Back in July we posted about a new Ninetendo game in development, Epic Mickey . Now, the November issue of Game Informer magazine has the scoop on this new game from Junction Point and Disney Interactive Studios. BTW, if you look really closely at that cover painting you’ll spot Oswald the Lucky Rabbit behind the gates in the center. I’m not a gamer, but this thing looks pretty cool to me. Game Informer also posted a video podcast with game creator, Warren Spector, where he discusses his love of Mickey Mouse, Disney and all things classic animation – and on another page they post a gallery of

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We’ve posted about Epic Mickey several times last year , and game will be released on the Nintendo Wii later this year. But for now, with the E3 gaming convention in LA this week, Disney Interactive has released this intriguing behind-the-scenes viral: (Thanks, Heath Cecere)
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This humor piece by Paul Rudnick appears in the latest issue of The New Yorker (February 1, 2010): “Now, however, concerned that Mickey has become more of a corporate symbol than a beloved character for recent generations of young people, Disney is taking the risky step of re-imagining him for the future. The first glimpse of this will be...
To promote Major League Baseball’s All-Star game in Anaheim this summer, the MLB has teamed up with Disney to display 36 seven-and-a-half foot Mickey statues around Southern California. Combining two all-American ideas like baseball and Mickey Mouse probably seemed like a smart idea during the boardroom meeting, but turning Mickey’s...
The name Mickey Mouse is synonymous with that of Walt Disney, and although the famous animator had been working for several years before the mouse debuted, Mickey has remained the spokesperson of the company ever since. Walt Disney provided the original voice for Mickey, and designed him with long term collaborator, Iwerks. Mickey Mouse trivia shows...
Mickey Mouse is the most famous mouse in the planet today. No other mouse or animal comes close. He has appeared in movies with countless famous personalities, from Roger Rabbit to his creator Walt Disney himself.
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When Disney’s acquisition of Marvel first became news we did a post inviting artists to show off their best visions of the merger. Now, courtesy of artist John Waltrip, by way of T Campbell , comes this materpiece: Click Here to see the ultimate Disney-Marvel crossover! (Thanks, Alex Rannie)
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When the Cat’s Away is a 1929 Mickey Mouse short film produced by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. In the film Mickey and Minnie are portrayed the size of regular mice, whereas Tom Kat is the size of a person.
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Tonight is the opening of The Art of Harvey Comics exhibit over at the Van Eaton Gallery on Ventura Blvd. Many pieces in this exhibit are for sale and Van Eaton has just posted some of them online. This page offers some of the Irv Spector and Bill Tytla story sketch art that was of the display. The second page has several 1950s Harvey pages by...
With the continuing demand for Mickey Mouse toys,cartoons and a whole range of Mickey related paraphernalia, it’s always good to take a look back at how this phenomenon actually started. Today, we’re going to take a look at one of the earliest cartoons, Steamboat Willie.
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If I ask you about Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck, I am sure you know them very well. Yes, they are Disney characters. But who are Walt Disney actually? How could he create a lot of characters that are very famous among children and even adult? This article is going to tell you some little pieces of his life.
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