Oswald the Lucky Rabbit/Trivia

• What Could Have Been: Can you imagine how things would be if Mintz had given Disney the budget bump he asked for instead of trying to screw him over?
  • Walt would never have started his own company and eighty years of animation history would have been entirely different?
  • Epic Mickey -- hell, Mickey in general wouldn't have existed?
    • The entirety of the Disney Animated Canon and Disney Theme Parks. So as painful as it is to admit it, things probably worked out for the best.

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Shorts Made by Lantz

• Canon Discontinuity: Warren Spector, head of Epic Mickey, decided to ignore mentioning these shorts in Epic Mickey. This is probably for the better.
  • There's a possible explanation for this, Spector says that the original black and white versions of Disney characters (like Clarabelle Cow) are forgotten in Wasteland, their colored versions leaving them behind; it'd the same case for Oswald, whose original self faded into obscurity.
• Hey, It's That Guy!: Bill Nolan, who was known for redesigning Felix the Cat into the cuter design we're more familiar with, worked on several of the early 30's Oswalds, with bizarre results.
• Hey, It's That Voice!: The first few cartoons to have actual dialogue for Oswald had his voice provided by none other than Pinto Colvig, who was working as an animator for Lantz at the time, and would subsequently go on to become the voice of Goofy.
• The Other Marty: Oswald's voice actor would occasionally change in the middle of the cartoons. In "Confidence" for example, Oswald starts off with a fairly deep male voice, then suddenly changes to a high-pitched female voice halfway through, and then reverts back to the male voice near the end of the cartoon.