WI: Disney Keeps Control of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

What if Walt Disney never lost control or the rights to Oswald the Lucky Rabbit? How would this character reshape Disney's future?
 
Bunny-centric Disneyworld?

No Mickey Mouse, Minnie replaced with Harriette Hare

Mouseketeers now the Rabbiteers

Playboy Mansions known as "Rat-holes" wear the Men & Woman play Cat & Mouse, the ladies wearing mouse ears

Disney sues WB over Bugs Bunny, if they win that is a lot of looney tune butterflies, even if they lose it sets up a Oswald vs Bugs world

The term "Oswaldian" replaces "Mickey Mouse" to mean shoddy or substandard

Jessica Rat is Married to Roger Rat

Finally in 1963 Oswald kills Kennedy
 
MorningDew said:
"Mickey Mouse" can mean shoddy or substandard?
Originally, it meant "the very best", but (IIRC) after WW2, with the proliferation of cheap "souvenier" goods, it began to mean cheap, shoddy, substandard, or amateur. (Frex, the L.A. Mafia was "the Mickey Mouse Mob", because nobody took them seriously.)
 
Bunny-centric Disneyworld?

No Mickey Mouse, Minnie replaced with Harriette Hare

Mouseketeers now the Rabbiteers

Playboy Mansions known as "Rat-holes" wear the Men & Woman play Cat & Mouse, the ladies wearing mouse ears

Disney sues WB over Bugs Bunny, if they win that is a lot of looney tune butterflies, even if they lose it sets up a Oswald vs Bugs world

The term "Oswaldian" replaces "Mickey Mouse" to mean shoddy or substandard

Jessica Rat is Married to Roger Rat

Finally in 1963 Oswald kills Kennedy

Either Fanny Cottontail of Ortensia the Cat are kept as Oswald's love interest, no need for a new one.

Hef got the inspiration for bunnies from a bar named Bunny's Tavern. The bunny also has humorous sexual and playful associations. He dressed it in a tux for sophistication.

I doubt you'll find a rat themed bar for like inspiration. And rats probably wouldn't be a good choice. Assuming bunnies don't make it, better than a rat theme would be foxes. Foxes, unlike rats, have positive sexual associations and would fit better with the sophisticated image. FDen for the Playboy Clubs (not mansions) instead of hutch has a much better association than rat-hole as well. And a fox tail makes a much better replacement for the iconic cottontail than a rat tail.. .

Bugs will probably still exist.

Rodge Rabbit was a Touchstone/Amblin production, and as a subsidiary of Disney not at risk.
 
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