Disney Facts!

Facts 3571-3600

Disney Challenge of the day? Watch the Mickey Mouse cartoon above called "Runaway Brain" released in 1995.

Summer is starting to near its end, so I want everyone to make the most of out if before it all runs out, and we have to go back to school. 

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Fact #3571
Anna and Elsa's father was designed to look like Walt Disney. 

Fact #3572 
Mickey Mouse's estimated height is 2 feet and 3 inches.

Fact #3573 

Mickey Mouse's estimated weight is 23 pounds.

Fact #3574 
Mickey and Minnie have never been married in any of their on screen in any of their on screen appearances. However Walt Disney revealed that in their "private life" Mickey and Minnie are married.

Fact #3575 
Mickey has worn over 175 outfits over the course of his cartoon/movie career. Minnie Mouse has him beat with over 200.

Fact #3576 
The Disney short to star Mickey Mouse was titled "Plane Crazy". Walt had written the script while on a train ride from Chicago to Los Angeles. 

Fact #3577 
Though "Steamboat Willie" was the first short with Mickey released, it was actually the third one produced. "Plane Crazy" and "The Gallopin Gaucho" were both created before hand, but failed to find distributors until after the release of "Steamboat Willie". 

Fact #3578 
Dissatisfied with the chosen actor to voice Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney voiced him himself from 1929 to 1946.

Fact #3579 
Walt Disney stopped voicing Mickey when his smoking habit began to take its toll. Only two other actors voiced Mickey ever since. First there was Jim MacDonald from 1946 to 1983 and then Wayne Allwine from then onward.

Fact #3580 

The first Mickey Mouse doll was designed and made in 1930.

Fact #3581 
The "Partners" statue of Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse holding hands was unveiled at Disneyland in 1993 on Mickey's birthday. A second one debuted at the Magic Kingdom in Walt Disney World in 1995.

Fact #3582 

The only Mickey Mouse cartoon to ever win a Academy Awards was "Lend A Paw" in 1941. Mickey wasn't even really the star of that cartoon, it was actually centered around Pluto.

Fact #3583 

Walt Disney's final Mickey Mouse short was "The Simple Things" released in 1953.

Fact #3584 

After Walt Disney's death, there was a 42 year gap until the next Mickey Mouse cartoon was released in 1995 called "Runaway Brain".

Fact #3585 

In the video game that Mickey was playing in "Runaway Brain", he was playing as Dopey from the Seven Dwarfs and he was in a brawl against the Evil Queen.

Fact #3586 

Also in "Runaway Brain" if you listen closely as Mickey knocks on Dr. Frankenollie, he's whistling the Steamboat Willie song.

Fact #3587 
The first song to ever feature in a Disney film was "Minnie's Yoo Hoo" in the short "Mickey's Follies", which came out long before Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs.

Fact #3588 
Fantasia was the first movie to introduce surround sound. Back then, the film was nicknamed "Fantasound".

Fact #3589 
Mickey's first in colour appearance was in the short film "Parade of The Award Nominees" in 1932. It was created for the Academy Awards, but it was never shown to the public. Instead Mickey's "official" in colour appearance was in the cartoon "The Band Concert" in 1935.

Fact #3590 
It has been revealed that Mortimer Mouse, is actually Minnie Mouse's ex-boyfriend.

Fact #3591 
Minnie Mouse's first ever appearance alongside Mickey was in the 1929 short "The Barn Dance."

Fact #3592 

Mickey Mouse has two nephews named Morty and Fredy Fieldmouse. Their mother is his sister, Amelia Fieldmouse.

Fact #3593 

In 1979, Mickey released a disco album called "Mickey Mouse Disco".  It was the first children's record to go up to double platinum.

Fact #3594 
In the game "Epic Mickey" designer Warren Spector intentionally wanted to make Mickey more "naughty". A return to his mischievous roots that's fitting because the game deals with past Disney cartoons.

Fact #3595 
Despite being one of the most lovable characters in the world, Mickey Mouse has been banned in a number of places including Germany and Iran. Many of his bans were tied to specific shorts, comics, or periods of time in history.

Fact #3596 

After the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the government feared another attack, and distributed gas masks to Hawaii for protection. Only adult sized gas masks were available, and on top of not fitting properly, they intimidated the children. To solve the problem, Mickey Mouse gas masks were created for them, fortunately, they never had to be used.

Fact #3597 
It's rumored that way back near the start of Disney Studios, an X-rated Mickey Mouse short created by two Disney employees was shown at a staff party. Walt chuckled along with the rest of audience before asking the two employees to come up on stage. When they did, Walt Disney fired them on the spot and had the film destroyed.

Fact #3598 
Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny have both appeared on screen together, along side one another only once in the film Who Framed Roger Rabbit. It was made possible through the power of Steven Spielberg.

Fact #3599
In the short "Symphony Hour" as well as in the House of Mouse episode "Mickey and the Culture Clash" Mickey's full name is said to be Michael Mouse.

Fact #3600
Famous pop artist Andy Warhol made a portrait of Mickey titled "The Art of Mickey Mouse."

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I hope you all enjoyed these facts as much as I did!