The short subject is something needed to remind the current generation how to do things right.  This is how most of us were introduced to Mickey & friends in the first place, and with the short attention span of most of us these days it would be in their best interest to make as many shorts as possible.

Watching Mickey and company stretch their legs on the big screen again would be a joy to see!  The awareness of the Evergreen characters is waning and it is only a matter of time before just stop caring about them.  We need to get them out in prime-time.  They need vast exposure again.  I would love to see it!

Doing another Mickey short is a far better way of reinvigorating the "sensational six" than doing just a pre-school cartoon. Let's hope they go for, and follow it with many more. One question, though: Why did Walt kill this project to begin with?

Please let this cartoon happen.  This would be a great way for Disney to re-introduce the animated short to mainstream audiences.

But PLEASE change Pete's character name to Captain anything else and don't fall into the all too Dreamworks trap of making any of the characters do the "Got a Little Captain in You" pose...  The mouse does not hock rum...

Maybe, now that Eisner is gone, they might think it to be a good time to get back into business with some world famous director and his rabbit.  I can think of a couple of shorts that were well into production that could stand to be finished.

JesterColorado, dittos! After repairing relations with Steve Jobs, I've been hoping that Iger would call Spielberg next.

"Send suggestions that Disney will take seriously"?  Uh, Jim?--You're just filling in a Wednesdays With Wade history piece.  Let's SERIOUSLY get over ourselves:

Storyboard-history trivia is one thing, and it's a fun read for Mouse buffs, but I kid you not, some of us thought somebody had hacked the site with your name on that other thread, when we read, "And now a new feature where we all take suggestions from fans to send to Disney!"...You know better than that, and we *know* you know better than that.
Just stick to the articles, and let us worry about what "happens" from there, if anything.

New short cartoons featuring the classic characters?
That's been done recently on the House of Mouse - mostly painful viewing.
Kinda like the Applebee's ad with Sammy Davis Jr.

I've seen the end titles of these animated movies - thousands of names listed - the guys in charge don't know who's ready to move up to more responsibility and who's not? Must be just bedlam and chaos making these cartoons, followed by immediate memory loss on opening night.

I think having shorts before features is a great idea!  I'm not sure if Disney would resurect this idea (the pirate cartoon), but the short sounds great.  "Tummy Trouble" sticks out in my mind when I hear someone mention Disney shorts in front of movies; that's a great short.  Of course, the old shorts are wonderful, but Disney would most likely make these new shorts more "modern".  Thanks for the info on this idea!

I can't see them putting an animated short (especially with Mickey) before Pirates. For the first PotC, they didn't even show the castle because they wanted to disassociate the movie from the Disney name as much as possible. After that, I can't see them putting a cartoon before P3.

I had hoped that the Roger Rabbit shorts would have jump started the shorts machinery way back then, but it never happened.  I think that releasing a STRONG film with a short is a good way of getting the butts in the seats, and including said short with the DVD of that film would seem to make good marketing sense. Even if the shorts were collected every so often in a DVD of their own, having a short lead a longer feature on disc would allow those characters to be seen more than they are being seen now, certainly.  That influences the marketing and merch, so why not do it?

However, as Disney must have learned pairing "Trail Mix-Up" with "A Far Off Place", a short cannot save a lousy, inappropriate feature.  I don't know who thought that was a matched set.  

This short would be excellent.  Does it really matter if the short will be in front of a PG-13 film?  I don't think so.  Animation is NOT a children's medium.  I think mainly over-sensitive/lazy parents and some movie critics will not like having an animated short subject in front of P3.  Sorry if I offend any parents reading this.

PS- I'm glad Disney is going back to the shorts business.  Disney can't keep Mickey & pals alive only through pre-school programs.

Having grown up with Disney shorts, "Morgan's Ghost" sounds like my kind of Disney! Beautiful animations, fun story  - I would eat it up.

I'm not particularily crazy about the live-action "Pirates of the Caribbean" movies, so the "pirate" theme of "Morgan's Ghost" doesn't really affect how I feel about seeing my favorite Disney friends - Mickey, Donald, Goofy (and their parrot) in a pirate-y setting.

It's the old Walt Disney animation genius in "Morgan's Ghost" that interests me. I'm thrilled Mr. Lassiter likes the old Disney shorts, too.

Morgan's Ghost was not just another Mickey short, it was planned as the very first Mickey feature. It was a long story, with musical numbers and everything. I'd hate to see it turned into something chopped up and rushed like "The Prince and the Pauper". I had always wished that they would reserect this project as a feature(I mean if they can make two Goofy features, why can't the Mouse get a little respect?) And PLEASE, THIS TIME use actual Disney trained animators for this project and NOT the bargain basement foreigners that ruined "House of Mouse" and "The Three Musketers".

They're looking for new ideas? how about this: Create a Mickey Mouse think tank with artists and writers specifically dedicated to making Mickey relevent again. Mickey lost his way when Disney stopped paying attention to him. The only pieces of animation post mid1940s were the great animated segments of the Mickey Mouse Club. Mickey's a special character, he deserves special treatment.

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If anyone wants to see more of those boards, there's a TON of them with more detailed descriptions in the first volume of the "Carl Barks Library", a series of enormous hardbacked collections released in the 80's.

Given, it's not exactly easy to find and will cost you well over a hundred bucks to buy if you DO find it, but still.  Some other abandoned short subject storyboards are included as well, any of which would've made a great short (or still could, really).

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Sounds like a great idea. The only theatrical shorts they've made since 1995 were under Roy Disney's supervision (all from the abandoned Fantasia 2006), and even then, he was trying to prevent them from being killed off by the administrative forces of the time.

It would be totally awesome to see a cartoon before the feature film, just like the old days. And they don't have to be shown in front of just animated films; I'd even pay to see something more daring in front of a Touchstone release.

No matter what Disney does, they will always be recognized primarily for their cartoons.

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I think if disney are going to go all retro and pull all of their great ideas out of the closet then they should use retro methods to make the aniamtion...they should go back to their cell animtion. Its been a long time since they made a really great film in the 2d form and this could be an oportunity to show what they are really good at

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