There’s no Ryan Gosling, but someone is making a biopic of Walt Disney’s life. It’s called “As Dreamers Do” and it is, obviously, unauthorized. The film follows young Walt as he develops his skills as an animator through to his creation of Mickey Mouse. I’ll… Read More »Walt Disney Biopic – As Dreamers Do
We almost missed it, and that would have been embarrassing. Today in 1928 Mickey Mouse was created born, and we have all been celebrating ever since! That’s 85 years if you’re still doing the math. Happy birthday, Mickey Mouse! We’ll see you real soon …… Read More »Happy Birthday, Mickey Mouse!
As a sports fan, Team Mickey in the Downtown Disney Marketplace is always on my must visit list when that credit card is burning a hole in my wallet. If you have a sports fan in your family, you can probably find a gift that… Read More »Mickey Mouse NCAA Football Poll
Fifteen years ago Congress passed a 20 year extension of copyright in the USA. The Sonny Bono Copyright Extension Act was also known as the Mickey Mouse Copyright Extension as The Walt Disney Company’s desire to keep Mickey Mouse protected by copyright was a significant… Read More »Will Disney’s Copyright on Mickey Mouse Ever Expire?
Disney has been working on their “living character” initiative for over a dozen years. My first encounter with the technology was with an interactive Stitch in Disneyland’s Tomorrowland. Since then there has been Lucky the Dinosaur, Turtle Talk with Crush, and a number of other… Read More »Magic Kingdom Meet & Greet Adds Extra Magic with Talking Mickey Mouse
The latest Mickey Mouse Animated Short “‘O Sole Minnie” was just released by Disney. It features a wonderful story of Mickey Mouse courtship of Minnie Mouse in the beautiful Venice Italy. Plus there are a couple surprise cameos to keep an eye out for including… Read More »Mickey Mouse Animated Short “‘O Sole Minnie” Just Released
There are now 11 of the new Paul Rudish directed Mickey Mouse animated shorts available on YouTube. There will be 19 in the new series. So we have eight more to go. I really loved “Ghoul Friend” (Goofy Ghoul concept art above). Really a lot… Read More »New Mickey Mouse Animated Shorts
Followers of this blog know that I keep an eye out for any new t-shirts Disney sells at the parks. They’ve actually been pretty good about releasing humorous or trendy graphics on a regular basis. Summer has always been a slow time for new releases, but like a charm, on my first post summer visited I spotted these three new t-shirts.
The first appears to be an import from Disneyland with an unfortunate message. The whole thing of ‘it’s a small world’ is the possibility of world peace, and yet, Disney’s t-shirt team wants you to conquer the ride. That’s a bit to war-monger-y for me. A better word would be ‘survived.’
This next shirt would look a lot better if the earful tower was there instead of that awful hat.Read More »T-Shirt Trouble, Sort of