Saturday, February 5, 2022

Disney+ Shorts Icon Ideas (Part 1)

This is the first in a series of images of ideas for icons of classic Disney shorts if they were to ever be shown on Disney Plus. To be sure, they put out several of them, including several at the service's launch and adding on more and more as time went on. However, here again, it would be nice if we could get more, lots more. I think one reason why they haven't released more cartoons is possibly because some of them have questionable content on them that would never fly today, such as racial or ethic stereotypes, smoking, or just crude behavior. Obviously, those would not be acceptable for inclusion, so half the black-and-white Mickey shorts would not be shown (as I had stated some time ago).

The icons would be accompanied by another batch (which I will display in the comments below, because I can't do multiple images in the main post). This batch would finish up the rest of the shorts featured in the "Have a Laugh" series which ran from 2009 to 2012 on the Disney Channel. They were released on the Japanese Disney Plus streaming service, but not the U.S. one. I'm guessing it's because a lot of them involve guns and gunplay, such as those involving hunting animals (see below), may be because people, at least in the U.S. have been sensitive to the plight of animals, or they involve, in any way, shape or form, guns and gunplay:

But anyway, alongside those released only on the Japanese service, are the first batch of new ideas I posted. I want to see a lot more non-sports Goofy cartoons (only one such short, "A Knight For a Day", is available), several pre-1941 Pluto cartoons (I think only "Lend a Paw" and "Canine Caddy" are the only two such shorts available) and LOTS more black-and-white Mickey shorts. As of late, the only two such shorts available are "Steamboat Willie" (for obvious reasons) and "Ye Olden Days" from 1933:

Anyway, that's the first in a series of icons that Disney Plus could display on its streaming service for classic shorts. I apologize if the quality looks bad. I used MS Paint to do it. That's pretty much the best I could do. There will be plenty more where that came from, however.