there is a board game that goes along with this tv show and i've got to be honest i'm slightly
tempted to get it even though i'm way over the target audience age this is absolutely adorable
mickey and the roadster racers is of course a disney junior mickey mouse cartoon series and as
much as you know i've said this before i love the traditional kind of 40s to early naughties mickey
mouse this kind of more cgi approach to mickey mouse i still really like and i think disney
junior hit the nail on the head when they give young children mickey mouse cartoons and making
the roadster racers the first episode i watched it to just kind of see what it was like what the
pacing was like yeah i kind of found this to be quite thrilling i would have liked there to have
been more racing in the um in the introduction in the uh theme song and the opening titles
it looks amazing and my first thought was i need this to be a console game i'm not sure if it is
a console game it's definitely a board game but i you know i'm a big fan of crash team racing and i
kind of feel like this could be disney's version of that it looks so fun the concept is uh pretty
simple as you can imagine the series as a whole revolves around mickey mouse and many pluto goofy
daisy and donald who have these vehicles that look like cars but then they transform into these very
wacky um creations minis is like kind of pink and really long and um i won't spoil the other ones
actually you can watch it and find out because it's a lot of fun but they kind of transform not
like transformers they just change from ordinary cars into something with a bit more personality
and they race around hot dog hills in this first episode and mickey's wild
tyre they meet racing champion jiminy johnson and mickey wants to surprise him with a certain gift
but unfortunately that gift is being compromised by pete who sees this gift it's much better than
the gift that he had for jiminy johnson and tries to claim it as his own so that's not very nice
the message there is very clear don't steal the gift that somebody else has to give to somebody
pete is a character pete's unusual because on the one hand he's kind of a disney villain at
the other hand he's kind of part of the gang certainly when you watch goofy movie he's in
there quite a lot very odd character and i never quite know how to feel
towards him but i've got to say i don't like him as a character i really couldn't care
less about him to be perfectly honest but it's history throughout disney very interesting one
but anyway as the episode develops it's all about him trying to get this gift um mickey
obviously trying to keep it and then surprise jiminy johnson with it before it's too late
don't like the name jiminy i think disney should not name other characters something where a
different character has that name so obviously you hear gemini you think cricket they could
have come up with a lit something a little bit more unique for this character unless of
course he is a human version of jiminy cricket in which case that opens a whole other can of worms
the actual racing as i said i would have liked to have seen more of it it wasn't quite as fun as it
looked like in the opening titles but i still enjoyed the vehicles i thought the animation
design of the vehicles was great the way they moved looked quite realistic i really enjoyed that
donald could have said more donald didn't have too much of a leading role in this which is a shame
it was definitely more about goofy and mickey um and pete of course pete's voice by jim cummings
goofy by bill farmer brett iwin voices mickey mouse gemini is voiced by jimmy johnson
the voice acting is great i'm really impressed with a lot of 21st century disney voice acting for
classic characters a lot of them have just got the nail on the head with those voices um because it's
important you know to keep the voices as close to the traditional ones by clarence nash pinderkalvik
walt disney um as they can be and that certainly seems to be the case so i actually really enjoyed
this and it's the first one where i've been tempted to carry on watching it for example
i watched um minnie's bowtoons which is another disney junior one and i liked the first episode
but didn't really consider watching anymore but with this one i actually kind of thoroughly
enjoyed the animation of it and the narrative not so much but the visual quality i really liked
slightly tempted might actually keep watching if you haven't seen it and you're a fan of disney
check it out it's good fun it's obviously immature and juvenile and um not awfully complicated
but it's a good way to kind of relax and enjoy the characters that you love without needing to
think too much about it i'm very impressed with the animation i think it's really beautiful the
voice acting of course is great i enjoyed this a lot better than i thought and yeah
i might actually watch another episode mickey and the roadster racers definitely gets my vote