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00:10Disney Epic Mickey, The Power of Two
00:12was always planned to be
00:14about Oswald as
00:16a featured player. Now you get to be him.
00:20Oswald is
00:21the quintessential forgotten Disney character
00:23he was a major superstar in his time
00:25and I think using
00:28him in Wasteland to be the driving
00:30force of what's going on there is
00:32the perfect, perfect choice.
00:41The first game was always about
00:43reintroducing Oswald, reminding the world who he was.
00:46In The Power of Two
00:47we really can have
00:49this relationship develop in ways
00:52that we couldn't afford.
00:53Walt Disney and Ub Iworks created Oswald
00:55the Lucky Rabbit in response
00:57to a request from Charles Mintz, who was
00:59their distributor. They wanted a new
01:01character and created
01:03a cartoon called Trolley Troubles.
01:07It came out in 1927
01:09and was an instant hit
01:11pretty much with the public.
01:14In the cartoons
01:16Walt and Ub Iworks made
01:18he's always had an
01:19amazing sort of plastic quality.
01:22he can take his head off
01:24and roll it around like a bowling ball.
01:25He can break down into a dozen
01:27little versions of himself.
01:29He was constantly using his ears.
01:31He would wind them up like a helicopter
01:33or he'd use them as an oar.
01:34We wanted to use some of those things
01:36that Walt and Ub created as gameplay elements.
01:42When Walt went back
01:43to New York to renegotiate
01:44the next year's series of cartoons
01:47Charles Mintz told him at the time
01:49not only am I not going to give you more money
01:50for these cartoons, but I actually own the character
01:52through your contract
01:54and I've hired away most of your animators
01:56and so you're going to have to do things
01:58the way I want you to.
02:00Walt wasn't about to do that
02:02and so he was just devastated.
02:06On the way home on the train he thought
02:08I've got to come up with another character
02:09so he started thinking about what they could do
02:11and when he got back here to Hollywood
02:14Walt suggested this mouse
02:16and they named him Mickey.
02:21Bob Iger who was the CEO of the company
02:24was very involved in negotiations
02:26with Universal in 2006
02:28to let Al Michaels, the sportscaster
02:30out of his contract with ABC.
02:32During those negotiations Bob
02:34suddenly piped up with an idea
02:37as part of the negotiations
02:39to bring Oswald back
02:41trading Al Michaels
02:42for a cartoon character.
02:44I think even Al Michaels was surprised by that.
02:48Having something like this come up
02:50something cutting edge and brand new
02:52reawaken an interest in a character
02:54that's been gone for over 80 years
02:56is really exciting to a historian.
02:59The fact that he's taking that next step
03:02is huge for me.
03:04I love that little guy to death
03:06and I want to see him
03:08as big and as famous as Mickey.
03:10So this is his next step towards
03:11having his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
03:14to get up .
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03:21Grazie a tutti
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