As the popularity of Mickey Mouse began to soar in the early 1930s, Walt and Roy were confronted with the challenge of meeting the explosive demand for engaging consumer products, while sustaining the creative integrity and consistent quality of their character merchandise.
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Mickey’s Birthdayland was meant to be a temporary land that occupied the approximate three-acre space adjacent to Fantasyland that’s currently part of Storybook Circus in New Fantasyland at Magic Kingdom Park.
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Take a journey through the streets and alleyways of Duckburg, through this archived background art from Disney Television Animation studios.
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Becoming Walt Disney, an original D23 Studios short film, traces the path of a one-of-a-kind storyteller from his youth in Marceline, Missouri, and his apprenticeship in Kansas City, Missouri, all the way to his arrival Los Angeles, California, in 1923.
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These extremely rare, exclusive photos, housed in the Walt Disney Archives, were taken by Walt Disney and his family. The photos show candid moments, rarely seen by the public, from Walt’s personal travels.
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Before the Alice Comedies, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, and Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney produced one-minute shorts, known as the Newman Laugh-O-grams, for the local Newman cinema chain in Kansas City—a series of six modernized fairy-tale shorts, known as the Laugh-O-grams.
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The earliest version of the character that would come to be known as the Muppets’ leading man, uh, frog, first appeared in 1955 as more of a lizard-like, abstract character on Jim Henson’s Sam and Friends Washington, D.C. TV show.
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Whose autograph brings bigger bucks from collectors than those of movie stars and most United States presidents?
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The ever-released short Spring Cleaning began development in 1933, as an ordinary “domestic type of picture” with Mickey and the gang.
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Down through the years, as mankind has emerged from the dark ages, there have been turning points and inspirational milestones. And we remember the great names of science: Newton and the law of gravity; Watt and the steam engine; Edison and the electric light… and Brainard and flubber!
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