David Koenig on the (near-ish) future of Disneyland park

[Practical Pig]

Which I've always found funny and begs the question. Why wouldn't they 60 years later when building Toontown in DL just build one house for Mickey and Minnie the married couple? If needed for separate spaces for M&Gs they could have had two rooms in the one house.

Well anyways, my idea is they have a downtown apartment or condo they share.

I'm guessing that the stronger public perception of them is that they are unmarried and dating, and Disney is unlikely to encourage those people to think they are shacking up. Now if WDI could find a way for that condo to make it obvious that they're married, like displaying wedding photos, or have the couch made up as a bed with Mickey's clothes strewn about and a sign on the bedroom door that says "Don't even think about it, Mickey!!!" that could work.

 

[mharrington]

This is just a bit of trivia, since I don't think what Walt had to say on the subject eighty-four years ago would have any affect on today's Disney's decisions on park operations, but according to Walt, Mickey and Minnie are married. From the the September 30, 1933 issue of Film Pictorial magazine:

“In private life, Mickey is married to Minnie. A lot of people have written to him asking this question, because sometimes he appears to be married to her in his films and other times still courting her. What it really amounts to is that Minnie is, for screen purposes, his leading lady. If the story calls for a romantic courtship, then Minnie is the girl; but when the story requires a married couple, then they appear as man and wife. In the studio we have decided that they are married already.” — Walt Disney​

http://waltdisney.org/blog/mickeys-first-love-minnie

Yep, Walt Disney himself claimed they were married and only played a dating couple on screen. You took the words right out of my mouth.