Watch Disney’s new Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short

In celebration of Disney’s 100th anniversary, the studio released a brand-new animated short — featuring one of Disney’s oldest and often forgotten characters, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

If you’ve heard of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit, it might be because the character was featured in 2010’s Epic Mickey. Walt Disney created the spunky rabbit in 1927. He was designed by Ub Iwerks, an animator. Oswald was a star of 27 Disney shorts before his character was bought by Universal. Disney made Mickey Mouse in his place.

Oswald returned to Disney’s ownership in 2006, and while the character appeared in games, merchandise, and around the parks, this is his first appearance in an animated short since then.

“Oswald is such a plucky scamp. We wanted to bring Oswald back, and in the short, he literally returns to his original home, the movie screen,” says director Eric Goldberg. “We wanted to have Oswald do all of the ‘squash-and-stretch,’ ‘rubber hose’-animation style, celebrating that first generation of Walt Disney’s artists.”

You can watch the short video on YouTube.

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