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What character was featured in the first series of fully animated films by the Disney Company?

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No, it wasn’t Mickey Mouse. Instead, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit was Disney Company’s first animated character. In 1927 Disney began its first series of fully animated films, and they featured this rabbit, which Walt Disney chose because, he thought, there were already too many cartoon cats. Oswald survived for a time, but a clash with a distributor resulted in Disney losing control of the character entirely. From that wreckage emerged a new character named Mortimer Mouse. Lillian Disney didn’t like the name and told her husband to change it. He did. Mickey Mouse had arrived.

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What theme parks does the Disney Company own?

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The first theme park created by the Disney Company was Disneyland, which opened in 1955 in Anaheim, California. The next project was the Walt Disney World Resort in central Florida, which opened in 1971. In 1982 the Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow, known as Epcot, opened. There are also Disney theme parks in Paris, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Shanghai.

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