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A Few Things You Never Knew About Mickey Mouse

One of the most iconic Disney characters of all time, Mickey Mouse is a classic cartoon icon-and classics never die! A character designed by Walt Disney while riding on a train back to Los Angeles with his wife Lillian, Mickey was born in 1928 thus revolutionizing the world of cartoons and animation. Here are a few facts we bet you didn’t know about the famed mouse.

Mickey was almost named Mortimer Mouse (given to him by Walt’s wife Lillian), but it was short lived before being changed to Mickey.
Mickey's first film was Plane Crazy. After the loss of Oswald the Rabbit, Walt and Lillian Disney and Ub Iwerks, worked in secret on the film in a garage behind Walt's home on Lyric Avenue.
Plane Crazy had a sneak preview at a Hollywood movie house in May, 1928. The movie was well received, but the big movie houses were not interested in Mickey Mouse.
Walt and Ub made a second Mickey Mouse film called Gallopin' Gaucho.
The first two Mickey Mouse films that Walt made cost the studio $2,500 each.
Mickey Mouse made his debut in Steamboat Willie on November 18th, 1928, at the Colony Theater in New York.
Steamboat Willie was Disney's first film with sound.
The original voice of Mickey Mouse was Walt Disney.
Mickey's first words were spoken in 1929 in The Karnival Kid.
The first merchandise to feature Mickey Mouse was a child's school tablet in 1929.