Disney Channel Mickey Mouse ID

The "Mickey Mouse" idents were a series of bumpers that were shown on The Disney Channel from 1986 to 1997. These bumpers showed Mickey Mouse doing something that ultimately results in the Disney Channel logo being displayed, such as driving, taking pictures, sorting out clothes in his closet, making things, etc. There were two kinds of these, some in 2D animation and some using a Mickey Mouse puppet. His face remains unseen in these; the viewer only saw his hands—all from his POV. Occasionally, in some of these ads, a second set of hands are seen, presumably belonging to Minnie. They were created by Colossal Pictures.
==Variants==
===2D===
Name 	Image	Description
Doors 	 	Mickey opens several doors, one by one, slowly at first, then quickly opens several at once (one of the doors' knobs resembling that from Alice in Wonderland). Finally, Mickey comes across the last door, which has the Disney Channel logo on it. Noticing that this is also a door, a garage door with a handle on it, Mickey grabs the handle and pulls the door up.
Hats 	 	Mickey puts many hats on a silver ball inside the Disney Channel screen, including the Sorcerer Hat and Goofy's hat, until he puts on a Mickey Mouse Ears Hat. Then Mickey spray paints the hat silver to match the ball, and tilts the hat the right way to form the Disney Channel logo, which makes a shine effect.
Ink Stamp 	 	Mickey takes out an ink stamp pad and puts a stamp on it. Then he stamps the screen with it, the stamp being the Disney Channel logo. Occasionally, Mickey is heard saying one of three comments: "Stamp out boredom with The Disney Channel!", "Mouse power!", or "Mouse approved!"
Hand Prints 	 	At what is presumed to be the Chinese Theater, Mickey, a star, shapes the Disney Channel logo in wet cement as cameras continuously flash. Then he adds his hand prints to the corners of the logo as applause is heard.
Locket 	 	Mickey gives Minnie several gifts. First, he gives her a cupcake with a candle on it (presumably, it's her birthday). Then he gives her a bouquet of flowers. Finally, he gives her a locket which has the Disney Channel logo on it.
Magic Tricks 	 	Mickey performs various magic tricks: he flicks his fingers over a flat disc, turning it into a magic hat, out of which he pulls a bouquet of flowers. He turns the flowers into some green balls and makes them disappear. He does another trick with cards. Finally, he pulls out an orange cloth with the Disney Channel logo on it and holds it up to the camera.
Mountain Carving	 	Mickey carves some stone, which causes a huge crack in the floor that runs out the door and out onto a mountainous boulder in the distance, destroying it and revealing the Disney Channel logo, carved in the stone.
Printing Press 	 	Mickey draws a line and then a printing press that presses down on the line, moving back and forth as it does so. Then Mickey draws a hand like his own that pulls down the line, revealing that the press formed the line into the Disney Channel logo.
Shadow Puppets 	 	Standing under a round spot of light, Mickey makes shadow puppets with his hands, including a rabbit, a duck (during which Mickey makes quacking sounds like a duck), some fancy resort, and finally the Mickey head image in the Disney Channel logo. Mickey then stretches out the spot of light to make it more rectangular, forming the Disney Channel logo proper. Sometimes, when he forms the duck, instead of quacking, Mickey will say, "Look, it's Donald!"
Toy Soldiers 	 	Mickey winds up a toy soldier playing a trombone and sets it in a maze, It plays as it marches and there is revealed to be more soldiers (2 play the bass drum and tuba) as they march throughout the maze. The drummer soldier eventually gets stuck in a dead end and Mickey moves it to the Mickey head part of the maze, which is revealed to be the Disney Channel logo.
Upside-Down 	 	The Disney Channel logo is displayed upside-down, but Mickey hits the table it's on with his fist so that the logo flies into the air. It then comes back down, piece by piece, right-side-up. Occasionally, before hitting the table, Mickey will notice the logo is upside-down and say, "Hmm, now, that's not quite right." After the logo is turned right-side-up, Mickey will then say, "Much better."
Water 	 	Mickey pours some water into a square-shaped jug, revealing the Disney Channel logo. The jug leaks a bit, however, and spills on the surface, but Mickey wipes it away.
Window 	 	Mickey wipes fog off of a window, forming the Disney Channel logo. There were five such logos: a city, a cabin before a snowy mountain, a train, a submarine, and a space shuttle.
===Stop Motion===
Name 	Image	Description
Ball Toss 	 	At a carnival, Mickey walks up to a ball toss game and tries to hit the bottles with some baseballs on the counter. He misses the first two. There are two versions of this ID, each having a different outcome afterwards. The first ID shows Mickey by himself. As he tosses the third baseball at the bottle, it bounces back to hit the screen, shattering it so that the glass takes on the shape of the Disney Channel logo. In the second ID, he is accompanied presumably by Minnie. After Mickey misses the first two attempts, Minnie decides to take a turn on the third ball and succeeds in knocking the bottles down, after which she receives her prize: a stuffed dinosaur toy with the Disney Channel logo on it.
Clay 	 	Mickey puts pieces of yellow, blue, and pink modeling clay together into a ball and flattens it with a rolling pin until it becomes the Disney Channel logo.
Connect the Dots 	 	Mickey solves and colors in a connect the dots puzzle of the Disney Channel logo (to the point that he uses more than 2 hands to do so).
Grocery Store 	 	Mickey is about to finish up a trip to the grocery store when he hears of an aisle open for checkout. He looks at his grocery list to notice that he still needs to get a TV dinner. He goes over to get one, which is covered in frost, then hurries back to the checkout aisle, only to be cut off by a lady in front of him who tells the cashier she has a coupon for everything she has. As he waits his turn, Mickey blows the frost off of the TV dinner, revealing the contents for the food to be in the shape of the Mickey head for the Disney Channel logo. The left ear has mixed vegetables in it, the right ear has corn, and the main head has spaghetti and meatballs.
Jigsaw Puzzle 	 	Mickey puts together a jigsaw puzzle that forms the screen of the logo, then removes a Mickey shaped in the center, revealing the logo. Occasionally, as he finishes, Mickey can be heard saying, "The Disney Channel!"
Mickey's Boating Scene 	 	Mickey drives a motorboat in front of a black and white movie screen playing several water skiers with occasional seagulls flying past. The last scene ends with the Disney Channel logo waterskiing before the film ends.
Mickey's Driving Scene 	 	Mickey drives along on an open road and sees road signs, where a person and some arrows cross the road. Then, Mickey sees a sign with the Disney Channel logo and soon finds himself behind a truck which is overflowing with tomatoes, some of which spill out of the truck, one of which hits the car windshield, forming a splotch. Mickey turns on the wipers to remove the splotch, forming lines, while three more tomatoes hit the windshield, forming the Disney Channel logo.
Mickey's Film Countdown 	 	A film countdown starts, but Mickey then stops the regular countdown and replaces it with a Mickey head in the Disney Channel logo. Then he finishes the countdown.
Mickey's Nightmare 	 	As Mickey goes to bed one night (a thunderstorm is happening outside), he sets the alarm clock and then goes to sleep. The viewer is then treated to an extended scene of a nightmare Mickey has, showing one of Mickey's gloves being chased through a hall by a ghost that takes on the shape of the Disney Channel logo. On the walls are pictures displaying other Mickey-based Disney Channel logos, the hands of which all reach out of the pictures, laughing creepily as they try to grab at the glove, which suddenly gets swallowed by the ghostly logo. At that moment, the alarm clock is heard ringing, and Mickey is seen waking up and trying to turn it off, as the clock is shown in front of the window blinds, resembling the shape of the Disney Channel logo.
Mickey's Sweater Collection	 	
Mickey's Wild Ride 	 	Mickey goes on a dark ride, which is similar to Mr. Toad's Wild Ride, in that numerous crazy things keep happening everywhere, culminating in what looks like a train coming in the opposite direction. It is actually revealed as a door with the Disney Channel logo on it, which Mickey's car goes through then. There were two versions of this ID, one with Mickey by himself and the other with him accompanied by someone else, presumably Minnie.
Microscope 	 	In a laboratory, Mickey takes a sample of something and puts under a microscope. He looks through the microscope, revealing the sample to stretch out to form the Mickey head on the Disney Channel logo.
Pancakes 	 	Mickey makes pancakes for breakfast. On the griddle, he makes three of them, two smaller ones and one larger one. When they are ready, he tosses them onto a plate, which form the shape of the Mickey head in the Disney Channel logo. Mickey then pours syrup on them.
Paper 	 	Mickey folds a yellow piece of paper, cuts some of it up, and then unfolds the paper, revealing the Disney Channel logo. Occasionally, after he finishes, Mickey says, "Don't cut any corners!"
Photo Booth 	 	Mickey tries to get his picture taken in a photo booth.
Pot Holder 	 	Mickey goes through the mail and discovers a sweepstakes envelope, for which he has the winning token to put on the winning sheet of paper to receive a grand prize. The paper then burns up and turns into the grand prize, which happens to be a pot holder with the Disney Channel logo on it. Mickey tosses the pot holder aside.
Record Player 	 	Mickey opens up a record player (in the shape of the Disney Channel screen, stripes and all) to test out some records. The first record plays "Old MacDonald Had a Farm", and the second plays "Tosca". Finally, Mickey puts on a third record, this one in the Mickey head shape on the logo, and the logo itself on the record's label. It plays the Disney Channel ID jingle on it, but then Mickey turns off the player and the record slows to a stop, forming the shape of the Disney Channel logo.
Teleportation Machine 	 	Mickey is testing his teleportation machine by transporting Mickey Mouse Ears Hats. The first few tries have the hats transported, but they have gotten messed up. During the last try, a bee flies into the teleportation device, forming a bee-Mickey Mouse ear hat hybrid, showing the Disney Channel logo on its left side. The hybrid then turns towards the camera and flies up close to the screen.
Time Machine 	 	As Mickey cleans a time machine, he accidentally activates it and sends himself back in time to prehistoric times, where a group of apes are looking over a square wheel that time-traveled with Mickey. Suddenly, the Disney Channel logo rises up in the background behind them, similar to the monolith from 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Train Set 	 	Mickey constructs a toy train set, whose tracks form the Disney Channel logo. He pushes the whistle button once afterward.
UFO 	 	Mickey opens his back door. A trashcan floats up as he turns on his flashlight. A cat and a lawn chair also float up as he looks around. Suddenly, a pair of spotlights shine around his backyard. Mickey points his flashlight up to see a UFO. As the floating objects move towards the opening, the spotlights form Mickey ears around it as flashing horizontal lights complete the Disney Channel logo.
Washington, D.C. 	 	Mickey takes a tour of Washington, D.C. and visits several landmarks: the Washington Monument, the White House, the Lincoln Memorial, the Jefferson Memorial, the Capitol Building, the Library of Congress, the Science Academy, and presumably a bunch more, and finally a building shaped like the Disney Channel logo (labeled as "You Are Here").
Wooden Blocks 	 	Mickey tries to fit some wooden blocks into round holes that form the Mickey head in the Disney Channel logo, but he has difficulty with this. So he takes the blocks away. Offscreen, the sound of a machine is heard whirring as shavings of the wood spill onto the screen. Mickey brushes the shavings away and then fits the now-rounded blocks neatly into the logo. Occasionally, afterwards, Mickey will say, "A chip off the old block!"
Workout 	 	Mickey works out at a gym in a fitness instructional-style montage with a female instructor's voice encouraging him. He uses several exercising machines and equipment such as an exercise bike, an elliptical machine, a weight machine, a crunch machine, a pair of dumbbells, and a barbell that eventually falls to Mickey's left and three of the weights crash through one of the horizontally-striped rectangle parts of the floor creating the Disney Channel logo (the bigger one made the head while the smaller ones formed the ears).
==Trivia==
*The dark ride ID is called "The Brave Engineer", possibly named after the cartoon of the same name.
*It is unknown whether Wayne Allwine or Pete Renaday voiced Mickey in these IDs.
*This is the first time Minnie has different gloves than Mickey.
==See also==
*Disney Channel Bumpers
*Disney Channel Bounce-Era Logo Variations
*Disney Channel Wand ID
*Disney Channel Magic ID
*Disney Channel Circles ID
*Disney Channel Glass ID
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