor from the the Walt Disney Treasures box set Mickey Mouse in Living Color: Volume Two.
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Tomy is releasing a Disney label Mickey Mouse Optimus Prime Transformer figure in Japan. On display at the Tokyo Toy Forum 2009, the toy will go on sale in February 2009 for 3,610 yen (or about $38.57).
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Artist David Flores hails from Southern California and you may have spotted a recent collaboration he did with The Simpsons Movie and retro-skateboard staple Vans a while back. He recently created this vinyl collectible of Disney‘s Mickey Mouse for the Japanese toy company Medicom, which is just one work he’s done of the character. Check his side-scrolling site out for photos of huge Mickey Mouse murals and Flores’s regular work set to some Beatles and Roxy Music tunage. Snark, snark, but I’ve never seen a Mickey Mouse that I would even remotely consider filing under “Cool Stuff” until this. More pics after the jump…
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