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 including Fox and MGM, prior to meetings with Mintz. As Walt later recalled, he placed two Oswald prints under one arm and—feeling "like a hick"—marched "one half-block north" on Broadway to MGM to visit Fred Quimby. During this period, Walt and Lillian attended the premier of the Oswald short "Rival Romeos", which debuted at the Colony on 53rd and Broadway. In the spring of 1928, Disney traveled to New York City in hopes of negotiating a more profitable contract with his producer Charles Mintz. But as economic problems were apparent at the time, Mintz figured Disney should settle for a