This is exactly what I want to see. I wanna see them take a torch to everything you love about these characters and show just how horrifically wrong it can go with this license. lol
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Why hasn''t disney used Mickey, Donald, or Goofy in a modern film?
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Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Big Hero 6 is Marvel.
Word but to clarify I meant it wasn't from the full MCU studio team, and it starred a bunch of relatively new characters for moviegoers. A Mickey movie has the potential to be just as successful in the right hands
Astral Dog
Member
Its not like this has stopped them (and many other companies) before.
Green Ninja
Banned
I know about 12 years ago they were seriously considering it for there 50th full length animated feature to be a full fledged Mickey Mouse movie. After Michael Eisner left and the Pixar acquisition/merger happened the whole movie slate got rejiggered and a lot of films got scrapped which included the Mickey movie. Keep in mind though early 00s Disney Animaion was really incompetent (talent drain, too much bureaucracy, bad execs, rushed projects ,etc) so while they wanted to do it the project wasn't coming together all that well which is why the new team under Lasseter and Catmull dropped it assuming it was even still in development at that point.
KeyBladerXIII
Member
Hot dog, hot dog, hot diggedy dog!
Yeah, cousin's kid had me watch it all the time. I memorized each character's dance, including Goofy's stupid arm flapping.
I'd watch a movie, but I'm fine with the new shorts, they're great.
Astral Dog
Member
Its like making a Mario movie,its never.going. to happen.
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the hideous 80s thing doesn't count
paragonpro
Banned
These youtube shorts are amazing, i just discovered them. The animation is expert and i love that they do shorts in different countries in their respective languages
PalaceBrother
Member
Those cartoons are literally the worst thing Disney has done in years, and this is coming from a father who has to listen to every song Dove Cameron has ever recorded.
The cartoons paint Mickey & crew as complete bumbling idiots. I can't stand them.
Edit: Wet No!
This is what it feels like when you find out your friend is a flat-earther
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
When aren't they depicted as complete bumbling idiots outside of spinoffs?
Inferno313
Banned
Disney Animation Studio hasn't ever made full-length features with the Mickey crew outside of a few collections of shorts. They've always been used for short films. Frozen had a Mickey short attached to it, so they're still making them now and then.
RecRoulette
Member
Goofy was in a movie with the X Games, that's pretty damn modern.
I doubt that. The most stupidest shit is being made into animated movies and doing insane numbers. Make a cgi film with those characters and make it funny or interesting and it will do numbers.
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thepotatoman
Unconfirmed Member
Was the best Disney animated movie too. If they can recreate that magic they should be making another as quick as possible.
Season 4 starting June 9th too.
Released 17 years ago.
Actually, his last reference was in the second Once Upon a Christmas movie (the CGI one).
That isn't a movie. That's a 23 minute short.
Popular characters don't translate into big movie ticket sales. Even if they are decent films.
See the Peanuts for example.
It would have worked well in the 80's. Today's youth aren't as exposed to these characters like us older people were. The new Disney is not the same as it used to be.
See the Peanuts for example.
It would have worked well in the 80's. Today's youth aren't as exposed to these characters like us older people were. The new Disney is not the same as it used to be.
ForkNetwork
Banned
Oh, can we make this thread a stealth Goofy Movie thread? Love it so much
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Yeah, just found out. He already finished college too.
It's so weird he's the only character in Disney canon that actually aged.
That's why I think it would be great if Disney made a Third Goofy movie about Max as a dad and Goofy as a grandpa.
Poor GRIMES
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Icyflamez96
Member
I highly doubt it
WiseguyMVP
Member
My kids like Mickey and the Roadster Racers. They'll probably come out with a movie soon.
Icyflamez96
Member
Yeah that's definitely not true. Also, it's not like kids have to have preexisting knowledge of characters in a movie aimed at them for it to do well. That's like saying no new IP can do well which is clearly not true.
L4DANathan
Member
And they will, because that's what they did the first time he was going into the public domain. And they'll succeed because Republicans.
Chuckie
Member
What about Fantasia?
Fancyarcher
Member
Disney rarely had Mickey, Donald & Goofy in films, and when they were in a film it was usually straight to DVD anyway. The characters have always been used in short films & on TV all the time.
It was actually made in the 90's slight correction there.
Its like making a Mario movie,its never.going. to happen.
the hideous 80s thing doesn't count
It was actually made in the 90's slight correction there.
Mickey is more famous as a logo and icon than an actual character.
But I honestly don't care about any of them as characters and they don't draw me to see things they're in. They're at this point, purely recognizable.
Granted, I missed all of the cartoons they were in besides the goofy movies, but even then eh. Replace the characters and it still would have been the same movie and just as good.
But I honestly don't care about any of them as characters and they don't draw me to see things they're in. They're at this point, purely recognizable.
Granted, I missed all of the cartoons they were in besides the goofy movies, but even then eh. Replace the characters and it still would have been the same movie and just as good.
A lot of the people born in the mid to late 90s weren't even familiar. Nick and CN were the channels during the 2000s. It's probably why the Disney Channel switched to live action
MisterGrey3000
Member
It's possible that Disney is of the opinion that the Sensational Six and the world their stories take place in simply aren't fit to carry a modern feature-length project, and it's also quite possible that there just isn't anyone in a position of power who actually wants to make a Mickey/Donald/Goofy-lead film at the moment.
I also imagine that the relatively luke-warm performance (for a Disney Renaissance-era film) and middling reviews of "A Goofy Movie" (despite it having a cult following, a lot of professional critics thought that it was a bland and predictable experience with unmemorable songs) probably scared them away from prioritizing the production of any future feature-length Mickey/Donald/Goofy/etc. movies they might have been cooking up.
Oh man, the Paul Rudish shorts are fantastic!
I think that they're one of the best examples of revamping an iconic/historic property and putting a fresh and appealing new spin on it
I mean when you really think about it, the Rudish shorts are basically what Mickey Mouse would have been like if it was a new IP developed by Cartoon Network animators in the late 90s-early 2000s.
Its honestly something we've never seen before, a Mickey Mouse with those kind of neo-UPA post-Ren and Stimpy sensibilities.
And its great!
I never in a million years thought I'd see sweet/adorable/girly Minnie Mouse completely HULK OUT in order to turn a crank, but I'm certainly glad I did because it's pretty hilarious. lol
I also imagine that the relatively luke-warm performance (for a Disney Renaissance-era film) and middling reviews of "A Goofy Movie" (despite it having a cult following, a lot of professional critics thought that it was a bland and predictable experience with unmemorable songs) probably scared them away from prioritizing the production of any future feature-length Mickey/Donald/Goofy/etc. movies they might have been cooking up.
Oh man, the Paul Rudish shorts are fantastic!
I think that they're one of the best examples of revamping an iconic/historic property and putting a fresh and appealing new spin on it
I mean when you really think about it, the Rudish shorts are basically what Mickey Mouse would have been like if it was a new IP developed by Cartoon Network animators in the late 90s-early 2000s.
Its honestly something we've never seen before, a Mickey Mouse with those kind of neo-UPA post-Ren and Stimpy sensibilities.
And its great!
I never in a million years thought I'd see sweet/adorable/girly Minnie Mouse completely HULK OUT in order to turn a crank, but I'm certainly glad I did because it's pretty hilarious. lol
Inferno313
Banned
I'm not even sure if Goofy Movie can be called a renaissance-era film, as the Disney Renaissance primarily refers to the output of Disney Animation Studios, and Goofy Movie is a DisneyToons production that got a theatrical release. It's from the same studio that made all those god-awful direct-to-video sequels, the Tinkerbell movies, and the Planes movies.
Diprosalic
Banned
Peanuts are peanuts compared to Mickey.
Donald comics/Mickey Mouse Magazines are still big in europe but i guess not so much in the us.
It was my understanding there was something done a while ago that was going to allow them and others in their position to keep ownership of their characters and they wouldn't fall into normal public domain.
Calamari41
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Those characters are more mascots for the theme parks and the corporation as a whole at this point. And they are incredibly powerful in that role.
Inferno313
Banned
They've bumped up against copyright law with Mickey multiple times, and every time it happens, they manage to get the laws changed so they can hold onto him. I wouldn't be surprised to see that happen again.
Correct, they were able to change the law twice. Disney impacts copyright law more than any other major corporation. I am just interested to see how they pull it off this time. That said, I do think it has an impact on how they want to deal with their older IPs.
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