Maybe I'm being nostalgic but Mickey used to be a big movie star and now he's re...

		Touche on Dec 31, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What Could Have Entered the Public Domain on Janua... Maybe I'm being nostalgic but Mickey used to be a big movie star and now he's relegated to mostly direct-to-dvd. He was still immensely popular through the 1980s with rereleases of Fantasia in theaters, Mickey's Christmas Carol, etc. Now it seems unimaginable that he'd star in a big budget Disney film. It seems reasonable to me that they are preferring IP that was created post-1976 for a reason.

Does Disney have any long recurring characters in its new films? Most are threequels at most this generation.