Captain Casaba proudly presents another installment of the Puzzling Video Series. This week we are showcasing the Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 24 piece puzzle, new in box, unboxed just for you!\r
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Mickey Mouse Clubhouse is an American animated television series that premiered in 2006 and continues to air in the present. The series, Disney Television Animations first computer animated series, was aimed at preschoolers.\r
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Mickey, Minnie, Donald, Daisy, Goofy, Pluto, and a mechanical assistant Mouseketool called Toodles, interact with the viewer to stimulate problem solving during each episodes story.\r
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Disney says that each episode has the characters help children solve a specific age-appropriate problem utilizing basic math skills, such as identifying shapes and counting through ten. The series uses Disney Juniors whole child curriculum of cognitive, social and creative learning opportunities. Once the problem of the episode has been explained, Mickey invites viewers to join him at the Mousekadoer, a giant Mickey-head-shaped computer whose main function is to distribute the days Mousekatools, a collection of objects needed to solve the days problem, to Mickey. Once the tools have been shown to Mickey on the Mousekadoer screen, they are quickly downloaded to Toodles, a small, Mickey-head-shaped flying extension of the Mousekadoer. By calling, Oh Toodles! Mickey summons him to pop up from where he is hiding and fly up to the screen so the viewer can pick which tool Mickey needs for the current situation.\r
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The show features two original songs performed by American alternative rock band They Might Be Giants, including the opening theme song, in which a variant of a Mickey Mouse Club chant (Meeska Mooska Mickey Mouse!) is used to summon the Clubhouse. They Might Be Giants also perform the song used at the end of the show, Hot Dog! which echoes Mickeys first spoken words in the 1929 short The Karnival Kid.\r
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This is the first time the major Disney characters have regularly appeared on television in computer-animated form. The characters debuted in CG form in 2003 at the Magic Kingdom theme park attraction Mickeys PhilharMagic, then in the 2004 home video Mickeys Twice Upon a Christmas.
