Originally Posted By mawnck Bad show, Disney. Bad show. ;-) <a href="http://www.charlesphoenix.com/2010/10/mr-and-mrs-mouse-disneyland-1956/" target="_blank">http://www.charlesphoenix.com/...nd-1956/</a>
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder My goodness, please tell me Mickey's eyes were photoshopped or something. That's hideous.
Originally Posted By mawnck Here's what I recall reading, although I'm in the middle of a move and have no hope in heck of finding where I read it: When the park first opened, there were no plans to have characters walking around. For the opening day telecast, they rented costumes from the Ice Capades. Upon discovering that guests DID expect to see the Mouse family and friends, better looking costumes were prepared and the rest is history. I think what you're seeing there is the Ice Capades Mickey with the first "official" version of Minnie. I don't know how that fits in with the timeline I described above, but if Walt were around in 1956, he obviously never would've allowed such an incongruity to mar the guests' experience. Oh, wait ........
Originally Posted By mawnck (And no it isn't photoshopped. Charles Phoenix makes his living doing wonderful narrated slide shows using family slides he purchases at estate sales and flea markets and such. He projects the actual slides. He doesn't photoshop.)
Originally Posted By SingleParkPassholder Well, then the Ice Capades Mickey looks like someone just did a triple axel on his .............
Originally Posted By 2001DLFan Well, the state of walk around characters in '56 was VERY rudimentary. He looks better than some of the early Mickey's.
Originally Posted By Dznygrl Not photoshopped because I've seen other old photos with the exact same scary looking Mickey. Not to mention on the DL opening day telecast.
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Originally Posted By alexbook A lot of the character pics from the 50's look scary, but this Mickey is the worst I've seen.
Originally Posted By WorldDisney <<Mickey looks like he just shived a guy for some crack.>> This made me laugh out loud!
Originally Posted By CuriouserConstance That picture is going to give me nightmares. Hans, you would notice they are both topless.
Originally Posted By alexbook Check this scary pic of the Three Little Pigs: <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/miehana/2240939481/in/pool-65461987@N00/" target="_blank">http://www.flickr.com/photos/m...987@N00/</a> I started Googling for old pics of Mickey and came across this cool photo essay tracing the evolution of the Mickey walkaround character: <a href="http://davelandblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/mickey-minnie-mouse-evolution-of.html" target="_blank">http://davelandblog.blogspot.c...-of.html</a>
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "Check this scary pic of the Three Little Pigs:" Why are they so tall and thin? And why are their expressions so sinister? "I started Googling for old pics of Mickey and came across this cool photo essay tracing the evolution of the Mickey walkaround character:" That is cool. Man, those early Mickey and Minnie costumes were atrocious! This one is probably the worst one: <a href="http://davelandweb.com/mainstreet/images/westside/candypalace/50sBW2Neg_MinnieMS.jpg" target="_blank">http://davelandweb.com/mainstr...ieMS.jpg</a> Yikes!
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt NO, this is the worst: <a href="http://davelandweb.com/entrance/images/60s/2_62_MickeyEntrance.jpg" target="_blank">http://davelandweb.com/entranc...ance.jpg</a> Bwahahhahaha!!
