Many moods of Mickey

Magnet #1290 - Shades of Mickey Mouse

A friend of mine brought this back for me from Disneyland. So cute!

You know, for as many times as I've been out to California, I still haven't done one trip centered around themeparks.

This is bad! I'm also getting annoyed that my list of places to visit is getting longer and longer. I should probably set up a spreadsheet of trips that I want to take and the bucket list of things to do in each place. Then I can start tiering my trips. As it is, it's been only 3 months since my last international trip and I'm already itching to get outta dodge.

Anyway, I do love this magnet because it's like someone's asking Mickey to be Happy! Be Sad! Be freaked out! Now you're surprised! Plus, with all the different colors, it's like an Andy Warhol set.

Ok, fine. It's really a set of 15 magnets. But honestly, did ya'll want 15 separate Mickey magnetsposts?

Nope, didn't think so.

Therefore, I present Mickey Warhol.

"A source of joy and inspiration"

Magnet #950 - Our Vacation at WDW

I had a friend in high school who called Mickey Mouse the anti-Christ. While I've never agreed with him, I will say I can't believe how much of a killing Disney makes off of kids and their parents. (And those who aren't parents, but love visiting Disney, anyway.)

And based on another friend who is spending a week down there with her family, Disney makes it soooo very easy to spend money - staying on various properties, fun character events, meal plans, cruises, corporate and school packages, plus the theme parks. Amazing.

I mean, the three of us in this magnetpicture with Stitch totally dropped a bundle for a week at Disney, and that was just to see a bunch of ABC Soap Stars.

I often wonder when Walt Disney dedicated Disneyland in the 1950s, if he had an inkling of the reach his park would have many years later. I love seeing those old videos of him giving updates on the construction of Disneyland, and later introducing the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow. He had to have known something, I'd bet.

He had intended his parks to be "a source of joy and inspiration," but I imagine that they're quite the source of income for the estate as well, and that has good old Mickey giggling all the way to the bank.

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Oooh, hey, happy birthday, Jan! You're not in this picture, but you totally should have been!

Mickey Mouse!

Magnet #108 - Donald Duck

Donald Duck!

I always feel sorry for the attention-starved Donald during the Mickey Mouse Club theme song.

So, in honor of the most recognized Disney character after Mickey, I give you: Donald Duck Day. No, I swear! Look it up for yourself. This day in 1934, he made his first appearance in The Wise Little Hen.

Sigh. Oh, the places I could go with this Donald post.

• My high-school crush which resulted in a penchant for all things Donald.
• My identification with Donald's anger management problem.
  
• My wonderment as to why he wears a little sailor hat, but has no sailor bottoms.
  
• My realization that Huey, Dewey and Louie were his nephews...but does that mean Donald has a brother or a sister I don't remember?
• What prompted him to head to Latin America to become one of the Three Caballeros? (Which by the way, I totally added to the top of my Netflix queue. Why am I the only one who remembers Jose Carioca?)
  

Yeah, ok. So, obvi, too much time spent wondering about this duck. Which is weird, since I hate birds. But, that's a magnet for another day.