Mickey’s turning 90 tomorrow, so what better way to celebrate…than to give his older brother some attention cause clearly no one else will
Oswald is one of my favorite cartoon characters, so I wanna take this moment to focus the spotlight on him for a bit.
Oswald is one year older than Mickey, making his debut in 1927 (he is not, however, Disney’s oldest reoccurring character, that title goes to Pete, surprisingly, who predates both Oswald and Mickey)
Oswald has made a handful of cameos since he appeared in the Epic Mickey Games. He pops up for a second in “Get a Horse!” and is the butt of a rather mean gag in the Mickey Mouse Short “Canned”
If you’re familiar with Epic Mickey, you know Oswald’s girl is Ortensia. However, this was not originally her name. Her name was Sadie, but the game developers wanted to give her an “O” name to match Oswald (like Mickey and Minnie, and Donald and Daisy) and it’s stuck ever since
Speaking of Oswald’s girlfriend, Ortensia was not his first. In the older Oswald shorts, he’s infatuated with a female rabbit named Fanny (I like to think Oswald had his 420 children with her, but when he hooked up with Ortensia, she adopted all of them)
Oh, Oswald has 420 Bunny children.
Charles Muntz, the antagonist of the Pixar film Up, isnamed after Charles Mintz, the person responsible for taking Oswald and several of Walt’s animators away after a contract dispute in 1928
Out of the 27 Oswald cartoons made by Disney and Iwerks, 13 are available in the Walt Disney Treasures collection, 2 are available in Walt Disney Signature Blu-rays as bonus features, 5 are found but are not currently available to the public, and 6 are still lost.
After Oswald went to Universal, he got several voice actors, including Mickey Rooney, June Foray, and Mel Blanc. Currently, he’s voiced by veteran voice actor Frank Welker (known for voicing Fred from Scooby Doo among others)
In order for Disney to get the rights to Oswald from Universal, the company traded a sportscaster from ABC
In the Disney Parks, Oswald has a service station on Buena Vista Street in California Adventure
And that’s all I got. I love this bunny, and I wish he got more credit for laying the groundwork for Mickey. Without him, I don’t think Mickey would be as popular as he is today.
Im saving for a big move this coming spring and would appreciate any small commissions, so I’mma try and do these “Quickfire Commissions” Basically I have 5 slots and when the slots are gone theyre gone and the Quickfire closes. And I’ll just randomly open it up again later.
So ye! That’s how it works! You can contact me here or on Deviantart, and the first five get slots. For this round it’ll be headshots! Maybe next time I’ll do something different.
And the stupid thing is, the man said he did all that shit BECAUSE he hated Trump and I’m like….what the fuck?
He hates Trump, so he attempted to make Trump look bad by associating him with Hitler and crazy people who shout about Hitler during plays. It’s called a false flag, when somebody essentially tries to frame a certain demographic of doing something. There have been cases where Jewish people wrote anti-semitic insults on the side of a synagogue, or black people burning down a black church. It benefits people politically to be seen as persecuted and discriminated against, so when nobody is actually doing it, sometimes they’ll do it themselves.
And it even still works in this case, because the media will spread around the fact that somebody shouted “Heil Trump” in a theater because headlines, but only a fraction of the people who see the initial headline will ever learn that the person who actually committed it is somebody who’s anti-Trump, so Trump supporters still get the flak for it. Political dishonesty is profitable if your audience doesn’t double-check things.
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