Oswald the Lucky Rabbit announcer on NBC Sunday Night Football). Oswald returned to prominence in Disney's 2010 video game, "Epic Mickey". The game's metafiction plot parallels Oswald's real-world history, dealing with the character's feelings of abandonment by Disney, and envy towards Mickey Mouse. He has since appeared in Disney theme parks and comic books, as well as two follow-up games, "" and "". Oswald made his first appearance in a Disney animated production in 85 years through his cameo appearance in the 2013 animated short "Get a Horse!". He was the subject of the 2015 feature film "Walt Before Mickey". Oswald also appears as
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising asked Universal head Carl Laemmle to remove Mintz, suggesting they would be the ones to continue the Oswald series. But Laemmle denied their requests and even terminated Mintz's contract, opting to have the Oswald cartoons produced right on the Universal lot instead. By a coincidence, Disney and Mintz each produced nine cartoons the first year and 17 the next, before Oswald was taken over by others. Laemmle selected Walter Lantz to produce the new series of Oswald shorts (the first of which was 1929's "Race Riot"). Lantz consulted Disney about Oswald and he gave Lantz