Mickey Mouse universe

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Mickey Mouse & Friends
The logo used by Disney to promote the Mickey Mouse & Friends franchise
Created by	Walt Disney Ub Iwerks Floyd Gottfredson (expansion)
Original work	Steamboat Willie (1928)
Owner	The Walt Disney Company
Years	1928–present
Print publications
Comics	Mickey Mouse in comic books
Comic strip(s)	Mickey Mouse in comic strips
Films and television
Film(s)	Mickey Mouse film series (1928–1953) See also list of Mickey Mouse films and appearances
Animated series	Original shows: Mickey Mouse Works (1999–2000) House of Mouse (2001–2003) Mickey Mouse Clubhouse (2006–2016) Mickey Mouse (2013–2019) Mickey and the Roadster Racers / Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures (2017–2021) The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse (2020–2023) Mickey Mouse Funhouse (2021–present)
Games
Video game(s)	See list of Mickey Mouse films and appearances § Video games
Miscellaneous
Theme park attraction(s)	Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway (2020–present)
Related universe	Donald Duck universe
Due to the vast filmography of Mickey Mouse and related characters, this infobox does not exhaustively cover all works in this franchise.

The Mickey Mouse universe is a fictional shared universe which is the setting for stories involving Disney cartoon characters, including Mickey and Minnie Mouse, Donald and Daisy Duck, Pluto and Goofy as the primary members (colloquially known as the "Sensational Six"), and many other characters related to them, being most of them anthropomorphic animals. The universe originated from the Mickey Mouse animated short films produced by Disney starting in 1928, although its first consistent version was created by Floyd Gottfredson in the Mickey Mouse newspaper comic strip. Real-world versions also exist in Disneyland and Tokyo Disneyland, called Mickey's Toontown.

Since 1990, the city in which Mickey lives is typically called Mouseton in American comics. In modern continuity, Mouseton is often depicted as being located in the fictional U.S. state of Calisota, analogous to Northern California. This fictional state was invented by comics writer Carl Barks in 1952 as the location for Donald Duck's home city, Duckburg.

The most consistent aspect of the Mickey Mouse universe is the characters. The most well-known include Mickey's girlfriend Minnie, pet dog Pluto, friends Goofy, Horace Horsecollar, Clarabelle Cow, and nemesis Pete. Some Disney productions incorporate characters from Disney's animated feature films, such as Bath Day (1946), in which Figaro from Pinocchio appears as Minnie's cat (becoming her recurring pet in several productions), Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983), and – most extensively – House of Mouse (2001–2003).

Although crossovers between the Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck universes have been infrequent, the two universes overlap. Characters from the Donald Duck universe make occasional appearances in the Mickey Mouse universe and vice versa.

The term "Mickey Mouse universe" is not officially used by The Walt Disney Company, but it has been used by Disney comics author and animation historian David Gerstein.^[1] The Walt Disney Company typically uses terms such as Mickey & Friends^[2] or Mickey & the Gang^[3] to refer to the character franchise.