Details magazine recently wrote about Disney’s experimentation with updating Mickey Mouse. They say, leave Mickey alone!!!
linkAccording to the New York Times, Disney will release a new video game called Epic Mickey next year, in which "the formerly squeaky clean character" is re-imagined to be "cantankerous and cunning, as well as heroic, as he traverses a forbidding wasteland." Kind of like Mad Max. What exactly does it say about us when we turn our country's most benevolent animated cash cow into a "cantankerous" rodent, banished by his creators to forever wander a "forbidding wasteland"?...
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