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I find that difficult to believe.

I have to confess to ignorance about Jim Hill. The "About Us" section of his website doesn't provide a whole lot of insight. Is he someone who was associated with the Disney Afternoon, in some capacity? Could he have credible insider information?

UPDATE: More information here. Apparently Tad Stones was involved and this was a post-Darkwing Duck endeavour. Now I really wish it had happened! Probably would have played alongside Quack Pack.

UPDATE AGAIN: Here's a transcript from a chat back in 1997 where Stones confirms the concept:

Quote:>< Next question:
>< (Minnie) If you could work on any creative project that your heart desired,
what would it be?

><
>< TadStones says, "Well, Hercules is turning out to be an extraordinary
amount of fun. But the two projects that I'd love to work on are Mike
>< TadStones says, "the projects I'd most like to work on are Mike Mignola's
Hellboy which would be sort of an animated X-files and a new vehicle for
Horace Horsecollar."
>< TadStones says, "Horsecollar called "Maximum Horsepower." It's a science
fiction idea."

>< Mickey says, "Follow-up to an earlier answer: "Why is Horace Horsecollar so
interesting?? Walt could never find anything to do with him." That came from
lar3ry."

><
>< TadStones says, "Well, basically I want to work on my own character again.
But doing that is always an uphill battle because networks want marquee
titles."
>< TadStones says, "Horace appeals to me because he has little personality."
>< TadStones says, " Therefore I get to give him one."
>< TadStones says, "Did I mention that it's the adventures of Horace after he
is abducted by aliens and dropped off on the other side of the galaxy?"
>< Mickey grins
>< Mickey wonders if there will be a comet in the Horace story. ;-)
>< TadStones says, "They took him while he was on his way to Walt's office to
pitch himself as the star of Sorcerer's Apprentice."
>< TadStones says, "He gets zapped by aliens and somebody else..."
>< TadStones winks at Mickey
>< Mickey looks innocent!
>< TadStones says, "gets the career revival."
It's a shame Horace is described as lacking a personality ... that's definitely not the impression I get reading the great Fantagraphic Gottfredson collections!

There are some references to Horace Horsecollar in an interesting---and not very objective---article about Disney's classic cartoons on the TV Tropes site:
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts
Horace initially wore only a horse collar, a bowler hat and gloves. Eventually he lost the horse collar and began wearing a shirt and pants. In the Kingdom Hearts II video game, he again wears the horse collar...but he lives in the past so I guess that's okay. Floyd Gottfredson portrayed Horace as a guffawing player of practical jokes. Would Horace have kept that persona in a cartoon series or would he have been reimagined in order to be more likeable? According to Internet Movie Database, Horace appeared in two episodes of Mickey Mouse Works:
http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0036032/

Has Mickey Mouse Works or House of Mouse revived offical DVD releases? I could just check with google but then what would random strangers on a forum I know next-to-nothing about be good for? ;)