The Search for Mickey Mouse (lost production material of cancelled Disney animated film; 2002): Difference between revisions

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In 2002, production on an all new Disney animated feature began at Disney's Animation Studio in Florida called The Search for Mickey Mouse. The film is said to surround Mickey (played by the now late Wayne Allwine) who gets "Mouse-Knapped", and Minnie Mouse (Russi Taylor) hires Basil of Baker Street (fresh from the 1986 animated film The Great Mouse Detective) to help find him. Now Minnie, Basil, Donald Duck (Tony Anselmo), and Goofy (Bill Farmer) have to travel the globe to find Mickey and in a Roger Rabbit manner, single handedly encounter one character from every Disney Animated Movie to exist at the time. Several of those characters would include Alice (Kathryn Beaumont) from Alice in Wonderland, Aladdin (Scott Weinger), and Peter Pan (Blayne Weaver). That same year, no new information on the film had been revealed, except for the fact that there was speculation that the film would be done in CGI featuring a CGI Mickey that had been used in test footage for an upcoming Direct to DVD project that was slated to be released in 2004, and was speculated to be The Search for Mickey Mouse, by having the same characters and voice actors as mentioned before. However many were proved wrong as instead it was used for a CGI film called Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas and for the Walt Disney World Attraction, Mickey's Philarmagic. Many believed the project to be cancelled until one day in 2005. When WDW Radio (a podcast website) reported that the film would be released in 2012 and would be Walt Disney Animation Studio's 50th Animated Feature, bringing new hope back into the project. However, a little deja vu occured when Tangled became the studio's 50th Animated Feature in 2010. Now it is currently unknown if the project will ever continue production as new information on the film is still unknown. There is also no footage, or any screenshots of the film at all.

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-[[File:The_secret_of_monkey_island.jpg|thumb|Original cover art for the game]]
+In 2002, production on an all new Disney animated feature began at Disney's Animation Studio in Florida called '''The Search for Mickey Mouse'''. The film is said to surround Mickey (played by the now late Wayne Allwine) who gets "Mouse-Knapped", and Minnie Mouse (Russi Taylor) hires Basil of Baker Street (fresh from the 1986 animated film ''The Great Mouse Detective'') to help find him. Now Minnie, Basil, Donald Duck (Tony Anselmo), and Goofy (Bill Farmer) have to travel the globe to find Mickey and in a Roger Rabbit manner, single handedly encounter one character from every Disney Animated Movie to exist at the time. Several of those characters would include Alice (Kathryn Beaumont) from ''Alice in Wonderland'', Aladdin (Scott Weinger), and Peter Pan (Blayne Weaver). That same year, no new information on the film had been revealed, except for the fact that there was speculation that the film would be done in CGI featuring a CGI Mickey that had been used in test footage for an upcoming Direct to DVD project that was slated to be released in 2004, and was speculated to be The Search for Mickey Mouse, by having the same characters and voice actors as mentioned before. However many were proved wrong as instead it was used for a CGI film called ''Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas'' and for the Walt Disney World Attraction, ''Mickey's Philarmagic''. Many believed the project to be cancelled until one day in 2005. When WDW Radio (a podcast website) reported that the film would be released in 2012 and would be Walt Disney Animation Studio's 50th Animated Feature, bringing new hope back into the project. However, a little deja vu occured when ''Tangled'' became the studio's 50th Animated Feature in 2010. Now it is currently unknown if the project will ever continue production as new information on the film is still unknown. There is also no footage, or any screenshots of the film at all.
-'''The Secret Of Monkey Island''' is a point-and-click adventure game developed by Lucasfilm Games (later known as Lucas Arts) and released in 1990.
-It gained popularity as one of the most beloved adventure games of all time, for its sense of adventure, its humor and the charm of its anachronism-laden "Pirates-of-the-Carribean" like universe (it was inspired by the Disney ride).
-The plot is set in the old Carribean, on Mêlée Island, and centers on young Guybrush Threepwood who wishes to become a pirate. In order to be accepted as such by the pirate community, he must pass three trials testing his fighting skill, stealing skill and treasure-hunting skill. In the process, he falls in love with the female governor of the island, Elaine Marley. However, an evil undead pirate captain, LeChuck, sees Guybrush as a hazard to his dastardly plans and attempts to have him killed, after what he kidnaps Elaine, bringing her to his lair on the dangerous Monkey Island. Guybrush then needs to gather a crew and a ship to go rescue her.
-Head developer Ron Gilbert has written on his "grumpygamer" blog that several pieces of content were cut before the final product was officialized (as he says, "Never be afraid to cut").
-Among other elements, that cut content includes:
-*The grog-vending machine was supposed to have its "Grog" font looking much more like the "Coca-Cola" logo, in keeping with the Coca-Cola parody. However, due to possible copyright infringements, it got a more bland and generic font.
-*When Guybrush breaks inside the rooms at Governor Marley's mansion, the sequence where he faces a rhinoceros, a yak and other dangers were meant to be seen and interacted with the player in control as normal. However, the authors thought it would be funnier if unseen and shown going automatically.
-*When Guybrush and his crew are at sea on the Sea Monkey, there was meant to be an overhead action sequence where the ship would engage in a cannon fight with an attacking enemy pirate ship. That idea would later be used for the third Monkey Island game, ''Curse Of Monkey Island'' (although with an easy setting for winning fights almost immediately).
-*A lot of the dialogue has been cut. Some of it has since been made available on the Internet.
-*When Guybrush asks Meathook to join his crew, he will accept if Guybrush proves his bravery by touching a "beast" that he hides behind a huge door. Originally, Meathook would have made Guybrush go through three trials to prove his bravery before he'd join his crew. It has been speculated a lot that the tunnel at the end of his cave would have been used for one of those deleted trials; Guybrush can go walk in the tunnel during the "touch-the-beast" trial, but then Meathook will mock him for running away.
-*[[File:Mi1spiffydog.png|thumb|Close-up of Spiffy the dog; this close-up is absent from the final product.]]Some characters Guybrush meets at the first chapter have full-screen closeups during conversations with them. One included Spiffy the dog at the SCUMM bar, but it was deleted in the final product (in the game, Spiffy is strangely still holding a bone in its mouth while barking). When the game was originally released, the back of the box included screenshots of the game, including one of Spiffy's closeup.
-*When Guybrush arrives near the Giant Monkey Head territory, there was originally a cutscene where some natives of the cannibal tribe would be shown using the cotton bud key to open the Head and enter in it.
-*Guybrush would have to defeat some ghost pirates on LeChuck's ship by throwing the cannonball (described as having three holes in it) or the navigator's head at them like a bowling ball, knocking them down. This idea would later be used for ''Day Of The Tentacle'', of the same company.
-*LeChuck's ghost ship was meant to transform ''Transformers''-like into a giant humanoid robot. That idea would inspire the finale of ''Escape From Monkey Island''.
-Apart from some of the released cut dialogue, no image or demo of those scenes has been shown and released.