#Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas

[violetganache42]

(For context, Discord recently added the polls feature, and upon getting it yesterday, I tested it out by asking the above question in the server. Soon, I realized I never used Tumblr's poll feature and decided to bring that question here for all of Duckblr to answer. Happy voting!)

[disneytoonland]

[disneytva]

❄️The cold never bother us anyway with Disney Channel Fa La La Lidays 🎄

A full month with Walt Disney Animation Studios "Frozen" Franchise and "Prep And Landing" Franchise, Imagemovers Digital "A Christmas Carol", DisneyToon Studios "Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas" and Disney Television Animation's "Mickey Once Upon A Christmas", "Beauty and The Beast: An Enchanted Christmas", "Mickey Saves Christmas" and NEW Episodes of "The Ghost and Molly McGee" and "Hailey's On It!".

All December Long only on Disney Channel

[tymime]

As much as I enjoy the latest iteration of Mickey Mouse in Roadster Racers and all the other related specials, shorts, and spinoffs (although I haven’t gotten around to seeing Funhouse just yet*), I’m beginning to notice a pattern that leaves me feeling a little disappointed.

Don’t get me wrong, I think the series and its cousins are a HUGE improvement over Mickey Mouse Clubhouse- especially when it comes to slapstick humor- even though obviously there’s a lot in common with that show, especially their depiction of Pete, what with his tendency to call Mickey “Mickey the Mouse” and shout “Oh, cheese weasels!” (which I’m actually quite fond of). Even the weirdness of Cuckoo-Loca doesn’t seem all that instrusive.

The main issue I have is the lack of other well-established characters- especially family members. The first thing I noticed is that Goofy’s son Max is nowhere to be seen, and hasn’t been spotted outside of the theme parks since House of Mouse in the form of nostalgia-inducing references to A Goofy Movie and Powerline. But the differences between Mickey in the 2010s and Mickey in the early 2000s become particularly obvious when you watch Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas and Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas back to back.

You can look at those group shots and see that there are fewer characters. Again, I really enjoy Wish Upon a Christmas, especially the song Minnie sings, and it’s definitely better than the follow-up Mickey Saves Christmas. But there are five characters total that are absent in it- Max, Scrooge McDuck, and Huey, Dewey, and Louie.

Roadster Racers, etc., feels a little weird sometimes because of the way they transplanted Mickey from Mouseton to Hot Dog Hills and seem to be pretending that he’s lived there all his life, not to mention that Donald is no longer living in Duckburg and Goofy is no longer in Spoonerville, or wherever else he happens to be living. I suspect they did this to avoid the logistical complications of having Mickey or Donald driving from town to town or whatever, and keep all the characters in the same place for the sake of convenience. Not that that was really an issue before. But I also strongly suspect that they wanted to avoid using Huey, Dewey, and Louie because they didn’t want to clash and compete with the series they most wanted you to be watching in 2017- the DuckTales reboot. I won’t get into how much I hate that series, since I’ve gone into detail elsewhere, but I’m fairly certain they didn’t want viewers tuning in to one series where Donald’s nephews were younger and undifferentiated and voiced by Russi Taylor, and then tuning in to another one where the nephews were entirely different. (This doesn’t exactly explain why the Paul Rudish Mickey Mouse can somehow exist at the same time, but Disney seems to be full of contradictions these days.)

It’s for a similar reason that I think Disney suppressed Legend of The Three Caballeros from US television and kept it within the Phillipines for an entire year, and barely acknowledges its existence to this day. I don’t think they wanted viewers to see two entirely different series based loosely (and I mean loosely) on the comic books.

And personally, I suspect that the way Three Caballeros more closely resembled Carl Barks adventures and the tone of classic Donald cartoons than the DuckTales reboot could ever hope to achieve was also a factor. But perhaps the biggest reason of all for the reduction of the cast was to just simplify and streamline the whole thing for younger audiences. Not sure why they think kids can’t handle large casts when My Little Pony does it so well, if that’s the case.

“What’s your point?” you might be asking. Well, when it comes to honoring the legacy of classic Disney characters, Roadster Racers, etc. falls a little bit short, even though the humor and animation is so much better than Clubhouse. During the mid-to-late 2000s and early 2010s there seemed to be a surge of Disney Afternoon nostalgia, in the form of DVD releases and new comic books, which coincided with a renewed interest in the classic Mickey and Donald comics when Fantagraphics reprinted them. Disney seemed to care about the “Expanded Universe” of the Sensational Six again. By excluding characters like Scrooge McDuck, the nephews, and Max Goof, you’re depriving these characters of their emotional depth and complex interrelations with one another.

I often think of these moments in Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas. Scenes like this where these otherwise over-the-top and silly characters feel sadness and disappointment just don’t happen in Roadster Racers (and I guess they aren’t supposed to), and this sort of pathos doesn’t seem to occur unless their closest relatives are around. I believe that Max brings out the best in Goofy, especially. And those aren’t the only characters that are suspiciously absent. Horace Horsecollar and Mortimer Mouse, who were staples of House of Mouse, are barely present, and for some reason have different names. Pete, for some reason, has a new nephew character instead of his son PJ. ...And don’t get me started on Sylvia Marpole from An Extremely Goofy Movie, one of the most criminally underused Disney characters ever.

Once I noticed this, all the recent cartoons suddenly felt a little shallow. I still like them a lot, but ultimately I still prefer Goof Troop and House of Mouse and the rest from that era, before the characters became kinda childish and had all their edges smoothed off. (Update: I’ve seen several episodes of Mickey Mouse Funhouse now, and while the show has blessed us with some of the best weasel characters ever- Wheezelene, Cheezel, and Sneezel- I’m largely disappointed by how shallow and dumbed down it is.)

[sasa-chan]

Day 25:

Frosty the Snowman [1969]

Mickey's Christmas Carol [1983]

Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas [1999] & Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas [2004]

Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse [2001]

The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol [2011]

Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You [2017]

A Frozen Christmas [2016]

A Frozen Christmas 2: Dance Off [2017]

A Frozen Christmas 3: Party Time! [2018]

[pearlstarlight5]

The funniest Disney time paradox is the ages of Huey, Dewey, Louie, and Max in Mickey's Once and Twice Upon a Christmas

-In Once, they are all children

-In Twice, Max is an adult and the triplets are still kids

Like, I get why because no one wants to dig out Quack Pack and like, I just associate Huey, Dewey, and Louie as their kid selves and Max as his teen or adult self, but it's still funny nonetheless.

[wittynsmug]

I hate that I can never listen to "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" all the way through because of THIS MOTHERFUCKER

[azazel-dreams]

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas

Rating: ❤️❤️ ❤️❤️ ❤

Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas

Rating: ❤️❤️ ❤️❤ ❤

[disneybuddy]

you think mickey was out of character in mickey’s dog gone xmas

Maybe? It's been a while since I've watched Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas.

[thealmighty99]

"Figure skating is like dance." This is based on Mickey's Twice Upon A Christmas sequence, Belles on Ice.

[violetganache42]

TFW you and various people couldn't make it to tonight's Duckblr Movie Night and are seeing everyone else's thoughts on Twice Upon a Christmas:

[disneytoonland]

[the-plot-blog-thing]

(originally published on 11/22/20)

DTVA/DTS TAGTEAM TWEET-ATHON MOVIE #54: MICKEY’S TWICE UPON A CHRISTMAS (2004) 

I bet they thought they were being clever with that title, huh?

This was just bad. Like really bad. The CG animation just looks unnatural, the stories range from mediocre to actively insulting, and there’s no reason to tie this back into the much better “Once Upon” film.

Ok, the ice skating, triplets, and Mickey segments weren’t terrible, just not all that funny or noteworthy. My main issues with this movie lie in the Goofy and Donald segments.

The Goofy segment from “Once Upon” was the best part of that movie, so it’s sort of poetic that it’s one of the worst in this one.

First off, it’s barely a segment, it’s mostly an AMV about Max feeling angsty that he has a loving father. Which is stupid, because Max has learned to appreciate his father for the third time now, and it’s getting really redundant now.

Also, Max has a new girlfriend in this one. While I can accept that they didn’t want to use Roxanne again, they literally got the exact same voice actress for his new girlfriend, so they really had no reason NOT to bring Roxanne back.

Also Goofy’s girlfriend from the second movie is gone, which just makes me sad for Goofy.

And yeah, Max has no reason to be emo about Goofy. Goofy has been nothing but lovely to Max and his new girlfriend, and Max is upset because, he’s not...cool? Max buddy, I’m sorry but that ship has sailed long ago. Don’t be a dick because your dad’s not fuckin Fonzie or something

And the Donald segment sucks for the same reason I dislike the movie “Christmas with the Kranks”. Just because someone isn’t outwardly jolly at Christmas doesn’t mean they have no holiday spirit. And what if they have a different religion?

My point is, they shouldn’t guilt trip Donald into going out during the holidays if he doesn’t want to. Let the man rest and drink his hot cocoa.

Ugh, this just didn’t need to exist. I kinda want to go back and watch the first movie just so I can forget this one. Skip it. 

2.5/10: At least this movie gave me a new profile pic for Christmas...stay tuned.

[animated-character-of-the-day]

Today’s character of the day is: Scrooge McDuck from Ducktales and Mickey and Friends 

[bellamer]

Didn’t care for the Maxley ship because like I haven’t consumed An Extremely Goofy Movie in some years and it’s probably my least favorite one so I don’t watch it a lot but the people who complain about the ship all the time and pull out several reasons as to why it’s “problematic” and constantly bring up Roxanne are more annoying than the shippers I swear to god (and the shippers haven’t really been annoying they just make their lil doodles and keep trucking). Especially the ones who constantly bring up Roxanne because Max obviously didn’t stay with his high school sweetheart and moved on a long time ago. If you want to bring up a more recent movie bring up Mona from Mickey’s Twice Upon a Christmas or don’t because I liked Mona and I don’t wanna high key hate her like I do Roxanne just because yall wanna run her into the ground because you don’t want Max to be in a mlm relationship.

Also the way people always bring up Roxanne or Max being interested in girls feels like bisexual erasure. Like Max could have just had a bisexual awakening in college or something. Like so many possibilities but yall choose borderline biphobia.

Idk. I just wanted to say my two cents since i keep popping up on anti-maxley posts and videos and most of them are just annoying bisexual erasure who bring up Roxanne at every given moment even though she hasn’t been relevant or brought up in some twenty odd years but whatevs. It just made me feel how I felt as a Punkflower shipper last year when people tried every which way to paint that ship problematic or brung up Gwen every five seconds.

[taptroupe]

furgot to post this. fanart based on a spin on the famous tweet by @mintblancmanche. happy pride everheads (?????)

>be me >three years out of university >bringing my 10/10 bf (he transitioned a couple years ago) home for pride to meet my sis again >shes still super embarrassing >asked her specifically not to fill the house with gay popcorn >she picks us up at the train station >we get home, things are ok >she busts out the gay popcorn machine >mfw