Mickey Rooney in the sequel "" in 2009, in a scene that was deleted from the final film. On May 26, 2007, he was grand marshal at the Garden Grove Strawberry Festival. Rooney made his British pantomime debut, playing Baron Hardup in Cinderella, at the Sunderland Empire Theatre over the 2007 Christmas period, a role he reprised at Bristol Hippodrome in 2008 and at the Milton Keynes theatre in 2009. In 2011, Rooney made a brief cameo appearance in "The Muppets" and in 2014, at age 93, he reprised his role as Gus in "", with the film being dedicated in the
Kirby (character) known as during development until the name "Kirby" was chosen from a draft list of potential names. Shigeru Miyamoto stated that "Kirby" was chosen in honor of American lawyer John Kirby, who defended Nintendo in the "Universal City Studios, Inc. v. Nintendo Co., Ltd." case in 1984 and that the guttural-sounding name contrasted amusingly with the character's cute appearance. Kirby appears white in "Kirby's Dream Land" due to the grayscale palette of the Game Boy system. Sakurai intended the character to be pink, though Miyamoto originally wanted the character to be yellow. Kirby does appear white in the game's North