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39 unusual facts about Mickey Mouse


Bunte Republik Neustadt

A coat of arms of created that retained elements of the coat of arms of East Germany with the head of Mickey Mouse featuring in the centre.

Cat City

The movie opens with a Star Wars style text scroll, which tells the main situation: In year 80 AM Anno Mickey Mouse, the mice of Planet X are threatened by humiliation and total apocalypse.

Cheese and Jam

After Špela leaves Božo because of his laziness and lack of will to find a job and moves back to her parents, he asks his friend Goran for help and gets a job as a Mickey Mouse impersonator at a local fair.

Chris Diamantopoulos

He is also the voice of Mickey Mouse for the eponymous animated series.

Crescent Porter Hale

Serials and westerns were popular as well as cartoons like Krazy Kat and Mickey Mouse.

Donald Welsh

He created more than 20 magazines, based on well-known franchises such as Mickey Mouse and the Muppets.

Fax

Their first coast-to-coast message contained images of Mickey Mouse.

Gang War

Gang War (released as All Square in the UK) is a 1928 gangster film, best known for being the main feature attached to Steamboat Willie, the debut of Mickey Mouse in sound.

Goalkeeper

Most goalkeepers also wear gloves to protect their hands (sometimes referred to as "Mickey Mouse gloves") and enhance grip of the ball and, like every player on the pitch, they are required to wear shin guards.

Goodbye, Mickey Mouse

Another major plot line follows Lieutenant Mickey Morse, nicknamed Mickey Mouse, who is racing to be the first American pilot to break Eddie Rickenbacker's record of 26 kills from World War I.

Japanese New Year

Famous characters like Snoopy, (2006) and other cartoon characters like Mickey and Minnie Mouse, (2008) have been especially popular in their celebrated years.

Kingdom Hearts coded

coded takes place after the events of Kingdom Hearts II and follows the story of Jiminy Cricket, Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy in Disney Castle.

Kingdom Hearts III

--PLEASE DO NOT ADD KAIRI HERE, AS SHE WAS NOT MENTIONED IN THE PRESS RELEASE THAT IS QUOTED FOR THIS INFORMATION.-->Donald Duck, Goofy, and King Mickey, as well as the inclusion of familiar Disney characters.

Magician Mickey

Magician Mickey is a 1937 Walt Disney Mickey Mouse cartoon, originally released to theaters on February 6, 1937.

Malaclypse the Younger

The character Dr. Ignotum P. Ignotius says the last thing Mal-2 wrote before he left for the ELF was, "Everybody understands Mickey Mouse. Few understand Hermann Hesse. Hardly anyone understands Albert Einstein. And nobody understands Emperor Norton." This is the slogan of the Joshua Norton Cabal of San Francisco.

Mary GrandPré

She began drawing when she was only five years old, beginning with a reproduction of Mickey Mouse.

Mickey's Circus

Although the film is called Mickey's Circus, the film mostly features Donald Duck; however Mickey Mouse does feature in the beginning and end.

Mickey's Mechanical House

Mickey Mouse keeps trying to sleep, in his footed pajamas, while living in an old, unrepaired house, which constantly annoys him.

Moonwalk One

In 1970 even the simplest computer animation was so expensive and time consuming to do that it was far cheaper to do cell animation, where each image was drawn on a clear acetate just like Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Mukokuseki

It has even been implied that the large eyes could have its roots in early influences from older cartoon characters like Mickey Mouse and Felix the Cat.

My Love Patzzi

There, Song-Yee is given the job as a mascot, having to wear a hot suit with a huge head (think Mickey Mouse at Disney World).

Nelson Monfort

In June 2009, he was criticized by the Society of Journalists of France Télévisions for having received a Mickey Mouse on his show Tennis Club and therefore having promoted Disneyland.

Nutty Narrows Bridge

Upon its completion, the bridge was re-dedicated with special guests Chip 'n' Dale and Mickey Mouse from Disneyland.

Ochna serrulata

Ochna serrulata (commonly known as the mall-leaved plane, carnival ochna, Bird's Eye Bush or Mickey Mouse bush due to the plant's bright-red sepals, which resemble the face of Mickey Mouse) is an ornamental garden plant of the Ochnaceae family which is indigenous to South Africa.

Omamori

It has become popular for stores in Japan to feature generic omamori with popular characters such as Mickey Mouse, Hello Kitty, Snoopy, Kewpie, etc.

Party hat

Non-conical hats worn to signify an occasion's informal and festive status include decorated top hats, hats made from balloons, the beer hat or "beer helmet" (invented in 1983 by Buffalo Bills fan Jeremy Gumbo), and Mickey Mouse ears.

Quimby the Mouse

The strip follows that of a seemingly depressed cartoon mouse, modeled after Felix The Cat and Mickey Mouse.

Rob Minkoff

He also directed a Mickey Mouse short, which was only shown at Disney-MGM Studios called Mickey's Audition (1992).

Sandro Veronesi

Topolino (Mickey Mouse) must confront the Fosterman clan, who has taken over the once tranquil city of Vocalia, transforming it into a giant boxing ring.

Stanford Clock Tower

On May 10, 1983, when then-Stanford president Donald Kennedy unveiled the new clock tower, he burst out laughing: the clock's west face had been covered with Mickey Mouse's face and hands by an unknown prankster.

Stevo Pearce

He was chased out of one club for just repeating "Yes hello, hello yes, it's highly psychological", and after mixing Mickey Mouse into Cabaret Voltaire at half speed.

Tadeo Jones

Tadeo's limbs came from Mickey Mouse, and although with a long face, his eyes, large nose and mouth are based on Mortadelo (Mort & Phil).

The Family from One End Street

Jo Ruggles Jr., a Mickey Mouse fan, spends his fourpence allowance at the local Majestic Theater to see cartoons.

The Floorwalker

Later renditions can be found in the Bugs Bunny cartoon Hare Tonic, the Mickey Mouse cartoon Lonesome Ghosts, and in the TV series Family Guy and The X-Files.

The Plow Boy

The Plow Boy is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on May 9, 1929.

The Whoopee Party

The Whoopee Party is a Mickey Mouse short animated film first released on September 17, 1932.

Uppåkra

In 2007 archaeologists digging at Uppåkra found a decorative object from the 10th century that has a peculiar resemblance to Mickey Mouse.

WXFT-DT

WLXT broadcast Northern Illinois Huskies football on tape delay and Mickey Mouse cartoons; both of these, as well as all other WLXT programming, were transmitted in black-and-white.

Y Pants

The trio, made up of photographer/musician Barbara Ess, visual artist Virginia Piersol, and filmmaker Gail Vachon, developed a unique sound via their acoustic toy instrumentation of toy piano, ukulele and a paper-headed Mickey Mouse drum kit, augmented by electric bass guitar, Casio keyboards and various low-tech effects.


Alpha Beta

In the late 1980s and early 1990s, Popeye the sailor man and Mickey Mouse was the television spokescharacters for the Alpha Beta grocery stores in California every commercial also featuring Donald Duck ended with Popeye and Mickey Mouse saying to the audience "Checkout the difference at Alpha Beta".

Animated cartoon

Walt Disney's 1928 cartoon Steamboat Willie starring Mickey Mouse was the first to use a click track during the recording session, which produced better synchronism.

Beswick Pottery

In 1952, Beswick began manufacturing a range of Disney characters, including Snow White, Mickey Mouse and Bambi.

David McKay Publications

McKay’s son Alexander would follow in his father’s shoes by taking over the house to go on to publish Walt Disney’s first Mickey Mouse comics, the Blondie and Dagwood comic series, and numerous other notable works.

Disneyana

Examples range from products featuring virtually every Disney character—such as Mickey Mouse, Tinker Bell and others—to vintage stock certificates and company checks bearing the signature of Walt Disney.

Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two

So Gus, the leader of the Gremlins, and Ortensia, Oswald's girlfriend/wife, contact Mickey Mouse and bring him into the world.

Epic Mickey: Power of Illusion

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit contacts Mickey Mouse to tell him the castle has mysteriously arrived in Wasteland and that Minnie Mouse has been spotted inside of it.

Félix Lorioux

A friend of Walt Disney, who admired his work, he was then hired to illustrate Mickey stories for the French market, as well as The Silly Symphony.

Ho v. Taflove

The plaintiffs argued that their model was not a fact and more like the cartoon character Mickey Mouse, claiming that the model was only an expression of reality like Mickey is to a mouse.

Kirk Demorest

Demorest was the editor for Walt Disney Television Animation's “Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas” where he worked for months alongside world-renowned animator Andreas Deja in crafting the first Computer-generated imagery animation versions of Disney characters: Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, and Goofy.

Mechanical Man

The characters that starred in those versions include: Mickey Mouse, Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid and Flip the Frog.

Peter Emmerich

These stamps feature many well known and loved Disney characters including Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Goofy, Cinderella, and The Lion King to name a few.

R. C. Gorman

While tending sheep in Canyon de Chelly with his aunts, he used to draw on the rocks, sand, and mud, and made sculptures with the clay, with his earliest subjects including Mickey Mouse and Shirley Temple.

Sniffles

His ears grow from the sides of his head, placed so as to hearken more to a human infant than to Disney's top star, Mickey Mouse.

The Complete Carl Barks Disney Library

When he heard about it, Fantagraphics Books publisher Gary Groth got in contact with Disney, securing the rights to Floyd Gottfredson's work on the Mickey Mouse comic strip, which resulted in the Floyd Gottfredson Library series that started publication in mid-2011.

The Muppets at Walt Disney World

The story ends with the Muppets having a friendly meeting at Mickey Mouse's office where the signature characters of Walt Disney and Jim Henson compare their companies' theme songs, "When You Wish Upon a Star" and "Rainbow Connection" (sung by a young Raven-Symoné to cheer up Kermit) respectively and the ideals behind them.

Wayne Allwine

He was best remembered as the voice of Mickey Mouse for 32 years, narrowly the longest to date, and was married to voice actress Russi Taylor, who has voiced Minnie Mouse since 1986.