Talk:Mickey Mouse

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Why mickey mouse suffered a decline from 40s to 50s?
I cannot understand believe that mickey mouse unexpectedly dropped in popularity that decade when goofy and donald got exploded in term of viewership during golden era. As if many people thought there are many lost mickey toons from 40s 50s but i cant verify like that. Cmiiw.182.2.141.30 (talk) 04:11, 18 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Well, it's not complicated. Donald's unlucky personality and down-on-his-luck relatability and Goofy's slapstick comic relief received more focus after enough of Mickey's vanilla everyman personality. I'm sure the Disney company couldn't find any further innovation for him around that time, so his golden age was over after The Simple Things. There was less focus on animation within Disney after the '40s as well, so there diminished the short films aspect altogether. (And besides the commercial decline of such, do they really wanna compete against Warner Bros. in that field?)
 * I don't have any sources to show for this, but I've read a bit on animation history and the whole Dark Age thing about it, so I guess you can take my word for it. Carlinal (talk) 19:09, 18 February 2024 (UTC)
 * "There was less focus on animation within Disney after the '40s" Less focus on production of short films, but Disney's animated feature films actually had an increased budget in comparison to much of the 1940s. See Walt Disney Productions short films (1950–1959) for the overall decline in their production numbers during the decade. 18 short films in 1950, 18 short films in 1951, 17 short films in 1952, 15 short films in 1953, 10 short films in 1954, 4 short films in 1955, 6 short films in 1956, 2 short films in 1957, 1 short film in 1958, 3 short films in 1959. Dimadick (talk) 09:05, 20 February 2024 (UTC)
 * aa 2001:448A:60C0:45D4:9CF7:9E98:B105:C369 (talk) 09:13, 3 July 2024 (UTC)

Should we change the textbox image back?
Most people know Mickey Mouse through his current design. I don't even know why the image was changed besides Steamboat Willie and all the other shorts being in the public domain. SpriteSens (talk) 03:18, 23 February 2024 (UTC)


 * Per WP:NFCCP the fair-use rationale for using a copyrighted image relies on it being irreplaceable. Since the original design became public domain, that's no longer the case. But it would make sense for the article to include the newer design somewhere where that is itself the topic of discussion. UpdateNerd (talk) 06:19, 23 February 2024 (UTC)
 * If anything I kinda like the current head image since it's the original Mickey Mouse that Disney and Iwerks created during the rubber hose days of animation, so there's that historic factor. And while this image of Mickey Mouse is no longer the only image as a head candidate, it's still important enough to be in a later section of the article as an appropriate illustration. The placing of both these images are good as is.
 * By the way, should we have to reduce the amount of fair use images down the road I'll push for the same modern image to be kept, since it's a better showing of Fred Moore's design than the Fantasia screenshot. Carlinal (talk) 18:30, 24 February 2024 (UTC)

Grammatical error (second sentence)?
"...co-created in 1928 by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks. The longtime icon and mascot of the Walt Disney Company. Mickey is an anthropomorphic...". The error is in the abrupt placement of the period in the second sentence of the entire page. ScriptGeez (talk) 05:22, 19 April 2024 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 11 May 2024
Spelling error: Change propossal to proposal. 2601:2C6:4F81:B3B0:D142:9B1E:E43D:E291 (talk) 23:28, 11 May 2024 (UTC)
 * ✅ Liu1126 (talk) 00:21, 12 May 2024 (UTC)