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Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie are in monochrome black-and-white, since they are from Mickey's earlier cartoon appearances in black-and-white cartoons. Brave Little Tailor and Sorcerer Mickey are in full color, since they are from later cartoon appearances in full-color cartoons.
Steamboat Willie is a monochrome Mickey with a long pointed nose, small eyes, and a tall engineer's cap, and it depicts Mickey in his very first cartoon appearance in the Steamboat Willie cartoon. Mickey Mouse is a monochrome Mickey with "pie eyes" where his eyes look like a pie with a piece removed, and he depicts the way Mickey was drawn in his early cartoons after Steamboat Willie. Brave Little Tailor is a full-color Mickey from "The Brave Little Tailor" cartoon, and he is wearing a red tunic and pants outfit with a brown satin sash, and he has a brown cap over one ear with a jaunty red felt feather sticking out of the side of the cap. Sorcerer Mickey is a full-color Mickey from "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and he is wearing a wine-colored red robe with a gold-colored rope belt, along with his regular red and black pants under the robe. Mickey's sorcerer hat is tipped sideways and perched adorably over one ear.
This set is EXTREMELY hard to find -- it sold out the few times it was offered by the Disney Store. Any serious Mickey Mouse collector or Disney collector MUST have this to complete their collection! The 70th Anniversary Mickey Set is in mint condition with two mint hang tags - one is a large tag that reads "MICKEY MOUSE, 70 Happy Years, The Disney Store", and the other is a normal Disney Store tag which will be shipped with a tag protector.
Note: This set is also known as: "Mickey Through the Years".
