TUESDAY!

I am so excited...Tuesday is the American Release of Kingdom Hearts 358/2!



This song is called "Organization XIII" named after the enemies of Kingdom Hearts:Chain of Memories and Kingdom Hearts II. It's there theme music. I picked it since they are the playable characters in 358/2.

How to pronounce that title is in controversy. Don't worry about it.

Kingdom Hearts is known for it's casting. They usually cast up and coming actors or well established ones for the main roles. (i.e. Haley Joel Osment for the main character of Sora and Christopher Lee for DiZ)

Sora was originally supposed to be Mickey Mouse. However, Disney expressed concern over what Mickey would do so Donald and Goofy were kept as supporting characters, and Sora was put in the lead. However, in KH1 Sora's outfit is very similar to Mickey's.

In fact, Mickey's name isn't spoken in the entire first game because of how Disney was afraid it would affect his image. He is usually referred to as "His Majesty" in Chain of Memories it is loosened up and people start referring to King Mickey, and Mickey asks Riku to address by his first name. Finally, in KH2, Mickey appears and...


Start at 5:18

And that is possibly the most awesome pulling off of a coat ever.

Disney owns all of the Original Characters from Kingdom Hearts. They also don't do much with them.


Cloud appears in Kingdom Hearts 1, but shares a claw and a cape with fellow Final Fantasy 7 character Vincent Valentine. Vincent was supposed to be in the game, but his personality and his plot line were too close to Cloud's. As a result, the two characters were merged and some of Vincent's clothes were carried over as a result. Cloud's wings was to mark him to be opposite of Sephiroth.

Yuffie appears in Kh1, but was originally supposed to be a Final Fantasy X character named Rikku. However there was already a character named Riku and there names were pronounced the same. To Cut confusion, Yuffie was put in Rikku's place and some of the clothes on Yuffie are very similar to Rikku's. When Rikku does show up in KH2 her name is never said and can only be found in the journal. She's instead referred to as a Gullwing along with fellow Final Fantasy X(-2) characters Yuna and Paine.

Kingdom hearts 358/2 was Wayne Allwine's last role as Mickey Mouse before he died from complications from Diabetes. I'm hoping for a little In Memoriam.

Donald's Destiny has soured.

A more recent song today! (and a short one) This one minute bit is from "The Three Musketeers" The movie is not a strict adaption of the movie, but is a loose sequel where the originals appear in the opening sequence, and influence these three.

The idea for a full length Mickey Donald Goofy movie had been around for around 65 years, but Disney lacked the established characters needed to pull it off. After all this time, they fixed the adaption problem (as stated above) and had enough characters to pull it off.

Pete reappears with his pegleg in this version, while his flunkies are the Beagle Boys from Ducktales (though altered so they appear and talk different. But they are still have their personalities and are still more or less flunkies. And not very intelligent)

The movie is filled with references to other Disney works. The most obvious in this clip is Donald in his Sailor's outfit (which has a reason which I will list below) but others include Mickey's costume being ripped off during a fight, revealing his traditional outfit, Pete (mockingly) referring to a number called "I just can't wait to be king" and mocking Mickey with the "Mickey Mouse Club March" and there are many more that I don't want to spoil ;)




Alright, the music. THis movie was going to have original music, but when one of the directors listened to a CD that had some of the proposed songs on there he went to the wrong number and listened the Habanera instead. He came back raving about how it would be interesting to use it, and then realizes he had listened to the wrong song. Well, they decided to keep the idea and all the songs in the movie are based on songs in the public domain. This one is Beethoven's fifth, I think.

The Reason why Donald is in his normal wear is because they changed his fault for the movie. Instead of him having a short temper, he became a coward (it works well in the movie, but it would have been nice to see the Temper too) The Musketeers (who were just put there by Pete because he thought they would fail) have been tasked to keep Princess Minnie safe. DOnald get's freaked out, and Mickey tells him that as long as they wear the uniforms they are musketeers. Donald promptly rips his off revealing his traditional outfit.

This scene takes place where Mickey has been captured and the narrator (our turtle friend) is trying to goad Donald into being loyal. It obviously works.