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"Mickey Mouse was in many ways a ripoff of Universal's Oswald the Rabbit" Considering that Walt Disney created Oswald the Rabbit for Universal, it is no surpri
by Tagbert 5y ago
"Mickey Mouse was in many ways a ripoff of Universal's Oswald the Rabbit"
Considering that Walt Disney created Oswald the Rabbit for Universal, it is no surprise that some elements carried over to Mickey. When Universal took Oswald away from Disney's control, he responded by creating the mouse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit#Universal_takes_direct_control https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oswald_the_Lucky_Rabbit#Univer...
- yesenadam 5y agoApparently Mickey and Oswald were both created by Ub Iwerks. I don't know why it's still repeated that Disney created them personally. "Disney asked Iwerks to design a character that became Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The first cartoon Oswald starred in was animated entirely by Iwerks." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ub_Iwerks Sounds a bit like a Jobs + Wozniak situation!