Hop Low

This is Hop Low. He's one of the dancing toadstools featured in Disney's Fantasia. To me, it's always a wonder to see characters from movies/cartoons/television shows/et cetera given names - especially when they don't have speaking parts, or who aren't even addressed in any way. It's sort of like what Star Trek and Star Wars (feel free to direct your hate at my inbox, regardless of which camp you favor, for my digression in naming both franchises in one sentence) are doing to give a name and story to every Bothan wearing a red shirt in the background (I know what I typed). The only difference here is that (despite some Freudian and ethnic overtones I'm willing to overlook because, well, it's Disney) he's cute. He was also a very unexpected arrival in my collection.

Now for the history:

Hop Low was apparently released to the public at Walt Disney World in 2007 (October, to be precise), as part of a Disney Character Collection. He has a Hidden Mickey on the bottom of his...foot? Stalk? Stump? How do mushrooms move around?

Anyway, he's also 1 of 4 in the set (as stamped on the back of the pin), but I'll be darned if I can find what the other three are. I'm assuming they are either from Fantasia, or they are lesser-known Disney characters from other animated features (like the Bit from Tron, or Pink Elephant #4 from Dumbo). So if anyone knows, or has any additional information, please send me an email at d.pintrader@gmail.com so I can update this entry.

Special thanks to PinPics.com and the Disney Pin Store for the historical information