Radio (Thru the Mirror)

The Radio is a character featured in the 1936 Mickey Mouse animated short Thru the Mirror. It is an anthropomorphic radio that Mickey encounters when he travels via mirror.
==Background==
===Physical appearance===
The radio is a square-shaped vintage radio with two large eyes located on the top of it with a "nose" located between its eyes. It also has a receiver which it uses as a mouth to give it expression of how it feels as well as a dial located on the bottom of it which it uses to increase its audio. It also uses its two front legs which it uses as hands as well as having a bowl with flowers located on the top of it.
==Appearances==
===Thru the Mirror===
Amongst the various objects Mickey Mouse encounters is an anthropomorphic radio. It is first seen observing Mickey interacting with the Telephone. Just as the Radio tunes itself, it turns on the music as it happily dances along. Later, when the King card begins shouting, "Call out the cards!", the Radio hears the commotion and then shouts, "Calling all cards", just as the cards chase Mickey throughout the room, only for him to escape the mirror from the incoming cards. The radio does not appear again throughout the rest of the short.
==Video game appearances==
===Epic Mickey/Epic Mickey: Rebrushed===
The Radio also appears in the first Epic Mickey video game and its 2024 HD remake, Epic Mickey: Rebrushed as a non-playable character. It is encountered at Louis' house in Bog Easy, where it gives Mickey news around the area upon talking to it - more specifically news around Bog Easy. Despite not having an important part in the game unlike the Telephone, it becomes crucial in Jim the Puzzled's third and final riddle with the Radio itself to being the answer. When the player talks to the Radio, they will receive the answer from it, just as it tells the player that it's the answer. Afterwards, the player must return to Jim at Ventureland to finish this quest; once the player talks to him, they will receive a Gold Pin and some E-Tickets for finding the Radio.
In Epic Mickey: Rebrushed, the Radio has the same role it had in the original Wii version, except that it no longer emits static effects nor does it play the score used in the Jungle Rhythm projector level.
===Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two===
The Radio reappears in the sequel to the original game, albeit seen as an inanimate object in Mickey's House in the Toon World. It also appears again in the fake Mickey's House and the player is able to thin it using Thinner.
==Trivia==
*The way the Radio gives the signal, "Calling all cards", is a pun on the phrase "Calling all cars", a radio dispatch call assisting available patrol cars used by the police in old times.
*When Thru the Mirror was featured in Have a Laugh!, the scene with the Radio tuning itself was trimmed down due to time constraints. Instead, it shows the Radio starting to play the lively number and then cuts to Mickey dancing with the Queen card.
**Additionally, Mickey's duel with the King card is cut completely, as well as the latter calling his army of cards; it cuts from the King drawing his swords to the Radio shouting, "Calling all cards" when the short was featured in Have a Laugh!.
*The way the Radio appears in Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two as an inanimate object in Mickey's House in the Toon World implies that the Radio encountered here is a completely different radio, unlike the one in Bog Easy which is a sentient radio.
==Gallery==
Radio EpicMickey1.png|The Radio as it appears in Epic Mickey
==External links==
*Radio on Epic Mickey Wiki.
Category:Mickey Mouse universe characters
Category:Objects
Category:Disney characters
Category:Animated characters
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Category:Anthropomorphic characters
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