This popped up on my twitter feed this morning, a short animation of Disney’s iconic opening animated sequence of Mickey from Steamboat Willie:
Hello Folks! Let’s celebrate Disney Mickey Mouse’s first appearance with the new LEGO Ideas set “Steamboat Willieâ€. #MickeyTrueOriginal #Mickey90 pic.twitter.com/30oJpQwHLC
— LEGO (@LEGO_Group) March 14, 2019
I’m actually more interested in the different shades of gray used in the first few cels.
From the one frame featured at the top of this post, we can already see significant changes between it and the submitted Ideas project it is based on. The original incarnation had a smaller-than-minifig scale steamboat, whereas in the frame we see Mickey behind the wheel in what looks to be a larger, full-scale boat. I’m curious now what the final product will look like.
If you’ve ever seen a Disney cartoon on the big screen, then the first opening cells from the twitter video should be familiar. This is where that came from. It’s significance is that Steamboat Willie was Walt Disney’s first cartoon with fully synchronized sound. It’s kinda like the Yellow Castle set for LEGO.
[…] Teased last week, LEGO has officially pulled the wraps off of their latest Ideas set, 21317 Steamboat Willie. I was right in my assessment that the final product looks vastly different from the submitted project. It’s larger in scale and can actually fit the minifigs on the deck. There also appears to be space in the wheelhouse to put Mickey in. Neat. […]
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