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 Universal Studios wanted to get into the cartoon business and needed a cartoon character of its own. So Disney's distributor Charles Mintz told Disney and Iwerks to create a new character they could sell to Universal. Wanting to make cartoons with an all-animated look, Disney signed a contract with Universal Studios leading to the creation of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit and Universal's first cartoon series. Work on both the character and series began soon after Disney moved his studio to Hyperion Avenue. Disney chose to make the character a rabbit since there were already two popular animated cats at the