Add some Userboxes to tell everyone about yourself! Please make sure you do not post fanon material in our mainspace articles.If you are the artist yourself, you must select the "I created this image myself" ( template ) option when uploading. Per our image policy, any non-official or non-Angry Birds/Bad Piggies images must be added to said user's profile page, or else they may be deleted.Please read our Forum guidelines before you begin posting.Please read our Rules and Edit Manual before you begin editing.You can go to our Community Portal to get a quick start about us and what you can do to help!.Before editing, take note of the following: To get the latest LEGO news and LEGO Reviews straight in your inbox, subscribe via email, or you can also follow on Google News, or socials on Facebook, Twitter or subscribe to the Jay’s Brick Blog Youtube channel.Hello, and welcome to the Angry Birds Wiki! A place where you could find or share information about the Angry Birds and Bad Piggies series. I really enjoyed this exhibit at the LEGO House, as it’s not common for us to see prototypes and design notes from such a recent release, so I hope you found this interesting.ĭid you own any of these older Mickey Mouse figures? What did you think of them? We also got a look at the different prototypes of Pocahontas, with her dramatic windswept hair.Īnd last but not least, a look at Cruella De Vil and Patch the Dalmatian!! Really interesting to see what led to the creation of the head, which features Pinocchio’s protruding nose. In particular, I found the LEGO Pinocchio prototypes and sculpts really fascinating. The exhibit featured a really interesting look at the development of some of the Disney 100 Collectible minifigures, with notes, references and different concepts involved in the process, which sheds some light on how these new minifigures, wigs and accessories come to life. It featured historical LEGO Disney sets, including the Primo Baby Mickey theme, and the aforementioned Duplo Winnie the Pooh sets but curiously, I didn’t see these 2000 System Mickey Mouse figures which I thought was odd! When I visited the LEGO House in my recent trip to Denmark, I got to catch this really interesting exhibition in the foyer of the LEGO House, just feet away from the massive Disney mosaic. LEGO has come a long way of course, and minifigures (and minidolls) are now the defacto orthodox manifestation of any Disney collaboration, and with this year being Disney’s 100th anniversary, we also got the Disney 100 Collectible Minifigures series which released in May 2023. These Mickey Mouse figures only came in that one wave of Mickey Mouse sets in 2000, so are a bit of a relic of their time, and while they look weird, I do kind of like how unique they are. They’re almost like an in-between of a Duplo figure and LEGO minifigure. For one, they were much larger, and their legs occupied a 2×2 footprint, but they shared many similarities with minifigures including the articulation. Here’s a side by side with a modern LEGO Mickey minifigure just to illustrate how different and unique these 2000 Mickey Mouse figures were. While having a top tier license like Disney makes perfect sense, especially for a toy company, these figures were so far away from LEGO’s design language and iconic minifigure, but thankfully they were still System-compatible.Īnd yes, their hands were also compatible with minifigure accessories! The 2000s and late 90s were known as LEGO’s most turbulent years, with the company on the brink of bankruptcy, and these Mickey Mouse figures (Mickeyfigures?) were one of the emblems of LEGO’s largesse and messy strategy, which was to throw as many things to the wall to see what sticks. It spanned 5 sets with design hints borrowed from LEGO Fabuland, and for the longest time were the only official LEGO Mickey Mouse-themed sets. Here’s a photo of the sets I took at the LEGO House, which currently has a very interesting LEGO Disney display, including some prototype Disney 100 Collectible Minifigures which I’ll share at the end of this article!īut in the meantime, let’s revisit LEGO’s first System Mickey Mouse sets, a Juniors-esque theme (targeting 4-9 year olds) that was released in 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() Technically, the first LEGO and Disney theme was a Duplo Winnie the Pooh way back in 1999. While LEGO Disney is a full-blown theme now (with some truly excellent sets like 43230 Walt Disney Tribute Camera), LEGO and Disney’s partnership began in much more modest fashion, with some of these odd Mickey figures you see above. With Disney celebrating its 100th anniversary this week, I thought it’d be the perfect time for a short retrospective on the beginning of LEGO and Disney’s partnership, beginning with the very first LEGO Mickey Mouse theme.
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