Pleaseee Disney do something with my boy Oswald, he's the reason why I got back into liking you guys again because he had so much of a backbone compared to Disney
Disney needs the to make a series based on Floyd Gottfredson's Mickey Mouse comic. Those were polar opposite of the mascot Mickey. Oswald should have his own series. Disney have not used him much since he was purchased. I was looking forward to Oswald new series.
I really hope fans remake a darker epic mickey since both are not owned by Disney and in every loading screen just have it say in big red letters (NOT ASSOCIATED WITH THE DISNEY BRAND)
I REALLY like the idea of Cliff. Watching the animatic I was like “Oswald’s best friend is a less lucky turtle? Thats ADORABLE!” hopefully if Oswald actually does come back, they keep Cliff.
Oswald was still used by Universal until his current owner "Walter Lantz" death in 1994 where they just forgot about him but still used his other creations like Woody Woodpecker, Andy Panda and Chilly Willy.
I've had this idea for a while that Oswald's personality should be a Mickey that let his global wide fame get to his head. The irony being that not a single person besides Ortensia (and maybe the Fab 5 if they want to have Oswald be a part of the Mickey and Friends™ brand) cares about him, which further drives his ego and his various schemes to gain the attention he craves that always lead to trouble.
I Get It Sorta Like How The Moxy Show (1993-2000) Was Cartoon Network's first creation but the show that CN the Insentive to pursuit original programming was Space Ghost Coast To Coast BTW Happy 30th B-Day Space Ghost loved your show back then huge huge fan RIP C. Martin Crocker
I’m sorry I know I’m being annoying rn. But I have to say it. Steamboat Willy was not the first cartoon to use synchronized sound. Max fleischer was doing it long before hand
also i have to wonder with the announcment of the revival of the epic mickey franchise if maybe the issue we're seeing is actaully more to do with a possible style change that could be more easily copyrighted. afterall thats kinda what the farewell mickey mouse short was for in a way. they redesigned steamboat willie in a loving omage and used him in the last mickey mouse mini short from that series . i think the copyrighted that variant. what id love to see though is disney take advantage of the public domain for once. after all they just spent a bunch of money a few years back for that massive crossover for Rescue Rangers , and there was a ton of other companies stuff in that. imagine for a second how much they could do if they pulled in othershows with this style of animation and were like "hey , this is public domain now , we wont bother you if you want to use him but you need let us help you out with the development of the episode. " cuz hed fit real snuggly into something like cuphead or even if you want to go so far talk to sega . theyre all for wacky weird projects and the style of that game was directly inspired by the idea of rubberhose animation. heck even within disney ip hed fit real snuggly if they kept the epic mickey lore and started reintroducing older abandoned shows into the mix. like you said he has a personality thats fully untapped. imagine how much better a concept like house of mouse would have been if he was like overseeing the community of wasteland taking care of the theatre space. it open so much more wackiness. expanding even further its not like disney doesnt do crossovers that are weird already for tv. do something real zany like make the series about him hopping between shows trying to find his way home . that be cool as heck. theres so many options. and i think the same is true of the other cast of the game. the briefly lived comics showed he was buddy with Doc and Horace . so even if they wanna do a buddy comedy vibe why not pull one of them in (probably not doc i think that might be too complicated a situation ) even something a bit more out of left field could work , id love to see some way to mash unlikely character matchups together. maybe not on some epic adventure but a Looney Toons Show vibe . hed fit in great with some sort of premise like that. where the world isnt absent of cartoon hyjix but the everyday is also more front and center . such a shame. i think about all the work that went into getting him back, the few attempts to use him (he has like 2 shorts. a Christmas short and Get A horse ) , the comics, the attempt to bring him to different parks and it breaks my heart. i would have loved for them to have tried to use him for the 100 year anniversary properly instead of the feature we got but thats beyond us now.
The first disney “character” answer can change depending on what you consider a character. Techically, Disney’s first cartoons were the animals on his farm he drew growing up, but no one would ever include them. Julius the Cat is hard to call a original character since he was clearly a rip-off of Felix. I know Pete technically predates Oswald but his character has transformed so much over the years that it’s hard to consider him the same character as the one everyone knows today. When I use “character” I’m referring to a main feature role for a cartoon. Oswald was a high-selling cartoon intellectual property that is the first to fit that description.
