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  • 2020-11-20 (xsd:date)
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  • Are These 'Creepy' Mickey Mouse Costumes Real? (en)
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  • In November 2020, as fans of the Walt Disney Company celebrated Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse's 92nd birthday, a picture supposedly showing a creepy Mickey Mouse costume from the early days of Disney started to circulate on social media: This is a genuine photograph of an early Mickey and Minnie Mouse costume. However, this does not show a Disney fan posing with an official mascot at Disneyland or Disneyworld, as some may think, and the Walt Disney Company did not design these costumes. The character of Mickey Mouse was created by Walt Disney in 1928, and as the character grew in popularity, a number of costume shops unaffiliated with the Walt Disney Company created their own papier-mâché versions of a Mickey Mouse costume. The above-pictured costumes were likely taken in the early 1930s. Disney Dan, a YouTuber and Disney Park historian, said: As these costumes were not produced by any single company, the looks varied greatly from one homemade Mickey costume to the next. You can see more images of these early Mickey costumes at D23. Here's a photograph of another version from Getty Images that was taken circa 1930: When Disneyland opened in 1955, Mickey's costume still wasn't quite ready. In order to make sure that Mickey and Minnie were both present at the opening of the theme park, Disney borrowed costumes that were used for the Ice Capades. Disney Fandom writes: It wasn't until a few years later that Mickey's costume started to resemble the costume that you would see today in 2020 at Disneyland. Here's a video from Disney Dan that explores the history of Mickey Mouse's costume: (en)
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