Oswald the Lucky Rabbit In 2012, the newly-redesigned Buena Vista Street at Disney California Adventure included Oswald's Filling Station, a merchandise stand themed as a gas station operated by Oswald. The shop sells "Oswald Ears" hats (a similar style to the popular Mickey Mouse Club caps), as well as shirts, plush toys and mugs. In 2014, a costumed Oswald character began making appearances in the area near the shop. Using Ub Iwerk's sketchbook drawings in 2012, archivists recreated a scene from an Oswald cartoon, "Harem Scarem". In 1995, Oswald briefly appeared in "Férias Frustradas do Pica-Pau", a Woody Woodpecker video game released for the
Oswald the Lucky Rabbit short six years later, in "Mickey's Nightmare", 1932. Oswald the Lucky Rabbit became Disney's first major hit in 1927, rivaling other popular cartoon characters, such as Felix the Cat and Koko the Clown. The success of the Oswald series allowed the Walt Disney Studio to grow to a staff of nearly twenty. Walt's weekly salary from the series was $100 while Roy Disney's was $65. The Disney brothers earned $500 per Oswald short and split the year-end profits, with Walt receiving 60% ($5,361), and Roy receiving 40% ($3,574). With income gained from the Oswald series, Walt and Roy purchased ten