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DAY 110

Here are 3 Playhouse Disney shows from the middle of the 2000s and each of them have "the Dora the Explorer" effect in one way or another: Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Handy Manny.
Little Einsteins was an, for lack of better word, "upgraded" version of the Baby Einstein home videos (which I don't know whether to include or not), but it has a lot of the same elements. Lots of classical music and uses of multiple versions of stock footage. The basic structure is four little kids going on some giant adventure in their own rocket ship to insert whatever here. It was... passable, but not much. Aside from the classical music, it's just Dora with more children. The interactions between the 2D, stock footage and 3D is sort of odd, there's the usual pause for a long time interaction, it seemed better suited for older kids that the literal baby series.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, or as some people put it, how Mickey's identity was ruined forever. Set up: it's been a few years since House of Mouse and there hasn't been any new episodes. Word comes about that a new Mickey show would come out soon. Word spreads like wildfire and hype is made. After a Finding Nemo screening at night, the first episode comes out and... it blew. I mean, for kids it must've been fine, but this one show messed up Mickey's reputation for a LONG time. The show takes place at Mickey's special clubhouse and you're along for the ride helping out with everything. Nothing really happened since it was all mundane and it was pretty painful at times how young it was. You kept getting as agrivated you would watching Dora with the "TURN AROUND! IS YOUR NECK BROKEN" sort of issues. Mickey might have been labeled with "no personality" for a bit since the 90s and 2000s, but at least in House of Mouse and Mickey's Mouse Works, he had SOMETHING! Here? This is sadly what most people think of when they think Mickey nowadays. Sad. Admitedly, the CGI looked a bit better than Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, but it lacked the extra details and a animation errors were a plenty. The songs repeated all the time (same animation and everything) and it somehow managed to get 2 spin offs.
With Handy Manny, the only similarities it has with Dora is the Spnish atmosphere. The rest, thank God, didn't have much; no interaction with the audience or whatever. It was about the average life of a construction worker and his living tools as they keep maintenance to everything in town. Sounds dumb, but it was good, finally breaking the "Dora" bond Playhouse Disney was stuck with for a while... mostly. It was just about the life of Manny and no confusing dumbed down kiddy stuff. I mean, it wasn't completely realistic, I mean, talking tools, but it was domestic and real enough. The CGI was sort of odd. I mean, the backgrounds and tools were good, but the humans at times didn't look finished (like their noses could sort of disappeared when they did frontal shots). It had a nice construction work thing going for it that I'm sure a lot of kids liked, a lot of familiar voices, some songs were repeated, but they weren't that bad. It was really good.

DAY 112

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Description
DAY 110

Here are 3 Playhouse Disney shows from the middle of the 2000s and each of them have "the Dora the Explorer" effect in one way or another: Little Einsteins, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse and Handy Manny.
Little Einsteins was an, for lack of better word, "upgraded" version of the Baby Einstein home videos (which I don't know whether to include or not), but it has a lot of the same elements. Lots of classical music and uses of multiple versions of stock footage. The basic structure is four little kids going on some giant adventure in their own rocket ship to insert whatever here. It was... passable, but not much. Aside from the classical music, it's just Dora with more children. The interactions between the 2D, stock footage and 3D is sort of odd, there's the usual pause for a long time interaction, it seemed better suited for older kids that the literal baby series.
Mickey Mouse Clubhouse, or as some people put it, how Mickey's identity was ruined forever. Set up: it's been a few years since House of Mouse and there hasn't been any new episodes. Word comes about that a new Mickey show would come out soon. Word spreads like wildfire and hype is made. After a Finding Nemo screening at night, the first episode comes out and... it blew. I mean, for kids it must've been fine, but this one show messed up Mickey's reputation for a LONG time. The show takes place at Mickey's special clubhouse and you're along for the ride helping out with everything. Nothing really happened since it was all mundane and it was pretty painful at times how young it was. You kept getting as agrivated you would watching Dora with the "TURN AROUND! IS YOUR NECK BROKEN" sort of issues. Mickey might have been labeled with "no personality" for a bit since the 90s and 2000s, but at least in House of Mouse and Mickey's Mouse Works, he had SOMETHING! Here? This is sadly what most people think of when they think Mickey nowadays. Sad. Admitedly, the CGI looked a bit better than Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas, but it lacked the extra details and a animation errors were a plenty. The songs repeated all the time (same animation and everything) and it somehow managed to get 2 spin offs.
With Handy Manny, the only similarities it has with Dora is the Spnish atmosphere. The rest, thank God, didn't have much; no interaction with the audience or whatever. It was about the average life of a construction worker and his living tools as they keep maintenance to everything in town. Sounds dumb, but it was good, finally breaking the "Dora" bond Playhouse Disney was stuck with for a while... mostly. It was just about the life of Manny and no confusing dumbed down kiddy stuff. I mean, it wasn't completely realistic, I mean, talking tools, but it was domestic and real enough. The CGI was sort of odd. I mean, the backgrounds and tools were good, but the humans at times didn't look finished (like their noses could sort of disappeared when they did frontal shots). It had a nice construction work thing going for it that I'm sure a lot of kids liked, a lot of familiar voices, some songs were repeated, but they weren't that bad. It was really good.

DAY 112

Comment & enjoy!