Russi Taylor (1944-2019)

[Pan Maciej]

Acording to Disney Animated news pages on Face book :

"Due to the sudden passing of Russi Taylor, Disney Junior and Executive Producer Rob LaDuca have announced the unfortunate news that Mickey and the Roadster Racers will be ending it’s run after three seasons and 75 episodes."

[Scrooge MacDuck]

…eh? Of all the strange ideas. I mean, obviously they're going to be recasting Minnie either way, they have to.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 20, 2019 19:21:48 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

…eh? Of all the strange ideas. I mean, obviously they're going to be recasting Minnie either way, they have to.

Yes, by that logic, they should be cancelling the Mickey Mouse shorts, too. Maybe Roadster Racers was already scheduled to get the ax, and Disney's making a virtue of a necessity. 

[Pan Maciej]

Not exactly Disney chracter related (then agian Disney now own the Simpsons) but : 

So the latest Simpsons episode title "Thanksgiving of Horror" aired few days ago and it includes Russi Tylor's final performance as Martin Prince. It was very fun and creative episode and I recomend it, however what odd is that

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Martin last scene involved him dying in a very grotesque way... Now this takes place during the parody of the "Alien" movie (the episode has similar structure to the show Halloween episodes) so it's not cannonical as well his dialog was to specific to conisder it a last second animation addition so I don't think there was any bad will on the creators part and it's all just a unfortunate coincidence.   

It is however a strange contrast as when Phil Hartman died they actualy cut out his character Troy McClure from the very last episode he recorded as the scene was about him hoasting an electric chair execution live on TV (Treehouse of Horror IX, Hell Toupée sequence) and they didn't want Hartman final performance to be center around death.



Also lot of Simpsons characters where retire after their actors past away (Marcia Wallace character Edna, Troy McClure and Lionel Hutz for Phil Hartman and some others) while Tylor characters got replace by a new actress. I guess they didn't wanted to kill-off kid characters (to depressing for this show) plus it would be odd to ignore them as Russi pretty much voiced half of Bart's class. 

[Pan Maciej]

Just if you wonder :

New voice of Minnie is Kaitlyn Robrock. It will take a while for her to prove is she is worthy of Russi's vocal talent but I'm always plesently suprise when the new voice is almost identicial.