The Walt Disney Company
Type	Public
Founded	October 16, 1923
Headquarters	Burbank, California
Key people	Walt Disney Ub Iwerks Roy O. Disney Bob Iger
Industry	Entertainment
Products	Films, music, amusement parks, television, web portals
Website	Disney The Walt Disney Company (Japan)
Article on Wikipedia	The Walt Disney Company

The Walt Disney Company (often shortened to simplyDisney) is an American multinational entertainment and media conglomerate headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.Mickey Mouse, a cartoon character created in 1928 byWalt Disney andUb Iwerks, is the company's official mascot. The company has established itself as a leader in the American animation industry with family films such asSteamboat Willie in 1928,Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs in 1937,The Little Mermaid in 1989,The Lion King in 1994, andFrozen in 2013, and in recent years has become known for acquiring franchises such as theThe Muppets,Marvel Universe,Star Wars, andThe Simpsons through various sales and corporate mergers, with arguably the most famous of such acquisitons being withPixar, an animation studio that has become synonymous with Disney and created work of a near-equal cultural impact, most famously 1995'sToy Story, the first full-length CGI film. The company also has sizeable investments in television through theAmerican Broadcasting Company and its own line of branded channels and syndication blocks for children, in theme parks and experiences starting withDisneyland, in sports content withESPN, in media aimed at older demographics through the now-defunctTouchstone Pictures brand, and in merchandising for all of its intellectual properties. The company has also seen moderate success in video games, primarily with licensed adaptations of films and cartoons made by the studio, with its most prolific and successful franchises in the gaming industry being the defunct MMOClub Penguin, the various adventure games made byLucasArts, and the action role-playing crossover between Disney andSquare Enix properties,Kingdom Hearts, the latter of which forms the whole of the company's representation inSmash.

InSuper Smash Bros. Brawl[edit]

Mickey Mouse andMickey and Donald, bothGame & Watch games based on the eponymous Disney characters, are listed in theChronicle in all regions. Three additional games are also included exclusively in the Japanese version, those being the Nintendo 64 version ofMickey's Speedway USA,Disney's Magical Quest Starring Mickey and Minnie, andDisney's Magical Mirror Starring Mickey Mouse.

InSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate[edit]

Sora, the protagonist of theKingdom Hearts franchise, developed bySquare Enix as a joint collaboration between them and Disney, was confirmed on October 5, 2021 to be the sixth and final fighter in the Fighter's Pass Vol. 2, and the finalSuper Smash Bros. Ultimate fighter in general. Sora, along withHollow Bastion, 10 music tracks and 13 totalspirits released for purchase on October 18th, 2021 (October 19th in some time zones). Despite Disney neither developing nor publishing theKingdom Hearts games the content present inUltimate originates from, they are the sole owner of the brand and all of its original assets, leading to them being the company credited with Sora's inclusion.

The silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head, one of Disney’s most recognizable symbols and trademarks, can also be seen as a keychain on Sora's Keyblade.

Trivia[edit]

• Disney is the oldest third party company represented inSmash and the second oldest company overall, with onlyNintendo debuting first by 34 years.
• Disney has previously collaborated with Nintendo on multiple occasions, having done so as early as the 1960s with several products such as playing cards and board games. Notably theWreck-It Ralph franchise has featured various characters featured inSmash, including Nintendo'sBowser, and contains many parallels to theMario Kart series and originalDonkey Kong.
  • Additionally, theSonic cartoonSonic Underground was produced byDiC Entertainment during the brief period in which Disney owned the studio.
  • EVO 2017's Top 8 forSmash 4 also aired onDisney XD, Disney's television channel aimed at older children, andESPNU, which is partially owned by Disney.
• Disney is the second major Western third-party company to be introduced to theSuper Smash Bros. series, afterMicrosoft.
• Disney is the fifth third-party company to be introduced to theSuper Smash Bros. series as DLC, the first four being Square Enix,Atlus, Microsoft, andSNK.
• Coincidentally, Sora was revealed in the same month Disney was founded, with his release only falling 2 days after the company's 98th anniversary.
• Disney is the only third-party company to have a playable character, but noMii Costumes.
• Disney is currently the only company represented inSmash that is not primarily a software or hardware producer.
  • However, Disney used to have its own in-house developer calledDisney Interactive Studios prior to its closure in 2016.
• Disney is currently tied withSNK for the least amount of playable characters inSmash out of all third-party companies with a playable character, with only one; Square Enix,Sega,Konami, andCapcom have three each, whileBandai Namco and Microsoft have two each.
• While Disney is an American company, only the Japanese branch (The Walt Disney Company (Japan) Ltd.) is actually credited inUltimate, including several employees.
• By way of its subsidiaryDisney–ABC Domestic Television, Disney owns full distribution rights toBill Nye the Science Guy, which featuresPat Cashman (the Englishannouncer forSuper Smash Bros. Brawl) as its narrator.

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