This Mickey Mouse With a Skull For a Head t-shirt is completely awesome, and what's more, it's a lawful parody (though I'm sure that won't stop the Disney lawyers from trying to get it yanked -- they don't care about the law, they just wanna control Mickey.) Holy CRAP it's expensive, though! 53 Euros, shipped! Wow.
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I don't know... isn't it at least possible that there could be another pants-wearing, glove-wearing, shoe-wearing mouse somewhere else in the world (with a skull head)?
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is more my speed.
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Is that the same Walter Lantz of Woody Woodpecker fame ??
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I'd guess it has to be- how many Walter Lantz's doing animation like that could there be? (//forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)
All those guys were part of a fraternity of sorts. Disney created Oswald with Ub Iwerks, and then lost the rights to it. I think it was last year that Disney (aka ABC) finally got them back in a deal with NBC (aka Universal) over a sportscaster.
Oh, the ungodly incest of corporations!
I'd guess it has to be- how many Walter Lantz's doing animation like that could there be? (//vny!://discoverseattle.net/forums/richedit/smileys/Happy/14.gif)
[img style="CURSOR: pointer" onclick=url(this.src); src="vny!://www.cheesebuerger.de/images/smilie/liebe/g038.gif[/img] I wasn't sure if it was a real pic. One can never be sure these days...lol
As you can see, Walt Disney was not the most original guy. Oswald was basically transmogrified into Steamboat Willie, who was then brainwashed and his soul removed to become the saccharine void that we know today as Mickey Mouse™.
What remained of Oswald's soul, reeling in deep bitterness and confusion at the wrong that was done to him, ended up entering the body of another Oswald in the early 1960s, and the rest is history.
Next: the tragic tale of Sirhan the Turtle.