Mickey Mouse is 80

[Gemini Cricket]

Mickey is a character who wears shoes, shorts and strange white gloves, he lives in a house, drives in a car and has a pet dog called Pluto. In itself, it is rather strange that a mouse has a dog as a pet.
Even if it's a small dog, it still means Mickey is enormous for a mouse.

Source (http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_7735000/7735372.stm)

[NickO'Time]

Happy Birthday to Walt Disney's greatest creation! :cheers: :)



















Sheesh, you old mouse.;)

[BDBopper]

Happy Birthday Mickey! You don't look a day over 21! Oh and Happy Birthday to Minnie too! :)

[wolfy999]

Many thanks to Walt for creating Mickey 80 years ago! Happy Birthday Mickey!

[Snowflake]

Thanks for being the spark and start of many wonderful things Mr. Mouse.
HB!

879

[mousepod]

Lookin' good, Mr. Mouse!

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/images/w-z/mmbw1-04.jpg

[Ghoulish Delight]

:cheers:Lookin' good, Mr. Mouse!

http://www.ultimatedisney.com/images/w-z/mmbw1-04.jpg
I think he's had some work done.

Before: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:YXPzWH93f9iThM:http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/steamboatwillie.gif After: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Iwh-kB8cxiGFpM:http://www.variety.com/graphics/photos/variety100/mickey_mouse.jpg

Nose job and lift at least. Maybe even some body-mod on the ears.

[flippyshark]

Gosh! Mickey shares his birthday with the anniversary of the Jonestown massacre.

I like Mickey just fine myself, but the recently departed George Carlin was decidedly cynical about acknowledging Mickey's birthday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_kaNcycbIs).

To quote in part: "Mickey Mouse- no wonder no one takes our country seriously, we waste valuable news time informing our citizens of the age of an imaginary rodent!"

Okay, enough party-pooping. Happy 80th, you ol' mouse.

[Snowflake]

:cheers:
I think he's had some work done.

Before: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:YXPzWH93f9iThM:http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/steamboatwillie.gif After: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Iwh-kB8cxiGFpM:http://www.variety.com/graphics/photos/variety100/mickey_mouse.jpg

Nose job and lift at least. Maybe even some body-mod on the ears.

Looks like he's had a foot enlargement, too.

[Stan4dSteph]

DL is having a little ceremony at 11 AM outside the castle to celebrate.

[innerSpaceman]

The problem is it's not really even Mickey Mouse's Birthday. It's merely the anniversary of his first hit film, Steamboat Willie. But, sorry folks, he was born many months earlier when his first movie, Plane Crazy, premiered in theaters.


Ooops, Disney Lies Again. What a surprise.


(And both films can be seen perpetually inside the Main Street Cinema).



Happy Sorta Birthday Mickey, you old con mouse.

[Gemini Cricket]

The problem is it's not really even Mickey Mouse's Birthday. It's merely the anniversary of his first hit film, Steamboat Willie. But, sorry folks, he was born many months earlier when his first movie, Plane Crazy, premiered in theaters.

Thread sh!tter.
:cheers:
I think he's had some work done.

Before: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:YXPzWH93f9iThM:http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/graphics/steamboatwillie.gif After: http://tbn0.google.com/images?q=tbn:Iwh-kB8cxiGFpM:http://www.variety.com/graphics/photos/variety100/mickey_mouse.jpg

Nose job and lift at least. Maybe even some body-mod on the ears.
He definitely had his eyes done.
:D

[BDBopper]

Thread sh!tter.

I was thinking the exact same thing, Brad. Yeesh! ;)

[Morrigoon]

The problem is it's not really even Mickey Mouse's Birthday. It's merely the anniversary of his first hit film, Steamboat Willie. But, sorry folks, he was born many months earlier when his first movie, Plane Crazy, premiered in theaters.


Ooops, Disney Lies Again. What a surprise.


(And both films can be seen perpetually inside the Main Street Cinema).



Happy Sorta Birthday Mickey, you old con mouse.
Umm... as I recall, Plane Crazy was supposed to be the first film, but then movie sound came out, and so they changed the premiere order because they were able to make Steamboat Willie with sound. Plane Crazy supposedly premiered after Steamboat Willie, even though it was the first one made.

Unless you can find a source that shows otherwise?

[Gemini Cricket]

I was thinking the exact same thing, Brad. Yeesh! ;)
Yeah, didn't that happen to your thread too yesterday?
;)

I'm wondering if they're doing anything special for his birthday at DL today....

[Ghoulish Delight]

Unless you can find a source that shows otherwise?
Here's one (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mickey_mouse#Plane_Crazy)

[innerSpaceman]

Don't blame me for the truth. :p

[DreadPirateRoberts]

Yeah, didn't that happen to your thread too yesterday?
;)

I'm wondering if they're doing anything special for his birthday at DL today....

I think they are doing something at 11 am, in front of the castle.

[innerSpaceman]

I will grant that, as a fictional character, he can have a fictional birthday.



I just wish it wasn't Disney's policy to lie about practically everything.

[Moonliner]

I think they are doing something at 11 am, in front of the castle.

Handing out free coffee perhaps.

[Alex]

Plane crazy premiered and didn't do hardly anything and Disney didn't find a distributor for it. So while you could use it as the birth date of Mickey Mouse it wasn't until Steamboat Willie that he was presented to an expansive audience.

ETA: Or what the Wikipedia page GD linked to says.

[Kevy Baby]

But wouldn't theoretically he had to have been born prior to the movie being released? One can't make AND release a movie the day they were born. Well, one could nowadays, but I doubt that is what happened with MM.

[Moonliner]

But wouldn't theoretically he had to have been born prior to the movie being released? One can't make AND release a movie the day they were born. Well, one could nowadays, but I doubt that is what happened with MM.

I would equate the design studio with a womb and the lens of the theater projector with the cervix. He was born when the image passed through the lens and onto the screen.

[Isaac]

His birthday was 6 months ago, but, hey, better late than never!

Happy Belated Birthday Mickey Mouse!

[innerSpaceman]

It doesn't much matter if he didn't find an audience. The film was released and people saw it.


It's like saying The Beatles didn't exist till 1964. History is important. Pop history less so, but facts are facts ... and lies are lies.

[mousepod]

I think of the early screening of Plane Crazy as the Ascot Racecourse and Steamboat Willie as the Embassy Ball.

[Gemini Cricket]

"You like Mickey the Mouse?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VYY-hflls)

[flippyshark]

"You like Mickey the Mouse?" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5VYY-hflls)

Wow, Paper Moon. I hadn't thought about that movie in ages. Madeline Kahn was a genius. I've got to rent this and see it again soon.

[CoasterMatt]

I hate Mickey Mouse.

Didn't he die in December of 1966?

[Gemini Cricket]

Wow, Paper Moon. I hadn't thought about that movie in ages. Madeline Kahn was a genius. I've got to rent this and see it again soon.
That scene is so very wonderful. Madeline Kahn was simply brilliant.
:)

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm with George Carlin on this.

Mickey works best as a logo, a symbol. He's fun to look at. All those friendly round shapes, eh? I appreciate him from a visual point of view, same way I appreciate the logos of Coca-Cola or Star Trek. They don't have anniversaries of those symbols mentioned by your local newscaster (or do they? I haven't watched a nightly newscast since the millenium changed, at least).

Once they took his mischievous nature away he lost any merit as a character. But as a symbol, Mickey endures. Whenever they come out with new Disneyland logo shirts/hats/notebooks/whathaveyou featuring the Mouse, I still drool.

Happy Birthday, "Mickey". I miss my old hat.

[Isaac]

I prefer the pre-Fantasia version of Mickey.

1928 - 1939 Mickey Mouse was an outgoing, adventurous character. He would build his own airplane, climb mountains....but after Fantasia, he would just sit @ home w/ Pluto, read the newspaper and get dressed for a date w/ Minnie [yawn].

[innerSpaceman]

Yep, he was pussified. And that's kind of where the Disney characters were frozen. But so much time has passed since the days of any animated vehicles for the Mouse, I have no problem "freezing" him in my own mind in his Fantasia minus days.


In modern times, he's pretty much been a cypher kept alive only by his Disney Parks incarnation ... which has been pretty bland. But friendly. So I think he's been rehabilitated a bit as the emissary for Disneyland and Disney in general.


Still, he's a movie star, and more beloved to this day (even by me) than I realized. When he and Minnie waded into the thick crowd without handlers during snowfall after Holiday Believe last year, it was among the most magical things I'd ever seen at Disneyland ... and the crowd reacted with utmost love and affection for Mickey and his sweetheart.


He's still got it.

[BDBopper]

Of course since I haven't been to Disneyland in more than two decades I may be wrong but from what I hear during one of the band concerts on Main Street most days Alice and The Mad Hatter come out and do their Unbirthday bit. Needless to say yesterday a little something special was added. Being Disneyland someone was sure to get it on camera and put it up on Youtube in five parts (why so many I am not sure...it could have been condensed into one).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTvTl67gkFE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_w5ZM1OBYKI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-Cn2kYlOpU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqEHhBj6BC8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMeRSaVViKg

Makes me smile that they at least made some sort of effort to celebrate the day. Short but very sweet.