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Dick Van Dyke & the Vantastix bring the crowd to their feet at D23’s Destination D: 75 Years of Disney Animated Features event
“Did you enjoy attending the 2011 edition of the D23
EXPO?”
For a lot of Official Disney Fan Club members, the answer to
that question depends largely on how early they got in line for last year’s Dick Van Dyke and the Vantastix concert. If
you were among the folks who got in line early-early outside of Stage 23, you
had a genuinely wonderful time at this three-day-long event. On the other hand,
if you were among the hundreds who wound up getting turned away that Friday
night because this 1000-seat venue filled up amazingly quickly … Well, you
then complained for weeks afterwards about how you missed out on this once-in-a-lifetime
chance to see Van Dyke performing live onstage.
To give the folks who
run the Official Disney Fan Club credit, they actually listened to the
complaints they received from these D23 EXPO attendees. Which is why — when
they were assembling the entertainment line-up for last weekend’s Destination
D: 75 Years of Disney Animated Features event — they once again reached out to
Dick and asked if he & the Vantastix might be interested in performing at another
D23 event.
(L to R) Bryan Chadima, Dick Van Dyke, Eric Bradley and Mike
Mendyke. Photo by Jim Hill
Happily, Van Dyke said “Yes.” Which is why — last
Saturday night — the Grand Ballroom of the Disneyland Hotel was filled with
cheering Official Disney Fan Club members when the Vantastix took to the stage.
As Dick looked out over the crowd giving him and his a
capella group their first standing O of the evening, Van Dyke joked “I
feel just like Justin Bieber.”
What followed was not so much a show as a party. As Dick
explained, these Vantastix concert appearances basically grew out of he, Eric
Bradley, Bryan Chadima and Mike Mendyke standing around a piano singing songs
that they loved while they ate pizza & drank Coca-Cola. So their
performances together — rather than being polished and professional — tended
to be more loose and fun.
Photo by Jim Hill
Which isn’t to say that watching Dick and the Vantastix sing
close harmony isn’t supremely entertaining. As this a capella group launched
into their first song of the evening, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang,” you should
seen the smiles spread across the faces
of every baby boomer in the room.
“I hope it’s okay that we opened with a song that’s not
from a Disney film,” Van Dyke remarks before the Vantastix then began
performing “Put On a Happy Face” & “Rosie” from Dick’s
1960 Broadway hit, “Bye Bye Birdie.”
After these two numbers were completed, Dick took a moment
to acknowledge that Disney Legend Marge Champion (i.e. the 92 year-old dancer who served as
the live-action reference model for Snow White. Not to mention being the widow
of legendary Broadway director/choreographer Gower Champion) was in the
audience that night. And given that Gower was the guy who had cast Dick in this Broadway hit … Well, Van Dyke made a point of saying that the Champions
had basically changed his life as a performer. That — thanks to Gower shaping
“Birdie” into such a showcase for Dick’s talent — this
Broadway musical then set him on the path for a hugely successful career in television
& the movies.
Dick poses with Marge Champion for
photographs after Saturday night’s
concert. Photo by Jim Hill
And speaking of movies, it was now time for the Vantastix to
start paying tribute to the Disney songbook. So the first song out of the gate
was “Jolly Holiday” from “Mary Poppins
.” Which gave Van
Dyke the chance to trot out his somewhat-less-than-authentic Cockney accent.
From there, Dick and the Vantastix did an abbreviated
version of “Fidelity Fiduciary Bank” from that film. Though — since
that he’s now 86 year-old and white haired — Van Dyke was quick to point out
that ” … I no longer have to spend three hours in a make-up chair”
in order to play Mr. Dawes Senior.
This “Mary Poppins” number was then followed by a
bouncy rendition of Randy Newman’s “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from
“Toy Story.” Then Dick told this hilarious story about how the
Vantastix had once been invited to take part in a musical tribute to the
Sherman Brothers
. So for their number in this show, this a cappela group
decided to perform “The Bare Necessities.” Which turned out to be the
one song out of that film’s score which Dick & Bob didn’t write for “The
Jungle Book.”
One of the real highlights of Saturday night’s show was when Dick and the
Vanstatix performed a choreographed version of “Me Ol’ Bamboo” from
“Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.” Photo by Jim Hill
Van Dyke chalked this mishap up to ” … that old
senility.” Which then gave Dick an excuse to launch into the parody version
of “The Bare Necessities” which he’d written. Where — instead of
“forget about all your troubles and your strife” — growing older makes
you “not recognize your neighbors or your wife.”
This is the tone that continued throughout the show. Dick
and the three other members of Vantastix up there onstage, being loose and
teasing one another before they’d then launch into these heartfelt versions of
classic Disney songs like “Baby Mine” from “Dumbo.” Every
so often, just to mix things up, this quartet would then throw in a gospel
number like “Down by the Riverside” or a boogie-woogie tune from the
1940s like “Straighten Up and Fly Right.”
Another fun moment in the show came when Dick invited his
wife Arlene up onstage so that she & the other members of Vantastix could
then perform memorable TV theme songs from shows like “Cheers,”
“All in the Family” and “The Jeffersons
.” And speaking of
television, one of the real highlights of the night came when Dick revealed the
lyrics that Morey Amsterdam had written for the “Dick Van Dyke Show
“
theme song. This was followed by a recreation of the “I am a Fine
Musician” number from that classic CBS sitcom.
Dick Van Dyke looks on approvingly as his wife Arlene and members of the Vantastix
perform memorable TV theme songs from the 1970s & 1980s. Photo by Jim Hill
There was all this — plus the other members of Vantastix
doing their bagpipe impression, plus Arlene performing “Go To Sleep Little
Baby” from “Oh Brother Where Art Thou.” But as Saturday
evening’s performance drew to a close, it only made sense that Dick and the
Vantastix would then circle back on “Mary Poppins” and begin performing
the more famous numbers from this Academy Award-winning film. To be specific
“Chim Chim-Cheree,” “Step in Time,” “Supercalifraglisticexpialidocious,”
“A Spoonful of Sugar” and “Let’s Go Fly a Kite.”
Mind you, I wonder what Walt would have thought of Dick briefly
busting out into a rap version of
“A Spoonful of Sugar.” But given that Van Dyke was just channeling
his inner Justin Bieber as he performed for all those D23 members in the Grand
Ballroom at the Disneyland Hotel, I’m sure that the Old Mousetro would have eventually
approved. I think.
In short, it was one of those nights (given the extended
standing ovation that Dick and the Vantastix received as they took their final
bows) that members of the Official Disney Fan Club will obviously remember for
years yet to come. Even those folks who spent much of the past year complaining
about how they weren’t able to get into Stage 23 to see Van Dyke perform at the
2011 edition of the D23 EXPO.
Alan Menken gets a standing ovation at the end of last Sunday night’s concert at D23’s
Destination D: 75 Years of Disney Animation Features event. Photo by Jim Hill
As I left the Disneyland Hotel that night, I wondered how
the people who are in charge of the Official Disney Fan Club were ever going to
be able to top a performance like that. But then on Sunday night in the exact
same performance space, I saw “An Evening with Alan Menken.” Which
was as good if not better than Saturday’s Dick Van Dyke and the Vantastix
concert had been.
But I’ll get to that story sometime later this week, okay?
Your thoughts?
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Seward Johnson bronzes add a surreal, artistic touch to NYC’s Garment District
Greetings from NYC. Nancy and I drove down from New
Hampshire yesterday because we'll be checking out
Disney Consumer Products' annual Holiday Showcase later today.
Anyway … After checking into our hotel (i.e., The Paul.
Which is located down in NYC's NoMad district), we decided to grab some dinner.
Which is how we wound up at the Melt Shop.
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Which is this restaurant that only sells grilled cheese sandwiches.
This comfort food was delicious, but kind of on the heavy side.
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Which is why — given that it was a beautiful summer night
— we'd then try and walk off our meals. We started our stroll down by the Empire
State Building
…
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… and eventually wound up just below Times
Square (right behind where the Waterford Crystal Times Square New
Year's Eve Ball is kept).
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But you know what we discovered en route? Right in the heart
of Manhattan's Garment District
along Broadway between 36th and 41st? This incredibly cool series of life-like
and life-sized sculptures that Seward
Johnson has created.
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And — yes — that is Abraham Lincoln (who seems to have
slipped out of WDW's Hall of Presidents when no one was looking and is now
leading tourists around Times Square). These 18 painted
bronze pieces (which were just installed late this past Sunday night / early
Monday morning) range from the surreal to the all-too-real.
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Some of these pieces look like typical New Yorkers. Like the
business woman planning out her day …
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… the postman delivering the mail …
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… the hot dog vendor working at his cart …
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… the street musician playing for tourists …
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Not to mention the tourists themselves.
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But right alongside the bronze businessmen …
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… and the tired grandmother hauling her groceries home …
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… there were also statues representing people who were
from out-of-town …
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… or — for that matter — out-of-time.
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These were the Seward Johnson pieces that genuinely beguiled. Famous impressionist paintings brought to life in three dimensions.
Note the out-of-period water bottle that some tourist left
behind. Photo by Jim Hill
Some of them so lifelike that you actually had to pause for
a moment (especially as day gave way to night in the city) and say to yourself
"Is that one of the bronzes? Or just someone pretending to be one of these
bronzes?"
Mind you, for those of you who aren't big fans of the
impressionists …
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… there's also an array of American icons. Among them
Marilyn Monroe …
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… and that farmer couple from Grant Wood's "American
Gothic."
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But for those of you who know your NYC history, it's hard to
beat that piece which recreates Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous photograph of V-J Day in Times Square.
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By the way, a 25-foot-tall version of this particular Seward
Johnson piece ( which — FYI — is entitled "Embracing Peace") will actually
be placed in Times Square for a few days on or around August 14th to commemorate the 70th
anniversary of Victory Over Japan Day (V-J Day).
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By the way, if you'd like to check these Seward Johnson bronzes in
person (which — it should be noted — are part of the part of the Garment
District Alliance's new public art offering) — you'd best schedule a trip to
the City sometime over the next three months. For these pieces will only be on
display now through September 15th.
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Wondering what you should “Boldly Go” see at the movies next year? The 2015 Licensing Expo offers you some clues
Greeting from the 2015 Licensing Expo, which is being held
at the Mandalay Bay
Convention Center in Las
Vegas.
Photo by Jim Hill
I have to admit that I enjoy covering the Licensing Expo.
Mostly becomes it allows bloggers & entertainment writers like myself to
get a peek over the horizon. Scope out some of the major motion pictures &
TV shows that today's vertically integrated entertainment conglomerates
(Remember when these companies used to be called movie studios?) will be
sending our way over the next two years or so.
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Take — for example — all of "The Secret Life of
Pets" banners that greeted Expo attendees as they made their way to the
show floor today. I actually got to see some footage from this new Illumination
Entertainment production (which will hit theaters on July 8, 2016) the last time I was in Vegas. Which
was for CinemaCon back in April. And the five or so minutes of film that I viewed
suggested that "The Secret Life of Pets" will be a really funny
animated feature.
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Mind you, Universal Pictures wanted to make sure that Expo
attendees remembered that there was another Illumination Entertainment production
coming-to-a-theater-near-them before "The Secret Life of Pets" (And
that's "Minions," the "Despicable Me" prequel. Which
premieres at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival next week but
won't be screened stateside 'til July 10th of this year). Which is why they had
three minions who were made entirely out of LEGOS loitering out in the lobby.
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And Warner Bros. — because they wanted "Batman v
Superman: Dawn of Justice" to start trending on Twitter today — brought
the Batmobile to Las Vegas.
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Not to mention full-sized macquettes of Batman, Superman and
Wonder Woman. Just so conventioneers could then see what these DC superheroes
would actually look like in this eagerly anticipated, March 25, 2016 release.
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That's the thing that can sometimes be a wee bit frustrating
about the Licensing Expo. It's all about delayed gratification. You'll come
around a corner and see this 100 foot-long ad for "The Peanuts Movie"
and think "Hey, that looks great. I want to see that Blue Sky Studios production
right now." It's only then that you notice the fine print and realize that
"The Peanuts Movie" doesn't actually open in theaters 'til November
6th of this year.
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And fan of Blue Sky's "Ice Age" film franchise are in for an even
longer wait. Given that the latest installment in that top grossing series
doesn't arrive in theaters 'til July
15, 2016.
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Of course, if you're one of those people who needs immediate
gratification when it comes to your entertainment, there was stuff like that to
be found at this year's Licensing Expo. Take — for example — how the WWE
booth was actually shaped like a wrestling ring. Which — I'm guessing — meant
that if the executives of World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. didn't like
the offer that you were making, they were then allowed to toss you out over the
top rope, Royal Rumble-style.
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I also have to admit that — as a longtime Star Trek fan —
it was cool to see the enormous Starship Enterprise that hung in place over the
CBS booth. Not to mention getting a glimpse of the official Star Trek 50th
Anniversary logo.
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I was also pleased to see lots of activity in The Jim Henson
Company booth. Which suggests that JHC has actually finally carved out a
post-Muppets identity for itself.
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Likewise for all of us who were getting a little concerned
about DreamWorks Animation (what with all the layoffs & write-downs &
projects that were put into turnaround or outright cancelled last year), it was
nice to see that booth bustling.
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Every so often, you'd come across some people who were
promoting a movie that you weren't entirely sure that you actually wanted to
see (EX: "Angry Birds," which Sony Pictures Entertainment / Columbia
Pictures will be releasing to theaters on May 20, 2016). But then you remembered that Clay Kaytis —
who's this hugely talented former Walt Disney Animation Studios animator — is
riding herd on "Angry Birds" with Fergal Reilly. And you'd think
"Well, if Clay's working on 'Angry Birds,' I'm sure this animated feature
will turn out fine."
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Mind you, there were reminders at this year's Licensing Expo
of great animated features that we're never going to get to see now. I still
can't believe — especially after that brilliant proof-of-concept footage
popped up online last year — that Sony execs decided not to go forward
with production of Genndy Tartakovsky's
"Popeye" movie. But that's the
cruel thing about the entertainment business, folks. It will sometime break
your heart.
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And make no mistake about this. The Licensing Expo is all
about business. That point was clearly driven home at this year's show when —
as you walked through the doors of the Mandalay
Bay Convention Center
— the first thing that you saw was the Hasbros Booth. Which was this gleaming,
sleek two story-tall affair full of people who were negotiating deals &
signing contracts for all of the would-be summer blockbusters that have already
announced release dates for 2019 & beyond.
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"But what about The Walt Disney Company?," you
ask. "Weren't they represented on the show floor at this year's Licensing
Expo?" Not really, not. I mean, sure. There were a few companies there hyping
Disney-related products. Take — for example — the Disney Wikkeez people.
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I'm assuming that some Disney Consumer Products exec is
hoping that Wikkeez will eventually become the new Tsum Tsum. But to be blunt,
these little hard plastic figures don't seem to have the same huggable charm
that those stackable plush do. But I've been wrong before. So let's see what
happens with Disney Wikkeez once they start showing up on the shelves of the
Company's North American retail partners.
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And speaking of Disney's retail partners … They were
meeting with Mouse House executives behind closed doors one floor down from the
official show floor for this year's Licensing Expo.
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And the theme for this year's invitation-only Disney shindig? "Timeless
Stories" involving the Disney, Pixar, Marvel & Lucasfilm brands that
would then appeal to "tomorrow's consumer."
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And just to sort of hammer home the idea that Disney is no
longer the Company which cornered the market when it comes to little girls
(i.e., its Disney Princess and Disney Fairies franchises), check out this
wall-sized Star Wars-related image that DCP put up just outside of one of its
many private meeting rooms. "See?," this carefully crafted photo
screams. "It isn't just little boys who want to wield the Force. Little
girls also want to grow up and be Lords of the Sith."
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One final, kind-of-ironic note: According to this banner,
Paramount Pictures will be releasing a movie called "Amusement Park"
to theaters sometime in 2017.
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Well, given all the "Blackfish" -related issues
that have been dogged SeaWorld Parks & Entertainment over the past two years, I'm
just hoping that they'll still be in the amusement park business come 2017.
Your thoughts?
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It takes more than three circles to craft a Classic version of Mickey Mouse
You know what Mickey Mouse looks like, right? Little guy,
big ears?
Truth be told, Disney's corporate symbol has a lot of
different looks. If Mickey's interacting with Guests at Disneyland
Park (especially this summer, when
the Happiest Place on Earth
is celebrating its 60th anniversary), he looks & dresses like this.
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Or when he's appearing in one of those Emmy Award-winning shorts that Disney
Television Animation has produced (EX: "Bronco Busted," which debuts
on the Disney Channel tonight at 8 p.m. ET / PT), Mickey is drawn in a such a
way that he looks hip, cool, edgy & retro all at the same time.
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Looking ahead to 2017 now, when Disney Junior rolls out "Mickey and the
Roadster Racers," this brand-new animated series will feature a sportier version
of Disney's corporate symbol. One that Mouse House managers hope will persuade
preschool boys to more fully embrace this now 86 year-old character.
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That's what most people don't realize about the Mouse. The
Walt Disney Company deliberately tailors Mickey's look, even his style of
movement, depending on what sort of project / production he's appearing in.
Take — for example — Disney
California Adventure
Park's "World of Color:
Celebrate!" Because Disney's main mouse would be co-hosting this new
nighttime lagoon show with ace emcee Neil Patrick Harris, Eric Goldberg really had
to step up Mickey's game. Which is why this master Disney animator created
several minutes of all-new Mouse animation which then showed that Mickey was
just as skilled a showman as Neil was.
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Better yet, let's take a look at what the folks at Avalanche Studios just went
through as they attempted to create a Classic version of Mickey & Minnie.
One that would then allow this popular pair to become part of Disney Infinity
3.0.
"I won't lie to you. We were under a lot of pressure to
get the look of this particular version of Mickey — he's called Red Pants
Mickey around here — just right," said Jeff Bunker, the VP of Art
Development at Avalanche Studios, during a recent phone interview. "When
we brought Sorcerer Mickey into Disney Infinity 1.0 back in January of 2014,
that one was relatively easy because … Well, everyone knows what Mickey Mouse
looked like when he appeared in 'Fantasia.' "
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"But this time around, we were being asked to design
THE Mickey & Minnie," Bunker continued. "And given that these Classic
Disney characters have been around in various different forms for the better
part of the last century … Well, which look was the right look?"
Which is why Jeff and his team at Avalanche Studios began watching hours &
hours of Mickey Mouse shorts. As they tried to get a handle on which look would
work best for these characters in Disney Infinity 3.0.
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"And we went all the way back to the very start of Mickey's career. We began
with 'Steamboat Willie' and then watched all of those black & white Mickey shorts
that Walt made back in the late 1920s & early 1930s. From there, we
transitioned to his Technicolor shorts. Which is when Mickey went from being
this pie-eyed, really feisty character to more of a well-behaved leading
man," Bunker recalled. "We then finished out our Mouse marathon by
watching all of those new Mickey shorts that Paul Rudish & his team have
been creating for Disney Television Animation. Those cartoons really recapture
a lot of the spirit and wild slapstick fun that Mickey's early, black &
white shorts had."
But given that the specific assignment that Avalanche Studios had been handed
was to create the most appealing looking, likeable version of Mickey Mouse
possible … In the end, Jeff and his team wound up borrowing bits & pieces
from a lot of different versions of the world's most famous mouse. So that
Classic Mickey would then look & move in a way that best fit the sort of
gameplay which people would soon be able to experience with Disney Infinity
3.0.
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"That — in a lot of ways — was actually the toughest
part of the Classic Mickey design project. You have to remember that one of the
key creative conceits of Disney Infinity
is that all the characters which appear in this game are toys," Bunker
stated. "Okay. So they're beautifully detailed, highly stylized toy
versions of beloved Disney, Pixar, Marvel & Lucasfilm characters. But
they're still supposed to be toys. So our Classic versions of Mickey &
Minnie have the same sort of thickness & sturdiness to them that toys have.
So that they'll then be able to fit right in with all of the rest of the
characters that Avalanche Studios had previously designed for Disney Infinity."
And then there was the matter of coming up with just the
right pose for Classic Mickey & Minnie. Which — to hear Jeff tell the
story — involved input from a lot of Disney upper management.
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"Everyone within the Company seemed to have an opinion
about how Mickey & Minnie should be posed. More to the point, if you Google
Mickey, you then discover that there are literally thousands of poses out there
for these two. Though — truth be told — a lot of those kind of play off the
way Mickey poses when he's being Disney's corporate symbol," Bunker said.
"But what I was most concerned about was that Mickey's pose had to work
with Minnie's pose. Because we were bringing the Classic versions of these
characters up into Disney Infinity 3.0 at the exact same time. And we wanted to
make sure — especially for those fans who like to put their Disney Infinity
figures on display — that Mickey's pose would then complement Minnie.
Which is why Jeff & the crew at Avalanche Studios
decided — when it came to Classic Mickey & Minnie's pose — that they
should go all the way back to the beginning. Which is why these two Disney icons
are sculpted in such a way that it almost seems as though you're witnessing the
very first time Mickey set eyes on Minnie.
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"And what was really great about that was — as soon as
we began showing people within the Company this pose — everyone at Disney
quickly got on board with the idea. I mean, the Classic Mickey that we sculpted
for Disney Infinity 3.0 is clearly a very playful, spunky character. But at the
same time, he's obviously got eyes for Minnie," Bunker concluded. "So
in the end, we were able to come up with Classic versions of these characters
that will work well within the creative confines of Disney Infinity 3.0 but at
the same time please those Disney fans who just collect these figures because
they like the way the Disney Infinity characters look."
So now that this particular design project is over, does
Jeff regret that Mouse House upper management was so hands-on when it came to
making sure that the Classic versions of Mickey & Minnie were specifically
tailored to fit the look & style of gameplay found in Disney Infinity 3.0?
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"To be blunt, we go through this every time we add a new character to the
game. The folks at Lucasfilm were just as hands-on when we were designing the
versions of Darth Vader and Yoda that will also soon be appearing in Disney
Infinity 3.0," Bunker laughed. "So in the end, if the character's
creators AND the fans are happy, then I'm happy."
This article was originally posted on the Huffington Post's Entertainment page on Tuesday, June 9, 2015
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