Evolution of Mulan's MUSHU in Disney Parks - DIStory Dan Ep. 89 (Happy Lunar New Year!)

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1998’s Mulan was the first feature length film to be completely animated inside a theme park. Remember back when MGM Studios had the cool working Disney Animation building?
Mushu in a weird way, if you think about it, is technically an original theme park character. The first cartoon princess critter companion created in a Disney Park. He’s the Figment of MGM Studios. Literally dragon theme park royalty.
So to celebrate the Lunar New Year of the Dragon, lets all grab our lucky crickets, and bring honor to your family by deep diving into the rabbit hole... I mean dragon’s den that is the theme park history of Mushu! #dragon #costume #character
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@animation1300 6 ай бұрын

Man what a day, first Moana 2 was announced and now Disney Dan Posted a new costume evolution.

@rosiebaybie6245 6 ай бұрын

I hope the sequel does well. Moana deserves it. If and when you see her at one of the parks, wish her good luck for me!

@gracekim25 6 ай бұрын

Wait really?!😮

@jbsMUWcreations2089 6 ай бұрын

And a Knuckles series has came (I know it's not related to Disney)

@Luke25437 6 ай бұрын

@@jbsMUWcreations2089is it out now

@NathanSpies 6 ай бұрын

According to a former Disney character performer, Mushu’s head is VERY heavy. Maybe that explains why he’s not used much.

@mutecryptid 6 ай бұрын

As a kid I was always more excited about the extras than the movie💀 the movie was an obstacle to achieve extra

@k1tkat-kate 5 ай бұрын

Someone put this into words! 😃

@sarahhumble8246 6 ай бұрын

I did my college program at magic of Disney animation and talked to Mushu ad nauseam each day. I wish I had a video of my Mushu show.

@Emplordxiii 6 ай бұрын

Fun fact: That Turkey sidekick for Pocahontas was originally voiced by John Candy and the animals were originally meant to talk.

@carminecdinoproductions 6 ай бұрын

Please do a Disney Parks evolution video on The Lion King and its characters at the Disney Parks to celebrate the movie’s 30th anniversary this year!

@devinmckay9764 6 ай бұрын

Wild that even after Mushu being culturally inaccurate they were still like "Jake Long should breathe fire too"

@nonyabusiness3619 5 ай бұрын

I think that's different because Jake Long isn't just Chinese, he's Chinese American, which is why he's the _American_ dragon. So, it makes sense that his dragon design and abilities are more American-esc.

@ztslovebird 6 ай бұрын

The Mulan Parade is a Core Memory event for me. I got to sit right on the curb, and one of the street performers came up to me & gave me a nice paper fan. I still have it.

@Alberto_Tellez 6 ай бұрын

I love the cartoon Mushu used for Disney parks today.

@DieRomantic5000 6 ай бұрын

I was mulan for Halloween one year as a kid. I bought my Mushu plush at a kiosk outside the mgm theater. I was obsessed with the movie.

@steventuscano9233 6 ай бұрын

2:01 oh Look its Brian Hull! 😍😍😍😍😀😀😀

@gmarie188 6 ай бұрын

9:07 I would do LITERALLY anything to get duffy and friends back to Disney World in Orlando.... I miss duffy and I remember getting my stuffed animal at the grand floridian when I was 6, went back the next year and not a trace of duffy was in sight. WE NEED HIM BACK! Time to protest ya'll HAHA

@diecastcountdown9651 6 ай бұрын

Mushu over Figment, Elliot, Stuffy, Jake, Sisu, and Maleficent well make sense.

@CrazyCartoonCat12 6 ай бұрын

Also Madame Mim.

@lateramae 6 ай бұрын

Mushu is so iconic! I can't think of 'Mulan' without him.

@markbowen3548 6 ай бұрын

You missed out the Disneyland Paris mulan acrobat show that featured mushu. That costume was very weird for a Disney park.

@DistoryDan 6 ай бұрын

You’re totally right.

@pink-a-palouza7888 6 ай бұрын

Actually, I think a Disney executive said that it was actually a mixture of translation basically most of the humor that Eddie Murphy had didn’t translate well so most of the viewers didn’t really care for Mushu as much the kids love it, Mushu it was and that’s why he’s like really big Shanghai and Hong Kong Disney park

@jugatsu23nichi 6 ай бұрын

Dan, you said something that caught my attention "Chinese New Year." That was a buzz word I heard growing up in the 80s and now I see DL celebrating the Lunar New Year which I know is more native to Korea and China. It would be great to shed some light on these celebrations as Japan does not celebrate Lunar New Year and I see many people wondering if San Fransokyo (which is largely Japan influenced) will have decorations for Lunar New Year. Japan celebrates the calendar new year. Loved your video as always, thank you!

@brycevo 6 ай бұрын

One of my favorite sidekicks

@bluegold1026 6 ай бұрын

Yup it seems like the overseas Disney parks, particularly the Asian ones, get ALL the character love.

@CatnissRose 6 ай бұрын

A little crumbly in his nose holes....I can't get that out of my mind now...😂

@kylekeller3398 6 ай бұрын

Mushu is my favorite character in Mulan! I haven't seen him in the parks since 2003!

@emily91303 6 ай бұрын

Perfect 👍 for Chinese new year 🧧! 🐉

@carminecdinoproductions 6 ай бұрын

And the year of the dragon!

@kimberlyharris980 6 ай бұрын

Hehehe "tail diaper" 🤣🤣🤣💀

@CatnissRose 6 ай бұрын

That and crumbly in his nose holes...😂

@zurint 5 ай бұрын

5:14 My family and I went there during our first trip to Disney World! The animator also gave us a hand-drawn picture of Mickey at the end of the show! My mom had it framed after we returned home from that trip. We still have it. It's definitely one of my favorite memories with my family at Disney. ❤ My mom wanted to be a Disney animator, but she continued to be an artist in her lifetime. She recently passed away, but she lives on in her work and art. ❤

@steventuscano9233 6 ай бұрын

MUSHU TIME!!!!

@MichaelSar12IsBack 5 ай бұрын

I loved the Mushu show at Hollywood Studios. "What does Cher have to do with you being a dragon?"

@coolfunkyvillain-eatingmachie 6 ай бұрын

Happy New Year, Disney Dan. I'm forgot to tell you. This year, we will celebrate Dr. Seuss's 120th Anniversary.

@Edzilla 6 ай бұрын

I really appreciate how you went over the cultural context of dragons in China! Especially the association of dragons and fire mostly being a European thing. Mulan as a movie hits the mark so well in terms of culture in most aspects, but things like using a dragon over a phoenix (or even any other mythical beasts!) and some text in the movie being clearly copied off a take out menu can take away from its merits.

@enriqueramirez0615 6 ай бұрын

Not all DVDs are extinct, they're still around today.

@muppetsretrofan8873 6 ай бұрын

This was a cool video, Dan! I wish Disney went all out with the dragons for this year, not just Mushu and Figment, but also The Reluctant Dragon, Jake from American Dragon [2000s nostalgia], Eliott, and maybe a NEW Maleficent dragon animatronic. Speaking of Dragons, I am having HUGE nostalgia for Dragon Tales lately. Admittedly I am having nostalgia for 2000s era PBS in general. I hope you'll one day do a Bob The Builder costume evolution, and when you get to the infamously ugly looking 2015 reboot version, you could use the Spongebob "MY EYES!" clip. What was Mattel thinking?

@hayleywaalen2612 6 ай бұрын

Mushu is my favorite Disney Dragon along with Figment.

@jackieofreinharts 6 ай бұрын

I remember back in 1998 we were in MGM and My family asked me if I wanted to go through the animation tour or watch the fireworks. I very adamantly chose the tour and I hold it as one of the best decisions I've ever made. I was 8 years old but I still remember very clearly getting to see the storyboards before the movie and then how excited I was when I saw those scenes on the big screen later that year. As an animation lover it's one of my favorite memories.

@sakurapablo671 6 ай бұрын

I remember going through that section as a kid. And I do mean “as a kid” from 32 years ago. Miss out of going back again. Also, I still have a DVD/Blu Ray player. Cause of the last three PlayStation consoles, still works as a blu ray player. But my PS2 works as dvd player, if I needed one.

@gracekim25 6 ай бұрын

Yes! Dragon time!!!❤

@Gaousensei 6 ай бұрын

The irony with the phoenix in the Mulan live-action remake was that it used the absolutely wrong mythos for the phoenix. It would've been a lot safer to make Mushu a cute, marketable water dragon and eat the imperial controversy since that's at least Chinese instead of Western.

@nemowindsor8724 6 ай бұрын

I always thought Mushu being a more western style dragon was intentional. He’s the lone African-American voiced character in an Asian cast, his name comes from ‘Mushu Pork’, a dish invented in and for America, he’s an outsider because of his large and braggadocious personality, and yes, he breathes fire.

@sakuranokunoichi 6 ай бұрын

Dan has brought honor to KZfaq?

@littlebink 6 ай бұрын

you showing the dvd extras for charlie and the chocolate factory is so funny because i think my sisters and i used to watch those just as much as we watched that movie!!

@alexb859 5 ай бұрын

Awesome video!!! Mushu is 100% a Disney Icon :)

@soundgal_sine_qua_non 5 ай бұрын

I 100% remember the Mulan Parade. It was my favorite thing at the time. EDIT: I was NOT expecting the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory DVD bonus features segment. I also wasn't expecting to remember so many of those bonus features haha.

@thatrandomgirl4574 6 ай бұрын

I remember the drawing mushsu show. I LOVED it.

@averyeml 5 ай бұрын

The drawing class at DCA has turned out to be my favorite thing, I wish I’d gotten to do the tour at MGM

@Smyleypan 6 ай бұрын

The dvd extras of Tim Burton’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory is my Roman Empire honestly but my birth year has a 19 at the start

@Griffoslife 6 ай бұрын

I love that @brianhullsvoice is in the video

@rookeealding2803 5 ай бұрын

The year emperors new grove came out, we went to Florida, we went on the animation tour. They had storyboards up of a teenager brushing a little girls hair on a bed... the animator stressed that the teenager wasn't the child's mother but sister... they never said the characters names, nor do I believe that they said anything about the over all story or what the movie was. I eventually forgot about it... until Lilo and Stitch came out. I got to see the storyboards for Lilo and stitch.

@Glasshouse828 6 ай бұрын

Looking forward to when you talk about the 3 little pigs costumes and see your reaction to that one DeviantArt pig costume from the early ice capades shows (Seriously WTF)

@caljones 5 ай бұрын

The “mushu on ice” reminds me of the sea serpent from the original Submarine Voyage at Disneyland

@77blaidddrwg 5 ай бұрын

They technically justified Mushu as a fire breathing dragon as he's technically an incense burner. He says he has powers and an original form bigger than khan the horse so it's very likely mushu was a traditional dragon with elemental gifts, until he led Fa Deng to disaster and was severely demoted with his only function to light incense and wake up the ancestors with the gong. He is shown to be non proficient in his own fire magic and seems to wing it purely on smoke and mirrors but does prove to be indestructible as he's been in several situations that would've unalived any actual living thing. I guess people didn't pick up on that originally.

@rebeccaschneider5223 5 ай бұрын

I saw the Show with the animated Mushu and a "Animatior" explaining how these movies are made in Disneyland Paris in the early 2000s. My first in Disneyland ever and since. I remember, that there where Headsets to change the Language wich can be heard on the Headsets, it was even German within and I think I can recall, Mushu was Acted by the original german Voice Actor, a Comedian with the Name Otto Waalkes. And I sae the Ice show with this huge Mushu Puppet 🥰🥰🥰

@garrettcarter5622 5 ай бұрын

I can still see an alternate timeline where Mulan 2020 DID have Mushu and was voiced by Ken Jeong.

@markthomas6236 6 ай бұрын

I love what you do

@wally5413 5 ай бұрын

One time I met Mushu and he noticed my shirt it was Reptar from Rugrats and his character attendant was like "Mushu, isn't that your cousin?" And he nodded so that's canon I guess haha

@GlowyWolfEdgeyEdits 6 ай бұрын

Awesome Dan

@glamrockfoxy6667 5 ай бұрын

Mushu is my favorite

@EthanCrossMedia 6 ай бұрын

Wow, Moana 2 was announced and a new video from a longtime Disney and popular culture fan, Disney Dan came out.

@masanorininomiya720 6 ай бұрын

In next video, evolution of Tarzan (1999) in Disney Parks soon? 25th years anniversary!!!

@Foodsaregood 6 ай бұрын

Evolution of animal... please

@theprodigiousspiderstarTM 6 ай бұрын

Aye snuck in some footage of brian hull lol but thats awesome! But who knew Mushu had a interesting evolution. Love that Great Wall of Mushu

@Zachisawesome123 6 ай бұрын

Awesome

@appletrain1007 4 ай бұрын

❤❤❤❤i love disney Dann

@mathieuleader8601 5 ай бұрын

this video is very timely with its topic

@SethModThis 4 ай бұрын

would love a figment vs mushu lunar new year event XD

@AndrewsMagicandMore 6 ай бұрын

Mushu's absence in the shite remake wasn't the only reason it sucked, at least IMHO

@jamesatkins5676 5 ай бұрын

It’s more or less worse than how he’s characterized in Mulan II

@mayaharrison3138 6 ай бұрын

cooool

@livvylisvlog8106 6 ай бұрын

Here is a Fun Fact: In Chinese culture, dragons bring good luck and are worshipped, but in Western culture dragons are the villains and are disliked because of their danger. So, it is very wrong to call it year of the DRAGON because that is not correct to Chinese culture (although it IS commonly used but technically WRONG). So, a lot of people will translate it to “Year of the Loong: (from the Chinese word for Dragon: 龙）. Btw this comment is just a fun fact, it is VERY common to say “Year of the Dragon” although just keep in mind there is a BIG difference between the Western dragon and the Chinese dragon.

@Snoopy1600 5 ай бұрын

Hey Disney Dan I know it's not Disney related but could you possibly do a Snoopy mascot history That would be great

@konoikurozora5851 5 ай бұрын

I never really liked Mushu, so I'll be honest I was happy to learn he wouldn't be in the live action movie. I wish we'd had more Sisu in the parks though

@ZadnoleyaEdits 6 ай бұрын

I wonder if Dan’s being pushed down by the algorithm. I didn’t see this even though I have push notifications on.

@nicolahudson2888 6 ай бұрын

Hello!!!!

@donaldduck9046 6 ай бұрын

Sweet

@shaliseshaw9385 5 ай бұрын

Waiting for evolution of: Telly, Zoe, Elmo, Oscar the Grouch, Baby Bear, Goldilocks, Murray Monster, Rosita, and other Sesame Street Muppet characters, evolution of Bonkers, Huey, Dewey, and Louie, The Rescuers walk-around character costumes, Rocky and Bullwinkle, Popeye, King Louie and Baloo, Rafiki, Timon, Banzai, Shenzai, and Ed, Scooby-Doo, Spider-Man, Huckleberryhound, Fred Flintstone, Barney Rubble, George Jetson, Jimmy Neutron, Horace Horsecollar, Jaq and Gus, Dudley DoRight, Woody Woodpecker, Phil from Hercules, Robin Hood, Little John, etc. The Three Little Pigs, The Mad Hatter, Alice from Alice in Wonderland, Tweedledee and Tweedledum, Shaggy Rogers, Blue from Blue's Clues, evolution of Bob The Builder, etc. 🎥🎥📺🎥🎥📽️📽️📽️📽️🎬🎬🎬🎬

@kaio113 5 ай бұрын

Love the review, but kinda sad you didn't mention the Mulan show that played at Disneyland Paris for quite a while.

@supernintendofan2.040 6 ай бұрын

There's more phineas and ferb costumes?.

@alteregobro4826 6 ай бұрын

can you do the evolution of flik from a bug's life next?

@ittybittygremlin 6 ай бұрын

#disneydanisthebest ❤ ❤ ❤

@joshridgway7302 6 ай бұрын

Hey Dan, I saw one of your videos on Instagram which features an articulated Judy Hopps from Zootopia. Hope this version of the costumed character comes to America.

@kerihinson2424 6 ай бұрын

Well, first Dwane announcing live action Moana, then Moana 2, then video

@equestriangamer0 6 ай бұрын

First lol can’t wait to watch this!

@randylaytonorangeboy 6 ай бұрын

Figment is an American dragon. Does he breathe fire? No.

@bulabell 4 ай бұрын

I just bought wish for the extras

@bulabell 4 ай бұрын

Need to catch up on buying more dvds for the extras

@starsbookreviews 6 ай бұрын

How come they don't do the Lunar New Year event at Disney World? They could do it at Ecopt or something...

@mariestherespinoza4680 5 ай бұрын

I am the year of the dragon 🐉

@callmethecommentcountess9329 5 ай бұрын

I like my toy version of moose too much better

@user-xc3fr4it1u 5 ай бұрын

Did disney dan know eddie murphy as a dragon

@olgagachaphoenix9130 6 ай бұрын

@WolfMoon351 6 ай бұрын

I don’t care if he’s inaccurate I like Mushu, voice actor is off but still doesn’t bother me. I just like a Dragon companion. Xp Also the Mushu art on the left in your thumbnail where did you find that? =o

@adamolsen838 5 ай бұрын

Make a video hf the mgm animation studio

@CrazyCartoonCat12 6 ай бұрын

I miss that animation building in Hollywood Studios. 😢 Stupid Star Wars meet and greet.😡

@Emmadoesstuff2009 5 ай бұрын

WHO STILL OWNS ALLL OF THEIR DVDS!!!!👇👇👇

@TramiNguyen-oi3kp 6 ай бұрын

When is Moana 2 movie (2024)?

@evanennis4165 6 ай бұрын

November 27, 2024

@darrenswan600 5 ай бұрын

Where’s bluey evolution video

@DistoryDan 5 ай бұрын

Tomorrow?

@fabianaguilar5535 5 ай бұрын

Can you do the evolution of Bucky please?

@lovethenightair 6 ай бұрын

It was really interesting to learn about Chinese culture, I never knew how inaccurate and apparently offensive Mushu is. BTW, it would be awesome if you could do a Snuffleulapugas or White rabbit costume evolution.