New shorts on Disney Plus!

Dreams do come true! Kind of.

It has been confirmed a few days ago that, presumably in honor of Mickey and Minnie's 95th(!) birthday, Disney Plus will be streaming several new classic shorts over the course of four months, 28 in all.

Included will be several black-and-white Mickey cartoons, the premiere Silly Symphonies cartoon The Skeleton Dance, and even a few Oswald cartoons. Below is the full schedule:

However, I would have added a few more shorts to the mix, for a total of 40 new ones, with each of the blocks of shorts totaling eight per (save for September, which has a full 8 shorts already), plus a brand-new block in November. The following are my proposed new additions

July 7:

-Billposters (1940)

-The Eyes Have It (1945)

August 11:

-No Sail (1945)

-Two Weeks Vacation (1952)

October 6:

-Pluto's Kid Brother (1946)

November 3:

-Plane Crazy (1928)

-The Karnival Kid (1929)

-Music Land (1935)

-Donald and Pluto (1936)

-Don Donald (1937)

-Donald's Double Trouble (1946)

-Pluto's Blue Note (1947)

-Donald's Diary (1954)

And in addition, I'm still hoping for the eight cartoons that are (or at least were) streaming on Disney Plus in Japan (maybe that could be a December thing):

Anyway, I'm really quite excited that they are finally putting out more old shorts on Disney Plus! I had read somewhere that they weren't doing any more, so this is a pleasant surprise.

MouseCon 2022 cosplay gallery

 Another year, another trip to MouseCon!

In November of 2022, I went again to the convention, but I did not stay for a very long time. I did not dress up either, instead wearing a custom-made Mickey Mouse button shirt. But as always, there were booths, galleries, other cosplayers, and guest celebrities. There were several returning guests, including John C. Morris (the voice of Andy in the Toy Story series) and Mary Gibbs (the voice of Boo in Monsters, Inc.). Alanna Ubach (the voice of Imelda in Coco) was supposed to be there, but couldn't make due to prior commitments. Other celebrities who did make it included Heather Matarazzo (Anne Hathaway's best friend Lily in The Princess Diaries) and, most significantly, Donnie Dugan and Peter Behn, the voices of Bambi and Thumper, which I thought rather appropriate given that Bambi was having its 80th anniversary that year!

Here are just a few of the cosplayers that I saw that day:

That's Dodger up there, from Oliver and Company, just so you know.

And here also is an appearance by Dugan and Behn:

I will try to make it to next year's event. Maybe I will dress up again, maybe not.