Steamboat Willie (Mickey Cards One)

I shared a long time ago that I found some new Disney items at a thrift store near my grandma's.  I will not be doing a post on all the items, but rather each item individually.

One of the items was a boxed set of collectible Mickey Mouse cards celebrating his 75th anniversary.  I'm guessing that was back in 2004 since that's when the cards are copyrighted.

Picture taken by and copyright THE Disney Freak.

Bottom of box.
Note the 2004 copyright.
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The set includes a commemorative card about Mickey...

Front of card.
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Back of card.  Sorry for the glare.  Stupid camera
flash.
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...and 75 cards highlighting Mickey's appearances. 

The 75 cards!  Er, actually, I'm missing like 3 of them.
The Disney Mermaid and I counted them several times, and every
time we never reached 75. So I only have like 71-73.
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The set might have included 1 of 1 Walt Disney Cut Signature Card, but I guess I didn't get the lucky set.  Or if I did, it was taken out before being sold at the thrift store.  Oh well.

Maybe someday I'll be lucky enough to find it and the rest of my missing cards.

"Steamboat Willie"

As I was considering some posts to do, I thought of this idea.

I will watch each of the clips I have a card for, share it with you, and share my ideas about the clips!

So to start this series off, I introduce to you the first Mickey Card: "Steamboat Willie," 1928.

The first card.  Each card features a shot from the short/film,
the year it came out, and on the back, a bit of info.
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If you can't read that: "While iron-fisted Captain Pete fumes, his ne'er-
do-well deckhand Mickey Mouse neglects his riverboat duties in favor of
impressing Minnie.  And impress her he does, thanks to a motley
crew of animals that he uses as instruments for an impromptu version of
'Turkey in the Straw.'"
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To be honest, I must admit that I've never actually seen Mickey's first clip!  Sometimes I'd seen the short part (for the link, it's at the end of the video) of Mickey whistling at the wheel (shown in the card's screenshot).  And also when my siblings played Epic Mickey, there was a short part on "Steamboat Willie."  So I was given what you could call a preview.

I thought this was actually a pretty cute clip and a great start to Mickey's reign.  However, I was surprised Mickey, Minnie, and Pete didn't have voices yet.  I guess I'm pretty used to a talking Mickey.

The "impromptu version of 'Turkey in the Straw'" was also very enjoyable.  Walt did an incredible job of matching sound to the animation.

The man really is the genius of movies.

Epic Mickey 2 Trailer!

Any of you heard of Epic Mickey?  It's a Disney video game for Wii where Mickey is pulled (literally) into a world of forgotten characters (a world that he *SPOILER* ruined) to fix what he (*SPOILER*) messed up (didn't I just say that?).

Well the video game was/is spectacular.  My Disney Family owns it (because I saw it was on sale and organized the saving-up for it).

Sorry, I just like to take credit where it's owed.

The game is actually lots of fun and keeps you on your toes trying to overcome the obstacles Mickey faces.  My family and I haven't finished it quite yet, but we're loving it so far!

The game has done so well that Disney has developed a sequel, and the trailer just got released!

This time, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit has paired up with Mickey ("The Power of Two" part) where before in the first game he started out as a jealous enemy.

The sequel's cover.
Looks exciting!
Photo from The Disney Diner (where I found the trailer).

I was disappointed (but not surprised) that the sequel's trailer avoids any dialogue other than the narrator's.  Why am I not surprised but disappointed?

In the original game, the characters only spoke in grunts and other sounds while their "lines" were shown on the screen.  However, Disney revealed that in this game, the characters will be speaking full dialogue.  So I wasn't expecting them to give us a preview of that, but it would have been kind of fun.

Oh well.

A good thing to note about the full dialogue is that this means Oswald's voice will be heard...for the first time!

I couldn't remember the source where I first heard about this, but on Wikipedia's article on Oswald, it states that "will feature full voiced cut scenes introducing Frank Welker as Oswald's first voice actor."

It's funny how my brother keeps mentioning that "they'll ruin Oswald's voice."  How can one ruin a character's voice when it hasn't even been done before?  This will be Oswald's debut voice.

Interestingly enough, the Disney Wiki mentions that Welker did Oswald's sound effects in the first game, so it's not like they're bringing in a whole new voice actor.

Pre-ordering information can be found here.