I had no idea that this was a thing. I can't tell if it's Duplo or not unless I look carefully at the studs and such.

Mickey looks like he’s fishing for Minnie with a fish as the bait. Do mice even like fish?
And is that the best way to a girl’s heart?

Looks like Emmett was into ferry-building before TLM

I saw these in my catalogs as a kid, I thought it was neat but nothing too special to have Mickey Mouse LEGO sets, and shrugged it off since I wasn't personally interested in owning the sets.

Talk about taking things for granted...

Take away the artistic scenery and it looks like mad Mickey is pretending to be a captain waving a fishing rod on top of their car port roof, no wonder Minne looks surprised. You definitely need a lot of imagination to turn a yellow brick baseplate into a boat.

OH MY GOD, I used to have this set when I was nine! It's currently lost to the ages after many times moving, however...

ANOTHER old set that needs better pictures aded (and they are already there in the web)
This set comes with WHITE SHARK

@GSR_MataNui said:
"Looks like Emmett was into ferry-building before TLM"

Double-decker comments! Nice touch.

I... honestly didn't expect to ever see these sets again. Actually, I'd misremembered them as being duplo, so I didn't think they were even eligible for RSotD... shows how much I know!

I never had any of these; I was never a huge fan of Mickey anyway (other Disney properties, sure, but not Mickey himself), so the sets just weren't interesting to me. If they'd been more exotic than just 'Mickey's Everyday Life' I might have thought otherwise; but as it was, nothing stood out. But I do remember seeing them in catalogues at the time and giving them at least a passing glance.

Also, can I say it? The Pluto in other sets in this range, such as 4166, doesn't even look like a Lego piece, he just looks like a standard plastic Disney figure that ended up in the set by mistake... xD

@ThatBionicleGuy said:
"I... honestly didn't expect to ever see these sets again. Actually, I'd misremembered them as being duplo, so I didn't think they were even eligible for RSotD... shows how much I know!

I never had any of these; I was never a huge fan of Mickey anyway (other Disney properties, sure, but not Mickey himself), so the sets just weren't interesting to me. If they'd been more exotic than just 'Mickey's Everyday Life' I might have thought otherwise; but as it was, nothing stood out. But I do remember seeing them in catalogues at the time and giving them at least a passing glance.

Also, can I say it? The Pluto in other sets in this range, such as 4166, doesn't even look like a Lego piece, he just looks like a standard plastic Disney figure that ended up in the set by mistake... xD"

Yeah your right about the Pluto thing. it definetly looks weird.

This Theme came 1 year before Jack Stone. Quite suspicious...

Wow, even for me this is some obscure weirdness for the late 90s/early 2000s. I knew someone who owned the birthday party set, but other than that I never had catalogs big enough to feature this short-lived range.
I sometimes think of it when I look at where some Fabuland parts ended up...

But my goodness, this theme is weird. The figures are not like anything ever seen before or since, the parts are a weird mix of '80s Fabuland and various '90s parts (such as the adventurers car wheel piece), and the instructions give it a weird mix of the Basic (theme) instructions and the Jack Stone instructions.

Not to mention it's one of the earliest licensed themes, which dates it to the early '00s. In fact, this might be the 2nd after Star Wars. But it features iconic Disney Characters, which only recently returned to minifig scale sets in the '10s

And might I add this age range and building style is very unique beside Fabuland, which hasn't happened before or since these two themes a full decade apart?

MAN the turn of the millennium was weird for Lego

@Binnekamp:
Definitely not second. There was a Duplo Winnie the Pooh theme that also released in 1999 before the theme got cancelled over a licensing snag, from what I’ve heard. Turns out the Pooh rights are messier than normal. The licensing industry was created 90 years ago when Stephen Slesinger licensed some, but not all, rights from Milne, the author and creator. A few decades later, Slesinger’s estate sub-licensed some rights to Disney, and then Milne’s estate did the same thing. Then from 1991-2009, the Slesjnger estate, the Milne estate, and Disney were involved in a series of lawsuits over who owned what rights, whether any of those rights could be forcibly terminated, and who owed how much money to whom. What I originally heard was that Disney licensed the theme to The LEGO Company using rights that, in turn, were licensed to them by someone who didn't own those specific rights to begin with (recent research doesn’t seem to support this, but the theme was apparently popular, and only lasted a New York second, so...).

After that, Mickey might be third, before it really started to open up with Harry Potter, Dora the Explorer, Gravity Games, NBA, NHL, at least one soccer license...and Galidor (all of which are themes I know I saw in the LEGO showroom during my three visits to NYTF from 2002-2004).

@davnnh said:
"So... the fishing rod and the fish are all one piece? Kinda takes the suspense out of the fishing process."

haha yes I thought so too
Kinda defeats the whole point

unless its bait?
for Minney??

@Samdas:
According to Bricklink, @Galaxy12_Import is correct that this set comes with a white shark. Maybe they had a falling out and he’s trying to Sharknado Minnie...

I get the feeling they just got this license to get rid of leftover Fabuland parts..

@PurpleDave said:
" @Binnekamp:
Definitely not second. There was a Duplo Winnie the Pooh theme that also released in 1999 before the theme got cancelled over a licensing snag, from what I’ve heard. Turns out the Pooh rights are messier than normal. The licensing industry was created 90 years ago when Stephen Slesinger licensed some, but not all, rights from Milne, the author and creator. A few decades later, Slesinger’s estate sub-licensed some rights to Disney, and then Milne’s estate did the same thing. Then from 1991-2009, the Slesjnger estate, the Milne estate, and Disney were involved in a series of lawsuits over who owned what rights, whether any of those rights could be forcibly terminated, and who owed how much money to whom. What I originally heard was that Disney licensed the theme to The LEGO Company using rights that, in turn, were licensed to them by someone who didn't own those specific rights to begin with (recent research doesn’t seem to support this, but the theme was apparently popular, and only lasted a New York second, so...).

After that, Mickey might be third, before it really started to open up with Harry Potter, Dora the Explorer, Gravity Games, NBA, NHL, at least one soccer license...and Galidor (all of which are themes I know I saw in the LEGO showroom during my three visits to NYTF from 2002-2004)."

Oh yeah, I forgot about the Winnie the Pooh License. Another one where I knew one person that owned some, but I otherwise didn't have catalogs that featured them at the time.

Also, I forgot that Lego did licenses before Star Wars with Shell, Exxon, Maersk Sealand and perhaps a few others. And there's also McDonald's in 1999, as some co-promotion sets have slopes with McDonalds characters.