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For the 75th anniversary of Mickey Mouse there were plans for a movie titled The Search for Mickey Mouse. It was scrapped in favor of The Three Musketeers. Jim Hill explained the project on his website.
>Sad as this is to say, Heather, it appears that "The Search of Mickey" is off. At least for the foreseeable future. What's the problem with this project? Well, I'm told that the folks at Walt Disney Television Animation division just loved the concept behind this project. (I.E. Mickey gets kidnapped. So Minnie hired the world's greatest detective, Basil of Baker Street, to help her track down the missing mouse. Minnie, Basil, Donald, and Goofy then travel the globe in their search for Mickey. And in the process, encounter every animated cartoon character that has ever appeared in a Disney film). Unfortunately, they were just never able to come up with a workable script for the film.
>What was the problem? Logistics, really. By that I mean: The writers had to come up a semi-plausible storyline which emotionally engaged audience members that still allow a different set of classic Disney characters to come strolling on screen every two or three minutes. That sort of gimmick is cute for a while. But imagine a 90 minute long film that does nothing but that? Sounds kind of annoying, doesn't it? More of a stunt than a story.
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