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Easter eggs from Frozen revealed
Did you spot Rapunzel in Disney’s Frozen? Collider has a short list of hidden Easter eggs found in the film, including Mickey Mouse, a Wreck-It Ralph reference, and more. Frozen… |
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Lasseter discusses Disney 90th birthday
…of Mickey Mouse, the impact of Snow White, his own first interaction with Disney as a teenager, leaving Disney for Pixar, the recent Disney revitalization, the chance of a non-princess… |
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Gulliver’s Travels
…star – Popeye The Sailor – was just as popular as Disney’s Mickey Mouse in his heyday, and ordered the Fleischers to enter the feature film market. Paramount had been… |
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Oliver & Company: 25th Anniversary Edition
…with a couple of kittens in them, particularly the first, the often seen and over-recycled Lend A Paw. This is itself a remake of a black and white short, Mickey’s… |
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Meet The Robinsons
…new logo for the newly renamed Walt Disney Animation Studios (formally Walt Disney Feature Animation) which features a classic Mickey Mouse animation from his debut in Steamboat Willie. The film… |
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Robin Hood: 40th Anniversary Edition
…a frustrating challenge if ever there was one, Disney is long overdue releasing their cartoons in HD). Featuring Mickey and Goofy precursor Dippy Dawg after princess Minnie, this is a… |
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More X-Men, plus A Bug's Life is back!
…which aimed to out do Mickey in the animation stakes with both an epic, traditionally animated musical (The Prince Of Egypt) and his bug-starring feature produced in the developing medium… |
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Catch up on Disney reading
…My Half-Century Creating Disney’s Magic Kingdoms, Tinker Bell: An Evolution by Mindy Johnson, and from Fantagraphics Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse Color Sundays by Floyd Gottfredson, David Gerstein and Gary Groth…. |
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Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941 – 1942
…with Fleischer’s Betty Boop had seen some cracks open up between the two entities, though while the Popeye series ran its course during the 1930s – and even outsold Mickey… |
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New Toy Story Toon revealed: Mythic Rock
…Studios’ Frozen is rumored to have the Mickey Mouse short Get a Horse in November. Unless Disney changes its usual game plan and attaches the short to a more teen/adult-centered… |
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Disturbing Disney cartoons
Screen Crush has an interesting look back at “10 Disturbing Classic Disney Cartoons”. From World War II propaganda films, to educational shorts about menstruation, to Mickey Mouse doing blackface —… |
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Superman Classic creator Robb Pratt unveils Flash Gordon Classic
…The Lion King 1 1/2 and Tarzan II, as well as TV productions including Kim Possible, The Emperor’s New School, and Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. Meanwhile, he honed his abilities as… |
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Favorite Mousketeer Annette Funicello Dies
…auditions. After two callbacks, she earned a permanent position in The Mickey Mouse Club, where she performed in the opening and closing numbers. After her stint in the club that… |
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Witch Mountain, Super Friends, and Disney history!
…him to Hollywood and provided the foundation from which he launched Oswald The (not so, for him) Lucky Rabbit, and eventually Mickey Mouse. Davis starred in the first thirteen of… |
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Bob Clampett’s Beany And Cecil: The Special Edition
…mice attend the park wearing Mickey Mouse ears; this one got Clampett in trouble with censors who were worried that Uncle Walt would take offence Cecil Meets The Singing Dinosaur… |
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The Tick Vs. Season One
…just the right note of enthusiasm, earnestness, and even sweetness. It would have been so eay to make The Tick annoying, but with Coleman, The Tick is only endearing. Mickey… |
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DuckTales: Volume 2
…that play upon loading the first disc, including Peter Pan: Special Edition, Meet The Robinsons, Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: A Kingdom Of Kindness, Cars, and Mickey Saves Santa. Sorry, no… |
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APRIL FOOLS STORY: Disney decides to put iconic characters in Star Wars
…the entire franchise in traditional animation, casting the Mouse and friends in the titular roles. Goofy’s son, Max, will play Luke Skywalker; Goofy is Darth Vader; Mickey is Han Solo,… |
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Brother Bear: 2-Movie Collection
…then it’s all Disney’s fault for stretching out the franchise), plus previews for Epic Mickey: The Power Of Two, Mulan, SuperBuddies, Return To Never-Land, the next, untitled Tinker Bell outing… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #34: Toy Story 2 – British Invasion
…new Mickey Mouse shorts, Rumplestilkskin (The Name Game) animated film by Disney? • Nerdy Couch Discussion: Pixar sequels. • Beyond the trailer, Toy Story 3 filled with holocaust references? •… |
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Animation Addicts Podcast #32: Mulan – Yodeling Huns
…battle on the mountain, very Star Wars, Chinese-made rope, “apparently there’s a hidden Mickey…”, Animation Law #2: Disney women must not have short rule, “It’s ok to cross dress”, Jafar… |
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Never before seen sketches by Walt
…their red carpet strut. Corny? Yes! But a good excuse to post some never before seen sketches by Walt Disney that were used in the 1933 short Mickey’s Gala Premier…. |
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Disney Historian Christian Renaut on The Best Of Disney’s Animated Features
…all was well in Mickey’s Studio. The polished image that was carefully crafted for years is a far cry from reality. There were rivalries, hurt egos, politics, jealousies, bitterness and… |
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Bolt
…have is the evidence that Bolt has signalled a return to form for Mickey’s outfit, as confirmed by the animation industry itself with the film’s somewhat surprise Oscar nomination. Sanders’… |
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Disney opera opens
…of a world without death, now grappling with mortality… It does what opera does best by making the larger-than-life creator of Mickey Mouse an imperfect life-size, ultimately earning our wonderment”…. |
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Walt Disney Treasures Wave 7 Announced
…supply just in time for the holidays. Predating even Mickey Mouse, the legendary and rarely-seen Oswald The Lucky Rabbit was Walt Disney’s first big animated star, and having recently returned… |
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So this is love: Romantic Disney postage stamps
…spotlighted include Cinderella and Prince Charming, Belle and the Beast, Lady and the Tramp, and, of course, Mickey and Minnie. View the press release at o-meon and the official page… |
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Gearing up for Cars
…quick sellout of all 30,000 seats for the premiere at Lowe’s Motor Speedway. Animated News correspondents Mickey and Brandon will be there to report on the event. And over at… |
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Preview Animation from Pencils to Pixels
…$49.95 Format: Paperback, with Approx. 700 illustrations Pages: c. 528 Foreward The following is the “Foreward” included in Animation from Pencils to Pixels: Mickey Mouse is only a little more… |
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Disney compilations on the way
…Walt Disney; The Mickey Mouse Club featuring The Hardy Boys; and More Silly Symphonies. In addition, Disney’s Acclaimed Short Film Collection, a variety of Oscar-winning and nominated animated shorts, is… |
