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- TheUngod, on 11/05/2009, -1/+64Personally, I'll forever remember Mickey beating the crap out of the Jonas brothers. It was really his greatest moment, even if it wasn't really sanctioned by Disney.
- bjornski, on 11/05/2009, -11/+61This will work out about as well as the "re-imaging" of the Loony Toons characters did.
Not at all.
The new Bugs Bunny and crew SUCKS BADLY. The attempts to be "extreme" and "edgy" absolutely DESTROYED the characters.
I hope it costs Disney billions in revenue. - ParadiscaCorbas, on 11/05/2009, -2/+34Actually, Mickey started out sort of naughty in the first place. They cleaned him up in the 50s, so this would be taking him back to how he started out.
And the Looney Tunes re-imagining didn't destroy anything. The Loonatics had 2 seasons and was cancelled. Bugs, Daffy, Porky, Yosemite Sam and the rest are still as they have always been. - neutron7, on 11/05/2009, -4/+29Has Disney learned nothing from the classic tale of "poochie"
- wampalord, on 11/05/2009, -0/+21I kind of liked Yoda-Mickey from Kingdom Hearts 1 and 2, but I doubt that's what they're going for.
- jmbrysk, on 11/05/2009, -0/+18I'd honestly rather have Disney tweak Mickey Mouse than peddle more Hilary Duffs and Joe Jonases. A Sidekick wielding, tight pants wearing Mickey would be much more favorable than another season of Hannah Montanna.
- torrange, on 11/05/2009, -0/+18Because he was ***** Goofy?
- katachu, on 11/05/2009, -0/+18To be honest, the "mischievous Mickey" is not a new thing. Mickey was originally like that, but time and years of playing it safe ended up making a character that sucks. It's not "re-imagining," it's throwing out the decades of Mickey's Mary-Sue days so that adults, teens, and parents can stand to watch him again.
I really hope Epic Mickey succeeds. This would be the game I would buy a wii for. - santiago1, on 11/05/2009, -0/+16 To me, Looney tunes characters died with Mel Blanc. His son took over the voices, but it doesn't even sound the same, lost all magic. It doesn't help that the best writers aren't around anymore either; Tex Avery, Chuck Jones, etc. They knew how to write some damned funny stuff! Today's writers are nothing but dreck.
- kthoma22, on 11/05/2009, -1/+16Give him a keyblade.
- TheyCMeTrollin, on 11/05/2009, -1/+16yeah he's going to be more "mischievous", which is what his character was in the first place. he's not getting some kind of lame gritty reboot with guns and foul language
- Mujokan, on 11/05/2009, -0/+14I heard someone saying the other day that they took all the negative traits Mickey originally had, and transferred them over to Donald Duck, so that Mickey was more of a blank slate that they could use to move more product.
Can't remember who was saying it, though. Sounds like the sort of thing Matt Groening would complain about, but maybe it was Larry David. - DeviantDragon, on 11/05/2009, -1/+15It's not really the same thing at all. The basis of the new Mickey game is to revert Mickey to more mischievous roots which he might've had in the Steamboat Willie days. It's not so much as a modernization or reinvention of the character but rather one that seeks to bring some complexity to a character that some believe have been standardized and uninteresting.
- gordonp, on 11/05/2009, -1/+13It's for the Wii.
- Makurosu, on 11/05/2009, -0/+11So much for the old warning at Disney: "Don't ***** with the mouse."
- thepretext, on 11/05/2009, -0/+10What's funny about this is that in the very first Mickey Mouse cartoon ever made Mickey tried to force himself on Minnie Mouse and when she refused his advances he got pissed off and pushed her out of an airplane. If anything, he'll be going back to his roots.
First Mickey Mouse Episode: "Plane Crazy," predates Steamboat Willy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMoAXM96ZE0 - ElGigi, on 11/05/2009, -1/+10"that three-fingered son-of-a-bitch who has no soul, for Christ's sake."
Charles Bukowski - JudgeMonkey, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9Well, specifically it's this:
Judge: "I'm sorry Mickey, but I can't legally separate you two on the grounds that Minnie is mentally insane..."
Mickey replied: "I didn't say she was mentally insane, I said that she's ***** Goofy!"
But whatever, close enough. - rizzo2008, on 11/05/2009, -0/+9you little prick hu hu!
Mickey is extremely pissed and will return to Valhalla to feast and slumber - doctechnical, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8Because she was extremely eccentric.
- Dagreenman, on 11/05/2009, -2/+10Warren Spector is making this, therefore it will ***** rock.
- tidu, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8they're reimaging because his copyright ran out.
- TheSkunkMonkey, on 11/05/2009, -0/+8Because she was ***** Goofy!
- nyxerebos, on 11/05/2009, -7/+14The character is so old and widely known that Mickey Mouse has become part of the culture, like Robin Hood or Paul Bunyan. Legally the character may be owned by Disney, but the character will change and develop as our attitudes do, whether Disney wants that or not. Its not like they can enforce a total monopoly on Mickey Mouse:
http://www.asktiava.com/search/?q=mickey+mouse& ... (NSFW) - krets, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8Skinny jeans, popped collar and Uggs!
- GABACALM, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7It was Maurice Sendak, the author of Where the Wild Things Are.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/20/mauric ... - veriix, on 11/05/2009, -1/+8DISNEY IS TAKING OUT DEDICATED SERVERS!!!
- cjschmidt, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7Again. Not making him "edgy" or "gritty" or any of that. They're making him more mischievous. The character had been watered down over the years to the point where he was little more than a bland corporate logo.
- diggopolous, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7Why did Minnie Mouse divorce Mickey?
- Mujokan, on 11/05/2009, -0/+7Thanks! That was a great interview.
Sendak: I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk. I stood on the chair screaming, "My hero! My hero!" He had a lot of guts when he was young. We're both about the same age; we're about a month apart. He was the little brother I always wanted.
Jonze: What was he like when he was young?
Sendak: He had teeth.
Jonze: Literally?
Sendak: He had literally teeth. I have toys in the other room.
Jonze: Was he more dangerous?
Sendak: Yes. He was more dangerous. He did things to Minnie that were not nice. I think what happened, was that he became so popular—this is my own theory—they gave his cruelty and his toughness to Donald Duck. And they made Mickey a fat nothing. He's too important for products. They want him to be placid and nice and adorable. He turned into a schmaltzer. I despised him after a point.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/216997/output/print - DevilInPgh, on 11/05/2009, -1/+7You DON'T f**kin' TALK TO ME like THAT, haha, you LITTLE PIECE of SH*T!! haha. Get the f**k up, GET THE F**K UP!!!!
- inactive, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6Mickey Mouse: Where would you be without me, Jonas Brothers? Ha ha! Your music sucks and you know it, haha! It's because you make little girl's gineys tickle, and when little girl's gineys tickle, I make money, ha ha! And that's because little girls are ***** stupid, ha ha! And the purity rings make it OK to do whatever I want, ha ha! Even the Christians are too f*cking stupid to figure out I'm selling sex to their daughters. I've made billions off of Christian ignorance for decades now, ha ha, and do you know why? Because Christians are retarded, ha ha! They believe in a talking dead guy! Ha ha!
- Powerfan5000, on 11/05/2009, -4/+10Am I the only one who thinks the screens from Epic Mickey look awful for a next gen game.
- MrFisty, on 11/05/2009, -0/+6All these characters, both Disney and Looney Tunes, started out as the most politically incorrect, violent, masochistic, racist sociopaths in animation. As others have said, they're really just taking them back to their beginnings and away from the family friendly, room temperature, saccharin sweet interpretations of the last half century.
Sorry, that was a bit of an adjective overload. - MorbenDK, on 11/05/2009, -4/+10They are turning Mickey into Sonic the Hedgehog
- hurrayforschool, on 11/05/2009, -3/+8Log-in screen? FAIL
- avianeddy, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Why don't you try making new cartoons like you used to, Disney? I have fond memories of Mickey and Minnie on a pic-nic date, or Donald and his "newphews" causing mischief.
Those shorts were original, and very funny. - tjanssen1990, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5***** logging in to the New York Times.
Mirror anyone? - duggtodeath, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5"The name's Poochie D
And I rock the telly,
I'm half Joe Camel
And a third Fonzarelli.
I'm the kung fu hippie
From gangsta city,
I'm a rappin' surfer,
You the fool I pity." - Lucid00, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Come to think about it, there's several comments above talking of how this game is making him edgier and it's going to kill his image for Disney.
How comes Kingdom Hearts wasn't an issue? - JudgeMonkey, on 11/05/2009, -0/+5Weird, I didn't have to log in.
- UselessTrivia, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4I don't think Disney really needs to "re-imagine" mickey mouse to connect with a new generation. They just need to actually USE him as something other than an "icon" and figurehead.
Don't change the personality of the character, just put him in situations that are relevant to the current culture and let him react according to consistent internal logic.
It's not the character that has gotten out-dated, it's the presentation of that character.
Disney needs to rehab all of its old characters and actually start putting them to use. Why not a mickey mouse feature animation? Or even a short animated film used as a bumper to an upcoming disney/pixar film? Disney used to do that all the time. They'd attach a short, funny animated bit to the front of a new release. - Charlotte_Web, on 11/05/2009, -2/+6The real question is, Who's their target audience for this?
Mickey Mouse since the 1950's has been a character that appealed to elementary and middle school-aged children. If you start making Mickey too edgy, then you lose the support of parents of elementary school children, and you don't gain support on the other end, the high school kids. - tgc1, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5Who the ***** is Mickey Mouse?
- brandozilla, on 11/05/2009, -1/+5I've always wanted Mickey to get a little naughty too.
- SteveMTyler, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4its almost like you read the article
- Yomoska, on 11/05/2009, -0/+4It's also in early production, I'm sure it will look better. God of War 3 didn't look all that good at when shown for the first time, but now it really looks better.
- exspasticcomics, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3why they're really doing this-
Disney has been fighting copyright provisions for years. every time their copyright is about to expire... they go to court & get it extended. the original 'steamboat willie' version of mickey hangs in limbo at the moment... while the 'current' version of mickey is safe & sound. so more than likely- it's a redesign in the name of saving their copyright on mickey mouse. - Elranzer, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3Plane Crazy was his first appearance but Steamboat Willie was the first one with synchronized sound, so basically the first modern cartoon short as we know them today (where as Plane Crazy was a "silent film" era short).
- billraydrums, on 11/05/2009, -0/+3Like this huh...
http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u69/shorty4u300 ... -
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