Disney's hotly anticipated streaming service launched in the US … and was immediately hit with technical glitches.

Some people who tried to access the service were greeted by an image of Mickey Mouse on a blue screen, with a message asking them to exit the app and try again.

Others got different versions of Disney's cast of characters trying to deal with the technical difficulties.

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Some users reported waiting up to 30 minutes to start streaming their chosen show or film.

The service launches next week on November 19 in Australia, New Zealand and Puerto Rico.

Most of Europe won't be able to sign up until March, 2020.

Disney said the service was too popular

"The consumer demand for Disney+ has exceeded our highest expectations ... we are aware of the current user issues and are working to swiftly resolve them," the company said in a statement.

Disney didn't give an indication of how many people successfully signed up or how many had difficulty accessing the service. But plenty did manage to access the service without a problem.

Before the launch, Disney's president of streaming services, Michael Paull, said his team was "thinking very much about" the potential for launch day glitches, according to The Verge.

The same technology that powers Disney+ is behind HBO's offering and the streaming offering from US sports broadcasting giant ESPN.

Disney+, the House of Mouse's big splash into the streaming market, features roughly 500 movies and 7,500 TV episodes from the company's long catalogue as well as new programming.

I'm just here for The Mandalorian. Is it good?

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Apparently so!

The eagerly awaited series is one of the flagship titles for Disney+, and reviews of the first episode are good.

More than 90 per cent of critics have given the episode a positive rating on Rotten Tomatoes (and it's got an audience score of 94 per cent).

The show is following a traditional release schedule of one episode per week, rather than the steaming norm of releasing entire seasons at one time.

Good luck avoiding spoilers for another week.

It's not the only Star Wars people are talking about

Every Star Wars movie (except The Last Jedi, which is still streaming on Netflix until the end of the year), is available on Disney+.

But eagle eyed-fans noticed something odd when watching the classic that started it all, 1977's A New Hope.

The scene where viewers are introduced to Han Solo inside a Mos Eisley cantina has been changed for the fourth time in the Disney+ version of the film.

In the 1977 original, Han Solo shoots bounty hunter Greedo after a short confrontation.

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Since the 1977 original, the scene has been modified three times by Star Wars creators George Lucas to show Greedo shooting first and adding an awkward dodge by Han.

It's a sore point in the Star Wars fandom, and was even referenced in 2018's Solo: A Star Wars Story.

But the Disney+ version mixes things up again by adding a new line from Greedo in an alien language and new laser effects that show the pair firing simultaneously.

Disney's confirmed the new changes were … again … added by George Lucas before it acquired Lucasfilm in 2012.

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