A New "Mickey Mouse" Animated Series

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 24, 2019 0:38:05 GMT TheMidgetMoose said:

On another note, it seems that Clarabelle Cow has brown fur in this short. Interesting. Of course, you could argue that's not actually Clarabelle, which would be a fair argument since it is somewhat off-model; but the clothing clearly indicates that it was intended to be her. Will this choice of brown fur spillover into other appearances, or was it just for this short?

I don't think she has brown fur ... seems like she's wearing a top (odd choice since Minnie isn't, but anyway).

First I've heard of those Popeye shorts, and yes, Mickey Go Local seems sadly very similar. Why is Bluto clean-shaven? Are very young children scared by beards? 

[Mesterius]

Aug 25, 2019 1:51:10 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

First I've heard of those Popeye shorts, and yes, Mickey Go Local seems sadly very similar. Why is Bluto clean-shaven? Are very young children scared by beards? 

Lucky you. The thing is, these cartoons are supposed to feature "youngified" versions of the Popeye characters... AND they are supposed to be utterly baby-friendly and squeaky-clean of ANYTHING that could be found politically incorrect by anyone anywhere. So: no violence, none of the characters talk, and Bluto is no longer trying to steal Olive Oyl from Popeye but rather sneaks around tryng to steal spinach from his garden.

After seeing first Popeye and now Mickey in this form, I have to conclude that this kind of badly-animated, humor-devoid and pathetically bland cartoon is an accepted genre of childen's entertainment on the internet. Pretty disturbing.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Ostensibly the idea behind the show is "the Rudish series, but in a style befitting Asia".

[Pan Maciej]

Aug 25, 2019 1:51:10 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

First I've heard of those Popeye shorts, and yes, Mickey Go Local seems sadly very similar. Why is Bluto clean-shaven? Are very young children scared by beards? 

I think the idea was they are much younger in this... cose, you know, there is NO WAY kids would relate to Popeye if he wasn't a kid himself (No history of kids liking older protagonists whats so ever) so to play "the devil's advocate" it make sence to make Bluto look younger as well, so otherwise it would come out as some creepy older guy stalking childreen... In Gendy Tartakovsky unproduce version he had a funny idea of Bluto still having beared when he was a baby and a kid, but this joke maybe would be harder to make sence in this series. 


This being said I seen some of the Popeye internet shorts and...



(Wait for it)



They are painfull (I know, big shocker, right?) at points almost feels like they wanted to insult Popeye fans deliberately. These "Mickey go Local" feels as bad from little I seen...

And what sad about Popeye thing is that this was made this year when we have Popeye's 90's birthday... and this was the best they could think of (The only other thing was releases of some classic short on dvd and blueray) Feels like a wasted opertunity.


It's an extra shame... I seen the new Looney Tunes cartoons Warner Brother is now producing (they screen them at Annecy film fesrival) and there they are sticking to what made the oryginal characters work, not cuting down on the violence
, madness or didn't affraid to make some more adult jokes... you know, like the oryginal Looney Tunes and it works 100% and I'm sure it will win more audiance then any sanatized version, where they are afraid to show Elmer the hunter holding a gun cose it it's not PC or somethnig. 


...And I think you could still make new great Popeye shorts or TV shows if you woudl just let the animators and writers do what made the oryginal great. And Kids arent stupid. I watched with my friends Fleischer and Fameus studio cartoons all the time on tv and we never got idea to fight each other, smoke pipes or got some wrap sence of reality, that after eating spinach we can no go and smack a bull with our fits and see it transform into sausages.  I do get that Olive is far from feminist icon but It's not like she was ment to be a positve role model. Popeye is a total uneducated rif-raf in the early cartoon (and in Segar strips he's a gambling simpelton), Wimpy is a gluton and a honor-less moocher and Bluto is a slob who thinks with his fits... they are all ment to be flawed people and she is just part of it.


Honestly I think companies today are to overscared and sensetive of what we can show kids and are more concern on "What the chart" say and while I belive there is place for that, Popeye is the last property you would like to see modern-up ("Clean shaven") and I think they still could make new amazing Popeye cartoon with the proper adittute. 

[Pan Maciej]

Aug 24, 2019 9:19:41 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

 finally giving us a simplified Goofy who doesn't look revolting is earning this show a lot of goodwill in my book. 

I prefer Rudish one as there is actual personality to him, while the "local" one feels stiff and unimaginative.

[Scrooge MacDuck]

I never said the Local Goofy was *good*. But the Rudish Goofy is *gross*, and that's much worse than "bland" in my book.

[Mesterius]

Aug 25, 2019 9:33:51 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Ostensibly the idea behind the show is "the Rudish series, but in a style befitting Asia".

That just makes no sense. Why would Asia require a style that is bland and unimaginative? The reason the designs are so blandified has to have something to do with these cartoons being intended to be as baby-friendly and harmless as possible. Oh, and of course, also cheap to make.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 25, 2019 9:33:51 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Ostensibly the idea behind the show is "the Rudish series, but in a style befitting Asia".

Is this an official quote from Disney or the series' creators? What is the source?

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Oh, I don't have an official statement or anything, it's just… the title does seem to mean that, to me. It's the Rudish shorts, except "going local". Hence foreign voice actors and a different artstyle.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

A quick internet search suggests that 'Mickey Go Local" is the collective name given to a current, ongoing PR exercise to promote Mickey's 90th birthday, and apparently centered in Singapore, rather than a specific title for this cartoon series. Here is the best information I could find on it. (Although, shouldn't it be "Mickey Goes Local"? Or "Mickey, Go Local!"?)

[Scrooge MacDuck]

Drleevezan already dug that up for the Wiki, but is under the impression that it's just a case of two pieces of Disney media sharing a title (which does sometimes happen). I dunno. At any rate, that wouldn't change much, would it? The animated series, whether placed under the control of some wider event or not, is still "Mickey Mouse: The Series, except by and for Asian people". 

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 25, 2019 17:50:30 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Drleevezan already dug that up for the Wiki, but is under the impression that it's just a case of two pieces of Disney media sharing a title (which does sometimes happen).

Possible, although unlike the examples you have cited, the two media under consideration here are contemporaneous and the title is very specific. It's kind of odd that there hasn't been an official promotion of this series on its own. Maybe more information about the background of this series will be available soon (if indeed any more episodes are forthcoming; it's been a month since the first one). 

[Mesterius]

Aug 25, 2019 15:47:56 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Oh, I don't have an official statement or anything, it's just… the title does seem to mean that, to me. It's the Rudish shorts, except "going local". Hence foreign voice actors and a different artstyle.

I still don't get how this artstyle is supposed to be specifically appealing to Asian audiences in any way.

[Baar Baar Jinx]

Aug 25, 2019 18:12:33 GMT Mesterius said:

Aug 25, 2019 15:47:56 GMT Scrooge MacDuck said:

Oh, I don't have an official statement or anything, it's just… the title does seem to mean that, to me. It's the Rudish shorts, except "going local". Hence foreign voice actors and a different artstyle.

I still don't get how this artstyle is supposed to be specifically appealing to Asian audiences in any way.

If this short is part of a larger campaign (as the link above suggests), you could argue that its existence is justified more than if Disney decided they just wanted to remake the Rudish cartoons to be suitable for an Asian audience. It doesn't absolve the piece of its atrocious production standards, but somehow makes to easier to understand why it was made. Perhaps the art style and animation are mimicking or referencing something pop-culturally important to the intended audience? I don't know.

[Mesterius]

Aug 25, 2019 18:31:13 GMT Baar Baar Jinx said:

Aug 25, 2019 18:12:33 GMT Mesterius said:

I still don't get how this artstyle is supposed to be specifically appealing to Asian audiences in any way.

If this short is part of a larger campaign (as the link above suggests), you could argue that its existence is justified more than if Disney decided they just wanted to remake the Rudish cartoons to be suitable for an Asian audience. It doesn't absolve the piece of its atrocious production standards, but somehow makes to easier to understand why it was made. Perhaps the art style and animation are mimicking or referencing something pop-culturally important to the intended audience? I don't know.

That's the only way I can even remotely make sense of Scrooge's theory that the artstyle is done like this in order to appeal to Asian audiences. But it sounds really far-fetched.