My 2022 D23 cosplay gallery, part two

Here now is the gallery of Disney cosplays I got from my second and last day at D23. You can look at the day one gallery here. Once again, I dressed as one of the Toon Patrol weasels (in particular, it's the one named Stupid, who wears the propeller cap and striped shirt and holding a baseball bat with a nail in it). Enjoy!

Eric here bears more than a passing resemblance to Prince (as in "the Artist Formerly Known As...")!

Lock, Shock and Barrel as a goth rock band

The pirate with many hats on his head from Pirates of the Caribbean. Each of the hats represents a different land in Disneyland!

The March Hare from "Adventures In Wonderland", a TV show from the old-school Disney Channel

Mr. Dark and Mrs. Nightshade from "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and Taran from "The Black Cauldron"!

Wayne Szlanski!

Animator and train enthusiast Ward Kimball!

The Three Caballeros!

There you have it, my setup of the newest set of costumes from the D23 2022 expo! I hope to go next time in 2024, or whenever it happens.

My 2022 D23 cosplay gallery, part one

Once again, I attended D23 for 2022, for which my family and I did a whole group set of costumes: in this case, Judge Doom and some of the Toon Patrol weasels from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

Once again also, I went for only two days instead of three. As always, I have taken so many pictures of people in costumes that I could not fit them into one page. Thus, I will be putting up two posts, one for each of the two days I went. I will include myself and my father, but this is mostly for other cosplayers that I saw. This post here is for the first day. Enjoy!

'80s Minnie Mouse

That's Madame Leota in the back, supposedly, and the versions of Snow White and Merida seen here are from a new game called "Disney Mirrorverse"

Walt Disney as a Mandalorian! Who knew?!

One of the star sweepers from the Pixar short "La Luna"

Mother Goose and Little Bo Peep from "Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme", a TV movie on the old-school Disney Channel!

Merlin as Doctor Strange and Madam Mim as the Scarlet Witch

How the Dreamfinder would look if he was clean-shaven and played by Josh Gad (that's not really Gad, though)

Jafar is posing with the animator who drew him, Andreas Deja!

Simplified versions of Donald and Daisy

That was day one. Click here for day two.

Disney Villainous puzzle idea: Wretched To The Core

This is inspired by those puzzles based on those Disney Villainous strategy games, which assemble all the various images on the cards together into a single collage and uses that as basis for a 1,000-piece puzzle. This is actually based on a 2,000-piece puzzle which assembled all the villains in the original "Worst Takes It All" set (Captain Hook, Jafar, Maleficent, Prince John, the Queen of Hearts and Ursula). It was called "The Worst Comes Prepared".

This image below is an idea for a follow-up to that puzzle, which also would have 2,000 pieces. It features the next six villains in the series, in the first two expansion packs "Wicked To The Core" (Dr. Facilier, the Evil Queen from "Snow White" and Hades) and "Evil Comes Prepared" (Ratigan, Scar and Yzma):

I highly doubt they're going to do another 2,000-piece puzzle, which is so hard to come by anyway, but I decided to do it for fun as a small hobby. I hope you like it. I may do another puzzle idea later, based on the "Perfectly Wretched" and "Dastardly Plots" packs later on.

Disney+ Shorts Icon Ideas (Part 2)

This is the second in a series of images of ideas for icons of classic Disney shorts if they were to ever be shown on Disney Plus. To look at the first article on the subject, go here.

Sadly, though, I have a feeling we're not going to have any more older content on Disney Plus any time soon, if ever, if this article is any indication (even though many people seem to be clamoring for such older content):

But in any case, if in the distant future they do release more cartoons, as promised, here's another batch of how the icons should look on the streaming service:

Anyway, that's the second in a series of icons that Disney Plus could display on its streaming service for classic shorts. Once again, I used MS Paint to do it, so apologies for bad quality. The chances are slim, sadly, that we will see more cartoons on Disney Plus, but anything is possible.

MouseCon 2021 cosplay gallery

In November 2021, I went to my first MouseCon in about two years. It's great to have everything open again, although everyone did have to wear masks while indoors. I went this year as Mr. Smee from Peter Pan. As always, there were booths, galleries, other cosplayers, and guest celebrities. This year, they included Irene Bedard (the voice of Pocahontas), John Morris (the voice of Andy in the Toy Story movies, who has also shown up at the 2017 MouseCon), and Terry McGovern (the original voice of Launchpad McQuack in the original DuckTales).

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

And here are some of the guest celebrities, including Terry McGovern...

...John Morris...

...and Irene Bedard:

Sorry they're not the best shots I could get, but I tried to do it without having to pay a lot of money for it, so it had to be done at an angle and/or a distance.

As always, when/if a new MouseCon happens this year (as I'm sure it will), I will be going, but I have no idea yet who I will be cosplaying as. In any case, I will also be going to D23 this September as well.

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.

The Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collection on Disney+

Forty years ago, the first Disney cartoon shorts were released on home video, in a series of videotapes straightforwardly titled "The Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck Cartoon Collection". It was a series of three videotapes, each containing six cartoons, for a total of eighteen cartoons in all.

In honor of its fortieth anniversary, I thought, just for fun, to see, as of November 2021, which of the eighteen cartoons in the video series can be found on Disney+ and those which aren't on the streaming service.

The first volume contains the following six shorts:

Thru the Mirror (Mickey; 1936)

The Sleepwalker (Pluto; 1942)

Donald's Golf Game (Donald; 1938)

The Whalers (Mickey, Donald and Goofy; 1938)

Pluto and the Gopher (Pluto; 1950)

Dragon Around (Donald; 1954)

The second volume contains the following six shorts:

Society Dog Show (Mickey and Pluto; 1939)

Pluto's Sweater (Pluto; 1949)

Donald Applecore (Donald; 1952)

The Little Whirlwind (Mickey; 1941)

Pluto's Blue Note (Pluto; 1947)

Donald's Diary (Donald; 1954)

The third volume contains the following six shorts:

Boat Builders (Mickey, Donald and Goofy; 1938)

Pluto's Quin-Puplets (Pluto; 1937)

Chef Donald (Donald; 1941)

Moose Hunters (Mickey, Donald and Goofy; 1937)

Lend a Paw (Mickey and Pluto; 1941)

Working For Peanuts (Donald; 1953)

As of late, of the eighteen shorts listed above, the following are available on Disney Plus:

As you can see, that's ten out of eighteen in all. The ones not on the service are:

The Sleepwalker

The Whalers

Donald Applecore

Pluto's Blue Note

Donald's Diary

Pluto's Quin-Puplets

Moose Hunters

Working For Peanuts

Surprisingly, two of the missing shorts can be found on the Japanese version of Disney Plus:

My guess is that cartoons involving hunting animals are no longer appropriate for the image-conscious Disney, which is a shame, though not surprising. But anything is possible. Unlike some other shorts, just because they aren't on the service now, that doesn't mean they will never be. They are innocuous enough as to be relatively safe to show. Anything is possible.