My theory is they're nesting

[tikistitch]

Disney matroyshka.

MINI Matroyshka!





To recap, this is a ReMent set where selected Dizzney chara are depicted as traditional Russian nesting dolls.



However, instead of having teensier dolls inside, they have little teensy mascots. Which seem to represent cannibalistic instincts amongst the antrophomorphic critters. Exhibit A, Eeyore with is Pooh cake, and Chip with some Chipmunk-shaped cookies.



Minnie has a Mickey-head-shaped donut, and Genie, though he comes with a relatively innocuous magic lamp, as others have pointed out, isn't his expression a teensy bit on the "crazed serial murderer" side?



Another revelation: doesn't Mickey in Russian peasant drag look awfully similar to Minnie in Russian peasant drag? Also, we're still not quite sure what the hell that is with Donald Duck.



Stitch is depicted contentedly sucking on a lolipop. That's shaped like Scrump's head!

Dizzney: there a whole lot going on.

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[twotone]

Actually, Genie comes with curry in a Japanese curry-serving thingie. Japanese curry is normally served with rice, though... and dammit, now I'm hungry for Japanese curry.

Donald's mystery item is listed as a hot dog. Half-eaten and liberally drizzled with ketchup, it looks like. (Oh, and I guess that's ketchup smeared on his bill.)

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Oh, you're right! Donald's treat looks very like one of those pastry hot dogs I grew so addicted to when we last went to Japan. The puzzlement is why it isn't in the shape of say, Huey, Dewey and Louie.

Red spatterings on his beak? Good lord....

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

Now see, I always figured Donald would totally lose it some day. There's your proof that he's a psychopath!

[keeper1st.livejournal.com]

Well, the original Paperinik comics in Italy proved that, back in the '60s, when he donned a disguise and went out at night to beat the crap out of people who were mean to him in the day.

Eventually that evolved, and now he's simply a superhero. But none of the PK adventures has been published in English. There is an Italian site where they have translated some issues (the translation is a bit rough though). But it's quite popular. There even was a PK game for the PS2 a few years ago.

In the U.S., they made Darkwing Duck, but he's an original character. PK is actually Donald with a superhero secret identity.

[barnabascousins.livejournal.com]

Thanks for solving that mystery!