Newsgroups: rec.arts.disney
Subject: Mickey's House - ToonTown Spoilers
From: kat@gtc.com (Kathryn Fielding)
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 22:17:34 GMT
Distribution: usa
Organization: Genisco Technology Corp.
Keywords: spoilers toontown
Summary: spoilers, toontown


Mickey Mouse's House and Movie Barn

This was one of the things that it seemed like you could go
through very quickly and miss a lot. They put a tremendous
amount of work into this area - and it was deceptively large.

Entering Mickey's house, you see the stairs leading up (you
can't go there). Mickey had evidently installed a doggie gate
to stop Pluto from going up also, but the Pluto shaped hole in
the gate shows how successful that was. Mickey's house has
lots of pictures and souvenirs. Many of the pictures are scenes
from various Disney cartoons - including Fantasia. (Minnie also
has lots of pictures in her house). There are bookcases all over,
containing many of the classics - for example, "The Old Mouse and 
the Sea" by Ernest Hemingmouse. The house has chairs that you
can sit in. Mickey also has a phone and an answering machine.
There are lots of notes all over saying things about the movie
barn. In Mickey's living room, along the back wall, is a cabinet
with four sections. One section on the lower left, contains
Mickey's passport which has three dated "visa" stamps in it.
One dated 1971 is for Orlando, another is from Japan, and the
third is from France. The passport is in a section containing
a large key labeled Anaheim. The other sections each contain
a key labeled appropriately, along with something "ethnic" for
each area/country. Mickey has a ship in a bottle in this room,
it is a little steamboat, which rocks, and appears to have steam
and heat coming out of the stacks. A lot of people didn't seem
to get this reference. (Must not be Disneyophiles, or have seen
Fantasmic!)

On Mickey's bulletin board, he has a lot of lists of various things,
including his credit card statement from "Animation Express".
(Hint: what's the official credit card of Disneyland??) 

Mickey's den has more cabinets and bookcases. There are things in
the cabinets like a badge saying "Honorary Mayor of ToonTown", and
some of Mickey's sporting trophies. He evidently played golf in`
the Goofy classic - the trophy shows a cork-screwed golf club. 
Mickey also is apparently into baseball and other sports. The
cabinets also contain two very old (Possibly original) Mickey and
Minnie Mouse dolls, along with a picture of Walt holding one of
these dolls. This set of cabinets has a lot of sentiment and
love in it. One of the books in this cabinet is titled something
like "My tribute to Walt" authored by the Mouse himself. The
cabinet also has Mickey's official membership card from the original
Mickey Mouse club (along with a picture of the original Mouseketeers).

Mickey's den has chairs, a fireplace (with glowing embers) and a
toonevision showing Disney cartoons. The den leads into a service
porch type area, where Mickey is doing his washing, you can see
white gloves going around in the washer. He also has his laundry
hanging there. Mickey keeps Pluto's biscuits, dog food and "Flee powder"
there, along with other household necessities like assorted toony
cleansers. (No, I won't spoil all the jokes!)

This area leads to Mickey's garden, which contain's Pluto's dog
house, complete with bowl and bone. It also has turnips,
lettuce and carrots. The carrots are nice big fat ones, but
they keep disappearing with a loud pop - and when the last one
has disappeared, the chipmunk/mole (?, I think it's the one from the
Winnie the Pooh cartoons) appears out of the hole with a half eaten
carrot in his mouth and laughs. This area leads into Mickey's
movie barn which has a sign reading "closed set" but this is
crossed out and now says "open". You enter into the prop area,
there are brooms in the rafters, balloons floating with bricks
tied to them, drawers labeled "Gator's Cloaks", "Mickey's Gloves",
"Giant's Gloves" etc. If you look around, and are familiar with
the cartoons, all of the props are recognizable. There are also
a few surprises here (hint - Magic Mirror). 

Donald was apparently working on set painting (using the famous
brand "Duck-Boy") in his usual calm fashion. There are also a
couple of fun-house mirrors here.

This area leads into the screening room which has Donald and Goofy
attempting to show some previews of Disney films. The previews
are for well known Disney films, but are done in the hyped style
of the old movie previews. You get to see Donald, Goofy and MM
in shadow, and hear their voices as they attempt to screen these
for you. This area is a holding area, where they take people a few
at a time, and take you into a room, where you get to meet the
Mouse himself, as he is on a break from his movie shooting. He
hugs everyone who's willing, shakes hands, poses for pictures,
signs autographs etc. After a few minutes, you exit, and leave the
"Movie barn", seeing various other movie props on the way out.

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-Kathryn

(Tigger's Number One Fan)

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kat@gtc.com                                       genisco!kat

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