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Published: 2005-11-19 08:49:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 2559; Favourites: 41; Downloads: 63
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Description A while back, you may have heard a big to-do about Disney hosting the creation of 75 Mickey statues for Mickey's 75th birthday. They had celebrities and all kinds of people designing them, and they were all to be auctioned off for different charities. Well, as I was working for Disney at the time, I wanted to participate when they hosted a contest among Disney cast members to design a statue.

They gave a black and white template, front and back, of Mickey with his hand out in his normal shorts/shoes. The instructions said you could add any props or clothing you wanted, but you were supposed to make the statue under the theme "what mickey means to you." Now, I had a completely different idea for what Mickey meant to me, but I couldn't do it as you couldn't change Mickey's position. I had to settle for this simpler design- I put him in my all-time favorite costume (the park tuxedo) and gave him a watch that took me forever to make. It's a pocketwatch with no hands (as time doesn't matter in Disney), and simply says around the face "Time for fun!"

I didn't win.

But I got a free Mickey T-shirt and a nice thank you letter for my entry, anyway.

In this drawing, Mickey himself is not drawn by me, he's part of the template we were given. However, the watch and his costume was all entirely drawn by me and laid over the template, and I colored both Mickey and my additions in Photoshop 7.

If you're curious, click this [link] to see the winning statue from this contest.
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Comments: 15

MightyMorphinPower4 [2010-03-09 09:52:45 +0000 UTC]

exllcent mickey pose

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The-Sanrio-fanboy In reply to MightyMorphinPower4 [2010-08-22 01:09:58 +0000 UTC]

yeah i agree with you there needs to be more DA pics with mickey wearing that suit

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SebTH [2009-11-01 23:58:07 +0000 UTC]

wait a sec

i was at the Magic Kingdom yesterday

and i saw this as a silver throphie

he had the watch but no cane and that same pose

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Vailiya In reply to SebTH [2010-01-22 05:24:02 +0000 UTC]

Wow really? What kind of silver trophy was it, and where did you see it? I live pretty close by and I'd love to peek in and take a look!

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SebTH In reply to Vailiya [2010-01-29 22:27:48 +0000 UTC]

well it said random ass things like

"best Boyfriend" and etc and at magic kingdom

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DarylT [2008-11-14 10:55:55 +0000 UTC]

What were you doing at Disney?

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Vailiya In reply to DarylT [2008-12-08 06:03:46 +0000 UTC]

I worked in the Disney Store actually, this was several years ago though. Now I am a Princess at Medieval Times. ^_^

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DarylT In reply to Vailiya [2008-12-08 09:31:34 +0000 UTC]

Ok then. Glad it all worked out. Nice picture by the way.

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Vailiya In reply to DarylT [2008-12-21 11:09:28 +0000 UTC]

Thank you very much.

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DarylT In reply to Vailiya [2008-12-21 13:55:28 +0000 UTC]

No Problem.

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SilverHairedGirl [2006-09-14 20:45:13 +0000 UTC]

Aw, this is really good. Everything you drew fits right in with the template.

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Vailiya In reply to SilverHairedGirl [2006-09-15 01:53:40 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! That was the idea. ^_^

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NickMockoviak [2005-11-19 13:47:01 +0000 UTC]

I wish I had Photoshop .

Oh well. Good stuff Jenn.

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Vailiya In reply to NickMockoviak [2005-11-19 21:48:34 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Nick! ^_^

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Vailiya In reply to NickMockoviak [2005-11-19 21:47:30 +0000 UTC]

Ty Nick! ^_^

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