#maximum horsepower

[dalia1784-art]

Needed to get back into drawing Horace Horsecollar. So Maximum Horsepower Buff™ Horace it is lol

Also messing with the new brushes in Procreate.

[nonsensology]

Here's a little something eclectic: some obscure and less popular Disney characters. How many can you recognize?

Horace Horsecollar, specifically his incarnation from the never-made TV series Maximum Horsepower. This series was proposed in the 90s for the Disney Afternoon, but was never greenlit. It's too bad; I think it would have been a really fun series. Here's the original pitch reel by Tad Stones (creator of Darkwing Duck).

Gopher, from Winnie the Pooh. Prior to his cameo in 2023's Once Upon a Studio, Gopher's last animated appearance was in 2005 in Pooh's Heffalump Halloween Movie (and even then, it was only archive footage from 1996's Boo to You Too!). Gopher's only other appearances were in the Kingdom Hearts games. I'm not sure why Disney used him less and less, but it's nice to see he wasn't entirely forgotten.

Stinky Pete (The Prospector) from Toy Story 2. Pete was never exactly my favorite character as a kid, but some time ago I heard that there was an old character interview where Pete claims that he's happy with his new owner Amy, and really enjoys her decorating his face. I think it's the most adorable thing ever and I'm glad I finally got around to drawing it. (I've tried to find this interview, and I could have sworn I saw it years and years ago, but the only one I can find is this one where he's his child-hating self from the movie.)

Gurgi, from The Black Cauldron. I loved him as a kid, and that feeling never went away as I grew up. He is a brave and loyal friend and deserves all the munchies and crunchies in the world.

Buzzy, from the former EPCOT attraction Cranium Command. I unfortunately never got to experience this attraction (or even EPCOT in its prime). The attraction closed in 2007, and sat abandoned for years. The animatronic of Buzzy was reported missing in 2018, with little explanation of what happened to him. Here's a couple of fun videos on the subject. #JusticeForBuzzy

Terry and Keiko (the video chat friends) from the 1994 Jeremy Irons iteration of Spaceship Earth in EPCOT. I don't expect many people to recognize these characters, as they were removed in 2007. They weren't even moving animatronics, just still figures. But I think their friendship is super adorable, and it's neat to imagine technology that can instantly and accurately translate your dialogue into a foreign language. You can see Terry and Keiko here (at 12:23).

[dalia1784]

Every time I think about wanting to write stories based on Maximum Horsepower, I always find myself writing a B-plot about Clarabelle going full blown conspiracy theorist trying her damnedest to find Horace but is always one step off from discovering the truth.

[quietfounder]

With it being Father's Day, I rushed to get this drawing out. Here is the twins' father and Felicity's ex-husband.

Can I just say that I had no idea that his name was Frank? I mean I already had a name picked out (it was Montgomery) but then I looked on the wiki and apparently his name is Frank even though that name wasn't used in comics and he never made an appearance either.

So you know what, I'll use #frank fieldmouse in the tags but that's not what I'm gonna refer to him on posts. From now on, he'll be named Franklin. His middle name will be Montgomery though.

Anyway, for his appearance I saw this description they were gonna use for Ferdie and thought "Well, he never showed up in the comics and I already have a design planned for Ferdie so I might as well use this for Franklin."

Franklin lives in a townhouse, something like a brownstone in the city or something. For his job, I picture him as being some sort of researcher that sometimes require him to travel.

So about Franklin and Felicity, they're amicably divorced. It wasn't a bad marriage. it was overall pleasant. It just got awkward at times when they remembered, "Oh right. We're supposed to be a romantic couple." They had conversations about whether they were in love or just loved each other, and about other things. They separated by the time Morty and Ferdie were five.

Franklin still remains good friends with Felicity and the family dynamics didn't really change that much. Both are still invited to events from their sides of the families.

Felicity kept the last name Fieldmouse because she wasn't going to change it again, and mostly because she liked the alliteration.

I even see Franklin staying over at Felicity's house when the kids are out on winter break so he can celebrate Christmas and New Year's with them.

I know I already mentioned before what I thought a Maximum Horsepower show would be like in their universe, but I've been thinking what if the original concept of Maximum Horsepower (minus the parts with Mickey Mouse) was something Franklin watched as a kid and gotten his sons into by showing them the tapped episodes and DVDs he had, and the reboot/revival of the show is my idea that all three of them would watch together.

Just imagine the boys at their dad's place and all three are still in their pajamas on the edge of their seats anticipating the next scene from the new episode.

[ultrakeencollectionbreadfan]

Maximum Horsepower revisions and edits

I recently learned of the unproduced Disney TV series entitled Maximum Horsepower, which would have starred Horace Horsecollar as a spacefaring, galaxy-hopping, swashbuckling hero. Although I liked the concept, I felt it was in need of a little editing and revision. So, here’s what I came up with:

In 1938, during the time Horace is about to go to Walt Disney to demand a larger role, a group of dimwitted aliens are monitoring him, unbeknownst to our hero. Also, unbeknownst to these aliens, the resident Evil Overlord of their galaxy is monitoring them as well. He’s monitoring them very, very closely.

During the time that Horace has been beamed up with these aliens, the overlord initially doesn’t care, but gradually gets angrier as Horace becomes more and more successful. Luckily, he possesses the same technology they do. The aliens’ beaming technology only works one way, but his works both ways. 

Eventually, through his monitoring of the dumb aliens’ monitoring, the evil overlord finds out Horace has a (semi-)girlfriend: Clarabelle Cow. So, he decides to use the beaming technology to kidnap her and lure Horace into a trap. Of course, Horace rushes right in to save her and defeat the overlord once and for all, but in the process, destroys the technology needed to get them both home, as mentioned before. 

(By the way, I imagine Clarabelle is initially excited at being kidnapped, considering that everyone usually kidnaps Minnie Mouse and not her. That’s what would make it funny.)

So, now, Horace and Clarabelle are both stuck in space. Clarabelle, of course, is as much a diva as Horace is a ham. Their egos clash on multiple occasions, and sometimes they’re even tempted by other aliens, but they always kiss and make up. 

Also, I think Peter Cullen would have made a good Horace. He’d just need to use a cheerier, more thickly accented version of his Eeyore voice.

[dalia1784]

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

A spur of the moment. But I have to be honest, anytime I try to do anything with Maximum Horsepower, it turns into a lot of angst.

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Maximum Horsepower Pitch Trailer (Roughly 1996/1997)

Please note: I am uploading this for the sake of archival purposes and will remove at the request of the original uploader. Also huge apologies for the quality as this is how the video was initially uploaded.

In 2017/2018, Tad Stones (creator of Darkwing Duck) had quietly uploaded the original pitch trailer for the unmade Disney animated series Maximum Horsepower to his Twitter and Facebook accounts. Maximum Horsepower pitched Horace Horsecollar as the lead, and was intended to be a sci-fi action-adventure comedy. In the premise, Horace is abducted by aliens, experimented on and abandoned at the far reaches of the galaxy where the series would have focused on his misadventures trying to return to Earth.

I saved a copy of this video back in 2020/2021 for the sake of archival purposes and finally decided to upload it for the sake of archival purposes. I apologize for taking four years to debate about uploading it here.

Hope you guys enjoy it.

[quietfounder]

If you all remember this post I made about there being a tv show for Mickey, I was planning on adding characters to fill out the supporting cast.

I do have OCs planned out once I figure out a name and how to draw them, but I'm also going to borrow some characters, mainly those who appeared once or just appear in the comics.

Stacey

Attends Mouseton School of Business (same college Zan Owlson went to)

Helps out at Felicity's food truck business.

I really want Jane (the waitress at Funso's Fun Zone) to be her roommate. I mean she did say she wanted to go college and to get out of Duckburg (someone please consider drawing this!)

Chief O'Hara

Private Investigators often work with the police, so I imagine he and Mickey would have an amicable relationship where O'Hara would go to Mickey sometimes for help on a difficult case.

Gloomy the Mechanic

I have this OC that is a mongoose and Mickey's reluctant pilot, but I couldn't decide if I wanted him to also be the main mechanic to fix up the plane so that's where Gloomy comes in.

Took up the position as mechanic after Mickey and my OC swiped and later kept this plane they came across while working for a client.

Gideon

I'm choosing the first option I had for him.

Since he's not really supposed to Gideon McDuck here, I guess I can't use the name County Conscience for the name of his newspaper.

I mentioned that Minnie was a freelance journalist so she would write a couple of pieces for their newspaper.

Okay so the characters I have listed here are more like minor or background characters:

Crash Happies

The Crash Happies would be an indie band that actually exists.

Horace Horsecollar & Clarabelle Cow

Horace and Clarabelle are part of the cast too, but they only appear as TV characters for the in-universe sci-fi adventure series Maximum Horsepower (based off of the unproduced Disney series by Tad Stones).

For the show, I always thought of it as a combination of Buzz Lightyear of Star Command and Guardians of the Galaxy.

They do not know who Mickey is.