Disneyville

Map of Disneyville in “Mickey Saves the Day”.

**Disneyville** is a small American city where Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and many other characters are shown, in some accounts, to reside or at least have once resided.

## Description

Seemingly located in or next to a forest, Disneyville is an eminently “quirky” little town, where nearly all homes reflect the personality and quirks of their inhabitants. It is unclear how it relates to Duckburg and Mouseton, of which the accounts which depict Disneyville usually make no mention.

### History

According to one account, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck and the Three Little Pigs once attended school together in the Disneyville schoolhouse, during which time both Donald and Mickey had the opportunity to first prove themselves as heroes. Mickey Mouse, Goofy and Donald Duck solved a mystery in Disneyville in 1949, and by 1954, Mickey was notorious enough in the town for there to be a Mickey Avenue there. One account shows Peg-Leg Pete, Captain O'Hara, Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse's home city in 1952 to have been Disneyville, despite O'Hara being usually identified not as a captain of the Disneyville police but as the *chief* of Mouseton's police department.

One accounts shows that by 2000, Mickey, Donald, Goofy and Minnie were back to living in Disneyville, alongside Ludwig von Drake, Daisy Duck and Peg-Leg Pete, around which time the Mayor of Disneyville was kidnapped by Pete and consequently rescued by Mickey. Most of the houses depicted in this account as the Disneyville residences of those individuals (though not Daisy's) were also seen in other accounts of the characters' lives in the 1990's, though with no identification of these houses as being located in Disneyville.

## Behind the scenes

Disneyville was a short-lived term for the common home town of Donald Duck, Mickey Mouse and friends employed in the 1930's and 1940's, with the earliest recorded use of the term (though likely not the actual earliest mention of it) being in the 1939 book *School Days in Disneyville*, which, by treating the characters as children within its narrative, implied that they had spent their childhood there.

Though it faded into obscurity in the 1950's (being replaced with Duckburg and Mouseville, now construed as two different cities), the term was revived in 2000 by the video game *Mickey Saves the Day*, which implied that the nondescript city in *Mickey Mouse Works* and *House of Mouse*, where both Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck had houses, was actually Disneyville all along. This was a retcon of the loose original intent that *House of Mouse* and *Mickey Mouse Works* took place in a version of Toontown (the series having been developed at a time when Disney was flirting with acknowledging the "real" Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck as being toons, rather than the version of events eventually settled on, wherein which they remain flesh-and-blood characters and their toon versions are separate individuals).

How one might reconcile Disneyville's existence in these various accounts with that of Duckburg and Mouseton is a rather thorny matter best left to individual interpretation; it is possible, if one is willing to simply ignore *Halloween Ghost*, to think of Disneyville as a small town in Calisota, perhaps located near Quacktown, where Donald and Mickey spent a portion of their common childhood in the 1920's, and later returned for awhile in the 1990's; or one might want to mentally replace any mention of Disneyville with either Duckburg or Mouseton. Yet another possibility might be to construe Disneyville as the common name of the urban area comprising Duckburg and Mouseton, if one goes along with the Italian portrayal of Duckburg and Mouseton as being quite close by, though this conflicts with Disneyville's having a singular mayor in *Mickey Saves the Day*.

### Notes and References

1. ↑ *School Days in Disneyville*.
2. ↑ *Mystery in Disneyville*.
3. ↑ *Disneyville*.
4. ↑ *Halloween Ghost*.
5. ↑ *Mickey Saves the Day*.
6. ↑ *Mickey Mouse Works* shorts.