Disney Junior Revives 'Mickey Mouse Clubhouse' For 2025

The move creates a complete cycle lasting nearly 20 years

Disney Junior is asking you to come inside for fun inside again. The network for preschoolers has announced that Disney Channel’s longest-run series, Mickey Mouse Clubhouse will be returning. They have greenlit a revival series, currently under the working title Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 2.0.

The announcement was made during the Disney Junior & Friends Playdate event at Disney California Adventure Park in Anaheim by Ayo Davis, president of Disney Branded Television. The original series ran from 2006-2016 for 4 seasons and 125 episodes. In this new iteration of the Emmy Award-winning global hit series, Mickey and pals welcome everyone back to the clubhouse for all-new adventures filled with songs, laughs, handy helping, and fun new surprises. The clubhouse itself will be expanding with a brand-new area exclusively for Minnie and introduce Duffy the Disney Bear, Mickey’s trusted teddy bear for surprise appearances in multiple episodes.

Duffy is a character with obscure foundation in America but was picked up by The Oriental Land Company who owns and operates Tokyo Disney, who built the character into what he is today. In September at D23 Expo, it was announced that he would be getting his own stop-motion series on Disney+, with his supporting cast of friends.

Speaking of Disney+, the original series is consistently a top performer among animated series, third in Q3 and fourth in Q4 even just this year, and third for all of 2022, for example. Back in the early days of the service and in the months leading up to it, Milo Murphy’s Law co-creator Dan Povenmire repeatedly mentioned that he was told by executives if Milo, put into a limbo state following its second season finale in May 2019, did really well on the service that it could be brought back for a third season. And as it turned out, the executive clearly wasn’t lying. Except it happened first to Dan’s first Disney Channel series, the juggernaut that is Phineas and Ferb, consistently in the top 12 or better depending on the scope of the metric, which got a two-season, 40-episode revival order in January set to premiere next year, and have now done so again for Clubhouse for the year after.

When Clubhouse ended in November 2016, it set off a short string of subsequent CG Mickey and Friends preschool series, full of members of the Clubhouse creative team. Mickey and the Roadster Racers premiered two months later, being renamed Mickey Mouse Mixed-Up Adventures for its third season. It didn’t even finish airing before the next series, the current Mickey Mouse Funhouse, also starring Harvey Guillén as Funny the Funhouse, began airing in July 2021. Mixed-Up Adventures aired its final episode on October 1. Two years and 43 episodes into Funhouse’s run, a Clubhouse revival puts Funhouse on the clock. Considering how close the series gaps are and Funhouse’s own seasons thus far, it’s easy to believe Funhouse can make it into 2025 before Clubhouse returns.

Source: Deadline