Master Moves Mickey a.k.a. Fisher-Price M3 Mouse

Mickey Mouse is back in action, with a hip urban vibe and truly Master Moves all ready to get your tot moving and grooving, thanks to Fisher Price.

To appreciate M3 Mickey's smooth new dance moves, you've really got to see him in action - check out the real-world video below, for starters. Think the baby likes her new Master Moves Mickey toy? You know it was the highlight of her Christmas morning!

As for toddlers, when the music kicks in and Mickey starts dancing, there's not a toddler I know who can resist getting up to "get down." Active kids are happy kids... and little ones who are physically tired out when their bedtime rolls around? Priceless...

I know another little girl, just a bit older than the adorable cutie in this Kidscoolit video, who'd be up and dancing right along with Mickey here, with a big huge grin on her face the whole time. Oh, and then there are grown-up Disney collectors... who never ever ever would be tempted to play with their collectibles, right? ;-)

M3 Master Moves Mickey Mouse in da House!

Mickey is "so cool his ice cream doesn't melt." (He'll tell you so himself, in between dance numbers.) And there's good variety in his music selections and dance routines -15 dance moves, 4 original songs, and "4 action-packed dance lessons" is a big improvement on Fisher-Price's earlier versions of their dancing Mickey Mouse toys.

Batteries? Yeah. Well, it takes six AA batteries. Batteries are included, so could be worse I guess. But don't get me started on the mountain of batteries it takes to power the average Christmas morning in the 21st century... That's the main drawback with all these cool new interactive toys for kids, isn't it?

On the plus side, the Master Moves Mickey toy seems to be quite stable, for all that flipping around into handstands and doing windmills - but one of the things I actually like best is how the toy makers anticipate that Mickey will, sometimes, fall over - I mean, it's bound to happen, right? So that's planned for, with Mickey making a little joke as you pick him up and set him back on his feet to keep on dancing. A positive lesson in there for kids' daily lives, perhaps.

Man, that sounded a bit too Grinch-like for talking about the best-loved Disney character... don't mind me. Take another look at the video of the happy baby with her M3 Mickey dancing in front of her. Moving on...

No need to go looking at Disneyland for everyone's favorite mouse, you can find your own dancing Mickey toy right here - either the hiphop hottie or one of the retro favorites from Christmas past, remember?

Word to da M-O-U-S-E, as the young Mouseketeers of today might say. If they weren't too busy having a blast with M3 Mickey, that is - rapping and beatboxing their way to an imaginary Magic Kingdom of their own, an updated version of the Rock Star Mickey who stole our hearts and planted those earworms not so long ago!