Mickey Mouse to star in new cartoons

The new series will include 19 shorts on the Disney Channel, Disney.com and WATCH Disney Channel.  An online game, “Mickey Delivery Dash,” is also debuting  on Disney.com, according to a Disney news release. (The video appears below)

“By bringing Mickey’s comedic adventures to life with vitality, humor, inventiveness and charm, the entire Disney Television Animation team of artists, animators and directors have worked to capture the essence of what Walt Disney himself created 85 years ago,” Gary Marsh, president and chief creative officer of Disney Channels Worldwide said in a news release.

The series of cartoons present Mickey in a broad range of humorous situations that showcase his pluck,  charm and good heartedness. Each cartoon short finds Mickey in a different contemporary setting including Santa Monica, New York, Paris, Beijing, Tokyo, Venice and the Alps, facing a silly situation.

The stories also feature Minnie Mouse, Donald Duck, Daisy Duck, Goofy and Pluto.

In the first short, “Croissant de Triomphe,” Mickey must deliver croissants to Minnie’s cafe, battling street traffic and other Parisian obstacles along the way.

Additional stories, according to the news release, include: 

“Yodelberg:” Mickey longs to visit Minnie atop her mountaintop chalet but quickly realizes that the threat of avalanche has made the trek up the mountain more challenging than usual.

“No Service:” Mickey and Donald try to buy lunch from a beachside snack shack but are unceremoniously turned down because of the classic “No shirt, no shoes, no service” admonition (of course, Mickey doesn’t wear a shirt and Donald doesn’t wear shoes).