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Universal Pictures and Winkler Pictures sought a more marketable character, leading to the redesign of Oswald the Lucky Rabbit. The original design, crafted by Walt Disney, featured a mischievous, thin, pointy-eared rabbit with buck teeth. To expand their audience, particularly to young children, the studios opted for a rounder, more adorable, wide-eyed, white-gloved character, which eventually became the iconic Mickey Mouse.