DISNEY OSWALD THE LUCKY RABBIT FIGURINE ART MICKEY MOUSE

Item Details:

* Brand new strapped in a showcase box
* Heavy Figurine and great quality
* 2007 SPECIAL LIMITED EDITION in MINT condition
* Originally from the Disney Store
* Figurine approx 9" tall
* Box measures: 10" x 7" WIDE

A Disney Store Exclusive!

NOT AVAILABLE ANYMORE! THIS WAS A LIMITED EDITION RELEASE AND IS NOW RETIRED!

You are bidding on a brand new and unopened Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Sculpted
Figurine from Disney Store. This RETIRED figurine features Oswald the Lucky Rabbit
and measures 9" tall, and still in it’s original packaging!

Before there was Mickey...there was Oswald!
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was an anthropomorphic rabbit animated cartoon character
created by Ub Iwerks and Walt Disney for films distributed by Universal Pictures
in the 1920s and 1930s.

In the spring of 1928, with the series going strong, Walt Disney asked Charles
Mintz (Producer for the cartoon) for an increase in the budget. But Mintz instead
demanded that Walt take a 20 percent budget cut, and as leverage, he reminded
Disney that Mintz owned the character, and revealed that he had already signed
most of Disney’s current employees to his new contract: Iwerks and Les Clark were
among the few who remained loyal to Walt Disney and the Disney studio. Disney
refused Mintz’s demand, disassociating himself from Oswald after the series’ first
season. While finishing the remaining Oswald cartoons, Disney, Iwerks and Clark
created the cartoon hero who would become The Walt Disney Company’s lasting symbol:
Mickey Mouse, the most famous of Walt Disney’s characters.

Oswald starred in a series of 26 silent cartoons made by Walt Disney between 1927
and 1928 for Charles Mintz, who contracted with Universal for the distribution.
When Walt lost the rights to Oswald, he came up with the character of Mickey Mouse.
The Oswald character was later continued by Walter Lantz. Sound was added by
Universal, the copyright holder, to some of the Disney Oswald cartoons in the early
days of television. Oswald was the first Disney character to generate merchandise:
a candy bar, a stencil set, and a pinback button. In 2006, The Walt Disney Company
regained the rights to Oswald, in a trade with NBC/Universal.

Oswald Filmography:
"Poor Papa"(1927)
"Trolley Troubles" (1927)
"Oh, Teacher" (1927)
"Great Guns" (1927)
"The Mechanical Cow" (1927)
"All Wet" (1927)
"The Ocean Hop"(1927)
"The Banker's Daughter" (1927)
"Harem Scarem" (1927)
"Rickety Gin" (1927)
"Neck 'n Neck" (1927)
"Empty Socks" (1927)
"The Ol' Swimmin' 'ole" (1927)

"Africa Before Dark" (1927)
"Rival Romeos" (1928)
"Bright Lights" (1928)
"Sagebrush Sadie" (1928)
"Ride 'em Plow Boy" (1928)
"Ozzie of the Mounted" (1928)
"Hungry Hoboes" (1928)
"Oh, What a Knight" (1928)
"Sky Scrappers" (1928)
"The Fox Chase" (1928)
"Tall Timber" (1928)
"Sleigh Bells" (1928)
"Hot Dog" (1928)