Oswald The Lucky Rabbit

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Given that this is a forgotten Disney blog at some point we have to discuss the forgotten king of Disney, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

Often Oswald the Lucky Rabbit is stated to be the first Disney character, however that's not really the case. His predecessor would be Alice from The Alice Comedies, which is something we'll probably cover at some point.

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was made by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks for Universal studios. Yes, that Universal.

Oswald was a big success and even made some merchandise too.

The first Oswald short, "Poor Papa" was scrapped for making Oswald the Lucky Rabbit seem old.

The start of Oswald's fame was with the short "Trolley Troubles" in 1927.

Charles Mintz wanted to cut the budget so Walt left Universal, leaving Oswald. After making a few more cartoons Oswald was only featured in comics for a while.

Oswald also got a redesign and was often shown with his nephews.

When Bob Iger became president of The Walt Disney Company he promised he'd get the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit back.

To get the rights to Oswald back they traded sports caster Al Micheals to NBC Universal; Al Micheals had no problems with this saying that maybe one day he could be the answer to a trivia question.

Then in 2010 came Epic Mickey.

This game put Oswald as the ruler of the Wasteland, a place where forgotten Disney characters live. Some of these characters Mickey Mouse doesn't even remember. 

Oswald feels Mickey stole his rightful place and hates him for stealing his fame.

Eventually they become friends and accept each other as brothers.

Epic Mickey spawned a few sequels as well, including Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two.

For fun here's some characters I think are in the Wasteland

The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride

Kovu

Zira and Vitani

Nuka

101 Dalmatians (1996)

Jewel

Fidget

Dipstick

Wizzer

Two-Tone

102 Dalmatians

Oddball

Little Dipper

Domino

Dottie

Waddlesworth

Drooler, Chomp, and Digger

Fluffy

Kevin 

Chloe 

The Little Mermaid 2: Return to The Sea

Melody

Morgana

Tip

Dash

Bambi 2

Ronno

Mena

Beauty and The Beast Enchanted Christmas

Fife

Angelique

Forte

Also The Lost Media Wiki is looking for the lost Oswald the Lucky Rabbit shorts.  (On a side note, I'm currently looking for Season 1 interstitial and bumpers for the PBS Kids Show Bookworm Bunch, if you wanna help me out with that.)

Remember, We Are One/

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The forgotten Disney princesses

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Disney Princesses are one of the most popular Disney franchises. The official line up includes Snow White,Cinderella,Sleeping Beauty (Also known by her birth name Aurora, and her name when she was hiding in the forest, Briar Rose), Rapunzel, Belle,Ariel,Jasmine,Pocahontas,Mulan,Merida and coming soon Moana. Occasionally Elsa, Anna, Sofia, and the upcoming star of a new Disney Junior show Elena, are added to the list as well.

However these aren't the only Disney princesses.

Even though this blog is still fairly new, the first princess probably won't come as a surprise to you. It's Kiara from The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride. (Aka my favorite movie!)

 Kiara is the daughter of Simba and Nala who are the king and queen of The Pride Lands, thus making her a princess.

I also think Kiara is a great role model that can teach us an important lesson "We are one"

Even The Lion Guard has been referring to her as a princess.

Now out next princess is the daughter of a princess in the franchise. Melody,from The Little Mermaid 2 return to the sea. She's the daughter of Ariel and Eric, and her dream is to become a mermaid.

She actually has been included in some Disney Princess related material in the early 2000s, most notably the Disney Princess sing a longs.

I adore Melody, she's as brave and adventurous as her mother is.

The next princess isn't even a princess at all, like Elsa, she's a queen! It's Kida from Atlantis (and the just as forgotten sequel Atlantis 2: The Return of Milo)

Her father, Kashekim was the king until his death, then his daughter took over. Kida is shown to be a kind hearted and caring queen.

While there are many other princesses we could also add to the list, we'll leave off with one more. Giselle from Enchanted.

In a sad case, she was intended to join the Disney princess line up, but couldn't due to the fact Disney would have to pay lifetime likeness fees to Amy Adams for using her likeness.

She may be a parody of the Disney princesses in general, but none the less she's as excitable, and kindhearted as the whole bunch of princesses.

She's also got an animal friend (Another Disney Princess must have!) A chipmunk named Pip.

That's all for now, and remember, We are one.

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Sing a long time!

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What's more fun than a sing long?....Well I guess somethings, but Sing a longs are pretty high on the fun list. So that's why I've gathered some sing a longs of forgotten Disney songs.


                                          First we're staring with a song from my favorite movie The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride called "We Are One" You might have noticed I use that phrase to sign out my posts, that's because it has become my life motto. ("Motto? What's a motto?"  "Nothing kid, what's the motto with you?") I feel it encompasses my want for equality and peace. I think this is a beautiful song and one of the best Disney songs of all time.

Next is "I won't say I'm in love" from Hercules, which is seriously an underrated film. It's so good and has amazing music, I have no idea how Disney let this fall into their realm of the forgotten.

The next song is "I wanna be like other girls" from Mulan 2. Disney sequels are usually there own kind of forgotten Disney. For example elements of the sequels may be disregarded or forgotten when additional work of the first movie is made. Which is a shame, because I feel this is a great song for not just little girls, but everyone. 

The next two songs are "Why should I Worry" and "Streets of Gold" from Oliver and Company, which is debatable if it is forgotten, as you can still find some merchandising of it. In my opinion it is underrated enough to be considered forgotten.

Next is "It's not just make believe which is from Ella Enchanted, which is a film made my Miramax under Disney's ownership, thus making it forgotten Disney. The video contains clips of forgotten Disney Princess movies like The Little Mermaid 2: Return to The Sea,Return of Jafar, and Pocahontas 2: Journey to a new world. I use this video as an example of what united Disney is.

Next is Put It Together (Bibbidi Bobbidi Boo) from Cinderella 2: Dreams Come True. It's basically a remix of the old, classic, song from the first Cinderella.

This one is an unusual example as the characters themselves are not forgotten, but only the movie. We're talking about Mickey, Donald, & Goofy in the three Musketeers. The song we have here is "Sweet Wings of Love"

Our final song for today is "Forget about Love" from Return of Jafar, yet another forgotten Disney princess sequel. However because of this movie some Disney merchandising acknowledges Iago joining Aladdin's side, for example the cartoon.

I hope you got a new song stuck in your head to sing all day!

Remember, We Are One.


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Game Time!

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Today we're going to play some games on Disney.com and try to make them relate to forgotten Disney. You know, for fun.

My New Puppy

Dog With a Blog itself is forgotten Disney in my eyes, so it's a double whammy.

Yep, we're naming her after another forgotten Disney character. Oddball from 102 Dalmatians.

And I chose the chihuahua for her companion to be Chloe from Beverly Hills Chihuahua.

And here's a picture I took using the camera tool. Chloe looks kinda peeved, but Oddball looks happy.

Here are Oddball and Chloe about to play fetch

And Oddball returned the toy

I guess Oddball and Chloe don't like goggles

Now onto the next game.

Princess Dress Up

  Another big part of forgotten Disney is sequels. They usually get the short end of the stick sadly. So with this game we're going to try and dress the princesses how they looked in the sequels of their films.

First up is Ariel. I'm going to attempt her designs from The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea which is another sequel I like more than the first movie.

The first dress is from near the beginning of the movie, where Melody feels like an outcast and she tries to comfort her.

Given the limited options in the game, I think she turned out well. I even chose a locale that was present in the sequel, the castle. More specifically the outside, which is seen a lot as Melody loves to swim, Luckily there are no longer walls guarding Melody from her love of the sea, and allows her to connect with her Atlantian family,

                     and lets not forget that merboy she met.

Now it may just be a wedding dress

, but it was close enough to the dress she wore at the beginning of the movie when she was holding baby Melody.

                                   Sadly, there's no pony tail option, but oh well. We can say she just had to let her                                hair down after the stressful situation with Ursula's sister Morgana trying to steal                               her daughter.

The next princess is Belle, and I'm doing her outfits from yet another sequel I like more than the first, Beauty and The Beast The Enchanted Christmas. 

The most common thing Belle wears is her red coat, which makes sense since it's winter.

                                And yes it's actually an option in the game.

                             

                               But I'm positive that's only because she wore it in the first movie too, during Something that wasn't there before.

Now the next game. This one one vaguely counts. There used to be a version of the Disney website that's now debunked, so I guess loop hole?

20 Questions

             If you couldn't tell, I love The Lion King 2: Simba's Pride, it's my favorite movie, so we'll start with some Simba's Pride characters.

Wow, exactly 20 Questions to get that one. The game also hasn't learned yet that Kiara now indeed has a brother, Kion. Maybe with enough play throughs of her, it will learn she does have a brother.

 I was just going for Kovu, but it's close enough.

                                      Another one in just 20 questions. Nice!

Only 17 this time? Wow. It must know I'm on a Lion King 2 kick.

...Or maybe 20 Questions is more advanced than we thought.....

Now on to some 101\102 Dalmatians

It didn't get Oddball. Note: I said yes for the clothes one because of the sweater she wears in the film.

It also couldn't get Waddlesworth.

I got some complaints about most of those contradictions....

Has it been in love?

Of course he has! With Dottie!

Does it have human friends? Of course he does, his owner Chloe, and Kevin.

Does it have children? Yes! Domino, Oddball, and Little Dipper!

All right then, moving on,

Some Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea characters

The love things was once again because of the merboy she met.

Maybe the black part of Morgana is her skin actually....

That's going to be all for now. I hope you enjoyed, and remember We are One.

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