Some items are so horrible they are kind of cool. This display is from 1978 and I almost didn't buy it when I saw it. I had an instant revulsion to the 70's Mickey. He is such a diluted version of himself. It is interesting to look at classic characters like Mickey and Superman that have gone through numerous looks and incarnations. Some are good and some are very bad.
Was that glass premium for a fast food chain, or just a point-of purchase in a grocery store? And it sort of looks like that MIckey is just a badly drawn version of the early 60's-mid '70's Mickey (seems like a bad model sheet trace from Mickey's final theatrical short "The Simple Things" or something else from that era...what really bites is that "Disco Mickey," which showed up in either '79 or '80, I forget when....
ReplyDeleteprobably from a fast food chain - BK or Carls Jr or the like
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