Mickey Mouse & Friends

**Mickey Mouse & Friends** is a franchise owned by the Walt Disney Company. The franchise revolves around Mickey Mouse and fellow anthropomorphic cartoon animals, primarily the, "Sensational Six". The franchise is often set in the fictional Los Angeles location of, "Toontown", a location from the film *Who Framed Roger Rabbit* (1989) which is set in an alternate-history Hollywood where cartoon characters are actual actors.

## Tower of Terror connections

### Buena Vista Street

Several denizens of Buena Vista Street are implied to be the inspirations behind Mickey Mouse characters. Notable examples are the Silver Lake Sisters who inspired the Three Little Pigs, Mortimer McKenzie who inspired Mickey Mouse, Oswald the mechanic inspiring Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, the *Mariachis Tres Caballeros* inspiring the Three Caballeros and others.

*Who Framed Roger Rabbit* protagonist Eddie Valiant is also mentioned as being a resident of Buena Vista Street, having his mailbox located at one of the street's buildings. *The Buena Vista Bugle* contains several references to Mickey Mouse & Friends characters being in-universe performers that work with Walt Disney, resulting in the commemoration of Mickey and Walt with a statue. References of less clear continuity in the newspaper include them being referenced as spotted celebrities and the frequent inclusion of advertisements for *Goofy's Sky School*.

#### Fiddler, Fifer & Practical Cafe

The sisters are attributed as being the in-universe inspiration behind the Three Little Pigs. A flyer on the board mentions a *William Tell* overture band performance at Paradise Gardens park. This is a tribute to the attraction *Silly Symphony Swings* in the *Paradise Gardens* area of Disney California Adventure which is based on the Mickey Mouse cartoon *The Band Concert* (1935). The flyer for an orphan-benefit mentions a performance from one C.C. Nash, an abbreviation of Donald Duck's original voice actor Clarence Nash (1904-1985).

### S.S. Columbia

In Disneyland Paris' Main Street, U.S.A., there is a mural advertising Cornelius Endicott II's business, the *U.S. Steamship Company*. On this mural, Walt Disney and Mickey Mouse are visible on the deck, holding hands.

### Sunset Seasons Greetings

One of the themes which the hotel takes is Mickey's Christmas Carol, featuring a post-card depicting characters from the film while Mickey and Minnie are visible in the hotel's windows.

### Tower of Terror

Some versions of the Tower of Terror's ride photos showed Goofy, Mickey, Minnie and Donald going down the elevators, screaming.

In Minnie Mouse's Hollywood dressing room at the Magic of Disney Animation was a poster for a fictional film titled, "The Bride of Frankenollie" starring various Mickey Mouse & Friends characters. This film was screen-written by Harrison Hightower IV, implied to be a relative of the evil Harrison Hightower III from Tower of Terror. The poster for the film, "The Jungle Cruise" depicts them having acted alongside, "Trader Sam", a contact of the *New York City Preservation Society* and the believed grandson of Harrison Hightower III's right-hand-man Billamongawonga.

At Disney's Explorers Lodge, Mickey and Minnie's passports had stamps from the *Society of Explorers and Adventurers*, the secret-society of colonial aristocrats of which Hightower was a member.

### The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror

In universe references to the Mickey Mouse characters are not present in the Tower of Terror however there are references to the franchise. On the October 31 of 1939, child-actress Sally Shine had a plush Mickey Mouse toy when she boarded the elevator which killed her and sent her to the 5th Dimension. In the library of the Hollywood Tower Hotel is a copy of the 1927 album, *What! No Mickey Mouse?* by Irving Caesar.

There was a point in which Goofy and his son, Max, appeared live outside the Hollywood Tower Hotel, dressed as prospective guests of the hotel on vacation.

### Other connections

#### Disney's Hollywood Studios

Hollywood Studios were largely themed to integrate elements from Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

##### Echo Lake

A poster for *Maroon Cartoons* from Who Framed Roger Rabbit is located atop Peevy's Polar Pipeline, a dining-service themed to *The Rocketeer*. This billboard features Roger Rabbit, Jessica Rabbit and Baby Herman alongside one another. In *Star Tours: The Adventures Continue*, items of luggage which pass through *Spaceport THX1138* include references to the Mickey Mouse franchise. Such items include the sorcerer hat of Yen Sid from Fantasia (1940), Mickey Mouse's gloves, souvenir Mickey Mouse & Goofy hats (the latter of which is confused for a depiction of Jar-Jar Binks), and the live chipmunks Chip & Dale. Mickey Mouse's astromech droid R2-MK can also sometimes be seen passing through the starport.

##### Grand Avenue

In the pre-show videos, Rizzo the Rat dresses as Mickey to try and trick tourists. Later in the show, Waldo C. Graphic shape shifts into Mickey to try and escape only to be captured.

##### Hollywood Boulevard

The hand-prints of Mickey Mouse, Goofy, Donald Duck, Minnie Mouse and Roger Rabbit are in the cement outside of the Chinese Theatre. The Chinese Theatre itself holds the attraction *Mickey and Minnie's Runaway Railway* where there is an exhbit on Mickey's filmography and portal to the Toontown location of Yensid Valley which guests enter. Eddie Valiant's apartment is overtop of *Hollywood & Vine*.

This attraction's predecessor *The Great Movie Ride* included a scene of Sorcerer Mickey from *Fantasia* (1940) and had cameos of Mickey and Donald Duck on hieroglyphics in the Well of Souls from *Raiders of the Lost Ark*. In the attraction's queue were props from Who Framed Roger Rabbit and in the western scene was a crate from the ACME Corporation, a business from Warner Brothers cartoons which was heavily featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit.

##### Sunset Boulevard

The fictional, "Jungle Cruise" film was mentioned as having debuted at the Theatre of the Stars, a fictional Sunset Boulevard location nearby the Hollywood Tower Hotel. On the poster for *Rock 'n' Roller Coaster starring Aerosmith*, several members of Aerosmith wear Mickey Mouse themed clothing and accessories. At Disneyland's Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway, there is an album of Mickey Mouse Disco with a plaque from G-Force Records.

The attraction *Fantasmic!* in the *Hollywood Hills Amphitheater* neighbouring the Hollywood Tower Hotel has a story centring around Mickey Mouse. The *Tower of Terror Holiday Projections* has a projection of Mickey & Minnie’s Hometown Christmas Tower.

#### Guardians of the Galaxy - Mission: BREAKOUT!

Vintage tin toys of Mickey and Minnie Mouse appear in the Collector's office.

#### Jungle Cruise

Also in the Magic of Disney Animation was the poster for a film titled, "The Jungle Cruise" starring Mickey and Minnie Mouse along with work from the Jungle Navigation Company, Trader Sam, some skippers and Prof. Harper Goff. Tribal artwork depicting Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck and Goofy have frequently appeared within the Jungle Cruise as masks and figureheads. Trader Sam also has artwork of Donald Duck within his Enchanted Tiki Bar. An anachronistic LIFE magazine with Mickey on the cover also appears within the Temple of the Forbidden Eye, some maraglyphs reference Mickey Mouse, and one of the corpses in the temple is wearing mouse ears.

#### Mystic Manor

The aforementioned passports of Mickey and Minnie Mouse have stamps from Mystic Manor, the colonial mansion of Lord Henry Mystic.

#### Paradise Pier

Goofy's Sky School is an attraction themed around Goofy giving flying lessons while Silly Symphony Swings is modelled after*The Band Concert* (1935).

#### Pleasure Island

The park icon of Pleasure Island was a neon sign of Jessica Rabbit, located overtop the lingerie outlet, "Jessica's".

#### The Rocketeer

In the El Capitoon Theatre of Toontown is a poster for a film called, "The Mouseketeer", showing Mickey Mouse in the role of Cliff Secord/The Rocketeer from the film.

#### Tropical Hideaway

In Minnie Mouse's dressing room was the poster for a film titled, "Mouse Pacific", filmed outside of the Enchanted Tiki Room alongside several birds from the Tiki Room. Donald Duck was mentioned as a possible client of the bird Morris in *The Enchanted Tiki Room (Under New Management)*. In the Adventure Trading Company (set around 1936), guests could list Donald Duck and Daisy Duck as potential hires for the Enchanted Tiki Room under the, "Waterfowl" category of *The Bird Call* magazine.

#### Typhoon Lagoon

A crate from the ACME Corporation featured in Who Framed Roger Rabbit appears at Hammerhead Fred's in Typhoon Lagoon, a park affiliated with the characters of Trader Sam and Captain Mary Oceaneer.

## References

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